V4 News Fader 1.1.2

[aRMY83]

Hello Brian

Had most of the weekend to think about the v1.1.2 vs the v1.0.1 and decided to stay with the latter of these two.

[adminabp]

Dec 5, 2014 7:54:56 GMT -8 jrryan said:

Brian good morning.

I helping a friend with some things she wants in the news feeder and we're having a issue I hope you can solve. Brian she is using the new version where you put all the coding in the news feeder section. Here is her test forum:

rosefriends-den.proboards.com/

As you can see the first message comes up ok but she wanted a image with the "Click Me" Here is the code she put in:

The Poll for the November Photo of the Month Draw is now open!! [a href="http://rosefriends-den.proboards.com/post/3/thread"]Click Me![/a]

Now take a look at the second message and you'll probably go "what in the world" but here is the code for that message:

The Poll for the November Photo of the Month Draw is now open!! [a href="http://rosefriends-den.proboards.com/post/3/thread "][img style="max-width:100%;" src="http://i221./dd161/GWDAdmin1/POTM/1027b834-781d-4854-bcb0-df84a5fd3685.jpg" alt="thread"][b]Click Me![/b][/a]



Which should look like this:

The Poll for the November Photo of the Month Draw is now open!! Click Me!

But the problem is when I insert that code into the second spot it cuts if off and seems to be there isn't enough space for all the coding? It cuts it off and looks like this:

The Poll for the November Photo of the Month Draw is now open!! [a href="http://rosefriends-den.proboards.com/post/3/thread "][img style="max-width:100%;" src="http://i221./dd161

Is there a solution for this? I use the older version which one puts coding in the Home template plus I even have some things changed in the plugin per your instructions on how to add certain things there because the older version is editable. If we need to use the older version then can I just change the above click me with a image to style tags?

Thanks

Okay, not Brian, but I think I can help you at least a little bit. The reason it's getting chopped off like that is the News Feed slots are limited to 200 characters. This:


The Poll for the November Photo of the Month Draw is now open!! [a href="http://rosefriends-den.proboards.com/post/3/thread "][img style="max-width:100%;" src="http://i221./dd161/GWDAdmin1/POTM/1027b834-781d-4854-bcb0-df84a5fd3685.jpg" alt="thread"][b]Click Me![/b][/a]
is 291 characters. So one solution would be to change things to get what you want under that character limit.

The first thing I would suggest is hosting the pic on another site like Tinypic, which will give you a much shorter url link than Photobucket. An example of an image I have hosted there, not an actual link to use: i61.tinypic.com/24dg0o6.jpg

Replacing the long Photobucket link with that Tinypic link takes you down from 291 characters all the way to 229.

The Poll for the November Photo of the Month Draw is now open!! [a href="http://rosefriends-den.proboards.com/post/3/thread "][img style="max-width:100%;" src="http://i61.tinypic.com/24dg0o6.jpg" alt="thread"][b]Click Me![/b][/a]
The next thing to do would be to use a site like tinyurl to get a shortened link for your thread. I already did that for you to create this link:

http://tinyurl.com/kqagjya
Replacing the full url with the tinyurl gets you down to 205


The Poll for the November Photo of the Month Draw is now open!! [a href="http://tinyurl.com/kqagjya "][img style="max-width:100%;" src="http://i61.tinypic.com/24dg0o6.jpg" alt="thread"][b]Click Me![/b][/a]
And a bit of tweaking the text(get rid of the "now" before "open" and one of the exclamation marks!) and you are down to 200 characters!


The Poll for the November Photo of the Month Draw is open! [a href="http://tinyurl.com/kqagjya "][img style="max-width:100%;" src="http://i61.tinypic.com/24dg0o6.jpg" alt="thread"][b]Click Me![/b][/a]
Just remember to upload your own image to replace mine in that above, somewhere like tinypic that will give you a short enough url to work within the character limit.

Hope that helps.

