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Nicole Rocco
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Oct 24, 2013 - 11:58 am

I have been using simple press and i have made about 60 groups each containing about 50 to 101 topics. i would like to condense the site so i do not have to keep scrolling through to reach the next group. How would i make my forum like this site, where you click  on the group to read the topics. Thank you.

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Mr Papa
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Oct 24, 2013 - 4:17 pm

not sure I follow.. might be a terminology difference...

you have groups, forums, subforums (optionally) and topics...

here, we have 3 groups...  and each group has a handful of forums (5, 4 and 1 to be exact)... we dont use subforurms... and then each forum have pages of topics...

so could you please re-explain what you would like to do?  or perhaps provide a link to your site we can see exactly what you are seeing...

 

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Nicole Rocco
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Oct 24, 2013 - 9:28 pm

On my site i have about 55 groups, in each group there is a listing of about 100 forums. Is there a way to condense it so that only the group tiles will show and be able to click on that to open and view forums, instead of having to scroll through every forum of each group.

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Brandon
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Oct 24, 2013 - 11:34 pm

If you notice here and should be the same in your forums you can open and close the listing of the forums in each group by clicking on the triangle icon on the right.

The default is to have all them open until a users closes them. (affecting his view only)

You can change it so that the default is closed. Then a user can open them if they want to view a list of forums for that group.

You would change this.

sp_GroupOpenClose('tagClass=spIcon spRight&default=open', 'Open forum listing', 'Close forum listing');

In the GroupView.php file to default=closed.
If you do change the SP theme files in anyway we do recommend you create a custom theme so you don't lose any changes when updating.

 

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Nicole Rocco
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Oct 25, 2013 - 7:47 am

Thank you very much for your help

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Mr Papa
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Oct 25, 2013 - 1:30 pm

you are welcome.

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Nicole Rocco
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Oct 25, 2013 - 6:12 pm

i did edit the php file, half of the groups did close but the rest of the remained open. Is there anything else i can do to close them. I am looking to try and get a quicker loading time when someone goes on the page. I believe it is affecting the mobile version because that wont load at all so i am trying to make it as small as possible to open.

I wouldnt mind having a forum on more than one page but i don't know if that is possible on this.

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Mr Papa
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Oct 25, 2013 - 6:26 pm

5500 forums?? (55 groups and 100 forums per)  why so many?  do you really need that many unique forums?  absolutely will affect performance.

you could look at making forums - subforums arrangements... so you would drill down in forums to get to subforums - as many levels as you like...  but still struggling how you  might have 5500 forums...

please check your code for the group collapse... make sure no syntax errors...

are you using unified for your mobile theme?  would help, but 5500 forums is still a lot of db queries to get all the data...

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Nicole Rocco
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Oct 27, 2013 - 5:54 pm

my site is a large site. I have cut down on the amount of forums so it is able to be handled better on mobile. There is still only half of the groups closed and the other half is open. In the groupview php file i had changed this is what appears listed

 

    # Start the 'groupHeader' section
                # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spGroupViewSection', 'group');
                    sp_GroupHeaderRSSButton('tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('Group RSS'), __sp('Subscribe to the RSS feed for this forum group'));
                    sp_GroupHeaderIcon('tagClass=spHeaderIcon spLeft');
                    sp_GroupHeaderName('tagClass=spHeaderName');
                    sp_InsertBreak('direction=right');
                    sp_GroupOpenClose('tagClass=spIcon spRight&default=closed', 'Open forum listing', 'Close forum listing');
                    if (function_exists('sp_ShareThisTag')) sp_ShareThisTag('tagClass=ShareThisTag spRight');
                    sp_GroupHeaderDescription('tagClass=spHeaderDescription');
                    sp_GroupHeaderMessage('tagClass=spHeaderMessage');

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Mr Papa
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Oct 27, 2013 - 6:35 pm

that will cover one group...  did you add a similar sp_GroupOpenClose() for each and every group?  can you post one group code section that does not open closed?

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