Asgaros Forum v1.6.4: Truncated Quotes & Blog Post Topics

#1 · November 30, 2017, 5:48 pm

Version 1.6.4 of the Asgaros Forum plugin for WordPress is a maintenance release which comes with a couple of enhancements.

Truncated Quotes

Were you ever annoyed of reading posts which contain a lot of long quotes? Good news: They will now get truncated which makes it more easier for your users to concentrate on the discussion.

Truncated Quote

Create topics for new blog-posts

A new option has been added to your general Asgaros Forum settings which allows you to automatically create a topic for every new blog post which is getting published. In the settings you can define in which forum the new topics should get created.

Create topics for new blog-posts

Other Changes

Fixed broken subscriptions/profile-view when using the forum-shortcode with the category-parameter
Minor design changes
Renamed asgarosforum_after_add_thread_submit hook into asgarosforum_after_add_topic_submit
Performance improvements and code optimizations

Version 1.6.4 of Asgaros Forum will be available in the next 24 hours via the WordPress Updater!

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#2 · November 30, 2017, 6:17 pm

Excellent, thank you Thomas 🙂

#3 · December 1, 2017, 10:12 pm

Is there any way to add a meta box with checkbox to choose which posts create topics. It would be good to be able to choose which posts create topics

#4 · December 2, 2017, 10:06 am

Not yet. If you want to prevent the creation of a new topic for a new blog post you have to disable the functionality before you publish it and activate it again after.

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#5 · December 3, 2017, 4:32 pm

Quote from Asgaros on December 2, 2017, 10:06 am

Not yet. If you want to prevent the creation of a new topic for a new blog post you have to disable the functionality before you publish it and activate it again after.

Does not yet mean that you may add this feature in the future

#6 · December 3, 2017, 5:20 pm

Yes, when I can find some time I will check if I can find a nice way to implement this.

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#7 · December 19, 2017, 9:40 am

Quote from Asgaros on November 30, 2017, 5:48 pm

Truncated Quotes

Were you ever annoyed of reading posts which contain a lot of long quotes? Good news: They will not get truncated which makes it more easier for your users to concentrate on the discussion.

Sorry, Thomas, I guess you meant “they will now get truncated…”? My quotes are truncated now, with no possibility to expand. This might be useful sometimes, so it’s good to have, but sometimes it may be counterproductive. Is there a way to disable this feature?

Ruediger

#8 · December 19, 2017, 10:37 am

Hello Ruediger,

yes you were right with the spelling mistake, they are truncated now. I will try to add a possibility to show the full quote after a click.

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#9 · December 19, 2017, 1:38 pm

Hello again,

I just added a toggle-functionality to the dev-version:

https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/commit/c619d95eee87acf24efa6084e067237b1d4a7824

This will be included in the upcoming update.

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#10 · December 19, 2017, 3:42 pm

Hi Thomas,

I just tested the changes – it works like a charm, thank you very much!

The cursor changes on hovering, though marking text remains possible – so that’s okay. The changed cursor might work as a kind of discreet “explainer” to the user, who has to find out how to expand the quote. Anyway – a tiny additional nice-to-have request would be an option for setting the default starting behavior to truncated or expanded.

Anyway: The truncated quote looks great!