How to Adjust for Twitter API Changes
Rosemary O'Neill
CrowdstackTechnology
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TipsThe theme editor allows you to customize the overall background color for your widgets. Here's a typical widget styled using the the theme editor only: Change Title Font Properties If you just want to change the widget title's font size, color, or weight (how bold it is), apply CSS like this (setting your own specific colors, sizes, weights): header.widget-header h3 { color: #4d709f; font-weight:400; font-size:1.1rem; } Note that you should be using REM units for font size, not pixels. That...
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TipsI just found this cool (mostly free) tool that helps you pull a dynamic photo feed from Twitter, Instagram, and/or Facebook. If you use their Pro version, it also includes custom CSS and moderation tools. You can paste their embed code into custom content blocks or custom widgets, or into the header or footer of your Crowdstack site. Options include scrolling banners, grids, and map style. SnapWidget If you decide to try it out, come back and share your design!
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Tips❤️Sometimes you want to bring widget content onto the Home page of your community, in the left column. This tip is the step-by-step on how to accomplish that! If you've done this in your community, please share your own hints for making it work here too. In this example, we're displaying forum topics, but you can do this same method with other widget content. Go to control panel, under “manage widgets.” Click the Embedded Widgets tab. Click “add embedded widget.” Select “UBB Forum” in the...
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Blog Post CommentTHAT is a great idea! Nice way to recap the year too! Thanks for the suggestion!
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Blog Post CommentYou're welcome Morgan! I'd love to see your list when it's done!
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Blog Post CommentHi Rosemary! Is there a way to create a collection for forum posts in this manner so it can be pulled into a widget like you suggest with the blog posts?
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Blog Post CommentNot right now, but as I was writing this post I realized that would be a cool idea...want to go suggest it at https://hey.crowdstack.com/support ? That way we can get it voted up
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Blog Post CommentDone. And I just posted my top 10 forum posts . Happy Holidays!
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Blog Post CommentAs a non profit, we use a non profit service similar to paypal called www.networkforgood.org We just post a graphic link. What's the advantage of your PayPal widget over that??
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Blog Post CommentHi Neil, No advantage...Paypal is just one of the most widely used, so I decided to use that as my example. Thanks for sharing your service too...there may be other non-profits out there who might want to check that out.
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Topic ReplyWe have hundreds of groups in our website and I want to create a custom widget that I can share/embed with all of them. How do I do that?
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Topic ReplyHi @Valerie Krist , Almost the exact same way that Rosemary described above. For step 3 select Groups -> Group Directory. The widget defaults to 15 groups but will show up to maximum of 50, and it will display a link to see the rest.
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Topic ReplyThank you Ted. Is there a CSS code that I can use for the background of the widget to be a color instead of the background image of the theme? If so, would this be placed in the customize widget or the theme?
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Topic ReplyYou can already set the background color of the overall widget in your theme... in the Widgets section of the theme editor. Thus, no CSS required.
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Topic ReplyHi Chris- I went ahead and forked off your post above into a new private support topic for you.
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Topic Replythese tips are great! I'm applying them and they make the site look great!
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Topic ReplyPlease tell me how to convert font size in px to REM; I have NEVER heard of this before. Thank you
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Topic ReplyGood evening, The REM value is derived from the "Base Font Size" setting defined within your theme: CP -> Design -> Standard Themes If you edit your theme you will see the setting in the "Fonts" section. Consider a REM value a multiplier of that value. So if you have a "Base Font Size" of 16px, and you want to target a element to use a 12px font size you would set the REM value to 0.75rem. That is 16px * 0.75 = 12px. I think I can sense what you are thinking: "But Jonmark, why wouldn't...
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Topic ReplyHi, Thanks for the explanation. It still doesn't help. In what way do I write the font size??? 12px? 12 pt?? I have set my font size in a widget which has my welcome pagagraph, and no matter what I do to it, it is displaying what I would call 2pt type. Please HELP!!!!!
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Topic ReplyOkay I really need help!!! All my pages are displaying in this super tiny font, including Private Messages!! Please tell me what to set , where to set it , so it displays as 12 point type!! AAAGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't have the time to screw around with this!!!!!
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Blog Post CommentIs there a way to disable the " Unified Posting Button on Home Page"?
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Blog Post CommentHi jpmfan, Yep, you can do that with custom CSS. Just add this code to the Custom CSS section on the Display Settings page in your control panel: #overviewPostingOptionsButtonWrapper {display:none;} Hope that helps, Brian
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Blog Post CommentHow many clients did this go out to? How many suggestions did you have to do this? I refer to the slide show.
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Blog Post CommentHi Jon, This release went out to all Hoop.la, UBB Forum, and QuestionShark customers. We've had numerous requests for slideshow functionality over the past year or so (I don't have an exact figure to give). We support slideshows now via the Clips widget Ted mentioned as well as on the Clips page itself. Hope that helps, Brian
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Blog Post CommentAlways appreciate your releases but disappointed you've stopped giving them creative names. We implemented your suggested CSS code to suppress the new Post Content button. Our Reason: at our site it would likely invite too many improperly located or duplicate topics. I do like the idea of encouraging posts, however, so I'm wondering about a widget that features the current "hot topic" (as determined by activity/views/whatever) and has a 'reply now' button to catch interest on the home page.
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Blog Post CommentI'm glad we can now add members in the backend. In the past I've attempted to do this refreshing obsolete accounts with new personage to take over the account, but when I'd open a dialog with them, the system wouldn't allow me to message the member due to the same IP I guess. So I'm wondering, will I have the same problem under the new release if I register people.
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Blog Post CommentHi Lhisa, Hoop.la doesn't do any checks based on IP address that would prevent you from sending a dialog to another user. Users can choose to prevent others from sending them dialogs, however (assuming you are talking about dialogs). Thus, the new feature that allows you to register users through the control panel should behave the same way. The only difference is that you will not be logged in as the new user (as you would have previously). Without knowing exactly what error you're getting,...
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Blog Post CommentNo, I wasn't blocked. I just noticed that in the past if I signed up as a new member under my IP address on my hoop.la site using a different email address as a test member, I could not send a dialog to that test member & I attributed that to having the same IP since I was also the Admin because the system shows the registration IP & the last IP used to login. If the system however is not wired to see that as a conflict, then something else was blocking my ability to receive a dialog...
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Topic ReplyHello, Crowdstack's default widget code limits displayed content to avoid crowding the narrow widget column. Use a <div> tag with specific styles to create a scrollable container for the widget content. Create Custom Widget: Go to Customer/Embedded Widget settings in the control panel. Select "Add Embedded Widget". Create a Custom Embedded Widget and copy the code. Modify the widget code to show your desired content (e.g., "last 50" posts). Add Scrollbar Code: Paste the following code...