Okay, lets see if this helps.
PLEASE REMEMBER, not everybody comes here by way of VIEW NEW POSTS. Hell some people still don't know how to use the SEARCH for the archives!!!!
There were waaay to many sticky's at the top of this forum.
When you 1st open the LIVING FORUM, I think it was something like the 1st 8 post's were sticky's.
Which meant, having to scroll down past the sticky's to see a new post that was NOT a sticky.
With me so far?
So I UNSTUCK, all of the STICKY's, and they went to their place in the regualare order of things.
I created a SINGLE page, and I copied all of the short cut links for the old post's that used to be STICKY.
Now instead of having 8 posts stuck on the start page, and having to scroll down to the 1 new post thats not a sticky, you will see the new post's right at the top of the 1st FORUM page.
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Now when you click on the page I created with all of the links broken down into groups, all you have to do is pick 1, click on it, and it will take you to that post.
As I started doing it, I realized I was going to run out of room for a single STICKY POST, page.
So today I created overflow pages, 1 for each group so far.
EX: MEDICAL/MONEY/ADVICE. Pg2
Click that on the 1st page, NOW A STICKY AT THE TOP OF THIS FORUM, and you will be taked to the page I added today.
That page will have releated short cut links to those POST's mentioned.
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I created these pages as NEW POST"S to this forum.
When I finished, and I opened the LIVING FORUM up, all you saw were the NEW PAGES, I had created today.
Remember, if you reply to a post that has not been seen in over a year-- maybe back on page 15, and you post a reply, it now moves up to PAGE 1 of the forum, SPOT 1.
So I LOCKED the pages I created today, to prevent anybody from posting on them and keep bringing them back to page 1, of the FORUM.
Remember, when you EDIT a post, that has no effect on it's current position among all of the THREADS, ONLY POSTING a REPLY, can move a old post to the FONT of the line.
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When I am finished, there will be 1 permenant sticky at the top of the LIVING FORUM, any new STICKY's after a period of time, will be UNSTUCK, with a SHORT-CUT link off of the 1st page.
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To TOM, I was explaining why I was
Moving it up
I wanted to bring the latest, POST"S that had been driven to page 2, back to page 1. Remember when you saw all those new POST"S/ overflow pages I created tody? They were now what was filling PAGE 1 of this FORUM.
So by going to the earlier POST"S, and ADDING a REPLY, they LEAP-FROGGED, over all of the OVERFLOW pages I created today.
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And if that does not help clear it up, wait till SUNDAY MORNING, I will be done with it all then.
Thanks
Tim H. :devious: :laugh:
PLEASE REMEMBER, not everybody comes here by way of VIEW NEW POSTS. Hell some people still don't know how to use the SEARCH for the archives!!!!
There were waaay to many sticky's at the top of this forum.
When you 1st open the LIVING FORUM, I think it was something like the 1st 8 post's were sticky's.
Which meant, having to scroll down past the sticky's to see a new post that was NOT a sticky.
With me so far?
So I UNSTUCK, all of the STICKY's, and they went to their place in the regualare order of things.
I created a SINGLE page, and I copied all of the short cut links for the old post's that used to be STICKY.
Now instead of having 8 posts stuck on the start page, and having to scroll down to the 1 new post thats not a sticky, you will see the new post's right at the top of the 1st FORUM page.
***************************************************
Now when you click on the page I created with all of the links broken down into groups, all you have to do is pick 1, click on it, and it will take you to that post.
As I started doing it, I realized I was going to run out of room for a single STICKY POST, page.
So today I created overflow pages, 1 for each group so far.
EX: MEDICAL/MONEY/ADVICE. Pg2
Click that on the 1st page, NOW A STICKY AT THE TOP OF THIS FORUM, and you will be taked to the page I added today.
That page will have releated short cut links to those POST's mentioned.
****************************************************
I created these pages as NEW POST"S to this forum.
When I finished, and I opened the LIVING FORUM up, all you saw were the NEW PAGES, I had created today.
Remember, if you reply to a post that has not been seen in over a year-- maybe back on page 15, and you post a reply, it now moves up to PAGE 1 of the forum, SPOT 1.
So I LOCKED the pages I created today, to prevent anybody from posting on them and keep bringing them back to page 1, of the FORUM.
Remember, when you EDIT a post, that has no effect on it's current position among all of the THREADS, ONLY POSTING a REPLY, can move a old post to the FONT of the line.
***************************************************
When I am finished, there will be 1 permenant sticky at the top of the LIVING FORUM, any new STICKY's after a period of time, will be UNSTUCK, with a SHORT-CUT link off of the 1st page.
***************************************************
To TOM, I was explaining why I was
Moving it up
I wanted to bring the latest, POST"S that had been driven to page 2, back to page 1. Remember when you saw all those new POST"S/ overflow pages I created tody? They were now what was filling PAGE 1 of this FORUM.
So by going to the earlier POST"S, and ADDING a REPLY, they LEAP-FROGGED, over all of the OVERFLOW pages I created today.
***************************************************
And if that does not help clear it up, wait till SUNDAY MORNING, I will be done with it all then.
Thanks
Tim H. :devious: :laugh: