What templates does this mod use ? I need to edit them as they are now 100% correct for vbulletins default style (top by the reply pushes out slightly and a few other minor cosmetic issues).

NEWSDISPLAY
news_threadbit
SHOWNEWS
news_postbit
news_comments
shownews_similararticles
shownews_similararticlebit

http://www.crackedeggstudios.net/sho...47c8c53&?t=373

That's a link from thread #72 if you click the commments link: "Comments (2)"

Downloads back online thread #76 is also a 404 for me.

There were others but I can't remember where right now.

Actually I was more thinking of a different page (maybe the same url followed by /comments ). I use vbseo so all my urls are, well, seo'd. I can figure this one out I guess, but how about simply using a type of show/hide on the main page? Where the default (or defined) amount of preview words are shown and then a link for (full story) which opens the rest of the story on the same page (javascript or ajax) instead of taking you to the thread page with comments? That would be wicked!!
That sounds great! The "more" text could be shown when people click a "more" link from the main news page like I described above, right? Or would it just take you to the thread?

Oh, I just thought of something important (in my case at least).

Does this support vbSEO? Will vbseo work with this mod? If not I can't use it I'm afraid. :(

I don't have vbSEO so I don't know. Also I have no idea how you got the session data to appear in those URLs, especially being a guest. What browser are you using?

Internet explorer 6.

As for vbseo I'll check with them.

As for vbSEO, if you needed any plugins for forumdisplay or showthread, you should be able to use them for this. This hack just adds a second forumdisplay (NEWSDISPLAY) and showthread (SHOWNEWS) that use different templates. I don't see why it wouldn't work, although I have no way of testing it personally.

I'm sure it would still work for the rest of my forums but I'm less sure about if it would work for the news section after I switch to your templates. For example, it doesn't work on the firstpost template I use to show first post on all pages in the new forum. But that is only for one post, not the whole forum, so I can live with it. If this modifies my whole forum (the news one only of course) than I am afraid it might not "seo" the threads and such which is where I get most of my google traffic so that would be bad.

I'm posting a question about it over there and we'll see what they say.

Okay, I don't know much about this kind of stuff, so if you don't mind answering a couple of questions...

Can this hack pull from multiple forums? Also, is there any way to make it so each forum it pulls from has it's own news page?

Can this hack pull from forums that aren't viewable by guests or even registered members? I basically want an articles hack, but I don't like any of them that I've seen. I'd like it so members never even knew these articles were pulled from a forum, so it would be best if I could turn the forum off for everybody except the usergroup that would be writing the articles. Then registered members and guests would just see it as an articles page that matches the layout of the forum, but doesn't look exactly like a forum. Am I making sense?

This mod does not do exactly what you describe. It sounds like you are looking for an RSS-type feed.

This mod alters a forum of choice so that the first post of each thread becomes an article. The articles are pulled from threads, but only to the FORUMDISPLAY of that particular forum. The FORUMDISPLAY by no means really looks like a forum anymore as a result because the text of the recent articles displays there.

Clicking on an article title, clicking a "Read More" link (if you have a preview limit set), clicking the comments link, or clicking to view the last comment will all bring up a page similar to SHOWTHREAD, which displays the article at the top, and comments below. If you wanted to disable comments, you could just remove those links from the NEWSDISPLAY template, and

This hack makes use of forum permissions, because technically the news is still a forum, merely presented differently. So you could disable replies to threads, and set particular usergroups that are permitted to create threads (articles) per forum.