Donkerrood

I've just installed the gallery app to see how this could work out for my forums. I have a lot of topics that are 'what did you eat today' or 'show your new purchases' in which members post pictures. Asking them to first upload that to a gallery, then go back to the topic and insert it as an image is just too much hassle if you look at it from a user perspective. Of course as admins, we would want them to do that, but reality is that people are used to post image links or just add a photo from their smart phone and dump it in a topic. I would really like to be able to curate this content (even have a setting that would allow me to download images from external links and add them to my own media database). For instance to be able to display a masonry grid with all images posted in the forum. Showing off this content is a great visual and appealing way to show off forum content, which may then again drive visitors etc. I am not sure whether the gallery app in its current form is the way to go for me (at least, I do not see the use case), now that the forum topics are really used as the content container. I think this is a great topic, looking forward to hear your views on gallery / image content curation and the forum software.

Bought it yesterday. I'm not getting images on the frontpage widget, while they are showing in the forum view. What can be wrong here? Furthermore, I was wondering whether it would be possible to search an entire topic for images, not just the first post. Would that be possible? Finally, when I want to show only featured topics in the widget, it does just show the latest topics, regardless whether they are featured or not. Am I doing something wrong or are these just things that need to be fixed? Thanks!

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Can someone from IPS confirm this?

I tried it in all possible ways I could think of, but apparently AdSense is not able to crawl those pages (or I'm doing something wrong - most probable). Any how-to would be really appreciated! Thanks!

Bumping this topic to check whether anything like this will be included in the 4.0 Suite (A)

You might be aware of this already, but it is a request that would be highly appreciated by myself and I think by the rest of the community as well. On my forums, I have specific forums which are not accessible for guests and also not for the google search crawler, because I prefer this forums not to be searchable through google. However, it would be great if we could set separate access (f.i. as a separate user group) for the AdSense crawler, because irrespective of whether you can google these private forums, I want the ads on these forums to be as relevant as possible. The login feature of the adsense crawler doesn't work with IPB, as far as I know. Please IPS, could you include code that recognizes the AdSense crawler and assign it to a specific user group? Thanks!

I have the issue that once you have manually switched skins, the auto-detect doesn't work anymore and there is no way to fix that (or at least I haven't found that way :) )

What I would like as a setting is to show the topics in which a user has posted in the last x hours (on clicking the View New Content tab) This would boil down to something similar to this (in wwwadminapplicationsforumsextensionssearchPlugin.php) /* Generate last post times */ if ( ! $this->memberData['bw_vnc_type'] ) { $cutoff_time = 48*60*60; // hours x minutes x seconds $where[] = "t.last_post > " . time() - $cutoff_time; } Would that be possible to include for default (as I do not prefer to have modifications - for upgrading reasons)?

On our forums We have scaled the recently added posts down to a one-line per topic list, based on this SELECT required_info FROM topics ORDER BY last_post DESC LIMIT 0,10 and a check whether the topic is visible to the user or not. That's it, we do not include user info, but only the time of the post and the topic title..

File Name: [pieterh] Personal Portal Interests Tab File Submitter: DDH File Submitted: 25 Dec 2006 File Category: Components This component will add an interest tab to your personal portal. It also has the possibility to show bbcode, smilies and html, entered in the interests-field. Installation instructions are included in a .txt file. With some common sense, it shouldn't be that difficult :) I hope you like it. If anything :thumbdown: comes up, let me know. [Edit January 2nd 2007] Screenshot added. Click here to download this file

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