While working on a new template for Pligg I was trying to come up with the best way to manage articles that would appear on top of the homepage to feature select stories. I originally was thinking that I could use the "Groups" feature for Pligg, or even create a "Featured" category. Then I thought that those methods would not allow me to appropriately label my news and were not the best way to handle the featured news articles that I wanted on the homepage. That's when I turned to CMStheme's Featurify module, which allows admins to manually set up images that link to news article and rotate those images somewhere in your template. A few hours later I had created a "Featured" module for Pligg.

How it works
The first thing you will need to do is upload and install the module. Then add a snippet of code to the template file where you want the featured news to appear. You can do this by adding the following line to a .tpl file:

{$featured}

I suggest that you place it on your homepage by placing it in index_center.tpl and wrapping it with the following code so that it only shows up on the homepage and not the second, third, etc. pages.

{if $pagename == 'index' && count($templatelite.get) == 0}{$featured}{/if}

The Featured module has a nearly identical admin interface to the Featurify module. Admins can log in to the admin area and then navigate to a page where it displays your current featured news items. If you want to remove a news item you can easily edit or delete it, or if you don't have any you can click on the button to "Add Featured News". See the attached screenshots for examples.

The module is set to only grab the latest 4 news items from your Featured News list. The most recent item will be used to display the first news article with a larger image, while the second, third and fourth most recent article appear with a smaller thumbnail.

The template file used for this module ( /modules/featured/templates/featured.tpl ) has been designed to work with the new Arthemia Pligg template. If you are using another template you will want to customize this file to make it look better in your own template. You can also make some small tweaks to the file to change how many stories you want to appear, how many characters the smaller stories get in their descriptions before being cut off and other cosmetic changes.

Lastly, make sure that you CHMOD 0777 the /modules/featured/phpthumb/cache/ directory to ensure that thumbnails are able to be added to that folder.

Credits
CMStheme for his Featurify module.
phpthumb for generating and caching image thumbnails

[Yankidank]

Could be a phpthumb configuration problem. You might want to see if their support could hep you, here's the phpthumb homepage.

[shilmy]

Originally Posted by Yankidank

1. Make sure that you chmod 0777 the /modules/featured/phpthumb/cache/ directory.
2. The featured images? If you are talking about upload module images it's up to you to position and style them from the upload module settings page.

I've make sure the permission is 0777, but the featured image is still broken.

You can see it on my site.

[Yankidank]

Originally Posted by shilmy

I've make sure the permission is 0777, but the featured image is still broken.

You can see it on my site.

I've moved your posts to the appropriate thread for the Featured module, the template is unrelated to the problems you are experiencing with this module.

Sorry, but I don't have enough time to support this module so its up to you or others to figure out a solution to your problem. I had tested this module on 3 servers before releasing this version and it worked fine on those. I'm not going to dedicate more of my time making sure that it runs on every possible server in every language.

[nellaitamil]

Nice Work This module

[reddyink]

I don't think Image is working for anyone. If it's working for anyone on the board, please post.

[soleimanian]

i have same problem

[reddyink]

I want this feature to be appeariing in only in one category and not all

Which template should I put the code (& what format)


{if $pagename == 'index' && category_id == 4}
{$featured}

{/if}

Which template should I put the code in?

Otherwise, I would like to create a page where this can be displayed.

Thanks!
Thank you!

[mickscool]

Hi,
I love this module and I am using it in the arthemia theme.I am showing it under all the pages instead of just the homepage. So I was wondering, is it possible to pass a category to the featured module such that it displays only the featured posts for that category.

The other way could be to have multiple instances of the feature module and calling them for each category something like:

if categoryid=1
{$featured}
else if category = 2
{$featured2}

and so on..

Can you provide any help?

Thanks

[Yankidank]

See "Templating Categories" on this wiki article:
Pligg Categories

[sulong]

Who is perfect to use this module? demo link ，thx ！