[nodebb-plugin-featured-topics-extended] Feature Topics in a News/Blog page and Widgets.

[noobbb]

@yariplus Thanks for this great plugin. I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work. Could you give your thoughts on this?

Goal: Lists topics lists that include a thumbnail picture, snippet of text, topic author, topic date, number of comments.

Most of this can easily be done. The only thing in question is making the thumbnail. I thought of the following process:

Step 1: Topics always start with an imgur url image file
Step 2: That imgur url is then pulled out of the topic content using regular expressions and resized using this plugin https://community.nodebb.org/topic/2677/nodebb-plugin-image-sizer-image-resizing (this is done within a custom template inside featured topics extended). This would allow anyone to control the image shape - it could be a square, wide rectangle, tall rectangle, etc

Does this make sense? Do you think this is doable?

[phit]

@noobbb topics can already have a custom image http://i.imgur.com/DptLmRI.png
and that image will get used in all the featured topic widgets

[noobbb]

@phit Perfect, but there's one problem. I don't see that option. Do I need to change something in the control panel?

http://i.imgur.com/Zc9K9e6.jpg

I am running Nodebb v1.4 and using Persona Theme with no skin.

[yariplus]

@noobbb Yes.

Settings => Uploads => Allow users to upload topic thumbnails

[noobbb]

@yariplus Awesome! haha Thanks to you and @phit

[letsdothis]

@yariplus This is a really good idea, and the initial introduction says lots of things do not work and it is WIP, with that said, Is this still being developed.

I found an issues where only stuff you feature under news list works, if I create a new list and feature things in there, it does not display the featured articles, could be just my usage of it. I can see the my featured article in my new list in admin, but when you click the menu button, nothing displays. You can only see featured articles in the default list.

[yariplus]

@letsdothis Absolutely still being developed!

If I'm understanding you correctly, this is intentional. Only the News list will appear on the home/front page. Any additional lists you make are featured in Widgets which you must place on a page from the admin=>extend=>widgets menu after creating the list.

[yari]

When does the new update come in?

[yariplus]

@yari Unfortunately, I have little free time lately. Putting in a lot of overtime at my "real" job.

[yari]

@yariplus hmm

[yariplus]

Updated to v0.3.0

• Fixed all NodeBB 1.5.x compatibility issues.

[yariplus]

Updated to v0.4.0

• Fixed compatibility with nbb 1.7.x
• Fixed widget settings not saving if a custom list was selected.
• Fixed widget area content-between, widgets now properly render between each post.

[faizanzahid]

@yariplus said in [nodebb-plugin-featured-topics-extended] Feature Topics in a News/Blog page and Widgets.:

https://github.com/yariplus/nodebb-plugin-featured-topics-extended

@fais3000

[ceezed]

There is no page title set for /news page created by the page. It just shows the URL i.e https://mywebsite.com/news instead of any title.

How do I add a title?

[yariplus]

@ceezed Could you open an issue on GitHub?

[ceezed]

@yariplus sure

[Brophy]

@yariplus will this be updated for nbb v1.8.x ?

[yariplus]

@brophy yes it will be

[yariplus]

Published

[Brophy]

Thanks @yariplus , but I'm still having the same issue as before (i thought it was due to being a on 1.8.x) where I cannot add anything to the 'feature new topics' part, I can type into it, but I get nothing to select and pressing save doesn’t do anything other than saying 'saved' in the right hand corner.

Do you need me to open an issue on github?