hahhahaha im stupid!!!

I'm right there with you Poet. What the *#$@ was I thinking? :D

Still a Major problem. After your update, everything is working exactly as you promised. The editor is even better than Vbulletins, are you allowed to out do them like that?

One last question though. Is the paid version going to be incorporated into Vbadvanced?

For all my mods, as you can see in my site, I've developed blocks to be used with vBadvanced. Same will be with vbNews. I plan (even if I'm always out of my plans) to release them this Tuesday.

Maria

Since you hardly reply on your website, I'll ask here

Is it possible to publish an article with picture, have the text show partly with a little 'more' that opens full article... this way front page is less 'empty'

the way you have it show on you homepage picture

what 'commands' do we need to use in html (editor) for that

Last question, Honest.

I set up a couple categories that point to a section on my forum (as your supposed to). Then under "Related Articles" It shows the posts for the last 24 hours. Is there a way to up this in case there was only one post made, and you want, say 10?

Also, on the main page you have "Editors Choice" and "Video News" is there a way to make more categories on that side like that?

OOH, sorry. If you read an article your Link block disappears, not good!

Also it would be nice it the Front page article printed out fully on the main page.

Drop down links in the navbar refuse to work until you navigate away from Vbnews.

If you read an article with an included thumbnail, and you click on said thumbnail, it opens into a new page, Not good!

But still loving it!

Please can some kind person install this for me :)

Please please

Peter

we need last 10 news such as toolbar last post in forums

Well. I am sorry to say this one is history. I decided to buy it but it costs almost as much as Vbulletin. Was a good start though.

So you only paid $42.50 for your copy of vBulletin?

LOL no! But $42.50? Come on. If every person that made plugins did that, this would start costing hundreds and or thousands of dollars. I paid $85 for a year Leased license. So half of $85 = $42.50! I wasn't going to cough up $160 (Then $30) a year for updates until I knew what vbulletin could do. So if I paid the $160 it would only be 1/4 the price.

Also since most people here do not support there hacks/templates/plugins for to long it could become outdated real quick. Since I do not make money off my site I need to decide if the cash going out to make it do what I want for a couple months is worth the headaches.

When I discovered that the first vbnews wasn't even tested but a "Copy and paste" from another mod, I started having my doubts. Then playing with it, I popped up even more bugs, and simple ones to. It wasn't like I was looking for them, I was just adding articles and such to test functionality.

I am not saying it isn't a good or bad mod. But if there are definite issues in it's functionality, are your members going to use it?

vb is the best...i don't pay for no mods,hacks,plugins,if its free... use it,if not go pay someone for there product if you think its better.

:D

Do you have to write all the news articles yourself? Or could I use RSS feeds like Yahoo, that way I could just have a professional looking news-page for topstories, etc.

I rated this piece of software "terrible" because support is almost non existant,
the product is full of bugs an annoying issues.
Starting with the rich editor to spit out almost unusable (unvalid) sort of HTML instead of
XHTML Transitional, even the DOCTYPE definition is missing. Icons are missing alt Tags. Even 3rd party code (calendar.html), which is used to edit the post date isn't working as
expected.
Assignment to "frontpage", "breaking" or "Editor Choice" can not be done when writing
new content. After posting the new article, you'll have to edit this assignment.
Extensive usage of fieldsets & legends in the default templates make design work a nightmare.
There are even conditions, where the script throws database errors because of insufficient
checking of variables passd to the script:
http://www.madebymary.com/vbnews.php...ategory&catid=

If I had known all of these issues, I wouldn't have paid for this piece of sleazy built
software. My personal impression is, that there someone tries to earn some quick'n'easy
money.

I'VE said this again and again..WHY do coders..designers..moders..bring out these scripts without no support or stuff is full of bugs issues and problems.
There should be a forum for beta stuff so the damm things get tested first then put into a proper mod forum.It seems to me..and yes you are right my friend..that a free mod script gets passed on so the person will hope they get sales via links back to them.I hate this script code myself.

Its only my say and believe i have a right to express it,

Please VBULLETIN.ORG Admin stop these people knocking out unfit scripts.:mad:

I am also a purchaser of these scripts, this one and vbarticles. They are not stable enough to open up to my members. I've had the commercial version of vbarticles in "testing" phase since January. That was the last time an update was made to it.

Get this.. :D Now today I was trying to help someone else on that site fix an issue there were having, I find that since I made a reference that having to have a photo associated with an article to get it to show up in vbnews is "silly", I have had my PM ability removed at that site. I guess I'm a threat.. :D

I have been hanging around vbulleting.org for years and love this site. I've never dogged any script but I certainly would like to save anyone from making the same mistakes I did with these scripts.

