Hi all,
I've got three issues that I hope someone could help me with.
The first might be very simple, but nothing came up with a search. The stats on the main page update when a new Fanfic is added, but is there a way to have a count for Chapters added to the site? At the moment, I have Members, Authors and Fanfic counts. We know that there is a new Fanfic from that count, but if a Chapter is added, the count doesn't change. If there is also a way to have that updated Chapter appear on the main page like the Story Of The Moment, that would be even better.
Site Info:
Members: 4003
Authors: 1329
Stories: 3851
Reviews: 8037
Story of the Moment:
My Father Who Art in Hell by TC PG 13+
No Summary As Yet!
I also would like to have any Fanfics that are edited to end up in the Most Recent page, as if a new Chapter had been uploaded. I have a few Authors who are working on revisions and want to edit the original Chapters for their Fanfiction and have it appear in the Most Recent. Generally a revised Fanfic will not change status and only appears in there when a new Chapter is added.
Lastly, and this is the most important one, I have had a lot of complaints over the years from Authors who removed a Chapter and added the revised one, only to find out that all the reviews for that original Chapter had been deleted. Is there a way to associate the actual Fanfic with the reviews, not the Chapters? We try to condense all huge Chaptered Fanfiction into a couple a page, but that doesn't work if it's a brand new one, that has the Chapters added one by one. If the reviews were attached to the story, then the Chapters could be removed and revised without anything being deleted. I have updated my site to the newest Efiction version, so if this problem has already been resolved, please excuse my question.
Thank you in advance! I do hope that I have this in the right Category.
Regards,
Princess Destiny
Nobody has any idea how to fix these??
Regards,
PD
(1) Looking at your site, you'll need to change your site info block to add:
<b>Chapters:</b> {chapters}<br>
where you want the info to appear (between stories and reviews?)
(4) If authors are revising chapters, they need to EDIT THE EXISTING CHAPTER and not delete the old then add a new one. If you are aggrigating several chapters into one, the easiest thing to do would be to run a SQL statement on your database and change the old chapter ID numbers to the new aggrigate one. You'd need to do this after adding the new chapter but before deleting the old (to know the IDs).
The only other thing to do is to modify the code. (2) and (3) would also be possible if the code were rewritten. I'm not sure how much could be done with mods and how much would need to be hard-coded into the source files.
With what limited knowledge I have of the interworkings, having ad EDITED chapter change the UPDATED date (instead of only an ADDED chapter) would get (3) to work.
I'm a little confused about (2). I am assuming STORY OF THE MOMENT is a random story, not MOST RECENT or FEATURED (as it changes each time I refresh the page). Are you wanting to change it to MOST RECENT CHAPTER? Or add a completely new section for MOST RECENT CHAPTER? In eaither case, you'd need to the modification for (3) as well.
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