AndyB Featured Posts - Xenforo 2 2.3

Displays a random post every 10 minutes.

The post is selected from a forum defined in the Options page. The first post of the thread is selected at random and will be displyed in the forum list or other widget location.

Features:

• Cron Entry will rotate posts every 10 minutes.
• All phrases start with featuredposts_ for your convenience.

Installation:

1. Download Andy-FeaturedPosts-1.6.zip and unzip it.
2. Copy the src/addons/Andy/FeaturedPosts directory to your server.
3. From the Admin Control Panel Install the add-on.

Creating the widget:

1. Admin Control Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets
2. Widget definition = Featured posts
3. Widget key = featured_posts
4. Title = (leave blank)
5. Display in positions = Forum list: Above nodes
6. Click Save.

User group permissions:
Normally the following two groups are set to Yes:

Registered
Unregistered / Unconfirmed

Optional CSS:
If you would like to limit the size of images and media, you can add the following code to the andy_featuredposts.less template:
Code:

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