help making a smilie link to a forum?

[jacobsen1]

I run a photography forum. We have a monthly contest called "shot of the month" or SotM for short. We've made a smilie that's a icon/badge so when you nominate an image, you put that smilie...

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actually, it's a VBSEO issue I guess. Turned it off, them came right on... So I've turned it back on and made it work another way in threads. The normal VB button works in articles.

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anyone?


...... oh, right, vb doesn't respond in their own forum... I guess I'll have to put in a ticket.

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this is weird, it works fine on my front page articles: http://newschoolofphotography.com/co...-scene%94.html

but that icon (and the twitter one which...

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I've turned on the facebook option in the backend but for some reason my forum won't show the like button like it does here on VB.com... Anyone know what I might be missing? Is it because I'm running...

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they solve different issues.

For news articles I post, the one that drops the article into the first post in the comment thread is key because most of my members NEVER go to the front page....

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so.......

think I can run both at the same time?!?!?!!!

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that's also a PITA because when you promote it it'll then make the comment thread for you.....

yes you CAN merge the original thread with the comment thread and everything will work OK (except...

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right now, when I post an article to the front page, I get a corresponding thread in a specified forum that says:


is there an easy way to make that the same as the article itself?...

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OK, I'm working on making my front page a little less VB looking and a little easier to read. More like a blog, but with the tie in with my forum (promote to articles and members can comment). So I've...

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the forum is fluid.

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I want my front page to be 1000px wide. I want ~300 for the right column and ~700 for the left. Right is all widgets etc, left is the articles. I say ~ for the sizes because I know I'll have to put...

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yeah, that bug pretty well covers it. Any idea on when it might be addressed?

anyone know of a walkaround on VB.org that works until it's fixed in VB itself?

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OK, say you have a thread going in your forum. It gets made into an article. People then comment on BOTH the article as a comment and in the thread. Is there any way to merge both of these and make...

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thanks, I actually got that same answer via the ticket system (I've given up on posting questions to VB's forum because it takes this long to get answers)...