This mod has quickly become a staple of my board, thank you ^^

However, when trying to reorder the threads, I get a database error which suggests that the table "thread" doesn't exist.

Can you provide the information about the steps you are taking to reorder the list and the exact error you get?

Thank you, and from the main page (forumhome) which is where I display the Featured Threads box, I either select all or select the Featured Threads I want to reorder and then alter the value in the display order box to be what I want it to (while editing the display order of any other threads which had that original value to the value of the threads being moved up or down). I then click re-order.

My exact error is this on the standard vBulletin Database Error page:

Page URL: https://www.alexandria-ns.com/featur...p?action=array

Okay, try replacing the file "featuredthread.php" (in your forum's root folder) with the attached file...let me know if that works. :)

It now works perfectly, thank you so much! :D

Thanks for calling this to my attention and for now letting me know it works. :) I neglected to give some tables an alias in a few of the queries which resulted in an error for sites with a table prefix.

I am planning an upgrade for this product soon to fix a lot of minor details, as I have learned a great deal since I wrote the code for this product.

I'd like to give this a try.. :)

Any idea when upgrade will be forthcoming so I can test the most current version?

Thanks for your efforts ...

Regards,
Doug

Sorry, I can't be more specific than "soon." The main changes I have in mind are to use phrases and to revise the thread links. :)

Thanks Mark .. :)

I'll keep checking back... :up:

Regards,
Doug

Have you gotten around to this yet? I don't see a post from you saying you have.

As far as I know, this was done. :)

Quick question re the functionality of this. I think I know the answer, but wanted to check first --

Can I use this mod to set up a separate page which lists all the most replied to threads which were started in the last week?

Thanks!

You can see a list of the most replied to threads, from which you can add to the featured list, but it won't auto-add only from the last week.

Darnit. Thanks for the reply!

Hi Mark, I am having a similar, though not the exact same, problem and wonder if I should replace this file too? Or if you have another suggestion.

This happens when I try to reorder the threads. Here is my error message:
Thanks again for this awesome mod!

Yes, try doing the replacement, and let me know if that works or not. If not, we can go from there. :)

Thank you! That seems to have worked beautifully. I can now reorder the threads without the SQL error.

Additional question if you don't mind... Is it possible to see how many nominations each thread received? It's entirely possible I'm missing something obvious.

Also, I am not sure what the "Rating Threshold" in the Nominations setting means and how it correlates to the "Votes Threshold".

I have the settings on Auto-Add Featured threads but that's adding an awful lot of threads at the top of my forum. Is it possible to limit the number of threads to 5 or 6 if I use Auto-Add?

Great...glad to hear it. :)

You should see how many nomination each thread has received when you open up the list of nominated threads. Only those who have been designated as managers can do this...but since you are reordering threads, you are a manager already.

Also, if you hover your mouse over the number of nominations, a tooltip will show you a list of users who have nominated the threads.

The "Rating Threshold" is the minimum rating average a thread must have before being including in the "User-Rated Threads" list. The "Votes Threshold" is the minimum number of votes a threads must have before being included.

For example, you might wish to only have 5 star threads in the list, but you want a thread to have at least 5 votes as well, this way you don't see those that have only gotten a small number of votes.

The only way to limit the number is to use the option "Yes, And Penultimate Thread Is Removed"...this way when the newest thread is added, the previous auto-added thread is removed.

I don't have a way to limit this by number.

I use this feature at MHB for our "Problem Of The Week" forums...when a new problem is posted in one of our problem categories (High School/University/Post-Grad), last week's problem is auto-removed, and the new problem is auto-added. :)

The User Nominated & Featured tables are different on my forum. I am trying to find a way to sort the threads by number of nominated votes (or at least know how many votes they got) so that when I manually add new ones, I have a little more visibility into which ones to eliminate.

First I couldn't get people to use it on our new forum and suddenly they're using it everywhere so your add-on is a major success!

Thank you.

