Chief First Post - Every Page - [Thread Based]

[Atakan KOC]

Chief First Post - Every Page [Thread Based]
With this mod, you can convert the view of the thread in to 4 different type. Additionally you can change the view as you edit click the edit button. The 1st message of the thread will stay at top all the time even while you are checking other messages related to this subject.



Thread Type
Postbit Article
Postbit Flipped
Postbit Normal
Postbit Legacy


install

Go to your admin cp, then:
Plugin System -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product] -> Select 'product-chiefpost.xml' from your computer then press 'Import'

Modifications Info

Plugin : 12
Phrases : 3
Template : 3
Setting : 0

Versions:
v1.0 - 24 August 2007
-First release

v1.0.1 - 26 August 2007
-Rating Phrase fixed

v1.1.0 - 6 May 2008
-vBulletin 3.7 release
-Rating Phrase fixed

v2.0.0 - 13 Octaber 2008
-vBulletin 3.8 release
-Template Problem Fixed
-No Rating Problem Fixed

With this mod, you can convert the view of the thread in to 4 different type. Additionally you can change the view as you edit click the edit button. The 1st message of the thread will stay at top all the time even while you are checking other messages related to this subject.

[Atakan KOC]

Reserved.

[orok]

I didn't test this yet , but i want to ask if i can to chose which users group could use this option or not ?
Thank you,

[elmati]

do you fix the quick edit issue on 3.6 and 3.7 version?

thanks! :)

[Artak]

Is this version usable for 3.7.4 ??

[ccmoon]

been waiting for this .... now it comes true
thanks

[Jhonnyf]

hello..

whats the diferente with your another mod
Chief First Post - Every Page - [Forum Based]
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=194832

thank you

[myown]

reserved.......

[M.C.]

whats the diferente with your another mod
Chief First Post - Every Page - [Forum Based]

Only one I can see now it's option to choose postbit to look like



It would be great to choose thread-by-thread to stick/unstick first post to every page or not instead of forum-by-forum as it done now...

It was made once for vB 2.x.x and since then I couldn't find same hack for vB 3.x.x

[liselotte]

thanks

[nebu]

i have installed this hack,
but i cant use it.

there is no button to make the thread "chief" .....

[nebu]

i restored all templates ... and reimported the hack.
but there is no drop down menu to make it chief :(

[Adeawan]

Thank You
Installed

[Subah]

i want the first post diffrent postbit only , i don`t want it every page can i ?

[Browser11]

Good one but not complete.

Main option to turn it on and of by thread is not possible.

I think this should be the basic difference between this and the forum based hack, not only the appearance choice.

Is that possible ?

[Mihalis]

It should also be possible to use the article mode only on the first page, instead of all pages. My 2 cents.

[Gemilang]

The rest of the posts in a thread are not showing, is it supposed to be like that?

[emperatour]

Is there any way to stick a post (not first one) at top of the thread?

Thanks a lot,

[donnie_ogm]

Good one but not complete.

Main option to turn it on and of by thread is not possible.

I think this should be the basic difference between this and the forum based hack, not only the appearance choice.

Is that possible ?

I agree with you... if a choose a forum every thread in that forum will be build with the first post always visible.
Can't I choose thread by thread if have the first post always visible or not?:confused:

In the next release it could be useful to add a collapse button...

[mp3u]

Downloaded and installed but how do I make it work? No instructions on where to go to turn it on.

[vietkool]

anyone please help. when I imported this mod in my board, it does show in the Manage Products page under adminCP but when I go to Vbullentin Option> show all options and try to look for Chief Post to enable the mod, but I don't see in there. is anything else do I have to set up in order to see the Chief post setting in the Vbulletin options?

please help

[vietkool]

I got it .... :) my bad ..

[theparentpack]

don't think mine is working properly. I don't see any difference whatsoever in the thread. Did I miss something?

[corsacrazy]

how can i change the default thread view to legacy instead of normal ?

