[OzzModz] Exclude Forums From New Posts Search

[ozzy47]

Another mod brought to you by,
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2015/01/1.png

Here is a small modification you can use to exclude forums from showing in the New Posts and Today's Posts searches.

It is a simple installation, just import the product XML, ozzmodz_excl_new_posts

You can edit the options under the settings, [OzzModz]: Exclude Forums From New Posts Search Settings

Complete Feature List


Option to disable the mod completely.
Option to choose which forums, new threads / posts won't show in the New Posts and Today's Posts searches.
Option to select which usergroups will still see the posts showing up in the forums you chose to exclude, useful for guests, so search engines can find the posts easily.




Frequently Asked Questions.

Q. Why do I need such a thing, you ask?

A. You may have some forums that you have set up to get RSS feeds from a outside source, so when you click on the New Posts, or the Today's Posts, you would see all them show, not anymore. Or you may have forums that have results from a sporting event, and some members may not have watched it yet. So if they were to view the Activity Stream, they might see the results that another user posted, spoiling their unknown outcome of the event.

Q. How did you come up with this mod?

A. New Joe (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=336030) gave me the idea. :)

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v1.0.0 Initial release.

[ozzy47]

Reserved.

[Max Taxable]

Great idea. Does it work for v3.8.x?

[New Joe]

Great idea. Does it work for v3.8.x?

Looks like it's been released for 3.8 and 3.7 too
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2468874#post2468874

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2468872#post2468872

[Max Taxable]

Yep seenat. :D

[New Joe]

I would have thought ozzy would have mentioned me as the person who gave him this great idea though..:p

[ozzy47]

Done, added to first post. :)

[New Joe]

Done, added to first post. :)

:D:up:
Cheers..

[ozzy47]

Sometimes I need a little poke. :)

[RichieBoy67]

I should get mentioned too for being next to the dude that gave him the great idea.:D

[ozzy47]

LOL now that made me laugh. :)

[Max Taxable]

I should get mention for whining about it not being made for vB3.... Then it was!

[CAG CheechDogg]

Will this mod work with VSa - Advanced 'New Posts'- mod Ozzy?

[ozzy47]

I don't know, never tried it.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Fair enough! lol...thanks for replying back Bud, I will have to install it and see if it does and if it does work I will let you know .....once again thanks !

[ozzy47]

Yeah let me know either way, and if it don't work, I will see if I can make it work. :)

[jjohns12]

I don't know about everyone else but OzzModz are taking over my forum! Another great one Thanks!;)

[Max Taxable]

I don't know about everyone else but OzzModz are taking over my forum! Another great one Thanks!;)That's his true mission.... to assimilate... Resistance is Futile....

[ozzy47]

I don't know about everyone else but OzzModz are taking over my forum! Another great one Thanks!;)

Glad ya like it, and thanks for marking as installed. :)

[ozzy47]

That's his true mission.... to assimilate... Resistance is Futile....

We are OzzModz. Resistance as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. ~Collective

I am ozzy47, of OzzModz. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us. ~Locutus

[Max Taxable]

Yeah the "47" is fully understood now....

[CAG CheechDogg]

Oh great ! lol....just great lol ....

[ozzy47]

What's wrong?

[CAG CheechDogg]

Nothing at all my Man, everything is great lol...

[sticky]

Really need this but can it made so users can choose which forums to exclude?

[ozzy47]

I will add it as considered for future updates. :)

[tanzeelniazi]

Nice mod thank you :)
can you made another hack
Example:
5 post per section next post need 12 or 24 hours
I mean i made 5 post in Mods section 12 to 24 hour and next post in Mods section after 12 or 24 hours :)

[tanzeelniazi]

Dear Ozzy please can you make this before i reply
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2470019&postcount=27

[ozzy47]

I am not sure exactly what it is you are asking, could you please clarify.

[tanzeelniazi]

I mean first sorry my Bad english
example I have VIP section and Only VIP member can access here not normal
I want Per VIP member can make 5 reply Per 24 hour
i mean Per Vip member make 5 reply in a duration time like 24 hour
Main example
You have Exceeded your daily limit of 5 Reputation/Post (reply) in this section.Please wait 24 hour for it to reset

[ozzy47]

I'll look around a bit later. I seem to recall a mod something like that.

[tanzeelniazi]

Really really thank you :)

[ozzy47]

Perhaps one of these may do what you need.
WoG - Threads Limit Per X Hours on Specified Forum (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232274)
Chiplove.9xpro - Limit new thread/post per day vB4 (v1.3) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=270797)

[Dennis B]

Really need this but can it made so users can choose which forums to exclude?

This would really make this mod perfect. For very large, very diverse forums like ours, users would simply love this feature. :)

[dknelson]

This is a good mod. There is one thing that would make it MUCH better though. I also have your mod "extended search links" installed. I have a forum of that uses RSS to post relevant Ebay ads. When you click on unanswered threads, they take over the list. Any way of adding unanswered threads to the excluded forums?

[ozzy47]

So you want un answered threads in the forum that the RSS posts to to not show up in the new posts search?