This will make things difficult when our forum gets busy. Would you be available to tailor this for our needs when donations start rolling in? We'd compensate you of course. One feature I'd love is the ability to put these in a couple of widgets on the CMS. I hope I didn't break any VB rules by asking that!

(on edit, I found the admin setting for "Yes, And Penultimate Thread Is Removed" but I'd still like it tailored ;) )

You should see the number of nominations in the leftmost column in that table when you click the button to view it. There is no option to turn that column off.

The threads in that table are automatically sorted in descending order by the number of nominations they receive, and in the event of a tie, the threads are sorted within the members of the tie by threadid, so that the older threads are displayed first.

Thank you for explaining that.

I can see them when I click on "show nominated". I think my problem, confusion is because I temporarily had it set to 'auto add new threads' thinking that meant new threads that already had the correct number of votes and I thought they'd been nominated. My confusion. Thanks!

The auto-adding of new threads is done without regards to any nominations/ratings/replies; as soon as a new thread is added to one of the designated forums, it is added to the Featured Threads list. :)

Is there anyway to make "Most Replied Threads" permanently show for our members on the Featured Threads page?

And also, is it easily possible to insert "Featured Threads" into a widget for the CMS?

Please forgive my excitement at loving your add-on so much

Do you mean where the top X replied threads is auto-maintained? If so, that's not currently a feature of the product.

I have no experience with CMS or its widgets. Sorry. :(

Thank you Mark. I'll figure out how to squeeze your terrific add-on into a CMS widget yet ;)

I removed and added a few forums but when I go to the Management panel, it's still showing the old ones. I emptied the cache and even went to tools to rebuild the forum cache but it's still showing me the old forums. How can I update that please? Thanks

For now, until I can address the issue in a future update, remove the threads that are in new/renamed forums from the featured threads list, and them add them back...they should then show the correct forum. :)

Thanks Mark. They were already showing the correct forum on the Featured Threads Display block on the forum page. It's just in the Admin CP that the forums aren't updating. If this helps, it's listing the new forums in the Admin CP but not removing the deleted ones in "Managing The "Featured Threads" List"

Take your time. It's just a small thing. Thanks again

Try clearing the system cache. All of my products rely on the cache to construct a list of the available forums within their settings. :)

You may never want to talk with me again. Those forums were only deactivated, not deleted. I obviously need some sleep :( Profuse apologies for wasting your time. That's 2 boxes of chocolate now

LOL! No worries...I have been known to edit plugins that have been disabled, or edit the wrong version of an external script, and then pull my hair out when the changes have no effect.

And at least you are conscientious enough to admit your minor oversight, rather than simply walking away from it like nothing happened. :cool::D

Ok, now that's funny lol. Thanks for the laugh before going to get some zzzzzs! Now I don't feel so awful but I still apologize for wasting your time :)

Hi Mark, Another day, another request if this isn't asking too much because my new problem is with the theme I'm currently using as our default. I didn't even realize this was a problem until I saw that featured threads get a star in the default & in a theme I'm adding but not in my main theme. I can't ask the theme author because he dropped out of site a few years ago. Is it possible to get your star to show up in front of the title?

(Edited to remove images)

Unfortunately when a custom theme changes the HTML layout of a template such that certain elements are no longer present, then my code to append the star to the thread title isn't going to work. :(

I was afraid of that. Thanks for replying :)

It may be possible to edit your "SHOWTHREAD" template for that style to add dummy span elements around the title to get it to work. :)

Hah! I just logged in to ask you if you had any hints for a determined person who wanted to try on their dev site and you beat my question to it with an answer waiting. I'm going to try- expecting miracles but not holding my breath since this really isn't my forte ;)

Thank you Mark!

hey Mark - is there a time limit before threads are automatically cleared? I have noticed that threads will delete (I am checking other settings / users that might be playing with the mod)

Thread stay in the featured threads list until either a manager removes them or the thread gets deleted. :)

This might sound a sill question but how do you nominate a thread?

Installed fine but I don't see as admin any option.