View Full Version : Stop showing Avatars on Home Page Only
I would like to know what to turn off so my user avatars do not show on home page when I post a thread that is to be displayed on our home page, yet are still displayed in forum or is that possible?
The reason is, I always a separate news image to each of my tech articles because I do not see this option to select a image category when making a post in the vBadvanced system.
When I do this, the image [img ] is displayed fine however, so is my avatar and it just looks "too much" as you can see HERE (http://www.cpfools.com)
So my questions are:
1. How do I turn off avatars only on home page threads?
2. Will there be an option in future to select from a pre-defined category of images to use when making a post such as phpnuke has for it's news categories, etc. ?
Thank you!
KW802
09-23-2004, 09:12 AM
C_P,
For the avatars turn off "ACP --> Default Settings --> [News Options] Snow News Avatar?" and that'll stop them from showing on the portal page.
Thank you very much for steps! I do not know how I missed that.
Hopefully Brian or another staff member knows about my question #2. Will there be an option in future to select from a pre-defined category of images to use when making a post such as phpnuke has for it's news categories, etc. ?
Torqued
10-14-2004, 04:11 PM
Will there be an option in future to select from a pre-defined category of images to use when making a post such as phpnuke has for it's news categories, etc. ?
One possible work around for that would be to creat a user account for each "category" you want posted in news. For example, make user accounts w/ user name
Tech News
Gaming News
Hardware News
Software News
etc...
You could also give those accounts different avatars to go with the appropriate category. Give those users only access to post in the "news" forum.
You will have to log in to each account to post a news item for that category. It's not a pretty work around, but it should work. :cool: That's what I'm going to be doing until we get a news category icon feature. :p
Brian
10-14-2004, 04:47 PM
2. Will there be an option in future to select from a pre-defined category of images to use when making a post such as phpnuke has for it's news categories, etc. ?
I won't say that won't ever be an option, but I don't currently have any plans to add it.
Torqued
10-14-2004, 05:18 PM
I won't say that won't ever be an option, but I don't currently have any plans to add it.
:(
FWIW, I'd really like that functionality as well.. so you could have more of a slashdot.org type news system. :)
KW802
10-14-2004, 06:21 PM
:(
FWIW, I'd really like that functionality as well.. so you could have more of a slashdot.org type news system. :)
Couldn't you cheat with a conditional in the template? "If the forumID = X then display image.jpg" or if there was a one-to-one relationship of forumids to images just change the template to always display "image{forumID}.jpg"......
I like the suggestions but a bit troublesome logging in for each catagory type.
I hope there could be some plans for this set up because this is what a content management portal usually does by organizing the "content" topics.
Torqued
10-14-2004, 08:37 PM
Couldn't you cheat with a conditional in the template? "If the forumID = X then display image.jpg" or if there was a one-to-one relationship of forumids to images just change the template to always display "image{forumID}.jpg"......
Yeah. But that wouldn't work if you had a single news forum w/ multiple categories.
Torqued
10-14-2004, 08:38 PM
I like the suggestions but a bit troublesome logging in for each catagory type.
I hope there could be some plans for this set up because this is what a content management portal usually does by organizing the "content" topics.
Yes. it is troublesome, but it would work. :) I guess it depends on how much news you have to post.
KW802
10-14-2004, 10:09 PM
Yeah. But that wouldn't work if you had a single news forum w/ multiple categories.
But then how would you flag a particular message as belonging to a particular category? The answer to that question starts then take you beyond the scope of a portal and into the realm of stuff like v3Articles and similar efforts. Doing a one-forum-to-one-category is a KISS method but it'd be a quick solution.
If you search around here and on vb.org somebody is actually working on a hack that allows you to sort the news on the front page by date by category but the approach they took is indeed the one-forum-to-one-category method.
Torqued
10-15-2004, 09:05 AM
But then how would you flag a particular message as belonging to a particular category?
By having separate "news posting" user accounts. For example, I would create user accounts with user names:
General News
Tech News
Gaming News
Hardware News
Those would be my 4 news categories. I'd give them access to only the "news" forum for posting.
You would then log in as the appropriate "news category" user to post news. This would allow you to have separate news category icons which are really the avatars for each news category user.
Obviously, this would be cumbersome if you had a large amount of news, but for smaller volumes of news posts, this would work and give the desired effect of separate category icons within a single "news" forum, which could then be displayed on the vBadvanced front page.
You could then also search for all posts by the "Tech News" user to find only the "Tech News" articles.. and if you did not care about the "Hardware News" articles, you could "ignore" that user and their posts.
Like I said, it's a work around. It's not pretty, but it does attain some of the fucntionality that I believe some people (myself included) have been looking for.
Ghostsuit
10-15-2004, 11:24 AM
Couldn't you cheat with a conditional in the template? "If the forumID = X then display image.jpg" or if there was a one-to-one relationship of forumids to images just change the template to always display "image{forumID}.jpg"......
Why not do this
Set up seperate icons for when you post news, these can be user group defined. Then have the icons id tied to the images as suggested. This way no matter where you post the icons will be available and available to all users in the user groups you give access to those icons..
Bambi
10-16-2004, 09:39 AM
We have many categories of news, so this is how we do it now and did before we had vBadvanced: I made an html page (http://www.council-of-elrond.com/images/news/) that contained avatar sized pics for each category. With each pic is the html code (or you could use vbcode) so that the news poster can just copy and paste that into the thread. You can see here (http://council-of-elrond.com/index2.php) how they look on the front page. There is a 5 pixel border of the background color on the right side of each pic so the text isn't butted up against the pic, and it also leaves a space between pics if we use multiple pics in one news article.
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