[adminabp]

Dec 6, 2014 6:09:37 GMT -8 jrryan said:

That would indeed be very useful and would work @adminabpnd thanks. I use my own server godaddy and host my images there and my URL would also be shorter than photobucket which I don't like. I was helping a friend her and knowing this can help others too. We solved the problem by using Brian's older version which IMO is a lot easier and when you put your coding in you use <style> tags and there is no character limit. The difference is you put all your material in the plugin instead of the news feed section.

I like his old version a lot better and wish he would put it in the library for others.

Thanks

All of the old versions are available in the library.

I switched to the old version v1.0.1 about a month ago by downloading it from the library.

www.proboards.com/library/plugins/item/206

If you look under the Get Plugin section with the "instal on forum" and "download" options, you will see a version selector with a dropdown. Simply select the version you want before before downloading or installing.

[aRMY83]

Dec 6, 2014 6:09:37 GMT -8 jrryan said:

That would indeed be very useful and would work @adminabpnd thanks. I use my own server godaddy and host my images there and my URL would also be shorter than photobucket which I don't like. I was helping a friend her and knowing this can help others too. We solved the problem by using Brian's older version which IMO is a lot easier and when you put your coding in you use <style> tags and there is no character limit. The difference is you put all your material in the plugin instead of the news feed section.

I like his old version a lot better and wish he would put it in the library for others.

Thanks

I likewise decided to go back to the older version (v1.0.1) which I posted a few threads back and totally agree on "all your material in the plugin instead of the news feed section".

[S?T?N]

Hey guys,

Is there a code to make the news scroll?
I tried the code listed on page 3 of this thread, but it seems it's not working no more :/

Anyone have a working code for me and where I need to put it?

Thnx in advance!

[S?T?N]

No one? :/

[Brian]

Jan 9, 2015 8:49:17 GMT -8 S?T?N said:

No one? :/

I sure don't.

You'd have to edit the source code of the plugin to do it.

[Brian]

Feb 6, 2015 12:03:26 GMT -8 jrryan said:

Brian  was wondering if one could change the title bar background color to be different that the other title bars on your forum. I use the older version of this and I tried several different things in the components of the plugin with no luck? I even tried this in the CSS:

.v4news > .title-bar background {color: #f61b60;}

Can this be done?

Thanks

Yes.

.v4news > .title-bar { background-color: #f61b60; }

[buttbutt]

Hi,

Love this plug-in.  I was wondering if you know if there is a way to pull news from an RSS feed in the news scroll?   For instance I want to have the news headlines from his feed scroll as news items:


mlb.mlb.com/partnerxml/gen/news/rss/mlb.xml

Is this possible?  

[Brian]

Feb 15, 2015 13:43:45 GMT -8 buttbutt said:

Hi,

Love this plug-in.  I was wondering if you know if there is a way to pull news from an RSS feed in the news scroll?   For instance I want to have the news headlines from his feed scroll as news items:


mlb.mlb.com/partnerxml/gen/news/rss/mlb.xml

Is this possible?  

Not a clue. I've never worked with XML.

[gold3ncloud]

Brian, I can't get it to work. It doesn't appear on my forum at all. If I enable the plugin, my half part of the forum disappear. 

[Brian]

Mar 28, 2015 14:12:59 GMT -8 gold3ncloud said:

Brian, I can't get it to work. It doesn't appear on my forum at all. If I enable the plugin, my half part of the forum disappear. 

Do you have a link to the forum in question? I have no way of deducing the problem without seeing it firsthand.

[alexh11111]

Ive noticed with this plugin my screen keeps jumping after the message changes a few times. Can you help me with this?

[Brian]

Apr 10, 2015 9:33:54 GMT -8 alexh11111 said:

Ive noticed with this plugin my screen keeps jumping after the message changes a few times. Can you help me with this?

Did you specify a height in the plugin settings? The height needs to be at least equivalent to your tallest news item.

[Former Member]

thank you