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13 years 5 months ago #5942 by fb_751193125
Hi there
I have just installed your newest updates to JFB - you are doing such a great job. Congrats :-)

Our web site gets really bubbly and pro with the possibilities to add comments and "like" to the articles.

There is, however, a range of articles where it is not appropriate. Is there any way for me to disable features as "like" and "comments" for them?

Kind greetings
Manfred
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13 years 5 months ago #5945 by alzander
Not right now. The new content plugin was just released the other day, and there are more features in the pipeline.

One big point of feedback that a user has requested is to be able to set the content plugin to only work on certain sections and/or categories. Would this work for you as well? Like to get more feedback to make sure what we're planning to do will work for as wide of an audience as possible.

Thanks for your feedback!
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13 years 5 months ago #5951 by fb_751193125
Hehe, no, don't peceive me as impatient :-)
When a good idea appears it triggers the mind and creates more ideas.

Now to your question. Yes, probably it could be a solution to assign 'comments' and 'like' to certain categories or sections only. That could though call for a change of categories/sections in certain cases. I fear that assigning articles to a certain section/category from a software point of view could be too restraining. My intuition tells me that this should rather follow the logic of the content itself (well, in most cases anyway).

How about this: Until now, we have always shown plugins using {plugin}. Would it be against the Joomla philosophy and/or impossible with the architecture of JFBCContent to have something like {DoNOTshow} in the necessary articles?

This would give the necessary flexibility and at the moment I don't see any downsides to that solution :-)

All the best
Manfred
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13 years 5 months ago #5958 by alzander
That's actually something we had discussed before I posted my response. We don't generally like to 'throw things out there', as many users will latch onto just about everything and say "Yeah, do that".. and eventually, we have too much 'stuff' in our extensions (if that's possible).

Anyways, in short, we do like the idea, and will likely implement something like that in a future release, in addition to the specific categories.

Thanks again for your feedback!
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13 years 5 months ago #5962 by fb_1087266325
Hi,

Again, I'm a new user of your product and I believe that this will really be of assistance in our web efforts.

I want to ensure that I understand the above comments because it's something that is causing me an issue right now.

On my site, the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy , I use the K2 system for **only** items that are showing up in the homepage rotator. The "Like" system is pushing the text around and makes the section look fairly unattractive.

So based on the above ... I don't believe I can disable the "Likes" in K2 content.

But can I ... somehow modify the "Likes" to show at the bottom of the content versus the top?

Thanks for any help and assistance.
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13 years 5 months ago #5965 by alzander
In the parameters for the JFBCContent plugin, you can choose where the location (top or bottom) of the like button. Additionally, if you know the page you want to hide the Like button on, you can likely add some CSS to hide it. This is not optimal as you'll have to manually add this to hide in your template file, but it's a possible work around for now.

For instance, it looks as though you're only using RokTabs on the home page. If this is the case, you should be able to add the following piece of code to your template file, like so:
/templates/rt_crystalline_j15/css/template.css
.roktabs #jfbclike {
display:none;
}

This snippet will basically say "Anytime there's a like button in the RokTabs module, hide it". This has the advantage that if someone clicks through to that article from RokTabs, the Like button would still appear. If you had used a {dontShowLikeTag} block (if it were implemented), the Like button wouldn't show in either location (RokTabs or full article view).

Hopefully that helps you out. If not, or you have other questions, you know where to find us!
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13 years 5 months ago #5968 by fb_1087266325
Awesome! I added the code and we're good with this now.

I have one other question but I think I better start another thread for it instead of piling on here.

Thanks!

Matthew
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13 years 3 months ago #6953 by aphils
Hello, all,

I have the same issue: I'd like to NOT show the "Like" button for some articles, while at other times, I would like to include the plugin in other templates (like JReviews) so that I can manually controll the placement of the plugin.

Is that at all possible today? I have tried setting the plugin to NOT show in articles, but cannot figure out how to call it from either com_content templates or others.

Any tricks to share? Thanks in advance!
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13 years 3 months ago #6991 by alzander
Right now, we don't have the ability to specify categories to have the Content plugin appear in. It's being worked on, and expected for the 3.2 release, along with some other nifty integration features. Even then, that would only work for content articles (for now). I think you may want to look into adding the JFBCLike {} tag to your jReviews template, or another 'common' spot for your needs. For more info on the JFBCLike tag, see:
www.sourcecoast.com/jfbconnect/docs/configuration-guide

Hope this helps answer your question and suits your needs for now. Thanks!
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13 years 3 months ago #7008 by aphils
THANK YOU! And my apologies for missing that... Never even saw the configuration guide.

I'm experiencing one problem with it though... the plugin when called that { JCBCLike} (minus the space) does not seem to be honoring the preferences in the plugin. I have it set to "Button Count", but it displays in the page as "Standard." I'll poke around to see if this has already been addressed... otherwise, will start a new thread.

Thanks again!
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