New forum features
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:32 am
I have added extensions to the stock forum to add the following features:
1. Display recent threads on the main page
2. Thank you for the post button, sort of like a Like button (see upper right hand side of each post, next to the Quote button)
3. National flags; every user can choose a flag which will be displayed next to their avatar
4. Tapatalk functionality so you can add our forum to your tapatalk app
5. Auto-resize images on the server. This is a time saver. You don't have to resize images before uploading them, they will be resized to 1280 pixels width and proportional height
6. Preview thumbnail of images to be uploaded, and ability to rotate them upon upload.
7. Ability to embed youtube and vimeo videos in your post. There are two buttons rightly named youtube and vimeo, which, when you're posting, will insert in your post a BBcode like this
or
then all you do is copy the video IDENTIFIER from the youtube or vimeo link. The identifier is usually the last string of characters after the equal sign in the case of youtube. Example for youtube: if this is the link to your video
then the video IDENTIFIER is nDqh3226a78, therefore to embed this video in your post you do this:
Same thing for vimeo, for this vimeo video link
you would insert the following in your post:
Example vimeo here:
1. Display recent threads on the main page
2. Thank you for the post button, sort of like a Like button (see upper right hand side of each post, next to the Quote button)
3. National flags; every user can choose a flag which will be displayed next to their avatar
4. Tapatalk functionality so you can add our forum to your tapatalk app
5. Auto-resize images on the server. This is a time saver. You don't have to resize images before uploading them, they will be resized to 1280 pixels width and proportional height
6. Preview thumbnail of images to be uploaded, and ability to rotate them upon upload.
7. Ability to embed youtube and vimeo videos in your post. There are two buttons rightly named youtube and vimeo, which, when you're posting, will insert in your post a BBcode like this
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[vimeo][/vimeo]
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[youtube][/youtube]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqh3226a78
then the video IDENTIFIER is nDqh3226a78, therefore to embed this video in your post you do this:
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[youtube]nDqh3226a78[/youtube]
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https://vimeo.com/458668111
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[vimeo]458668111[/vimeo]