smiley order??

[cornholio]

Forum URL: edcsociety.net


Hi there Support staff!

I have a basic(?) question...

I was wondering, like the title says, if there's a way to rearrange the order of the smilies manually, using code.
I've done searches all over the support forums and read through the FAQ'S, and haven't seen anything specific.

Basically, I've saved the bbcode for all the smilies in the order I want, and now I just need to find out how to rearrange them in the CSS (I believe that's how it goes...)...but the only problem is finding the correct line.


Thanks in advance!

[Craig]

The only way i can think of changing them is through the images section of your themes manager.

admin > themes > images

and edit the smilies into the order you want them. Not really sure what you mean regards the CSS.

[CheatAreZee]

Just confirming that if you visit your admin panel, navigate to Themes > Theme Manager, after selecting the name of a theme visit the Images tab and you can manually re-arrange them by linking to the smiley images in the order that you want them to appear using the "Link" button to provide the URL of the image you want to appear. You'll want to copy the URL of the smiley images first so you have those ready before entering the page.

With the above said, I don't think I've seen this request made before, but I'll add this idea in to our internal feature requests list to see if we can add an easier method for you to re-arrange the smileys, such as a simple click and drag

[cornholio]

Sept 4, 2013 8:33:48 GMT -8 CheatAreZee said:

Just confirming that if you visit your admin panel, navigate to Themes > Theme Manager, after selecting the name of a theme visit the Images tab and you can manually re-arrange them by linking to the smiley images in the order that you want them to appear using the "Link" button to provide the URL of the image you want to appear. You'll want to copy the URL of the smiley images first so you have those ready before entering the page.

With the above said, I don't think I've seen this request made before, but I'll add this idea in to our internal feature requests list to see if we can add an easier method for you to re-arrange the smileys, such as a simple click and drag

Thanks! That would be greatly appreciated

I know how to change the smilies, and I know that you can bulk upload by selecting a group and dragging-which is nice...but it would be great to reorder them like you can do with the other menu items (such as items in the navigation bar under forum settings)

[cornholio]

I've reuploaded each one.

After saving each smiley onto the HD, Restored smileys to default.

I rearranged all my smileys in separate folders on the desktop, and even ordered them in alphabetical order, and numerical for when I needed to cover more smileys.

When you click to upload, the folder containing smileys usually displays in alphabetical/num. order by default, so this helps keep things easier as your uploading, and you can easily keep your place as long as you've learned your ABC's.


Once you get past those 15-20 default smileys, (or however many there are), you can bulk upload by clicking and dragging a group of smileys, so it made the process easier.


However, the part that was a pita was renaming each one. This was my initial reason for requesting help w/an easier way to rearrange. Other than that, it's really easy-but more time consuming than it has to be just to rearrange smileys.

Bbbbuttt....I do love the look (at least until I start replacing more and have to redo it again )

[CheatAreZee]

I agree, which was why I put in a feature request for this since it's never been brought up before

One suggestion I would have though, since you have it all sorted out on one theme, if you visit your admin panel navigate to Themes > Theme Manager then click on the name of your theme and click the "Images" tab. At the top of the images page where you have the smileys re-ordered, click the Export button at the top of the page to save a copy of the images for that theme with the smileys re-ordered. Once you have this file exported, if you want to make a new theme for the forum you can use the Import button after creating a new theme and import the file that you downloaded, and this will make all of the images appear the same as your original theme with the smileys re-ordered. Will save you from having to do it all over again in the future if you want to have a new theme with the smileys reordered