On the support issue, another member here who also purchased these scripts was having fits over an issue that was not being responded to, I worked with him today (thank goodness he had linked to his site and I could reach him) and got his immediate issues taken care of. While I'm glad I could help this member, he shouldn't have to rely on someone who he didn't pay for his support.

No, this is for portals that they've their own news. That's why supports chapters etc. Has RSS feeds but only outgoing.

Your opinion is always welcome, but it's just your opinion, which is not the same with other dozens positive opinions. About support: Have you tried the "Contact us" form and you didn't got a reply?

http://www.madebymary.com/vbnews.php?do=edit
As long as you don't clarify in which browser/hardware they don't work, I can easily call you liar. All icon tags are working, in all languages (there are 10 languages available).

Again words on the air. What's is your meaning of "as expected". Why you don't use a real example?

I will check it and I'll revert.

That's my design style, visible to all at the demo area. I don't think that I gave a special version to you just to make your life difficult.

Never is too late. Have you asked for a refund and I refused it?. No. So ask for a refund and you'll have back 100% of your money.

That's for laughing. Especially for vbNews, 98% of the licences have be gone free of charges to those who have bought vbArticles. And this one because I've promised to give "just a different front page of vbArticles". And finally I gave a totally new mod. But I kept my word. So, forget about the easy money.

You're wrong. You're NOT a purchaser of these scripts. You're a purchaser of vbArticles and I gave you for free vbNews.

Sure. That was the last (6th) upgrade as I've added ALL requested features and much more. If there are no more requests, and there are no bugs, why to release an upgrade? To add what??

And you came straigh here to report it :D PM has been deactivated at all, for all users, as it used just for duplicating the posts.

As you're so honest here, why you don't inform the members how many times due to issues that you had with your Mac and FF2.0 (because as you admited, you haven't these issues on your PC, or even on Mac with FF1.7), how many times I asked you your invoice id to give you a full refund???

Thanks for the help today! Ive been trying to fix this problem for weeks now.

I hope some issues get fixed.

Well considering the fact the editor is open to straight html input and the security risks associated with letting the members utilize these scripts is too great. The options in vbnews in the admincp don't work, you have to remove the hard coded footer garbage to keep it from erroring out, and the tables are a mess. The support has gone south like a duck in winter and yes, people do use MAC's you should consider testing with one.

Oh by all means send me a full refund. Thank you for making that offer here. You have my email address, you just used it last night. I'm sure someone who can write a digishop script can manage a refund through paypal without further intervention from me.

Have a nice life. :)

You're most welcome Devin and earlier you had asked about a footer error you thought was IE related. I had forgotten about this one. You need to find this code at the bottom of the templates.

and make it simply

This will clear up the footer errors. Now it effectively eliminates that replacement footer but it's not working anyway.

The templates where you'll find this are:

vbnews_article
vbnews_listing
vbnews_main

Seems that you continue teasing me as in my site. To send you a refund (something that you didnt admit that I offered you many times), I need PayPal's transaction id. I can't find it by email address, except if you think that I've only some 100s of orders and I can check them one by one.

I'll appreciate if you keep your hands out of code, except if you'll give full details. And in this case you've to inform the user that modifying the code such a way, must deactivate any option for custom header/footer at admincp.

Also please note:
1.- You're breaking the rules of copyright
2.- Here is not the support area for commercial version.

Fixing code errors is breaking copyright?
So I paid for software which doesn't work in an acceptable manner,
can't fix it myself and in your support forums many customers don't
get "support"? Also you call me a liar? Holy moses!

This is your business model?

To make it short and precise:
I'll go for the refund option you offered and spend the money for another (more
professional) solution.

Are you kidding? What does hardware have to do with required "ALT" Tags in images?
ALT Tags are missing in 10 languages, 10 languages are failing to validate (W3C Validator,
ever heard of that?).
I'm a liar? Wow, what do you expect me to think about YOU after all?

What kind of example do you actually need to find out, that of the little functionality in
calender.html, 2 just don't work? Ever tried it yourself? Or would you need a vBnews
installation of one of your clients again to check *lol*?
"previous month" & "next month" just don't work at all ... to make it easier for you to find this amazingly hidden bug :D

Can you imagine how much I'm interested in YOUR design style? What I need is a plugin
that keeps as close as possible to what vBulletin itself and its default layout does.
How about well organized CSS usage, overall XHTML Transitional validity?
This is a fundamental requirement if you try to build vBulletin plugins (and even more if
you sell them with such idiotic copyright restriction regarding code modifications).

