What's New - Reloaded

[Andreas]

This Add-on changes the behaviour of the What's New tab to include new content from all available configured content types (Blogs Entries, Articles, Social Group Messages, etc.) instead of only new forum posts.

As an added bonus, it also does also show an indicator for content that was not updated since your last visit but is still unread.

Attention
This Add-on is kinda resource intensive, you might not want to use it on a large/busy forum!

History
1.0.0 Beta 3
Removed useless code and navbar link "New Content".

[MarceloS]

Tagged! I was looking for this for a long time.

A good option would be the same functions but for today's posts instead of new posts.

(btw there is a typo on the description: bones)

[Juggernaut]

This looks very promising, tagged for later.

[Leica.Robbiani]

Hi Andreas,

thanks for this mod, it's a big deal. But it seems the "New Content" link doesn't work correctly (using vB 4.0.6). I'm sure, I have a new thread in my board, but this search link shows the standard vB error message.

A problem which I have solved is that I have no What's New button. But I have installed the my_threads & my_posts mod, so I put the search link of the What's New button into this menu:

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It's the first item in the menu. To do this, find in the "myposts_navbar_link"-template (make sure you have the "My Threads & My Posts" installed):

<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
Add under it:
<li><a href="search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=All_Content">Neue Inhalte</a></li>
Change the phrase "Neue Inhalte" to whatever you like.

Again, thanks a lot.

Best regards

L.R.

[sulasno]

tagged and thanks;

installed but appears not to be working in 4.0.8

[OldSchoolDSL]

Mod is working fine in 4.0.8 , but also confirm "new content" link does not work after this. Give you the standard message:

vBulletin Message:
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

If you click this small link. Most users seem to click the larger tab (What's New), so this isn't really to much of a problem (right now).

[Andreas]

Mod is working fine in 4.0.8 , but also confirm "new content" link does not work after this.
That link shouldn't be there at all, it originates from the very first version of this Add-on when there was no What's New tab.
Will be removed in next release.

[OldSchoolDSL]

That link shouldn't be there at all, it originates from the very first version of this Add-on when there was no What's New tab.
Will be removed in next release.

Glad I could be of some help & I look forward to the next release. :)

[AURFSCAN]

killed my forum when I installed, uninstalled then removed 'packages' via ftp

[Andreas]

killed my forum when I installed, uninstalled then removed 'packages' via ftp
A bit more detailed information about your forum and how exactly it was "killed" would be useful ;)

[AURFSCAN]

yeah sure.. thx

*

removed it and got this on the homepage




The default route 'content' is not valid on line 354 in /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php
#0 /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php(324): vB_Router::getDefaultRoute(500)
#1 /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php(207): vB_Router::newRoute('content')
#2 /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/bootstrap.php(59): vB_Router::getResponse()
#3 /home/aur47267/public_html/content.php(31): require_once('/home/aur47267/...')
#4 /home/aur47267/public_html/index.php(113): require('/home/aur47267/...')
#5 {main}


Fatal error: The default route 'content' is not valid on line 354 in [path]/vb/router.php in [path]/vb/vb.php on line 284
#0 vb_error_handler(256, The default route 'content' is not valid on line 354 in /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php , /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/vb.php, 284, Array ([exception] => vB_Exception_Critical Object ([] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => The default route 'content' is not valid,[] => ,[] => 0,[] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php,[] => 354,[] => Array ([0] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php,[line] => 324,[function] => getDefaultRoute,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ([0] => 500)),[1] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php,[line] => 207,[function] => newRoute,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ([0] => content)),[2] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/bootstrap.php,[line] => 59,[function] => getResponse,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ()),[3] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/content.php,[line] => 31,[args] => Array ([0] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/bootstrap.php),[function] => require_once),[4] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/index.php,[line] => 113,[args] => Array ([0] => /home/aur47267/public_html/content.php),[function] => require))),[code] => 256)) called at [(null):0] #1 trigger_error(The default route 'content' is not valid on line 354 in /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php , 256) called at [/home/aur47267/public_html/vb/vb.php:284] #2 vB::handleException(vB_Exception_Critical Object ([] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => The default route 'content' is not valid,[] => ,[] => 0,[] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php,[] => 354,[] => Array ([0] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php,[line] => 324,[function] => getDefaultRoute,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ([0] => 500)),[1] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/router.php,[line] => 207,[function] => newRoute,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ([0] => content)),[2] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/bootstrap.php,[line] => 59,[function] => getResponse,[class] => vB_Router,[type] => ::,[args] => Array ()),[3] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/content.php,[line] => 31,[args] => Array ([0] => /home/aur47267/public_html/vb/bootstrap.php),[function] => require_once),[4] => Array ([file] => /home/aur47267/public_html/index.php,[line] => 113,[args] => Array ([0] => /home/aur47267/public_html/content.php),[function] => require)))) called at [(null):0]

[Andreas]

Could it be you've deleted the whole packages folder?

If so you've deleted a lot of vBulletin own files.
-> Reupload that folder from your vBulletin ZIP file.

[AURFSCAN]

you are correct.. my fault

silly twat I am anyway thx for your help

carry on

[sross]

"As an added bonus, it also does also show an indicator for content that was not updated since your last visit but is still unread."

-Over 50 of us in the vbtracker have been waiting for this to be restored to "new post" search. Is it possible to use this alone, just new posts or would it still be resource intensive?

-edit -ok I tested this, not quite what I need. I need new posts search to contain the "not updated since last visit line". Please PM me and let me know how much $$ for such a custom mod (if you are open to developing it). Thanks!

[Alfa1]

Attention
Tihs Add-on is kinda resource intensive, you might not want to use it on a large/busy forum!
Can you please expand on this?

[The Coon]

Works simply great (4.0.8)! Thank you very much! :)

Sorry ... edit: What about comments to blog- and article-entries? They are not included, right?

[Andreas]

Can you please expand on this?
It requires the cumlulated amout of queriesfor all included content types + 1 whereas a search for new forum posts only takes the amount of queries required to search for new forum posts.

What about comments to blog- and article-entries? They are not included, right?
vBulletin currently does not have newitem search controllers for these content types, therefore they are not included.
This Add-on does only use already existing controllers.

[The Coon]

Thank you for the explanation!

[Cybeth]

Ich such mir einen Wolf, wo finde ich die Einstellung im ACP?

[Andreas]

@Cybeth
English only please :)
I'll do a german release on vBulletin-Germany.org tomorrow.

[Cybeth]

Okay :)

[bluered]

Installed but not work:(

[Andreas]

I need new posts search to contain the "not updated since last visit line".
I've packed that as a separate Add-on:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=252720

Installed but not work:(
Are you sure you've installed it correctly, eg. uploaded all the files and imported the XML?
Did you configure the content types in vBulletin settings?

[KProjects]

Thanks!

Erm.. 4.0.8 and doesn't seem to work - did upload everything, edited message searching options to show everything that was a choice.. It's just showing posts..

Latest post it's showing is timestamped 5:13pm, I posted a test post in a group at 5:05pm

Great start though :)

[Andreas]

@KProjects
Well, sorry for that but I am unable to reproduce the problem and therefore can't help you.
Feel free to drop ma a PM with necessary logins (ACP, PMA, FTP) though and I'll take a look.

[RedTrinity]

Whenever I activate this plugin, it replaces the list of unread threads on the Whats New? page with:

Sorry, there is no new content to view.

You may search for content posted during the previous 24 hours, here

When I click on the "here" link, I get:

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

When I disable the plugin, the original Whats New topic list returns.

Is there any way this mod can be activated without 'losing' a member's existing list of unread topics? :confused:

[The Coon]

Happened here suddenly, too ... appeared after changing "Daylight Saving Time". But I am not really sure, if there is a relation. :confused:

[Andreas]

@RedTrinity
If you are sure you installed & configure this Add-on correctly:
Sorry, I can't reproduce the problem and therefore can't help you.

Feel free to send me a PM with all required logins (FTP,ACP & PMA) and I'll take a look.

[Cybeth]

Whenever I activate this plugin, it replaces the list of unread threads on the Whats New? page with:



When I click on the "here" link, I get:



When I disable the plugin, the original Whats New topic list returns.

Is there any way this mod can be activated without 'losing' a member's existing list of unread topics? :confused:
have the same problems.
When will the German version?

