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- Category: Site admin
- License: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2
- Updated: 2012-2-12
- Downloads: 1271
- Recommendations: 11
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Frontpage Campaign for Elgg 1.8
Frontpage for a Campaign with flip-pics and save sharing with facebook, google and twitter.
Make sure that the plugin is at the bottom of all plugins!Required plugin: File
Many thanks to 13 and sem. (i use the code from "phloor_flipwall", "phloor_socialshareprivacy" and "videolist")
After loading the plugin you see only a blank page as your front site. So you have to do some things:
Load with the file plugin 4 Pictures with 'title' #1#, #2#, #3#, #4# and give every file a description.This pitures are the front-sides of the flip-pictures (the title is not shown)The description ist the backside of the flip-pictures
Add Items to the videolist with videos from youtube, blib, giss, metacafe or vimeo (be sure not to use NOT the 'embeded url'). After loading, edit the video-file and change the title with a leading # (example: #1 My Video)
Go to the frontpage campaign plugin settings and edit (like in the setting described) and save.
That's all.
Languages:
English
German
to do: $img_alt = elgg_echo('flipwall:moreabout', array($file->title)); does not work properly
Release notes:
Required plugin: File (File upload und file embeding is only available for Admin)
Sugguested plugins:
cash's "Elgg-Following"
iionly's "Elgg 1.8: German Language Pack"
jeroen's "Profile Manager"
ManUtopiK's "Brainstorm your elgg 1.8"
sem's "Threads"
Many thanks to 13, sem and slyne. (i use the code from "phloor_flipwall", "phloor_socialshareprivacy", "videolist", "donate")
NEW: Donating via Papal
NEW: The 'Quick and Dirty #number#-System' ;-) is canceled. Now you control the visible of the content with file and site-settings.
NEW: Optional Picture and Grouping to category for "Recources".
To make the frontpage campaign:
copy frontpage campaign to your mod folder
Watch the quick guide video
Go to the frontpage campaign plugin settings and edit (like in the setting described) and save.
Languages:
English
German
Suggestions welcomed
Comments
watch frontpage campaign trailer
@ manfred nice plugin.
niccce; i liked the video presentation also ;-) it is good to see such good work ! thanks ;-O
thx coolsam
drup-man^ . . . you know, i love your comment ;-))
Hi manfed,
I really want to use this plugin but I can't seem to get it to work... I watched the videos and read that getting the blank page is normal, expect mine is completely blank - no header or footer or tabs just blank white for all the pages of my site, I can't log into the admin section either, it just shows white. I tried deleteing the plugin via ftp and my site came back. I tried uploading and activating it again and the same thing happened. Any ideas?
Thanks
Matt
hi matt,
the plugin "custom index page" must be deactivated
did you run upgrade.php to clear cashes after activating?
yours
manfred
Ok have deactivated the custom index plugin and it worked, thank you! :)
Okay I have a favicon plugin which sets my favicon.ico It seems this plug-in overrides that? How do I get my favicon to display? Secondly after installing and placing plugin at the bottom along with a deactivated custom index 1.8 plugin this plugin seems to override the Bright Theme 1.1.1 plugin css settings. I am getting a blue hue over the menu and header area as well as a change in the search box. I also lost the word search. Can you point me where I can correct this? Thank you
@cheyennemtnman please excuse that i am answering so late
to change the favicon, copy your favicon to . . .\mod\frontpage_campaign\_graphics\favicon.ico
yes, the plugin overides some css settings. to correct this, edit . . . mod\frontpage_campaign\views\default\frontpage_campaign\css.php
hope my hints help you, if not tell me :-)
greetings from cologne
manfred
Hi Manfred, this is a great plugin. I am having a small issue with the socialshare part of it, when you click to activate facebook share the facebook icon just dissapears, twitter and google plus share work fine.
I have tried using different browsers but the result is the same in all of them. Has this issue came up before? The site is live at www.olliocity.co.uk if you want to have a look for yourself?
I have modified the css to work with the bright theme plugin and footer editor plugin. I dont think this has affected it. Other than that I havnt modified the plugin and Im running elgg 1.8.8
Marc
hi mark,
i guess, facebook requires the title of your page
you did not serve that
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=www.olliocity.co.uk
check with php-debugger your indexpage source if the title variable has content
yours manfred
Thanks manfred, ive had a quick look at it. If I add the following metatags in /views/default/page/elements/head.php
Will Facebook be able to read the title from this?
$version = get_version();
$release = get_version(true);
?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="ElggRelease" content="<?php echo $release; ?>" />
<meta name="ElggVersion" content="<?php echo $version; ?>" />
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#"
xmlns:fb="https://www.facebook.com/2008/fmbl">
<title>Olliocity</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="Olliocity" />
<meta property="og:type" content="social" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.olliocity.co.uk/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.olliocity.co.uk/" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Olliocity" />
<meta property="og:description" content="" />
<meta property="og:locale" content="de_DE" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="USER_ID"/>
<?php echo elgg_view('page/elements/shortcut_icon', $vars); ?>
. smile . perhaps ;-)
check it, with the facebook debuggerpage
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=www.olliocity.co.uk
because, i used the "socialshareprivacy" not only on the index page
i used global variables
look, how i did it in views/default/page/elements/head.php
Im another step closer :) all the og fields are satisfied now and checked with the debugger, the button still isnt working though :(
Is there anything else I need to check or add?
Thanks for helping out.
o.k. :-)
did you turn off your custom theme, to check it's not the custom theme?
WOW! This is a great plugin, the video presentation also very nice!
Just revamped the site so will maybe not use it but thank you Manfred for this very very nice piece!
. smile. thanks michele :-)
Hi Manfred, yes I tried disabling the custom theme, it didnt make any difference I have no idea why its not working, or why its just the facebook share? Ive been playing about with the front page part of the plugin, it's amazing and it looks great too. Is there any way to resize the video on the frontpage? I couldnt find it in the css.
sry, you must figure out yourself, why the facebook share does not work, because i have poor java knowledge ;-)
to resize the video preview image look at: mod\frontpage_campaign\\views\default\object\videolist_item.php
and change width and height here:
elseif (elgg_in_context('gallery')) {
echo '<div class="videolist-gallery-item">';
$content = "<div class='c_i_c_title'>" . elgg_view('output/url', array(
'text' => elgg_get_excerpt($entity->title, 100),
'href' => $entity->getURL(),
)) . "</div>";
$excerpt = elgg_get_excerpt($entity->description,300);
$content .= "<div class='c_i_c_subtitle'> $excerpt $comments_link</div>";
echo elgg_view_image_block(elgg_view("videolist/watch/{$entity->videotype}", array(
'entity' => $entity,
'width' => 260,
'height' => 200,
)), $content );
echo '</div>';
Thanks manfred I'm not so good with java either, I'll do my best to get to the bottom of it. It could be a facebook glitch, I've read a few posts ford wordpress with people having the same issue and it just magically curing itself. Its a very small part of a great plugin and wont stop me using it. Thank you for putting your time into it. If I come accross a solution or if it resolves itself I will post back here with any fixes or solutions incase anyone else has the same issue. Thanks for all your help :)