Name: 10 Most Popular Categories Panel

Description: Returns the top ten most popular categories on your eFiction site along with a count to show how many stories each category has.

Requirements: eFiction 3.2 or later

Mod History:
- 27 February, 2007 — Converted to eFiction 3.0
- 03 March, 2007 — Released to the public
- 03 March, 2007 — Fixed category links

Demo: http://test.lunaescence.com/toplists.php?list=popularcats

Download Link: popularcat.zip

Description: This will display a “View Profile” link to the account menu in user.php, which will take your users to their author profile page.

Requirements: eFiction 2.0

Difficulty: Easy

Modification History:
June 23, 2006 — Released Modification
November 30, 2006 — Updated, forgot a step

Files Involved:

• user.php
• languages/en.php

Instructions:

Additional Files for Shuriken

Raw Graphic Files: shuriken_raw_graphics.zip

Readme File: SHURIKEN_READ_ME.txt

Description: When you’re logged in, it returns “Welcome back, Username.” and then a list of quick account links below that. I usually put it beside the login tag so they switch places depending on the user’s login status.

This is actually the first mod I made for eFiction 2.0 and it originally went with the Marauders layout. However, when I discovered blocks weren’t considered part of the skins, I ended up keeping it for myself. ^_^

Marohi rewrote this entire block for me so it can now be customized. You can either choose to use the default version or customize the welcome message and links displayed to fit your site using variables.php. Our idea was to eventually try to include a DHTML drop down menu like DeviantArt or simply making account links appear in the regular menu area like LiveJournal.

Requirements: eFiction 2.0, with all current patches

Download Links: loggedin_v2_5.zip

Extra Files: Read Me.txt

To use, simply add {loggedin_content} to your tpls. Default CSS is .login and .quicklinks.

Please refer to the readme file for full instructions on how to use this block.

Modification History:

December 14, 2005: Mod Released

EDIT: I’m currently moving my domain, so the current link could be broken at any time now. I’ll edit this post once I’m done to give the new location.

EDIT #2: Fixed the download link.

June 23, 2006: I finally figured out how to make a link to the logged in user’s profile. Rather than update the original, I simply made a second version. What this second version will do is link the $username part of the welcome message with that person’s profile. You might have to alter some file names if you want to run both versions on your site.

July 08, 2006: Moved the download location slightly to make room for 3.0 stuff a little later.

November 28, 2006: Released version 2.5

Modification & Support Link: eFiction.org

Skin Name: Shuriken

Version: eFiction 2.0.7, with all current patches

Developer: Sally Anderson and Jasson Knight

License: GPL

Description: Shuriken is a light-weight, brown, cream, and tan skin. It’s slightly fixed width, and should adjust to fit resolutions down to 800×600.

Notes: Feel free to edit, modify, or alter this skin in any way. Doing so will not offend, upset, or bother me in any way.

Demo: Lunaescence Archives

Download: shuriken.zip

Be sure to backup your database and files before you begin this or any other mod.

Description: This mod will put a male, female, or undisclosed icon in the author profile. I’ll let you decide if undisclosed means “Not Telling” or just what. It is up to you to provide your own icons.

This mod was originally created for JanAQ as part of her requested profile mods.

I can’t take full credit for this mod, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get it working before I asked for help. Tammy replied and told me how to get it working.

As usual, my line numbers are approximate and only meant to put you in the general ballpark.

Requirements: eFiction 2.0

Difficulty: Easy

Modification History:
EDIT: Stopped working for some reason, so I changed the MYSQL declarations.
EDIT: Clarified my instructions for the database
EDIT: Changed my instructions so I didn’t overwrite some of my other mods. If it’s confusing, feel free to ask.
EDIT: Trying to fix the error Seiji found
EDIT: Tammy got it working! embarassed
EDIT: Fixed a typo from the instructions for line 389. Sorry!! embarassed
EDIT: Added the tpl tag
EDIT: 29 June 2006 — Updated post format to match post requirements; also began an update to bring the mod up to the current version.
EDIT: 29 June 2006 — Updated the modification to match the current release. Please let me know if you have any difficulties.

Files Involved:

• user.php
• viewuser.php
• languages/en.php
• user.tpl

Modification & Support Link: eFiction.org

Instructions: