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Great, really looking forward to it as i can't use it till that addition as my news is just too big :) But i'll keep an eye open as i loved the hack and it worked very well apart from the small issues with path i had.
Thanks thincom2000, look forward to the update. I'll mark as installed so i catch it when its done :) |
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If your not 100% sure how to correct this (I'm 100% confident it is the hack settings, but I'm not blaming you lol) perhaps you can explain how to remove the comments area (box and button). I don't mind leaving the option off. |
It's your current value for Spacer Size. Your value of 15 is compressing the first post table by 15 on each side. I would recommend either setting Spacer Size to 0, or if that makes your forum look horrid, could you post the 10 lines above and below $firstbit in your SHOWNEWS template?
Then I'll try to figure out how to rearrange $spacer_open and $spacer_close for your case, since I am using a modified version of the template. |
Thanks for your reply. I'd rather not modify the style's layout and everything looks fine except the comments area in this hack. I love the hack and wish to resolve this with your good support :)
This is the the portion of the unmodified shownews template Code:
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Just noticed something today:
When viewing the news submission (main news page) it does not show the inline thumbnail attachments unless you view each specific news thread. Is there a possible way to get them to show on the main page? |
Just updated v1.1.0 with the attachments fix. You'll notice in the Changelog that I also included all the other things that have been suggested in the past week or so (or more). If you downloaded v1.1.0 already you only need to replace the updated news.php file.
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Ok, this is happening again. I've just upgraded and its conflicting with RSS Newsfeed hack (remember a few weeks ago I mentioned the conflicting same filenames).
Before upgrading, I changed news.php to newsces.php shownews.php to shownewsces.php I edited each file to find any area that shows news.php or shownews.php and added the 'ces' to each. Now, I am getting directed to the RSS feeds page instead again. Did I miss something else? I searched all templates for news.php (which would bring up shownews.php by default too) and found nothing aside the rss feeds link, which is properly news.php |
There is a new setting in the AdminCP for when you rename the files.
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Thank you. Now getting database errors :P
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Haha, whoops. That's my shownews. Product version has been added to the zip instead (I hope). Sorry about that.
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Excellent :)
Works now. Thanks for a great hack, also great support 5 stars! |
thanks for this :)
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Outstanding work and works really well. However the bbcode tags are quite dangerous :)
I wasn't sure about a numeric value so assumed you meant [preview]this is the txt we wish to have as our teaser[/preview] and this isn't. Submitting that deleted this is the text we wish to have in our teaser and just leaves and this isn't in both the body and the teaser (so effectively deleted the text within the bbcode that you can't get back :)). Now if you use it as it should be [preview]28[/preview] so it only shows the first 28 words thats fine and it works well. However the danger is using it somewhere in the body of your text without closing the bbcode and deleting all text within it :) BBcode, by its nature, usually encapsules something and i think we'll all assume to encapsule the text we wish to use as a teaser. think a better solution would be to approach this (if possible) as i tried on my first attempt. I.e. have the bbcode open where you wish to start to new teaser (cancelling the default for that article) and then closing it where you wish it to end. Then thats the new teaser (much easier than trying to work out how many words your new teaser needs). What do you think ? Everything else appears to work perfectly, including paths, comment box size and even that pesky white line in the username :) Outstanding. |
Um... although the text may APPEAR to be deleted, it should still be there when you edit the post... Also if you don't close the tag, I'm pretty sure vBulletin just doesn't parse it. That has been my experience, anyway.
When you said "dangerous," I thought for a moment you had somehow installed my [anything] tag which isn't included with this hack, and a spammer having permissions to use it messed up your entire board. The purpose of [preview] is just to override the AdminCP setting with a new value, and was not meant to be used as BB-code (it just makes use of the BB-code parser because then I don't have to write code myself to parse it out). I, for one, abhor typing in a "short article" for a preview, and then typing a different article for the actual article. So that's why it just shows the first numeric_value words of the article. |
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I still think if its a bbcode it should act as one or it will certainly cause confusion. Failing that a simple tag of something like ----more---- and it will splt to a readmore link there. This isn't a great solution you have provided (sorry im just offering constructive feedback) and will most certainly lead to confusion. You're probably better to parse it using your own tag or really do a full bbcode. I'll try the bbcode again on my test posts to make sure it wasn't me, but im 100% confident i can reproduce that effect each and every time . I'll get back to you soon. Please don;t see this as a nag, its really not. I love this hack and it does pretty much most of what i require. Your efforts are very much appreciated. |
OK i can confirm 100% it does delete the text when the bbcode is applied as a bbcode.
to test this wrap your [preview][/preview] tags around some text and save. You'll notice that text has disappeared in both post view and teaser view. Click edit and both the bbcode and the text you wrapped the bbcode around is gone completely (in both wysiwyg view and bbcode view). I can duplicate it each and every time. |
There are some errors in your demo that make me leary of installing it. It looks GREAT! But I am nervous that it might mess up some of my settings since I have such a HUGE news section (thousands of threads, 5-10 new daily).
