V4 News Fader 1.1.2

[Colin Molloy]

Brian and others,

One thing I've noticed on my forum is that, with this plug in installed, the code momentarily displays (very briefly and unparsed) in the old news reader section - any idea what causes this and how to fix it?

[Brian]

Oct 28, 2014 15:46:19 GMT -8 Colin Molloy said:

Brian and others,

One thing I've noticed on my forum is that, with this plug in installed, the code momentarily displays (very briefly and unparsed) in the old news reader section - any idea what causes this and how to fix it?

Not much I can do to account for other modifications to your forum or stop things from loading before the plugin code executes. You can place the plugin before most of the others in your list so that it loads before the ones that take longer.

You can add this to your style sheet to always hide the news feed.

#news { display: none; }

[Colin Molloy]

Oct 28, 2014 15:50:04 GMT -8 Brian said:

Oct 28, 2014 15:46:19 GMT -8 Colin Molloy said:

Brian and others,

One thing I've noticed on my forum is that, with this plug in installed, the code momentarily displays (very briefly and unparsed) in the old news reader section - any idea what causes this and how to fix it?

Not much I can do to account for other modifications to your forum or stop things from loading before the plugin code executes. You can place the plugin before most of the others in your list so that it loads before the ones that take longer.

You can add this to your style sheet to always hide the news feed.

#news { display: none; }

Hi Brian, Yes, did that with the plug in - moved it to the top, didn't make any difference - but that CSS did the job! Awesome and thank you! 

[aRMY83]

Hello Brian

I viewed all previous threads here and could not find what I was looking for.

I know members or (guests if viewable to them) can see who is online in the Forum Information & Statistics at the bottom of the home page.

Is it possible to show who is online (coding) in the Content > Headlines area or can this be done by code within the Layout Templates > Home area?

[Brian]

Nov 25, 2014 8:57:06 GMT -8 aRMY83 said:

Hello Brian

I viewed all previous threads here and could not find what I was looking for.

I know members or (guests if viewable to them) can see who is online in the Forum Information & Statistics at the bottom of the home page.

Is it possible to show who is online (coding) in the Content > Headlines area or can this be done by code within the Layout Templates > Home area?

I'm not sure why you'd want to when there's not only limited space but only a few seconds to read them, but yes, it's possible.

All you'd have to do is use the code at the end of the first post and add another span with a different ID to it and have that span contain the HTML that creates the Users Online list, then include it in the Javascript by copying one of the existing lines and changing the ID to the ID you gave the span.

[aRMY83]

Thanks Brian for the information. Will take your input on the "how to" and give it a go for sure.

[aRMY83]

Hello Brian

This is what I came up with and for the most part, it gives stats on either being online or within the last 24 hours:

{if $[current_user.is_member]}
<span id="newest-user" style="display: none;">Welcome To Our Newest Member, $[newest_user]</span>
<span id="last-thread" style="display: none;">Last Updated Thread: $[last_updated_thread]</span>
<span id="todays-birthdays" style="display: none;"><a href="$[birthdays_today_link.href]" >Click Here To View Today's Birthdays!</a></span>
<span id="member-online" style="display: none;">Members Currently Online: $[total_staff_online] Staff - $[total_members_online] Registered Member{if $[total_members_online] != 1}s{/if}</span>
<span id="member-24hrs" style="display: none;">Members Online (last 24 hours): $[total_staff_online_24] Staff - <a class="$[view_active_members_link_24.class]" href="$[view_todays_active_members_link.href]">$[total_members_online_24] Registered Member{if $[total_members_online_24] != 1}s{/if}</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
fContent.push(document.getElementById('last-thread').innerHTML);
fContent.push(document.getElementById('newest-user').innerHTML);
fContent.push(document.getElementById('todays-birthdays').innerHTML);
fContent.push(document.getElementById('member-online').innerHTML);
fContent.push(document.getElementById('member-24hrs').innerHTML);
</script>
{/if}

Thought I'd share it here and if you see anything in the red you feel needs to be changed, by all means let me know please.

Note: guests part of code was removed.

[Brian]

That looks right, aRMY83.

[aRMY83]

Hello Brian

I know the staff is off due to Holiday Support Hours and the normal support hours will resume on Saturday, November 29th.

