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VGPelega
09-04-2008, 11:23 PM
Hi there, I have various stats on my website, and regarding the post counts in particular, i have my top five posters listed. But in the web stats, their posts far outweight what the web stats says. (see my example)

I want to know, how would I best add the following new line in the websites stats box:

Threads: 899, Posts: 9,541, Members: 2,263
Welcome to our newest member, MEMBERNAME
We also have XXXXXX posts in our Archive


Basically, I just want to add an extra line in there, with the archive post count calculated, just like the other stats number count. I also wouldn't mind a link to the archive, which would also aid SEO, it would also show of my 2,263 members, the forums are not controlled by 5 members alone.

Can anyone help me? I think this would make a good hack that many people may want to have if they prune their forums often?:confused:
Marco van Herwaarden
09-05-2008, 06:35 AM
What archive do you mean?
VGPelega
09-05-2008, 11:35 AM
The archived forum posts. After I archived them, the stats read that the website only has 9,000 or something posts, but we have about 18,000 in the forum archive.

I just want to show these these stats as well.
Opserty
09-05-2008, 11:37 AM
Can you be more specific about your archive? It is a forum or something else?
VGPelega
09-06-2008, 09:34 PM
The forums archive. It is where all my old posts are held (mostly for the search engines to crawl) but members can also browse the forums archive.

(It might be a custom archive I have added along with vbSEO, but it is basically just a forum called - "Archive")

I am not too sure about posting links, and if it is allowed, but you can see my example of my archive here:

http://www.worldofclans.com/forums/archive/

Does this make more sense??:confused:

EDIT: Upon reviewing the archive, it doesn't appear to show it to have 20,000 posts. Have I made a boo-boo somewhere??
Marco van Herwaarden
09-07-2008, 09:04 AM
That is the default vBulletin "Archive". This is just a lightweight view of your regular threads. All threads in the archive are the same as the threads you have using the regular view of your board.