[Ice-Maiden]

I found how to install this through forum manager once installed, as there wasnt any help in the actual first post here!

Works ok but it has made the first post like 3times bigger than it should be, how do i reduce it back down to look in sync with the rest of the posts?

Also i dont find the option to change the thread type where do you find that there isnt anything in vboptions regarding this product!

Thanks!

[TypeStaff]

How about select the thread? I want to chief only a specific thread, not all of the forum, how about that option? I think is a good idea, u should add it in the next version ;)
And I think this option can be available only for adminis or mods, like sticky thread option for example.

[drsli]

I second! :)

[Trek]

I just installed this on a 3.8x installation and while it works, changing the display type doesn't seem to actually function. Any of the 4 settings does not make a change, only the on/off flag for the forum seems to work.

[coloradomoms]

Is there going to be a version for 4.0?

[haubentaucher]

Good one but not complete.

Main option to turn it on and of by thread is not possible.

I think this should be the basic difference between this and the forum based hack, not only the appearance choice.

Is that possible ?

Is there any possibility to do this by thread? Maybe with another Hack?

Thanks and best regards
haubentaucher

[LuckyNeo]

Please! Make this hack on vB4!!! Please!

[bayigurita]

this is great... but since it's collapsing my new theme... I'm not using it anymore. :D

ahh... it doesn't collapsing my theme... but I do ... my bad... sorry.

[emerchan]

Thanks for this awesome mod!
It's easy to add it to new themes and works just great!

Brilliant work!

[Gamelobby]

whats the diferente with your other mod
Chief First Post - Every Page - [Forum Based]
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=194832


Ditto..?

[assassin85]

how could i enable this mod in all the forums instead to enable forum by forum ?

[way2xtreme]

Hello, any chance for this to work in vb4?

Thanks

[Markos]

is there any chance this will be coded for vb4.0.2 ???

[CiyaEzIM]

Sayın atakan..
Vbulletin 4 e uyumlu değil eklenti.
vbulletin 4 için ne zaman çıkartmayı düşünüyorsun acaba?

[umatt]

Does it works for vb4? Are there any similar mods for vb4?

[nebu]

this one for 4.0 would be great :)

[manutdvn]

Thank you. Installed.

[cyn0r]

Is this person not supporting this product? We need some help/answers here.

[Datenpapst]

any chance to get this for vb4?

[mmllc]

Great hack, INSTALLED

[GE-Tom]

Is ther a Version or can you build some for the vB 4? Someone know an alternativ Heck für vB4 ?

Thanks

[johnban]

Hi,

I install it, but I want to ask something..

I want in some threads of a specific forum to have the first post in every page..

If I understood correctly since you enable in a forum the option for chief first post , all the threads will have theirs first post in every page???

[SEW810]

Uninstalled :(
Thank you Atakan for this pretty useful mod, It helped me a lot in my vb 3.x days
I hope some day this mod will be released for vbulletin 4.X
Thanks and good luck :up::up::up:

[gutelaune]

I also hope

[MagicThemeParks]

Works great for 3.8.7 and since I use the Chief First Post for certain posts within the forums, this 'threads based' version works perfect! :up:

Added an 'if conditional' to have it only viewable to mods and admins and commented out the options that I didn't need as well as sort the options to my liking. :D

Thanks! :)

[mp3president]

Thank you, i will try it.

[MagicThemeParks]

Here's a demo of my customized 'chief first post' :D

DEMO: United States History Forum - New York State Information (http://www.unitedstateshistoryforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=37)

[MagicThemeParks]

For those having overlapping text issues with the postbit area, you can make a quick edit to the postbit_articles template by searching for this line...

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>

and changing it to this....

<div style="width:95%;" id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>


Example: George Washington - Official President Thread (http://www.unitedstateshistoryforum.com/showthread.php?t=781)


Another fix was to include the AdLocation correctly in the template. Go to postbit_articles template and search for this...


<!-- message -->
<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>
<!-- / message -->

and replace it with....


