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Community Ad Templates now available
You have a website or a blog where you want to advertise for your favorite Codidact community? Or you got permission to advertise on someone else's website?
Great.
Please spread the word and invite other people to our communities.
Today we have deployed a feature, that makes this even easier: Community ad templates. We'll give you a link, which you can use to advertise Codidact, a specific community, random posts from a community or a specific post.
On every community, you'll find a link in the sidebar in the box with the Codidact logo. For this Meta community for example, the link is meta.codidact.com/ca. There you'll find all information you might need:
Please note, that we are still fixing some last bugs, but you can already use that page to advertise the amazing sites y'all build.
> [status-completed] - This has been completed. Furthermore, exclusion of some categories (ex. Meta) and requiring a min …
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[status-completed] - This has been completed. Exclusion of some categories (ex. Meta) and requiring a minimum score is n …
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I like the idea. Is it possible to add the functionality that the image is clickable and links to the post in questio …
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[status-completed] - This has been completed. Exclusion of some categories (ex. Meta) and requiring a minimum score is now possible.
Regarding the third ad template, the one which takes a random unanswered question – Is there a way to ensure it only picks up questions from the Q&A category, and exclude ones from per-site Metas?
[status-completed] - This has been completed. Furthermore, exclusion of some categories (ex. Meta) and requiring a minimum score is now possible.
The more I think about this, the more I think that we need one more variant.
Looking at the screenshot in the question, we've currently got:
- Codidact network
- Community
- Random question from a community
- A specific question
(The last two are shown as one and the same, but I really think that those should be considered separately.)
What I think we need in addition to those:
- Random question limited to those in a select category
This would allow us to selectively advertise, say, Scientific Speculation's Rigorous Science category in places where that's appropriate, without having to manually pick out a specific question to advertise.
The mechanics of that would be the same as the random question from a community type of ad, just with the set of possible questions to select from restricted to those in the specified category.
I like the idea.
Is it possible to add the functionality that the image is clickable and links to the post in question by expanding the HTML snippet with the relevant additions? I find it a bit cumbersome to type in the URL myself and I bet most users expect the image to be clickable.
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