[RedTrinity]

@RedTrinity
If you are sure you installed & configure this Add-on correctly:

Thanks, after you mentioned it needs configuring, I went looking for the settings. Works now :) Nice work :)

[Andreas]

Thanks, after you mentioned it needs configuring
Well, that is mentioned in readme.txt :)

[Mark.B]

Whenever I activate this plugin, it replaces the list of unread threads on the Whats New? page with:



When I click on the "here" link, I get:



When I disable the plugin, the original Whats New topic list returns.

Is there any way this mod can be activated without 'losing' a member's existing list of unread topics? :confused:
I can confirm this problem too. It was initially working but now just gives a "no results" error all the time. Strange.

[seite7]

Looks nice at a first glance.
But my new calendar event is missing an image of the user. The generated HTML says:
<img src="" class="userlist_avatar_2" alt="Avatar von Tester" border="0" />

[Andreas]

@seite7
That would most likely be a bug in vBulletin itself.
Does it happen if you are just searching new events?
If it happens there too it's definitly a bug in vbulletin.

[alfanexus]

Finally. Been vating for this for ages! Default whats new is just plain stupid, its called whats new but only displays whats new i forum, the rest is ignored.

Thanks this is a gread mod!

[OldSchoolDSL]

This stop working for me, so for now its disabled. Will wait for an update.

[S3Ponline]

Right, will there be a 4.1 update?

[Andreas]

Right, will there be a 4.1 update?
I just posted an update but not for 4.1 as it works just fine with 4.0.6+ and 4.1.X (at least for me).

[Helmut71]

is there a German translation for this add on?

[OldSchoolDSL]

This stop working for me, so for now its disabled. Will wait for an update.

Uninstalled old version and Installed your new beta. This corrected the problem.

Working on 4.0.8 Patch Level 2

[New Joe]

The 'Up load' file has a folder called 'All' to be uploaded into the 'Packages' folder, so do you upload the folder called 'All' or just upload the folders within the folder called 'All'?

I see it says about configure this Add-on correctly:
Where do you 'Configure' this after installing? I installed the xml file via my Admin CP, went into the vB Options but wasn't able to find anything to do with this Mod.

[Andreas]

@New Joe
I've updated the package with a more sophisitcated readme.txt, does that answer your questions?

[OldSchoolDSL]

@New Joe
I've updated the package with a more sophisitcated readme.txt, does that answer your questions?

So the update only add more detail to the readme.txt or should I update?

[Andreas]

Yep, it's only a new readme.txt

[OldSchoolDSL]

Yep, it's only a new readme.txt

Thank you for your quick reply.

Re-downloaded for my local copy and also to remove the vBulletin.org "update notice"

[Zweeper]

Whenever I activate this plugin, it replaces the list of unread threads on the Whats New? page with:



When I click on the "here" link, I get:



When I disable the plugin, the original Whats New topic list returns.

Is there any way this mod can be activated without 'losing' a member's existing list of unread topics? :confused:



hm i have the same problem right now. what have you changed to make it work for you?

[Zweeper]

*push* :(

[OldSchoolDSL]

Disabled

I liked this modification, because it showed updates not only for the forums.... But for the blogs & groups as well.

However, it seems that this didn't work out as well as I wanted it to.

I would click "whats new" and even though there was a lot new... It always told me nothing had happen within the last 24 hours.

[MarceloS]

I congratulate the coder for this product, it is an awesome idea.

For me this product would be awesome if it had the option to show new posts first and in the bottom the post updated in the last 24h.

Or if it showed blog posts when you clicked the "posted today" link "/search.php?do=getdaily"

Disabled

I liked this modification, because it showed updates not only for the forums.... But for the blogs & groups as well.

However, it seems that this didn't work out as well as I wanted it to.

I would click "whats new" and even though there was a lot new... It always told me nothing had happen within the last 24 hours.

[xtumen]

Disabled

I liked this modification, because it showed updates not only for the forums.... But for the blogs & groups as well.

However, it seems that this didn't work out as well as I wanted it to.

I would click "whats new" and even though there was a lot new... It always told me nothing had happen within the last 24 hours.
Yes, by default it shows nothing. You need to turn on in the settings whatever you want to see in the What's New.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Yes, by default it shows nothing. You need to turn on in the settings whatever you want to see in the What's New.

To my knowledge, those settings were turned on (when I had this enabled)

[xtumen]

To my knowledge, those settings were turned on (when I had this enabled)
My forum users now report that they see that "nothig new" message, when there are unread messages, you're right, something's wrong. Though even when I mark everyting as read, I can see unread blog entries with this mod, as admin, never get the "nothing new" message. Maybe a permissions issue? Couldn't find settings on that.

