[cXF] Enhanced Search Forum Widget [Paid] 1.1.0

[BassMan]

BassMan submitted a new resource:

[cXF] Enhanced Search Forum Widget - Use the Search forum widget as an article preview with some extra customization.

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[Mr Lucky]

Looks great, can’t wait to try it!

 

[BassMan]

I hope you'll find it useful.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I hope you'll find it useful.

Yes, it's on my home page:

Welcome to the Café: International Sax Forum

Debate, banter, ask questions, answer them or just sit back, relax and have fun

cafesaxophone.com

I think on mobile view I'd prefer just one column and still have the image, or two columns but with images. Maybe there is a setting for that?

Or maybe best to just hide on mobile, I'll try that.

 

[Mr Lucky]

What I'd love is random display of articles, and to exclude articles with no image. But I suppose those are search forum limitations within the xenForo system.

 

[BassMan]

Yes, it's on my home page:

Looking nice.

I think on mobile view I'd prefer just one column and still have the image, or two columns but with images. Maybe there is a setting for that?

Make sure to have it like this for the widget:




I just tested and it should show 2 columns with the image too.

I can see you are hiding this for smaller screens:

.articlePreview-image, .articlePreview-links {
    display: none;
}

That's why there is no image.


Set to 2 blocks per row and unhide the above code, and you'll get this:



Maybe I'll go deeper with configurations for mobile, but it's hard to find the ideal solution. It depends on the many situations an admin would like to have. I understand it completely and I'm brainstorming. I just don't want to fill it with to many configs.

What I'd love is random display of articles, and to exclude articles with no image. But I suppose those are search forum limitations within the xenForo system.

Yes, currently there are no random threads. Note, you can upload a custom image for threads with no image.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I can see you are hiding this for smaller screens:

Well spotted, thanks!

Note, you can upload a custom image for threads with no image

True but it can look a bit odd when there are too many

 

[BassMan]

True but it can look a bit odd when there are too many

Agree.

 

[Capitan Terror]

Hello @BassMan,

Does this addon accept external images like imgur? Or just attached images?

 

[BassMan]

Hello,

No, only the attached images. Everything that the Search forum widget accepts.

 

[Mr Lucky]

No, only the attached images. Everything that the Search forum widget accepts.

I have an image embedded from another site, and it does seem to work

 

[Capitan Terror]

I have an image embedded from another site, and it does seem to work

Hi Mr Lucky,

Does it really work? Can you confirm if this is correct BassMan?

 

[BassMan]

I have an image embedded from another site, and it does seem to work

Oh, ok, I just tried with pasted Imgur image with no success. I didn't do an embed. I'll do some more testing later. Thanks.

 

[BassMan]

I have an image embedded from another site, and it does seem to work

Are you converting hot linked images to attachments with any add-on or similar? I can't get to show linked images from Imgur.

 

[Nicolas FR]

I bet this one : https://xenforo.com/community/resources/convert-image.2521/

 

[Mr Lucky]

Are you converting hot linked images to attachments with any add-on or similar? I can't get to show linked images from Imgur.

Not that I’m aware. It is the image on the home page from the article broad look at beginners issues.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I bet this one : https://xenforo.com/community/resources/convert-image.2521/

Nope

 

[Mr Lucky]

I am loving this addon, it is ahiuge asset to my home page portal.

Just noticed something odd though. It may well be something I did but I don't recall.

I have the widget on a sidebar and previously it had four threads, two per row like this.



After adding a new thread to the search forum It is now showing like this though:



The search forum is based on tags so I just tagged an extra thread with tag criteria for that search

I have thread blocks in row set to 35%

New posts

cafesaxophone.com

NB: it is still showing fine on my test forum that is from a database before I added the new thread to search forum.

 

[BassMan]

I am loving this addon, it is ahiuge asset to my home page portal.

Just noticed something odd though. It may well be something I did but I don't recall.

I have the widget on a sidebar and previously it had four threads, two per row like this.

View attachment 281104

After adding a new thread to the search forum It is now showing like this though:

View attachment 281105

The search forum is based on tags so I just tagged an extra thread with tag criteria for that search

I have thread blocks in row set to 35%

New posts

cafesaxophone.com

NB: it is still showing fine on my test forum that is from a database before I added the new thread to search forum.

Interesting. I can't replicate that.

Not sure why the top one is big. If you'd have an odd number for articles to show in the widget, then the last one is big, but you have two big ones.

These are from my tests:


An odd number of posts so the last one is bigger.



But with 4 posts it should shouw you like this:




I will try again a bit later if I find something in your CSS.


EDIT: interestingly, it shows right on your site on the mobile view

 

[Mr Lucky]

I have tried reverting the serach forum to not include that thread and it all goes back to what I would expect, ie the two columns 2 x 2.

Add that post back to the search forum by retagging it and it goes back to big one at top and bottom again.

Very odd. That post does have custom thread fields but I wouldn't think that should affect the preview.

EDIT: interestingly, it shows right on your site on the mobile view

Yes, but there is an extra bit in the Style properties for mobile view which I have set to do that:



One more thing, that same post is in a different (full page) widget using the same search forum on the home page portal and all is as expected