The featured stories page is populated, but the featured block on the index is empty. I'm sure this is some sort of code problem, but I'm not seeing it.
http://spookamania.com/Quills/index.php
Severus Snape: "I've never had any interest in being fair. Only in being honest."
~The Girl in the Tower By: SpookyMulder
Did you turn the block on? Go to admin>blocks and make sure the block is initialized and set to index only (or sitewide if you use it on every page).
I had it set to "active." I changed it to index only, but the block is unchanged. There is no variables.php with this skin, so I dont know where else I could look for problems.
Severus Snape: "I've never had any interest in being fair. Only in being honest."
~The Girl in the Tower By: SpookyMulder
have you made sure that you have chosen some stories to be "featured" which as an admin you can set from the storys chapter list page (the story index)
nice looking site by the way
~Spikey~
my site url: http://www.fanfictionworld.org
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mm I had this problem too, but in the block's admin options I changed the format to use .tpl and now it works for me.
The Featured block only shows active Featured stories. If the stories are Retired, then they won't show on the index.
Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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FAnfictionworld: Thanks, glad you liked it! 😛
I do have stories selected as featured. They show on the featured page, they just dont show in the block. They also show when I go to admin->blocks->options. Whatever will be shown in the block will always be listed there and it is. It should be working fine!
When I switch to use.tpl the list of stories in the block options panel under admin disappears and is replaced by "Not applicable. Use .tpl selected"
Here is the code for that section, along with the surrounding code. Note: The random block works fine and seems identical to me.
<div id="rightindex">
<div class="block">
<div class="title">{featured_title}</div>
<div class="content">{feaured_content}</div>
</div>
<div class="block">
<div class="title">{random_title}</div>
<div class="content">{random_content}</div>
</div>
EDIT: HA!! I just found it!! It's always something stupid, isn't it? I had a feeling it was a code problem, as it seemed to be working perfectly elsewhere. Look at the code. featured_content is missing a "t"
Thanks to everyone who posted. I looked at this code so hard and for so long I must have gone blind 😀 Next time someone has this problem, please suggest they check spelling lol. Sorry to have wasted anyone's time.
Severus Snape: "I've never had any interest in being fair. Only in being honest."
~The Girl in the Tower By: SpookyMulder
