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  1. Do you have any recommendations?
  2. @Miss_BCheers. Will look into that later 🙂
  3. @CoffeeCake Yeah lots to learn then. Think I’m going to learn html then css then JavaScript. Get fluent in front end and then tackle the back end. If only so that I understand plugins and how to do things. Hardest thing that I have found with code isn’t so much the code, it’s the little things that go with it such as ; < > { } etc Matt
  4. Hi, I’m thinking of learning to code and have a few questions if anybody would be so good to reply. I presume that Invision is centred around html/css and possibly JavaScript? Not asking how long it would take to learn them as I’m sure that depends on how much time somebody can dedicate to it, how quickly they learn etc BUT if I did learn them and got pretty fluid with it, how hard is it to go from that to learning the way that Invisions sdk works. Is Invision written in the same code that I would learn with html/css etc? I think I could pick them up within a few months but I feel that the logic behind it all “I know the code but how do I do this” would be the hardest part for me.
  5. Yeah i just wish that it could be a specific homepage that you can create articles and not have to pull from anything if you know what I mean. Not knocking your plugin, I think it’s brilliant, I’m saying more from Invision side that I wish it could be done.
  6. Something that is built into the forum software. Something that you can rename for your home page. Something that you can decide where to pull articles from and also who can post them. I use super topics but I have to have a forum called “x” for “x” to be shown on the blocks. Just looks untidy. To clarify, a page that you can call home and it shows articles in a gorgeous template that doesn’t require a forum to be created to be the feeder to the homepage. Like burning boards has. So I could just have permissions set to admins or people who wrote articles for me, everybody else wouldn’t see then”create article” on that homepage.
  7. Yeah that's what I meant. SO I will have the content pulling from a forum called "news & rumours" for example. Say I have 6 entries in and have the settings for 6 entries in your plugin. When I put a 7th post in the news & rumours forum , it will purge the least latest post.
  8. So I can configure this to only show latest? Thats what I'm a after then. So basically its pulling from a forum "Articles" and showing own the homepage and I want 6 boxes , but to show the latest 6 all the time. So once I have more than 6 articles in that forum , it will always purge the ones older than the latest 6.
  9. Hi Just wondered if @Matt is going to reply to my numerous messages on the support chat? What happened to “I’ll get right on it”??!
  10. Hi, Just installed this and its working lovely. In the block I have it set to display 6 items. When there is more in the forum that I'm pulling from , can it be set to purge the older ones and always display the newest BUT have a button to show the older ones on a slide , basically click the arrow and it shows older ones etc? Or a button that changes the block from Show 6 to show all? Matt
  11. Aaaah SuperTopics looks much more what I'm after.
  12. Had a video done from Matt so getting to grips with Pages and the Database etc. In the video he suggests having 2 pages , 1 for news articles (A) and 1 for a landing page (B) that pulls content from A. Could I not just pull from a forum on the main forum called "News & Articles" and have the content coming to the front landing page (B) and make it look pretty with your templates or will this only work by pulling content from a database? If so , I would need to hide Page A from the public as it will look daft.
  13. Makes much more sense now thanks. Only thing I can't fathom is that I have 2 pages. 1 to actually write the content, lets call it A and the second page which shows the feed , lets call it B, which I want as the landing page. How do I hide A from members as there's no point in them seeing that as they wont be creating news articles . Also will that affect them being able to read B? Finally I can go into Settings/Localisation/Languages/Translation Tools/Quick Translating and enable that so I can change "News Articles" to "Home" but how do I get it that it goes to that when someone loads the website and the menu across the top shows HOME / FORUMS / CALENDAR etc etc? Don't want to take any more of your time @Matt , so anybody else know how I can achieve this? Thanks Matt
  14. Brill. Thanks for the help 🙂
  15. Brill. Thanks for that 🙌🏻
  16. Hi, Being somebody that isn't very clued up on html and css, could somebody offer any advice or help to understanding pages/database etc? I have bought pages. I have seen SuperGrid by Opentype but been told that I need a good understanding of databases etc to be able to make it work. I don't. I have messed around with it but can't seem to get it to work. What I want to achieve... Home page/landing page that has articles. The feed I want to come from a forum called "News & Rumours" so I can add articles in the main forum but when people for the first time or regularly visit the website, they can see the articles , which may encourage them to register or contribute. My understanding is that I need to add a page, create a database (is this the database of the articles?), then add a block to show the content? Really struggling to get my head around it. Off work this week and won't be getting another break for 3 months. Really want to try and get this sorted asap. Thanks for any advice or help that you may offer 🙂
  17. Hi, Thanks for the reply. Will try and learn about databases first then. Matt
  18. Hi, Before I consider buying this, would this allow me to have the SuperGrid as the landing page , called HOME , and this pull content from a forum called "News & Rumours"? I know nothing abut html and css so confusing. From what I can see in the admin panel on my site , "articles" have to be written in the admin panel. That would create issues as I would want to offload some of the article creation to a moderator or other person , of which I don't want access to the admin panel. Matt
  19. Did you get around to making the video @Matt? Appreciate you are busy Matt
  20. I did try the demo and have now purchased “pages”. Just going to try and get my head around it. Cheers Im either really stupid or I can’t get my head around this. Can’t see how I can have a home page that looks like the first image I posted, that pulls it from a forum called “news & rumours”
  21. I did try the demo and have now purchased “pages”. Just going to try and get my head around it. Cheers
  22. Thanks for the replies. So the blog system is using pages too. That looks perfect then. So I can buy Pages , have posts from "News & Rumours", which I will hide from the forum list for everybody apart from admin and moderators, and have them automatically populating the homepage (Pages). Will it be possible for the latest post in "News & Rumours" to go to the top, as in first to be seen? How would it truncate older posts?
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