Does anyone know if in v5 we can enable/disable ads based on forums? Thank you.

Edited November 12, 2024Nov 12 by virap1

Also, will a database/article page be able to show related content based on the category of the current database record being viewed or some other setting?

AT the moment I use php blocks to achieve this but I understand php blocks will not be supported in v5.

 

Does anyone know if in v5 we can enable/disable ads based on forums? Thank you.

Yes.

 

Also, will a database/article page be able to show related content based on the category of the current database record being viewed or some other setting?

AT the moment I use php blocks to achieve this but I understand php blocks will not be supported in v5.

The Similar Content widget uses tags, not categories, to show related content. 

 

Yes.

The Similar Content widget uses tags, not categories, to show related content. 

That will seriously not be sufficient for me and I am sure many others. I think it pulls content from different areas and we might need to restrict related content to specific content types and categories. This is a basic functionality and needs to be addressed especially if the php blocks are getting deactivated so we can't do this even manually. 

Edited November 13, 2024Nov 13 by virap1

Can anyone recommend a solution for this very serous invision issue of not being able pull and present related content from related articles based on database records?

I whole thing was really bad in v4 so I had to hand code and create php blocks to do this. Now, instead of coming up with a solution they remove php blocks too.

 

That will seriously not be sufficient for me and I am sure many others. I think it pulls content from different areas and we might need to restrict related content to specific content types and categories. This is a basic functionality and needs to be addressed especially if the php blocks are getting deactivated so we can't do this even manually. 

You can still create custom blocks, just not in the same way that you used to. You'd need to create a custom app and then create a widget within that app. It's not as complicated as it sounds, but yes, it's more complicated than a straight-up PHP block.

can we use php in this widgets created with an app? Is there some sort of documentation on this?

Please reconsider your related content widget practicality. It needs to have decent presentation and filtering options at least for basic things like content areas and categories. I see a lot of big words thrown here in reference to v5 being new vision, big vision... Let's start by implementing some basic functionality before screaming big vision.

 

I see a lot of big words thrown here in reference to v5 being new vision, big vision... Let's start by implementing some basic functionality before screaming big vision.

Constructive feedback is certainly what this area is for, however please do bear in mind that developers have spent many months hard working on version 5, with a lot of quite large changes and updates. While I appreciate there isn't something there that you may wish to have included, and some things may have been changed in a manner you personally don't like, there are a lot of very large changes people very much like.

Marc, I also like some of the changes. But related content is simply a basic functionality and needs to be addressed.

 

Marc, I also like some of the changes. But related content is simply a basic functionality and needs to be addressed.

This is, in your opinion, basic functionality. We have had many other people state the same about features we dont have, or do not ever intend to have. This is not to say that your request isnt valid. I'm simply asking you to be aware on how statements like this can come across.

 

You can still create custom blocks, just not in the same way that you used to. You'd need to create a custom app and then create a widget within that app. It's not as complicated as it sounds, but yes, it's more complicated than a straight-up PHP block.

 

 

can we use php in this widgets created with an app? Is there some sort of documentation on this?

 

Can someone answer, explain? Thanks.

 

Yes.

 

I can't find where in v5 settings we can explode certain forums where ads will not run.

Can someone help me with this please? can you in v5 set advertisements not be displayed in certain forums/sections? if so how, because I don't see that option in my trial v5 installation.  Thanks.

 

Can someone help me with this please? can you in v5 set advertisements not be displayed in certain forums/sections? if so how, because I don't see that option in my trial v5 installation.  Thanks.

I cant see it there either. @Esther E. can probably advise on this. It may be that its a bug