The errors I spotted were all dead or bad links. For example, click "Comments (0)" link in an article and I get a 404. Same goes for several other links. Is this because I am a guest or are you also experiencing this? I must say this looks really GREAT so far in spite of the errors. I hope you can work out any bugs it may have and that I will be able to use it. I'll wait a bit to see your responses. |
I have taken a closer look at your site/demo and really like what I see. Still, there are a few things that I can't figure out so maybe you can help me with them.
1) Do any of your news articles use the preview limit? I believe it is supposed to be possible to show only the first X words on the main news page and force users to click on the article to read the rest. 2) Does it use a seperate template so that I can easily customize the look of the news page? For example, I would like the headlines to be bigger (and in H2 tags), the [quote] button not to show up or to be a [comment] button, the "Last Comment" text to be clickable (currently it seems users have to click the tiny arrow at the end of the text), etc. 3) I am really looking for something that can make my news forum look more like this site's news. When you're in a news article, it doesn't show comments until you choose to view them. Ideally it would be cool to have that as a cookie setting (view or hide comments). Even if I can't do all these things with your mod, maybe I can customize it to do them for my forum. I mainly want to know what specifically this mod includes and what of the above it doesn't so I know how much work it will be to get it to do what I need. Thanks! :) |
I am unable to duplicate the 404 error you describe.
None of my articles currently use the preview limit although it is entirely possible to do this. It uses 7 new templates in all, the article body itself uses 1 on Newsdisplay and another on Shownews. You can eliminate the Quote button by editing the templates, however, if you want to change it to "Comment," you would have to modify your forum's images. You can make the "Last Comment" text clickable by editing (translating) that phrase for your forum. You would have to find your own javascript for show/hide of comments. This not possible with vBulletin's vbcollapse feature since each comment uses a new table. You should then edit your SHOWNEWS template to include the changes you want. As for the [preview] tags eating unsupported preview text, the tags never disappear for me when I try to edit, even with text between. This may be because you are using the WYSIWYG editor, in which case you should not be able to modify any BB-code after submission. Switch to the Standard editor and you should see it again. As for the practical use of the [preview] tag, I will change the name to [previewlength] for the next update, and add a [more] tag which will encapsulate the text that hides on preview for the next update. How's that? |
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A better approach would be to have a bbcode type tag that just cuts the length for the teaser but still displays for the body too. This way you don't have to write a lead in teaser and a body, you just use the same content (we could even then assign it a button). I think this is stable enough for me to install now and again i thankyou for your hard work. Awesome mod. **Clicks install** |
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).
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news_threadbit SHOWNEWS news_postbit news_comments shownews_similararticles shownews_similararticlebit |
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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. Quote:
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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?
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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.
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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. |
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I haven't been able to figure out RSS feeds either. I've looked at all the threads I can find both here and at vbulletin.com and it seems like I won't be able to do exactly what I want. From what I could tell, RSS feeds require you to allow guests to view the forum you're feeding. I want to hide that from everyone so nobody knows the articles page is powered by vbulletin. I want it to look different because otherwise there would be no point in having an articles section like this. |
You could create multiple news forums to act as your "Categories." Each news forum would handle different articles. You could then link to each forum from your Category listing page.
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This was fixed in the newest version.
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Unfortunately not for me and I did upgrade today (currently shows 1.1.1)
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Have you reverted your templates?
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I have not done anything at all, yet. Should I revert them? I made custom settings to simply remove background color on the username and "comments" text only
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Revert the templates, all those issues were fixed in 1.1.0.
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reverted all, still messed up
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The sizes are correct now. The rest is a problem in your CSS, your "page" class is blue meanwhile you have your background set to white. This is also why you have a blue bar at the very bottom of your site before the "Contact Us," etc. menu.
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