Why not just exclude the forum entirely?

[dknelson]

It IS included from New Posts and What's New. They still show up when somebody clicks "Unanswered Threads" in your extended search link mod however.

[ozzy47]

Ok so you want to exclude them in which mod, Exclude Forums From New Posts Search or Extended Search Links In Navbar

Cause I am kinda lost right now. :p

[dknelson]

Extended search links in Navbar. They are already excluded from the New Posts Search.

[ozzy47]

Ok can you do me a favor then, post it as a feature request on my site, so it gets logged into the tracker, http://ozzmodz.com/forumdisplay.php/44-Extended-Search-Links-In-Navbar

[dknelson]

OK...I did that. Not sure if I am asking for a feature for the excluded forums mod or for the extended search links mod. :) But I hope you know what I am looking for. Either add "unanswered threads" to the options under the exclude forum mod or ......

change the extended search in quick links mod so that it doesn't pull unanswered threads.

Either way....whichever mod this feature is added to....you just shouldn't get results from excluded forums when you click on "Unanswered Threads".

So confusing...does this make sense?

[ozzy47]

I get it, add the ability to exclude forums from the Extended Search Links mod. :)

[dknelson]

I just discovered that this is not working on my site. I thought it was because I have another mod that allows users to select forums to exclude in their general settings. I have members telling me that they are still seeing the RSS posts in the forum that I had excluded in this mod. I looked and saw that I had it selected in my own settings through the other mod so they weren't showing up for me.

So, I have "Ebay Listings" excluded globally with this mod. They are not showing in New Activity but do show up when you click on New Posts. Did I misunderstand or is this just an issue with my setup?

[ozzy47]

Could be a conflict with another mod, or something in the setup.

[dknelson]

Yep....who knows.

[ozzy47]

Yeah I just checked on my site to verify, and it is working as intended. So I am not sure at all why it would not work on your site, unless there is a conflict with another mod, or the settings are not set right.

[dknelson]

No problem. Hard to make something work for everybody. I just found a search template edit that did the job. Even excluded that forum from your Quick Search mod for unanswered threads and etc. It's all good my friend.

[ozzy47]

Really strange your forum has so many issues with my mods that other users have not reported. :confused:

[dknelson]

Yea, I know. I have thought the same thing. Have no idea why. Other mods seem to work fine. I don't know if it has something to do with the MySQL version, VBulletin 4.2.3, the fact that my forum is installed in a directory (forum) or what. There must be something though.

Other things seem to work fine. Dragon bytes pic gallery, Photopost classifieds, Dragon Bytes donate system, an OLD thank you mod. Many other things installed and no issues at all with them.

I'm certainly not blaming you. You have some great mods that seem to work for the majority of folks. Several of them work well for me also.

[ozzy47]

I know, it is just frustrating as a developer when it is not working correctly, and you can not pinpoint the issue. :(

[dknelson]

I understand and wish I had the tech knowledge to provide more helpful insight.

[edunite]

Can this mod be modded to also exclude a user/sub forum from showing up in "Last Post"?

This is on the main forum page on the right which shows who the last post was by, and the thread title. The RSS feeds will show up there on the front page, but ideally these posts will be hidden unless going into that forum.

[ozzy47]

Not the way the mod is, it only works on the search function.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Love it Ozzy!! Finally got to installing it to keep all the "New Member Welcome Threads" from showing up in the New Posts search.php page lol ... it works like a charm !!!

I was getting a lot of complaints that all the new member welcome threads were getting spammed by other members thus the list was mostly that and they had to go through pages to find the good posts lol ...this did it !!! Love you Ozzy !!! haha ! :)

[ozzy47]

Glad you like it and found it useful, and thanks for marking as installed. :)

[CAG CheechDogg]

By the way, this works great with VSA's Advanced New Post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233310)s mod

[CAG CheechDogg]

I kept forgetting to add it Ozzy! I remember asking you about VSa's Advanced New Post mod if it worked with it and you didn't know .. so I completely forgot about it !!! sorry my Man but I can confirm it works very nice with it !!!

[ozzy47]

Excellent, glad to hear. :) BTW, I sent you a PM on OzzModz with a XML to Try for the Welcome mod.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Ok good stuff ..Ill check out right away ....

[ozzy47]

Cool, hopefully it will solve the issue there. :)

[Hex_legend]

Not sure if this mod can do the job, but this is what i want to do:

I want to exclude a certain forum from ALL the search queries.

I mean not only exclude this forum from the New Posts and Today's Posts searches. I want to exclude from the search results, even 2 years old threads/posts of this forum.

Is it possible with this plugin, on any other modification?

[blind-eddie]

Hard code it in.
I use the following in 3.8.8.
I do not use vb4 so I am not sure of the proper coding.
<a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily&exclude=46,48,50,51,67,68,93,94,104"

[Hex_legend]

Hard code it in.
I use the following in 3.8.8.
I do not use vb4 so I am not sure of the proper coding.
<a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily&exclude=46,48,50,51,67,68,93,94,104"

Thanks for the reply!

Where do i have to add this code?
Or i have to edit an existing code?