Saying thanks

[Mark76]

When you thank someone by pressing the “Thanks” button, you return to the start of the discussion again. It would be nice if you returned to the post you thanked. I don’t know how easy this is to implement and it’s a minor point, but it would be nice.

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sksharp, developer (ChrisB), dulledge, Marc H, Organic

[Organic]

I agree. If that could be fixed, it would make the site better.

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[Bigdaddydug]

Hi mark76

I was just wondering how to put the thanks at the bottom of the p ist

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Mark76, developer (ChrisB)

[Mark76]

I think that’s a good idea, too. But I don’t know how difficult that is to implement. (This forum is largely based on standard software.)

I’m curious what Chris thinks.

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developer (ChrisB)

[developer (ChrisB)]

I think we should be able to make this happen. It’s a good suggestion, one I hadn’t thought about, but now I’m really noticing how nice it would be.

Working to make knife.wickededgeusa.com a great forum!

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[wickededge]

I’ll add that it would be helpful to be able to thank multiple people at once rather than waiting for the page to reload between each thanks.

-Clay

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sksharp, Mark76, cjb80202

[developer (ChrisB)]

I expect a lot of Thanks for this one… So now, when you click Thanks, you’ll stay right there.

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Bigdaddydug, dulledge, sksharp, Organic, Mark76, Marc H, wickededge

[wickededge]

developer (ChrisB) wrote:

I expect a lot of Thanks for this one… So now, when you click Thanks, you’ll stay right there.

Sweet!!!

-Clay

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Mark76, Marc H

[Mark76]

Wow, that’s really user-friendly. Thanks!

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[Mark76]

One thing I didn’t mention yet but really like is that the page doesn’t have to refresh after pressing “Thanks” (thanks to Clay’s idea?). But you still get feedback, because the “thanks” button disappears.

(Now I happen to have some background in IT. How do you do this technically? Do you use Javascript (or what is WordPress written in?) to remove that button? And, if so, why does a page have to refresh then to add the user name of the person who said thanks?)

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[cjb80202]

Sorry for the slow reply, Mark!

Yes, it was done by javascript, using a jQuery AJAX method.  jQuery is a great library of prebuilt javascript functions, and AJAX is “asynchronous javascript and XML” and is a big browser innovation (albeit at least a decade old, at this point) that allows browsers to conduct some of their business behind the scenes, without needing a screen refresh.

And finally I must acknowledge that I am just a facade in front of a very smart developer who actually did it! No way could I come up with that myself…

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[Mark76]

Thanks! Always nice to know how things work.

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