How to Share your Top 10 Posts
Rosemary O'Neill
Crowdstack
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TipsFor the top navigation menu, if you want to have each menu item change color when you hover it, add this custom CSS: /* the following sets the background color for the menu item on hover */ .top-bar-section li:hover:not(.has-form) a:hover:not(.button) { background-color:#444444; } .top-bar-section li.active:hover:not(.has-form) a:hover:not(.button) { background-color:#444444; color:#fffff0; } /* the following sets the text color and icon color for the menu items on hover */...
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Tips❤️In Crowdstack, if you click your name (top right) there's a menu item Posting Tips . We wanted to control where that link went (instead of https://yoursite/member-cp/posting-tips ) Here's what we did. In Control Panel - Display Settings -- End of Page HTML We added some jQuery to locate the link and replace the href attribute with the address where you want Posting Tips to go. <script> $(function() { // Redirect Posting Tips to our own blog post with posting tips...
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Tips❤️You already know that you can insert images into your Hoop.la posts by clicking "Add Attachments." But do you know how to refine the SEO value for each image? This quick tip offers some additional options that may help optimize your post (and make it easier to read for accessibility purposes). You'll notice there's an Attachments box at the bottom of the post, which is where you can adjust the Title and Caption if you'd like to do so. The Title field will default to the filename, but it's...
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Tips❤️How to add an image rotator to your home page banner. We will be using a package called Slick. Slick is fully compatible with Crowdstack, can be responsive, and has oodles of fun features, We will be doing a basic setup just to get it installed and working. First, download the files that you need. Go to the Slick website and click Get it now. Click download now and download the zip file to your desktop or downloads folder, whichever you usually use. Once it is downloaded, unzip the zip file.
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SuggestionsIn my automated messages, I often greet members by their username (in the email salutation), but your system automatically links their user name to their member profile and thus gives their name the default link color, which is a different color than the rest of the email text. This makes the email look more like a form letter than I would like (as if I just filled in a blank with their name). Of course, this is precisely what happens, but I would like their names not to look so obviously...
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Blog Post CommentWhile they don't have your logo, my company hands out those brains occasionally during staff trainings. I have a lapel pin in the form of an IUD - yep, the birth control device. That's probably my weirdest swag yet.
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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 CommentGreat idea, Ted! We occasionally have spammers register and then try to promote products that have nothing to do with our site. The posts get reported by other members and we zap 'em, but by using this recipe the posts would never be seen by anyone in the first place. Nice.
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Blog Post CommentIs there a recipe for what we deal with? I have posting from email on. Our forum email gets heaps of spam. Hoop.la treats each spam email like a new member trying to register. The post is in the moderation queue so at least nobody sees the spam. But I wish that we could allow "posting via email" but auto decline any registration that appears to come from a first email. Any recipe for that? That would save me daily time in manually declining obvious spammers. Thanks.
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Blog Post CommentHi Deb- Your scenario is not supported in that we would need to have a condition that checks to see if the content is submitted by email. I think that is a great idea, though, so we will consider adding that for a future release. Once we support that, you can just create a 'moderate content' recipe and set a condition for content posted by email. You may want to post this as an idea in our support site , if you want to be notified when that is added a feature.
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Topic ReplyWe do support "sandbox" sites in the form of a QA environment, but that's only available on Pro plans. You can see it in the pricing comparison here: http://www.hoop.la/plans.php
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Topic ReplyThanks for the reminder. I wish the ALT tag was a field in the “insert/edit image” window. A lot easier than scrolling through source code.
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Topic ReplyThanks for this tip, Rosemary. The last time I checked, Pinterest also uses the "Title " info for what shows up as the description on a pin. It would be nice to have an easier way (other than accessing the HTML code) to add a data-pin-description. (Sheesh. Your customers are always wanting more!)
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Topic ReplyNeil and Carol, I can't thank you both enough for commenting and revealing to me that this tip was half-baked! I've completely redone it, and guess what? You already can edit the Title and the Alt tags without going into the code.
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Topic ReplyThanks for the clarification. I would suggest adjusting the word "Title" in the interface to "Title and Alt Tag" because "alt tag" is common web parlance, especially in SEO practice, and is an important thing to do (provide an alt tag).