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[obliat Friend obliatJoin date: December 2010Posts: 416Downloads:12Uploads:64 Thanks: 108 Thanked: 31 times in 1 posts]

#167850

Suddenly my News Frontpage module started publishing featured K2 items, despite they are still unpublished in the back end.

When I create an item I usually mark it Featured to make sure I won’t forget doing it later. Naturally I only publish the item only when ready.

Today I noticed that news_fp module shows the item I’m working on at the frontpage no matter I haven’t published it yet – when I unmark Featured it disappears – it’s kind of like Featured works as Publish command. So I had to untick Featured to avoid users seing unfinished item.

Before that I played with the FTP settings and tried to update the module with no go at all.

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#408770

“featured” is the old “frontpage” and is totally separate from “published” If its published it will show up in normal views but if its “frontpage or “featured” it overrides all else. You’ll noticed that “featured” articles are in their own article handler. So, if u have one that is published AND featured, it will actually live independently in 2 spots… articles and featured.

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#408778

Thanks for the thorough explanation, the weird thing is that until now I could mark it Featured and it only got published when I publish it – now it gets published once I mark it Featured even if I set later publishing time…

I do like to ask couple of more things about news_fp module.

I’m stuck with Processing. Please wait… when trying to upgrade the module from version 1.3.9 to 1.4.0

Would also love some code that will ebnable me to show hits for the lead article/k2 item in the module.

Thanks again

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#409149

regarding upgrade it sounds like its timing out. Besure cache’s are off and clear and if your using “optimizer” turn that off temporarliy. Same with gzip.

regarding the code, submit a ticket as a request… maybe one of our dev’s is able to answer it.

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#410410

I decided to submit a ticket because of this issue – I know Featured is different than Published, but it should not override it – it had always worked well – I mark it Featured (to be sure it wll get in to JA News FP module) and set it publish later, but now it overrides it and gets published instantly and even stranger is that it shows the future publishing time (the one I’m setting it to publish at).

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