New sidebar stories feature for smaller Forems now merged

#campaigns #stories

Hey everyone 👋🏼,

I submitted a PR last week to allow smaller Forems to set the expiry times on articles that are counted in the campaign stories sidebar.

Generalise sidebar campaign published article timeframe #12278

leewynne posted on Jan 14, 2021

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

[ ] Refactor
[x] Feature
[ ] Bug Fix
[ ] Optimization
[ ] Documentation Update

Description

This PR adds a configurable timeframe for showing articles in the campaign sidebar, for smaller communities, the rate of submission will be much lower therefore this allows a Forem admin to adjust the timeframe so more stories show up in the count.

Related Tickets & Documents

This is related to issue #11968

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

Enabled and create a sidebar campaign in admin/config
Set the required feature tag for articles to show in the count
Enabled the campaign
Set the desired campaign article expiry time
Set the published time for articles within the required tag to before and after the expiry time
Note the change in the Stories count.

UI accessibility concerns?

Added tests?

[x] Yes
[ ] No, and this is why: please replace this line with details on why tests have not been included
[ ] I need help with writing tests

Added to documentation?

[ ] Developer Docs and/or Admin Guide
[ ] README
[x] No documentation needed

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Here is an example of the sidebar stories campaign on Flowstate, there are currently 2 posts showing as stories because by default it was set to collect only posts from the last 4 weeks, which is fine for Dev due to the volume.