Restricting a Forum from appearing in New Posts

[Erika]

I am looking for help in restricting one single forum and it's post from appearing in the 'New Posts' section.

The forum I want to restrict is viewable to the all members and guests of the site, but there are automatic posts that occur that are bugging my users when they go to read 'New Posts' - they are flooded with the automatic posts from this forum.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Lynne]

To exclude forums in the New Posts button, you may add "&exclude=xx" or "&exclude=xx,yy,zz" (separate the forumids by commas) to the end of the New Posts url... ie. "/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=xx"

[Erika]

I am not sure how to do this - I am in the search.php file and I don't know how to add that line or where to add it? Sorry, I'm a bit of a novice with VB.

[Dismounted]

You don't need to edit anything in the PHP file. Just edit the template with the link to the page.

[Lynne]

Most likely this is in your navbar template. Look for this link and modify it as explained above (it may be in more than one place):

<a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a>

[Erika]

Thank you very much - I have used your info and solved my issue!