[xtumen]

Screenshot

http://tfpforum.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=5645&d=1296980206

Says 48 unread messages

[BadgerDog]

Is there a simple way for me to get rid of the What's New? tab altogether?

Thanks for any feedback .... :)

Regards,
Doug

[OldSchoolDSL]

Un-installed

Was a good idea, but does not seem to be fully working.

Also I'm optimizing my community for a quicker load.

[pushpullbar]

My forum users now report that they see that "nothig new" message, when there are unread messages, you're right, something's wrong. Though even when I mark everyting as read, I can see unread blog entries with this mod, as admin, never get the "nothing new" message. Maybe a permissions issue? Couldn't find settings on that.

It used to work and in the last couple of days mine started behaving that way as well.
I can see the new posts if I click on the 'New Posts' in the subnavbar area after clicking on What's New, but What's New is not providing any results.

[pushpullbar]

disabled until resolved.

[DirtRider]

Great mod have it installed. Just one small thing when it shows a members birthday it will just show the members name at the top of the list. It could be a bit confusing as it does not indicate what that members name is listed for, maybe a heading "Today's Birthdays" or something

[mkv]

I'll wait for a stable release, subscribed to the thread. Thank you!

[alfanexus]

I can not belive that vBulletin still only shows forum posts in whats new. Maby they forgot that they also impleamented blogs, cms, groups and visitormessages...

Anyway thanks for creating this, its better to have the increased server load that having a community experience that feels broken and imcomplete.

[DirtRider]

This is a great mod that is for sure. What would also be nice would be the following.

1. From the What's New menu an easy way for users to tag what they want to show in the search. I know this is available in your profile settings but most members just don't seem to see it.
2. Add new images uploaded to the photo albums

[Phaedrus]

This totally didn't work for me. What's going on? It actually made the What's New? page entirely empty. However my "unread posts" notification was telling me I had a few hundred unread posts...

It couldn't have been both. Remove this and boom, they're all back...

What the heck is going on?

Well, anyway, deinstalled. I hope that this will be fixed later, it looked like it would be useful to my purposes.

[GrabMyWrist]

This totally didn't work for me. What's going on? It actually made the What's New? page entirely empty. However my "unread posts" notification was telling me I had a few hundred unread posts...

It couldn't have been both. Remove this and boom, they're all back...

What the heck is going on?

Well, anyway, deinstalled. I hope that this will be fixed later, it looked like it would be useful to my purposes.

You have to go into your admin control panel, choose message searching options, scroll to the bottom and select what type of content is displayed.

[Boofo]

You have to go into your admin control panel, choose message searching options, scroll to the bottom and select what type of content is displayed.

I don't see a setting there for the type of content.

[GrabMyWrist]

I don't see a setting there for the type of content.

It's under "Content Types for New Content Search"

You have to select one or multiples and hit save.

[Boofo]

I do not see that under "message searching options". Are you sure you have the right setting? Or do you need the have the CMS enabled to see it?

[GrabMyWrist]

I do not see that under "message searching options". Are you sure you have the right setting? Or do you need the have the CMS enabled to see it?

Well I see it in my Vbulletin 4.1.3 Publishing Suite. I don't have CMS enabled though.

Weird you don't see it. I did not get any results under what's new until I selected those.

[Boofo]

I also have the 4.1.3 suite. Can you post a pic of the setting page for that?

[GrabMyWrist]

Sure.

Also I'm using version 1.0.0 Beta 3 of the mod. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.

[Boofo]

Ahh, Okay. Now I see what is going on. I thought I had this one installed but I have the other one Andreas did installed instead. My bad.

[GrabMyWrist]

LOL, no worries.

[CK]

Thanks for this. I installed it and will see how it goes. It might perhaps be better to give it it's own settings within adminCP rather than tacking it onto the Search ones, took me a while to find it lol.

[CK]

You might want to reword this The content below has not been updated since your last visit but still contains unread portions.

[Boofo]

You might want to reword this

What is wrong with it? It has been like that forever.

