This is a two part post. The first part is to suggest a "PSA" topic type for community.townnews.com similar to the "Ideas" "Questions" "Praises." If there's a trick we've learned that isn't template busting or anything it would be cool to be able to share that, especially if it isn't included in help.bloxcms.com. So for the first PSA...

For those of you who use FLEX if you ever want to make use of the text icons you see here and there on your site you can add tons of other fonts. FLEX uses a font called FontAwesome to deliver vector icons. What icons does this include? Check here to see a list of icons: http://fontawesome.io/icons/.

It seems like they only have those listed under "Web Application Icons" and not those included in 4.6. You can even click the icon and it will tell you what code to put on your site.

So if my site had a Harry Potter section and we wanted to include a somewhere we just have to put: <i class="fa fa-bolt" aria-hidden="true"></i>

Have fun!

Hi, Does anyone recommend a third party software for a lightbox or pop up that allows visitors to subscribe to your emails right from the pop up? I am looking for suggestions!

We did it!

Check out our newsletter sign up here - http://www.utdailybeacon.com/multimedia/

We're still testing because there are still some funky issues.

1. Constant Contact registers 3 instances of the same email, for some reason.

2. The pop up doesn't fully close after signup.

Any tips or suggestions are welcomed, please and thank you!

Something in the Flex template is forcing the capital even though the user is entering it lower. You can see this on our keyword tags displaying on detail pages.

See this sample: http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/life-style/local-feature/photos-mansfield-business-turns-to-the-internet-to-sell-environmentally/collection_97510d74-211e-11e6-99b0-176ff8d7cb54.html

Screengrab of keywords entered lower in the admin:

Screengrab of keywords forced upper on the front end:

Can this be changed (we shouldn't force capital letters for style and accuracy reasons) in UTL or in the template so that it reflects throughout the entire site? I put a ticket in but was told if this were modified it would take us off the upgrade path. Would other customers benefit from a fix like so?

Can someone tell me how schedules interact if there are more than one active on the page? I've tried dragging one schedule above the other one to see if that one takes precedence but I wasn't able to do that.

Please let me know if there's currently a way to work this with the paywall. If not, the idea is:

A temporary 'subscription' option where a non-subscriber could be offered a limited-time access to hard-paywalled content if they submitted their email address to be added to a list.

For example, if we had a new product we wanted to promote by email campaign, and we wanted to quickly build a distribution list, we turned on a month-long access to paywalled content on the website for non-subscribers. When they hit the paywall on the article, they would be prompted to purchase a subscription or - for a limited time - submit their email for that new product promotion.

Checked my ads around 4:30 p.m. and everything was fine. Checked again at 5 p.m. and several ads lost ALL of their impressions and clickthrus. Some ads didn't lose all of their impressions but did lose tens of thousands. This happened on all three of our BLOX sites.

In prepping our FLEX site for launch there's been a pretty big frustration with the regions available beginning at the right rail. Desktop is fine. But when you switch to a tablet or mobile phone breakpoint the options available are minimized beginning in the rail. I'll use a screenshot of the Boxy layout at a tablet breakpoint to illustrate my point as it’s the one we chose for our site.

As you can see above the top rail ad is fine. Plenty of rows with one and two columns. But after the top rail ad we’re reduced to full width rows. This presents two problems. 1. As I’ve just mentioned there is a lack of diversity in the regions below the top rail ad. 2. (And this is really design busting) the top rail ad is no longer at the top! That means I have to create a new ad region block specifically to put it higher on tablet and mobile. I ended up just creating a new block for desktop and another for mobile and completely ignoring the top rail ad region.

So the easy solution to this problem would be something like this(and this screenshot will just start at the rail top ad)…

This is more a suggestion for future site launches. But maybe opening up some regions down there wouldn't be site-busting for people who are already on FLEX.

So did anyone else have this problem when launching on FLEX?

Has anyone else noticed a problem with unsubscribe links no longer being added to the end of the newsletters? Until recently there were links at the end for unsubscribing, but those have disappeared. The Constant Contact footer information shows a link, but there isn't one on the actual email.

I'm slowly working through this with my town news contact but it seems like it will be more complicated and I might need to reach out to a third party company.

I'm trying to create a couple podcasts with some students and the level of detail required in the XML is far too much for the currect town news "audio asset" option.

Is it possible to add a Podcast asset with all the specific podcast details Apple and Stitcher require?

Here is an example of a video podcast's RSS XML.

http://feeds.twit.tv/ww_video_large.xml

I'm trying to upload some Flash graphics but when I create the Flash asset, I can only see a 600x400(ish) portion of the graphic ... anybody know of any way to make the viewing area larger?

I've got a Business card: Grid(FLEX) set as Display mode: Slideshow and Columns: 2. All is good on Large breakpoint. On Medium and Small it goes to 4 columns. On Extra-Small it goes to 1 column. I understand Extra-Small going to 1 column because it's so small. But Medium and Small should still obey the column layout setting, right? Is this a bug or is it intentional?

We've got an issue on all three of our sites that happens when you click a child photo in a story. When you click the first one, it brings up the bigger gallery page with the second selected. When you click the second, the first opens. And this happens no matter how many photos you have in a story. Here's a graphic, because why not...

So does anyone else have the problem?

Has anyone added a "Facebook Pixel" to their BLOX site?

It is election season which means we are running a bunch of stories with multiple politician mugshots attached.

Someone pointed out that we may have a potential problem when Facebook displays only one of these on the article preview. As I’m sure you all know, somebody out there is going to take that as us favoring one candidate over the other.

Is there an easy way to prevent Facebook from pulling a child image in a case like this, or make it use the default logo instead?

Any thoughts anyone has are definitely appreciated.