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    • #16322
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      Tony (admin)
      Keymaster

      This is a test. 1234.  DOES THIS WORK? This is attempt three of the new home page implementation.  

      I’ve spent several weeks working on installing and configuring a new text editor for the home page.  The previous text editor was buggy and a couple of weeks ago I replaced it with a very limited, and simple one.  That was fine, but people still had a hard time inserting media, links and so on.  Also the new post or new reply dialog popped up in a window with a small area.  So the goal was to make a bigger area to work with, and add easier and better functionality to the interface to make it easier for users to write posts.

      What’s new?

      1. New text editor for new posts and replies.  The editor has some simple and useful controls for bold text, italic, color, block quote, links, images, movies, preview, and fullscreen.  More instructions to be posted soon.  The links, images, and movies embed should work MUCH better and more simply.

      2. New posts and new replies no longer will be done in a popup window.  The new editor area is bigger and has more room for composing posts and viewing them.

      3. There are new animations and fun interactive aspects to the home page when opening and closing replies, starting new threads, or posting replies. 

      4. I’ve tweaked the layout very slightly to look better in mobile.

      This is a test.  More to come.

    • #16325
      Tony (admin)
      Keymaster

      Test reply.

      • #16328
        Thettlhdg
        Participant

        Test reply from The Ute Blog.

        The Ute Blog

      • #16329
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        Utah
        Participant

        Whoa, this is much NICER. 

         

        Utah is the bee’s knees

         

        Awesome. I agree. 

         

        • #16330
          Utah
          Participant

          What’s the “eye” button for? I see link, picture/photo, video, then the eye. 

          BTW, I’m OLD. 

          • #16332
            Utah
            Participant

          • #16335
            Tony (admin)
            Keymaster

            I will post some instructions soon.  There should be a hover with some text to show what the icons do, but it isn’t there.  Dammit.  The eye is a preview.  So if you are posting images, videos etc, you can get an idea what it will look like live.

            • #16336
              Utah
              Participant

              Sweet. 

        • #16331
          Tony (admin)
          Keymaster

          You got a reply to work @Utah that’s great.  This is a pretty major update.  Lots of stuff to consider, check out, test etc.

          • #16334
            Utah
            Participant

            I’m sitting here watching a movie. If you want me to do anything, let me know. But, this is 1,000,000 times better than before. 

            • #16337
              Tony (admin)
              Keymaster

              Yeah just try a bunch of stuff with the new message and reply editor.  Links, images, videos.  

              • #16342
                Utah
                Participant

                This was an attempt to post a video, but it didn’t work, so now it is an attempt to edit, which is working fantastically.

                I’m an idiot, so I’ll try to post another video.

                • #16343
                  Utah
                  Participant

                  Same thing. I clicked on the video link, the window popped up and I put in the address to a youtube video. I clicked the preview button and the video appeared. I think clicked the submit button and no more video.

                  At least we know the edit works. lol.

    • #16345
      2
      Milton Vanderslice
      Participant

      • #16348
        Thettlhdg
        Participant

        For youtube, click on the movie icon and paste the youtube URL in the first field:

        • #16349
          1
          Milton Vanderslice
          Participant

          There’s a textbox now for embed code.  I tried that, it no worky.

        • #16350
          Thettlhdg
          Participant

          This is using the embed, instead of just the url

      • #16361
        Anonymous
        Inactive

        Vintage sweaters to.

    • #16356
      leftyjace
      Participant

      Recent posts page seems to be busted… says:

       

       


      Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, first array member is not a valid class name or object in /home/utehub/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 235

        
      • #16358
        89ute
        Participant

        I’m having the same issue.

        • #16360
          2
          Tony (admin)
          Keymaster

          Fixed it.  Trying to get the video thing working and that caused it.  Haha.  Welcome to pandora’s box.

    • #16362
      Thettlhdg
      Participant

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7eoSZMGktQ

      Just pasted the video in the text editor.

    • #16363
      1
      Utahute72
      Participant

      You guy are entirely too geeked about the new geekage.

    • #16370
      1
      leftyjace
      Participant

      Thanks, Tony. Looking good!

    • #16401
      Tony (admin)
      Keymaster

      Ok I think the video function is working.  I removed the video icon from the editor because it isn’t needed.  All you do is just paste in the URL of the video.  That’s it. Here’s an attempt:

    • #16403
      Tacoma Ute
      Participant

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    • #16347
      Utah
      Participant

      I had to open the thread to see the video from Milton. I could see the link from the homepage, but not watch the video until I opened the thread. 

    • #16352
      Tony (admin)
      Keymaster

    • #16353
      2
      Tony (admin)
      Keymaster

      I may have to work on a setting for youtube videos to allow embeds and such.  Looking into that, but may be tomorrow.

    • #16354
      Utah
      Participant

      Damn, that’s a nice uniform. Take off the mountains and add some stripes with the D&F or double “U” or block U. 

      Perfection. 

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