Just wanted to give you a heads up that the v1.1.2 I just installed is not showing the Content area for posting Headlines:



I've downloaded a fresh copy 3 times and reinstalled and it still will not show the content to input the headlines.

link to site

[adminabp]

Nov 27, 2014 9:33:29 GMT -8 aRMY83 said:

Hello Brian

I know the staff is off due to Holiday Support Hours and the normal support hours will resume on Saturday, November 29th.

Just wanted to give you a heads up that the v1.1.2 I just installed is not showing the Content area for posting Headlines:



I've downloaded a fresh copy 3 times and reinstalled and it still will not show the content to input the headlines.

link to site

Starting with v1.1.0 the plugin gets it's content from the News Feed.

v1.1.0 - January 17, 2014
- The plugin now works off the headlines and enable/disable setting specified in the News Feed section of the admin area
- HTML placed in the News Feed will work in the news fader
- Removed headlines in plugin settings in favor of aforementioned changes

[aRMY83]

Hello adminabp

v1.1.0 - January 17, 2014
- The plugin now works off the headlines and enable/disable setting specified in the News Feed section of the admin area
- HTML placed in the News Feed will work in the news fader
- Removed headlines in plugin settings in favor of aforementioned changes

Thanks for the input and appreciated. FYI, some time ago, I installed the v1.1.0 and it was doing the same thing as described in my post to Brian above. I resorted back to the v1.0.1 which works just fine, but decided to install v1.1.2 and the rest is history.

Will wait until Brian returns to assist in this problem I'm having.

[blc]

Nov 27, 2014 14:52:08 GMT -8 adminabp said:

Nov 27, 2014 9:33:29 GMT -8 aRMY83 said:

Hello Brian

I know the staff is off due to Holiday Support Hours and the normal support hours will resume on Saturday, November 29th.

Just wanted to give you a heads up that the v1.1.2 I just installed is not showing the Content area for posting Headlines:



I've downloaded a fresh copy 3 times and reinstalled and it still will not show the content to input the headlines.

link to site

Starting with v1.1.0 the plugin gets it's content from the News Feed.

v1.1.0 - January 17, 2014
- The plugin now works off the headlines and enable/disable setting specified in the News Feed section of the admin area
- HTML placed in the News Feed will work in the news fader
- Removed headlines in plugin settings in favor of aforementioned changes

I tried it, but preferred certain features from the old version, so went back to 1.0.1

[aRMY83]

Hello blc

Thanks much for the input and this may be what I'll stay with (v1.0.1) also, but will see if Brian has a fix to this v1.1.2 issue I'm having.

[aRMY83]

Hello Brian

Well I must say, I solved my problem with not only the v1.1.0 but the v1.1.2 and as I understand it, those two versions 1) reads from the Layout Templates > Home news input first:

<span id="current-user" style="display: none;">Welcome back, $[current_user]!</span>
<span id="newest-user" style="display: none;">Welcome To Our Newest Member, $[newest_user]</span>
<span id="last-thread" style="display: none;">Last Updated Thread: $[last_updated_thread]</span>
<span id="todays-birthdays" style="display: none;"><a href="$[birthdays_today_link.href]" >Click Here To View Today's Birthdays!</a></span>
<script type="text/javascript">
fContent.push(document.getElementById('current-user').innerHTML);    
fContent.push(document.getElementById('last-thread').innerHTML);
fContent.push(document.getElementById('newest-user').innerHTML);
fContent.push(document.getElementById('todays-birthdays').innerHTML);
</script>
{/if}
$[news]

2) and then reads whatever you have in the News Feed Headlines.

The only issue I can see, if one has quite a long Headline News Feeder input, it cuts it off and you don't see the remainder of that input. In the v1.0.1 I did not experience this problem.

The code above is from my test site and not my main site.

Edit: I just solved the long headlines input. All I did was create another input in the Layout Templates > Home news input and added a line break:

<span id="reg-member" style="display: none;">Only Registered Members have access to the Shoutbox. Special featlures include, Collapsible,<br> Volume Control with mute and Color Choices when shouting by visiting: <a href="http://army83.proboards.com/thread/3275/color-choices-shouting"> Color Choices for Shouting.</span>
fContent.push(document.getElementById('reg-member').innerHTML);

[Brian]

aRMY83, if you're having a problem with the newer version you're more than free to go back to using the older one.

The newer one was made so that everything is conveniently located in the same place as the standard news feed.