[CK]

"Unread portions" specifically, it's not really relevant how long it's been there. Unread portions of what? Do forums have portion sections? :D it's just not your typical descriptive word for a forum. I edited the phrase to read posts, I would have put content but I didn't want to use the same word twice in the once sentence. :)

[CK]

What about unread bits :D

[Boofo]

I pretty well leave it as is since it is that way on vb 3 already so everyone has gotten used to it by now. No sense in rocking the boat. ;)

[CK]

Just noticed that this seems to cause an issue when you have tapatalk enabled on your forum. Any search results return via the app only show everything above the line "the posts below......" I wonder why this happens?

Also even if you mark all forums read and then click what's new it still shows the notification in the search results.

[Alfa1]

Does this also show new profile images / album comments?

[CK]

Don't think so mate.

[CK]

Suggestion for you.

Allow admin option to disable the usercp options for registered users.

Today when in my own userCP I accidently clicked one of the options today think it was blogs and then saved the userCP page. Now I didn't realise that I had clicked the option but when I clicked the Whats New button nothing came up.

Being incredibly intelligent I obviously figured out what was wrong within 10 seconds but others might not.

Anyway. :)

Xx

[Trevor Hannant]

Need to test further but it appears this doesn't work with 4.1.6

[Andreas]

Works just fine for me on 4.1.6

[Andreas]

Does this also show new profile images / album comments?
It does show whatever content has newitem search controllers available (though sorting only really works for built-in content types).

As Profile Images / Album Comments (by default) do not have newitem search controllers:
This content is not being shown.

[Alfa1]

As Profile Images / Album Comments (by default) do not have newitem search controllers:
This content is not being shown.
Thanks for the answer. It makes no sense that this was not added to vbulletin. Please consider to add this functionality.

[Trevor Hannant]

Hmmm, hit What's New and sawy results, Re-enabled mod and got no results when pressing What's New again. Disabled mod, pressed What's New and results showed again...

[fldewey]

Sweet addition - many thanks!

[Lairston]

This was working perfectly for the first few hours and now it says it can't find anything even though there's been posts.

I see others have said that they have that to.

Anyone figure out what's wrong?

[S@NL - BlackBik]

Hi Andreas. Thanks for this mod. I was looking for a way to easily show new blog post and reactions. And as a bonus I even get more :)

Only one small thing.
This shows up on every search: "The content below has not been updated since your last visit but still contains unread portions." even when there is no content that shows below.
And when I hit "the last 24 hours" link, it shows twice.
Could you be so kind and see if there is a way to correct this?

Thanks in advance.

[pokusek]

Is there a way to turn off the "bonus" indicator? vBulletin shows the unread but not new posts already.
Thanks.

[clubvr4]

Friendly bump to bring awareness to such a great mod! - i really don't understand why this isnt built into vbulletin..

Thank you for creating it!

[clubvr4]

Having a random problem, i think.,

If a user updates his settings, for something else they seem to loose the default content types configured in Content Types for New Content Search, they then have to manually set it and save again before it works.

between updating something else and updating Content Types for New Content Search, they get the message "sorry there is no new content to view".

Its happened to a handful of people now, something that can be fixed?

[clubvr4]

Think i've figured out a work around.

I reimported, then disabled the following plugins.

Modify Selection
Save Selection

Then updated settings in admincp, (also usercp for completeness) and tried what's new and it picked up all new content.

Hope this works for those who had problems with the "sorry there is no new content to view" issue.

[clubvr4]

is it something on my site or can you not quick edit thread titles with this mod?

[hugh_]

Does this mod still work? I've just installed it on 4.2.0 and searches work but What's New isn't finding new blog or social group posts, just the odd old social group post which has me confused.

[edytwinky]

Does this mod still work? I've just installed it on 4.2.0 and searches work but What's New isn't finding new blog or social group posts, just the odd old social group post which has me confused.

Second.

Does anybody use this for vb 4.2?

[pokusek]

I could use this plugin but it doesn't work on 4.2...

[JustAskJulie]

Same as above. I'm looking for a way to simply include blog posts into my "new posts" search. Will this work for that? Or can someone give me an another simple fix?

[Booth]

Not working on 4.2 for me as well.

[DemOnstar]

i won't bother trying it then..

[hugh_]

Andreas please consider updating this for 4.2.2... Thanks! :)

[RichieBoy67]

Andreas please consider updating this for 4.2.2... Thanks! :)
Plus 1! Great Mod! Would love to use this! :up: