The Zoints Tags plugin does have an autotagging feature for thread tags - just a thought there as far as mitigation of sacrifice. Not a perfect solution, by any means, but definitely an improvement over nothing.

As far as Custom Blocks go, one thing to remember is that if everyone just waits for someone else to design them, and nobody wants to dig in and work on the blocks that they want for their site, the collection of blocks won't grow very fast at all. So, if you're interested in specific blocks, I'd encourage you to give it a shot and get your hands dirty :)

You can install the Zoints Local plugin files and not import the vBulletin product. That will put the profile system in place, but not do the vB integration, so you can browse directly to yoursite.com/forum/z/, but none of the links will be in place for your users to click.

there should be a myspace type landing page with user profiles instead of the forum.

Zoints now includes ZCentral which is similar to MySpace's homepage.

WHEN TRYING TO UPDATE

I have 2 bugs to report for the "gold" release:

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1. The "Photos" link url is bad in the header tab for page links. The browser reports page/ object not found. It probably should link to VB user's albums, similar to the "My Albums" block as you mentioned.

2. When editing a page title at Zoints Admin Area > Pages > Edit A Page, the new page title is not saved even if "apply style to all member pages" is selected. After saving the new title, the old title still shows in the menu & tab links.

Feature Request: Allow admin to prevent users from editing the page titles. Note that when the Zoints setting "allow regular members to edit styles?" is disabled, users can still edit the page titles. The option to prevent users from editing page titles should be independent of the option to prevent users from editing styles since page titles are not stylistic but convey content and should be consistent among users for most types of websites.

I can not get any new photo albums to show in the Zoints Community page. I set my album to "public" and set the Community page to show "new photo albums." The albums block appears, but with no albums. I tried caching and not caching the albums block in the Zoints settings page; when caching, the cron task is enabled and also I manually ran the Zoints cron task to make sure the data was cached; when not caching, still no photo albums are displayed. Any other settings I forgot about or is this a bug?

I noticed the tour folder & file in the "gold" release. When I tried accessing the tour's index.php file, Zoints reports "fatal error - no tour was found." Is this feature to show users a tour of Zoints functionality? Is this feature work in progress, or a bug, or do I have some settings wrong?

Hi Zoints group,

i finally made it worked with the portal, but i can't put the recently updated profile block which display on the forum home to the frontpage of the portal, the phpporat which i am talking about. is there a way that we can display this recently or newly create profile on the phpportal frontpage, right now it's only the forum home ..

thanks

Version Question: In the product xml file, the version says 2.2.2. All other 2.x Zoints Local releases have said 2.2.3. Is this just a typo or did you include the wrong product xml file? Just checkin'....

P.S. Thanks for fixing the favicon bug that was in the RC releases.