Does anyone know how to make private forums NOT show in the Latest Forum Discussions box?

Also is it possible to have a text link at the top left in the welcome box that says "New posts Since you last visit" then shows them all the new posts after they click on it?

-WoodiE

Sure, just set it as an HREF link and point it to "{yourforumsdirectory}/search.php?s=&action=getnew"

I'm retarded, as soon as I posted that I realized what I had to do. :\ Thanks X-Fan for the response.

-WoodiE

the hacks are not supported by vBulletin. they provide an easy upgrade if you dont have your forums hacked. :)

nokia explains how in this thread few pages before. simply set all your forum perms properly.

To prevent your private area forums from showing on the vbhl homepage make sure you select "use custom setting" on each group in your private forum and category. All groups should be RED by the time you are done.

My forum was already set as mentioned above, and the private forums were still displayed...

Until I logged out!

TECK - Thanks for such an awesome script. I LOVE IT. I paid for firefly's home page script and dont like it as much as this one! GREAT job man!

-WoodiE

But what about 2.2.6? Can someone tell me if they got it to work in 2.2.6? I sure would love to avoid having to do another upgrade at this time.

Smoothie, you seem to know your stuff, maybe you can help me?

I was trying to uninstall, start with a new slate, or prepare to upgrade to 2.2.8, but I get this error:

Droping the fields and removing script elements Removing from table thread the articleid field... Done.
Removing the thread table the articleid index... Done.

Lower down it says:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: ALTER TABLE thread DROP INDEX articleid
mysql error: Can't DROP 'articleid'. Check that column/key exists

mysql error number: 1091

Date: Saturday 26th of October 2002 04:40:07 AM
Script: http://www.mysite.com/forum/forum/ad...php?s=&step=11
Referer: http://www.mysite.com/forum/admin/vb...php?s=&step=10

(btw, I've removed all the files and reverted the templates to original).

I really just want to complete the uninstall and start new, but I'm stuck on this error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anitah that error means you are trying to remove something that doesn't exisit ;) Its trying to remove the articleid column from the DB when its not there.

NTLDR. Thanks, I realize that. It probably never installed properly. But the question remains, what do I do about it? How do I bypass this error to complete the uninstall process? Can I delete the tables manually in phpMyadmin? They're imbedded on the database where I can see them, unless someone can tell me specifically where to look?