e-steki Featured threads 1.0.1
 

What does this do?
This hack lets mods/admins to choose some threads as featured, enter a description (if no description entered the first post will be used) and they will be displayed at forumdisplay, in the position that the admin selected. Refer to the Features section below for more information.

Features

Admin Features

1. Absolutely NO template modifications and you even get to control where the table will be placed in Forumdisplay with a simple setting!
2. Fully phrased.
3. Ability to set a cutoff limit, so that if the featured threads are more than X, the rest will not show.
4. Ability to specify whether the featured threads will be ordered by the date they were featured, their last post date or their creation date.
5. Ability to specify whether html, bbcode, [img] tags or smilies will be shown in the description (or the first post if no description has been entered).
6. When featuring/un-featuring a thread, the action is logged in the moderator log.
7. A nice, usable and extensive manual instead of an ugly readme.txt ;-)

End user / moderator Features

1. Moderators can enter a fully formatted description with bbcodes and everything (if allowed by the admin)
2. The table is collapsible, and if it has nothing to display it doesn't show.
3. Thread elements that are displayed: Thread icon, Title, Link to the thread, creation date and time, number of replies (clickable), thread poster.

Don't forget to Mark as Installed!
Support will be provided only for a few days after each release.
Installation instructions and a FAQ are in the manual.

First post reserved.

Hi Michelle,

Just wanted to say a great release. I was considering conding one myself a short while ago but didn't have the time on my hands.

Anychance of vbadvanced support?

Thanks :)
What do you mean as vbadvanced support?

Im guessing that a vba module for this would be what is wanted... that would be a nice addition to this.. :cool:

He probably means a vbadvanced module for showing featured threads.

But if he wants to show ALL featured threads in one module, he can do it already with the news module I think, he will just have to re-select them for it.
This was designed to be forum-specific, so I can't really understand the use of a vba module.

Installed good work :)

Thanks :)
How did the installation go?

Hi Michelle, this seems to be a great plugin but it gave me a database error, I installed it, set the options and when I went to view one of my forums I got a database error. I am running vbulletin 3.6.8.

Here's the error:

Smooth Flawless :)

I checked both with Description and without.

With Description it shows only the description and without description it shows the contents of the thread as a description.

Just featured one thread and working fine

http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/f15/

Ah damn, if any of my hacks has a bug, there is a 90% chance that it is this exact error :p
Please provide:
1. A screenshot of your Featured threads settings
2. What the forumid of that forum was
3. Did that forum have any child forums?

I am glad its working fine for you :) :)

Btw this hack now works in harmony with v1.1.3 of e-steki User modlog, if you have it installed, it even displays a separate icon in the logs :)

Michelle,

I can't recreate is cause it's a live forum but I just did a little test on a test forum, it happens when I disable "Show featured threads from subforums?"

And it happens whether or not a child has subforums.

All settings are left at default except I set "Position of the featured threads table" to "Above threads" and "Show featured threads from subforums?" to "No"

I was getting the statement "If the thread is featured, please add a description below:" flushing all the way to the left and not appearing in one line. I edited the following:

to:

And the statement appears on one line now.

Kalina, I just realised what the error is, I will fix it shortly.
Junkie, wouldn't that mean that the rules table is too far away from the description? This is why I put the 1 there, but I forgot to test it with browsers other than firefox.

Not sure. I even removed the posting rules code and still had the same problem. But changing the '1' to '100%' fixed it for me. Maybe it is a browser problem.

Version 1.0.1
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-Fixed bug when the setting "Show featured threads from subforums?" was set to No
-Fixed small template bug in Edit thread.

awesome idea for a mod... I'm away for the moment but I must say, you doing these things is a great benefit. thank you again and I'll install tomorrow.

I was looking for something like this to use on my front page (vbadvanced).
Would it be hard to adapt for my own use?

If you want something for your vba homepage why don't you use the built-in news module?

OK it was good and fine until i upgraded :)

In my forus when u post in the Parent forum the new thread button points to the sub forum and post the new thread there, disabling this hack solved the problem so i guesss this hack was the problem so i m uninstalling until i dont find the solution. :)

That's really weird, as my hack has nothing to do with the New thread button :confused:
Does anyone else have this problem?

thanks this will come in handy soon.

I am having this problem. I have a forum with ID 1 and when you look at the new thread link, it has forum id 100 (which is hidden and not open for posts). When users click on new thread, it sends them to the subforum to make a post.

This problem was resolved after disabling the mod.

edit: This happens with all forums with subforums. If there are two subforums, then the new thread buttons creates a thread in the lowest subforum.

Does anyone else have this issue?

I already told u that i have this problem too :)

Hello ,

I was installed the hack , but i can't see any thing, how can i give permisions for mod , if i don't need any one use this hack without Admin how can i do that , from where can i put the futured theard ,

Regards

me too i'm having the same problem

Hi Michelle,

I installed the mod but, no options appeared I read the faq and yes, there are the comments on my Template :/ do I have to change some conditions to see it working on board managment?

Nothing appears or just some parts?

nothing appear :/

Maybe I'm wrong, but how can I make a feature thread?

I have a lot of products installed maybe this is the problem? A conflict?

same here - no options to feature the thread appear when posting a thread as pictured in:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...0&d=1187184547

I checked that all of the necessary code that is mentioned in the manual exists in my forum, and it does, yet nothing new related to this mod appears when creating a thread.

It isn't supposed to appear when creating a thread, but when editing a thread via the admin/mod options (Thread tools -> Edit thread).
This is because when making this hack, I pictured featured threads as already active threads with many replies, and not newly created ones.

Ok - I understand now - thanks for the explanation. sorry for not understanding earlier.

Its ok but I don't have the time at the moment (I'm a few hundred km away from home these days). When I find time I'll inform you.

I think I was editing my post and you were posting at the same time - LOL

all is well now - thanks.

LOL yes I didn't even look at the quote.