Removing certain forums from 'New Posts'

[josh_B]

I have one particular part of the forum which is a very high post ratio. Is it possible to remove this section from being displayed in 'New Posts'

TIA!

[sebbe]

Inside Forum Manager you can disable "Index New Posts in Search Engine" per forum basis but that will also prevent users from searching in that forum.

[Brad]

The easy way to do this is just a simple modification to the new post link.

You can pass a list of forumids you want excluded from the new post search by using a link like this one;

http://www.forum.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=1

The above link would return all new posts except for posts listed in the forum that is forumid number 1.

You can also pass multiple forumids like so;

http://www.forum.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=1,2,3,4,5

[josh_B]

The easy way to do this is just a simple modification to the new post link.

You can pass a list of forumids you want excluded from the new post search by using a link like this one;

http://www.forum.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=1

The above link would return all new posts except for posts listed in the forum that is forumid number 1.

You can also pass multiple forumids like so;

http://www.forum.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=1,2,3,4,5

Where would that be inserted?

I have used sebbe's idea at the moment, so thanks for that :) Would like to be able to exlcude from the new post rather than stop the search function altogether..

Thanks for your time..

[sebbe]

I didn't know about the exclude, nice! :)

Josh, in the navbar template find this
<a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a>
and replace with this
<a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew&amp;exclude=XX,XX,XX" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a>

Don't forget to change XX,XX,XX to the forums you want excluded.

[josh_B]

Thanks sebbe, lets see if I can break this like I do most things ;)

[phaized]

Just came across this, as i was about to ask the same question.
Thanks for the information. :)

[plugplay]

Is there any way to do it based on a user rather than a forum? I have RSS feeds into many forums and would find it easier to remove the user from the list.

[cyberphr]

The easy way to do this is just a simple modification to the new post link.

You can pass a list of forumids you want excluded from the new post search by using a link like this one;

http://www.forum.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=1

The above link would return all new posts except for posts listed in the forum that is forumid number 1.

You can also pass multiple forumids like so;

http://www.forum.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=1,2,3,4,5

A user could simply remove "&exclude", and view results from all forums...

[Belgrael]

This is really helpful but can someone tell me, if a parent forum is excluded does this cover the child forums or do they need to be specifically excluded as well?

Thanks.

EDIT: I have found the parent forum does not implicitly cover the child forums as well. Each forum has to be specifically excluded.