<!-- message -->
<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">
$ad_location[ad_showthread_firstpost_start]
$post[message]
</div>
<!-- / message -->

Hope that helps :up:

[letsjoy]

Atakan KOC, please create it fro vb 4.x
Thanks

[sa3eka.com]

translate to arabic

الترجمه للعربية

http://www.traidnt.net/vb/traidnt1931560/

[gutelaune]

I hope for a version vb4.x :)

[sergio00]

ATAKAM dont wanna reply the question and suggestion. He MP is bloked :(

[CrashPush]

This mod seems to be working fine. The only thing is that the default setting on the mod needs to be changed from Postbit Article to your forums default postbit setting.

[mykkal]

Hi there, I'm hoping the plugin developer see's this. I've been using Chief First Post for years. I love it. It helps guests or members on each page to understand the conversation without reading threads. This is really useful on posts with many pages of threads.

However, I just signed up for Google webmaster tools and it notified me of a problem. Because Chief First Post repeats the first post on every page the meta descriptions for each page are the same! This causes Google to rank low or not index these pages. It also keeps search engines from indexing relevant content on sequential pages in the thread.

I'm using vBSEO (http://www.vbseo.com/). Other SEO plugins also seem to scrape the meta description out of the first paragraph of each post.

Is there anything you can do? I want to continue using this plugin and I know that if I've just discovered this issue that it must be plaguing other users as well.

Please help. This would be the only disadvantage to this plugin. I created a post on vBSEO's website asking if they could help as well. Maybe the developer could work with them?

I'm willing to pay for a quick fix since every post with multiple pages is being dropped from the search engine index or being demoted in ranking. :eek:

I created a post on vBSEO's forum's asking for their help. If this author can help that would be great. I every almost all of this plugin's base is using vBSEO.

http://www.vbseo.com/f67/using-chief-first-post-plugin-causes-duplicate-meta-descriptions-55252/

[mykkal]

Is this still supported?

[mykkal]

To Atakan KOC, can you help me with this? I love this mod and want to continue using it without penalties to my search engine ranking.

Honestly I think its so cool it should be in the core of every vbulletin style... but there's just that one thing.

[mykkal]

Here is a fix offered by VBSEO support that will help those using this plugin to avoid duplicate meta descriptions:
Must be using vbSEO to do this
Change the vbseo_extract_msg_postbits() function code in functions_vbseo_vb.php file to:
function vbseo_extract_msg_postbits($postno = 0)
{
global $vbulletin;


$msg = '';
$pbits = $GLOBALS['postbits'];
if(!$pbits)
$pbits = vBSEO_Storage::get('cms_text');


if($pbits)
{
preg_match_all('#<!--\s*message\s*-->(.*?)<!--\s*/\s*message\s*-->#s', $pbits, $post_match);
if(!$post_match || !$post_match[1] || (isset($vbulletin) && $vbulletin->gars) ){
$lfor = (VBSEO_VB4? '</blockquote>' : '</div>');
if(strstr($pbits, $lfor))
preg_match_all('#post_message_[^>]*?\>(.*?)'.$lfor.'#s', $pbits, $post_match);


}


$msg = preg_replace('#<!--.*?-->#s', '', $msg);
$msg = str_replace('>Quote:<', '', $post_match[1][$postno]);
$msg = preg_replace('#<div>Originally Posted by.*?</div>#', '', $msg);
$msg = preg_replace('#<script.*?\>.*?</script>#is', '', $msg);
$msg = preg_replace('#(<.*?\>)+#s', ' ', $msg);
$msg = trim($msg);
}

return $msg;
}

Next replace this line in functions_vbseo.php file:
$desc_content = vbseo_extract_msg_postbits();
with:
$desc_content = vbseo_extract_msg_postbits(intval($_GET['page'])>1 ? 1 : 0);

[M.C.]

I love it on 3.8 so please update it for 4.2! THANKS!

[shahidbaloch]

is it available for vb 4.2.2?

[ozzy47]

Here, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=306348