XF 2 Featured posts MOVED

Displays a random featured post from selected forums.

The first post of the thread is selected at random and will be displayed in the forum list or other widget location.

(Example of Featured posts)




(Example of Options page)




(Example of User group permissions)




Features:

• Cron Entry will rotate posts every minute.
• All phrases start with featuredposts_ for your convenience.

Installation:

1. Download Andy-FeaturedPosts-1.7.zip and unzip it.
2. Copy the src/addons/Andy/FeaturedPosts directory to your server.
3. From the Admin Control Panel Install the add-on.

Creating the widget:

1. Admin Control Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets
2. Widget definition = Featured posts
3. Widget key = featured_posts
4. Title = (leave blank)
5. Display in positions = Forum list: Above nodes
6. Click Save.

User group permissions:

Normally the following two groups are set to Yes:

Registered
Unregistered / Unconfirmed