Fair enough, I have no idea the work involved. =)

Well for an overview, the fact there is any unread PMs is part of the $vbulletin array and therefore accessible on every singe page of vBulletin without any custom queries or coding needed.

On the other hand to see if there are any unread PMs from specific users would require coding a "global" plugin (on that runs on every page) that requires at least one query of the database return the userids of all unread PMs in the user's PM Storage, and then decide to show a message or not depending on if any of the userids returned match a list of userids stored in settings.

It isn't very difficult work but a lot more involved relatively then the simple 1 line more or less in the current mod: if ($vbulletin->userinfo['pmunread'] > 0) that does the majority of the work.

So it's something I might get to if I find myself bored with a couple hours to spare- but it's been a while since I've been bored like that. ;)

If anyone else wants to try, feel free to release your own version with this option.

Nice mod, would it be possible for it to also include members with post count = X amount of post. The way I have my usergroups setup I would only want it to tag members with 5 or less post

yes that would be possible... will take a little time though... still recovering.

works great on vb 4.2.0 p3

Thx Bird

I have question here. Lets say I enable this feature for Group X. Would they be forced to read PMs sent by anyone, or its when an admin sends a PM ?

They would have to read ALL PMs, from anyone.

I can't believe I didn't see this. Worked for v4.2.2, thank you very much!

Great plugin, but I've disabled (non uninstalled) because I was searching something little bit different. In other words, force user to read only Admin PM's