Featured posts

xF2 Add-on Featured posts 2.3

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Compatible XF Versions
  1. 2.0
  2. 2.1
  3. 2.2
Description:

Displays a random featured post from selected forums.

The first post of the thread is selected at random and will be displayed in the forum list or other widget location.

(Example of Featured posts)


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(Example of Options page)

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(Example of User group permissions)

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Features:
  • Cron Entry will rotate posts every minute.
  • All phrases start with featuredposts_ for your convenience.
Creating the widget:
  1. Admin Control Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets
  2. Widget definition = Featured posts
  3. Widget key = featured_posts
  4. Title = (leave blank)
  5. Display in positions = Forum list: Above nodes
  6. Click Save.
User group permissions:

Normally the following two groups are set to Yes:

Registered
Unregistered / Unconfirmed

Recommended add-on:

It's recommended that the following add-on be installed. This will allow attached images to show as thumbs in the Featured posts widget:

Remove attach limits
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Author
Admin
Size
18.7 KB
Extension
zip
Downloads
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Views
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First release
Last update

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Latest updates

  1. Featured posts v2.3 changes:

    Updated code to prevent possible null condition error.
  2. Featured posts v2.2 changes:

    Fixed issue where widget occasionally returned empty.
  3. Featured posts v2.1 changes:

    Fixed issue where occasionally returned empty widget.

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