Forum Display Enhancements - 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.

[Lea Verou]

Is there anyone that doesn't have this issue (apart from me)?

[Boofo]

Michelle, please forgive me if this has already been asked, but how many queries does this use on the forumhome?

[CameronLow]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Is there anyone that doesn't have this issue (apart from me)?

Hey Michelle, great mod you have here. Just wondering if you have located or found the problem with the New Thread thing?

[Rs06 Ant]

Hi, i dont have the problem the other guys are describing.

[CameronLow]

Does this addon work in 3.7.2? If it doesn't, anyone can point me to alternatives? I would even consider paying for this mod to made to work with 3.7.2.

[speedway]

Brilliant addition to my site, instaleed with no probs on my 3.9 test site. One questin if I may...

How would I move this to another area of the site, say the front page to display Featured Threads from all areas of the site?

Thanks again for a great mod.

Cheers
Bruce

[speedway]

Whoops, spoke too soon. I too have the New Thread bug where trying to create a new thread in a parent forum actually opens the new thread window for the first subforum! Hoping a fix is available soon as this is a fantastic mod and very much worth having...

[barcena]

I did installed mine but is not working.

PS. Sorry I haven't read that has some problems. I will love to have it so I'll check back in the future.

[speedway]

No action on this at all? That a shame, it would be a brilliant addition but is currently unusable due to the sub-forum bug.

[petacat]

Originally Posted by Michelle

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.

Hmmm ... I dont seem to be able to find an Thread tools menu in Admin or mod ... maybe I just do not understand what you mean or where to look...