Why should I have asked, if your holy shining licence agreement says "License fees are non-refundable". So this is my fault also? You actually refused it before I bought it, right? *sigh*


Believe me, laughing in MY face has gone when I think of the time I spent with this crap. :mad:

Thank god i never installed this live.

MicroHellas your an extremely aggressive person, it may be a language barrier issue but i find your posts almost always aggressive. Sure a few people have brought up negative points here but then some are paying customers and could do with a little respect. I for one am glad they brought up these issues to reflect how things may be,

I've found many of your mods buggy and frankly coded in a way that isn't always logical. Granted thats my right to decide that and certainly isn't a reflection on your competence but when members bring it up your tone really does start to irate me. Are you not open minded enough to listen to your customers or potential customers ? Or are we all simply wrong.

With using straight to HTML editors (a major security risk if ever i've seen one), reporting here that mods are supported and yet you have to go to another site to have that support, removing mods at will (vbdonator, vbphotovote etc) your simply just using vbulletin.org for advertising only. The mods here can't see it but i can and although i'm fine with that, after all, mod writers should receive compensation either via monies or by appreciation, there is also a level of support that is clearly required if the application doesn't suit what you intended it for.

If someone tries to fix it you shout from the highest plains "Oh you've breached my copyrights". I mean, for goodness sake.

Add to all this your recent spyware in vbPhotoVote (call it what you will but its spyware, simple as and Sony couldn't get away with it either) i'll certainly be avoiding any of your mods like the plague from now on. Imagine if every mod developer took the same stance. Jeeeeeus we'd be dialling so many homes our boards would be slower than a slower thing thinkings its slow.

Sorry but you need to decide whether you want the community to benefit, as other mods developers do here, and aid in vbulletins development, or whether you want to blame members when things go wrong and just make a fast buck. Your business model is your own and only you can decide.

So, is it the same FF on PC and FF on Mac??... If you say yes, you're wrong. If you say no, that's the meaning of combination hardware/browser
I'm waiting for your order details to refund you the money.

Gosh, you don't even understand the easiest.
I'm talking about ALT Tags, don't you know what an ALT Tag is?
XHTML Transitional is the base of vBulletin.
All plugins should also respect XHTML rules!

Based on this, here we go with a small excerpt of errors:

This is non valid markup!

This is non valid markup!

This is non valid markup!

This is non valid markup!

This is non valid markup

DOCTYPE definition completely missing
This is not valid markup!

Not to talk about all those uncoded ampersands
This is not valid markup!

Just one example of your work:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...m%2Fvbnews.php
230 errors. Wow, this is record breaking, believe me.
For my site I had cut this down to 0 errors & 4 warnings already.
And now you tell your customers (incl. me), that this breaks copyright rules?

All from YOUR vbnews site within minutes.
If you have the slightest clue of XHTML, you should have seen this a loooong time ago.
All these bugs and issues make me believe, that you don't code properly.
Having an editor which allows complete HTML is the peak of this unpicturesque mountain.

You want to compare?
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...doctype=Inline
0 Errors, validation successful

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...doctype=Inline
This thread here! 19 errors found, easy to fix if you (vbulletin.org) check.

I think that I know what alt tags are, but you were talking for the icons in the rich editor. At least I got this meaning reading:
.......
Starting with the rich editor to spit out almost unusable (unvalid) sort of HTML instead of XHTML Transitional, even the DOCTYPE definition is missing. Icons are missing alt Tags.
.......
As for all other comments for XHTML compatibility, I read all carefully, some of them have already corrected in the last upgrade (mostly about br / and /> at the end of <img) and all others will be corrected in the next version, along with the price which will be XHTML script's compatible.

Sorry, but since 1984 when I released my first software title, I was following the rule: "To work, to be easy on use, nice in appearance (unlike you, there are lots of congratulating emails as I'm not using the standard interface), and not following the rules".

Once more I would like to notice you that I'm waiting the transaction id. It's just for refund. If you want you can continue using it legally and you'll have full access to upgrades (including XHTML fixes). I just dont like to keep money from unsatisfied customers.

Maria

need last 10 news such as toolbar last post in forums

As my final statement regarding vBnews & ++++++++++ I'd like to inform you guys out there,
that MicroHellas obviously has decided to delete all members' discussions (not only my posts)
before yesterday in their forums.

This fits perfectly into my impression of their behaviour.

Yes, because I started ticketing system for support.

That's totally wrong in the meaning that you must also deactivate custom header and footer at your admincp. Please change that code, with:

Sorry, that's out of topic as it's custom modification.

I'm having an issue where the links to the forum are getting cut off so it takes the user to another site... i checked all the settings and they are correct. can someone help? the links are in the actual page itself.. i.e. the breadcrumbs and user login box... the navbar links all work properly...

i.e.

my site is:

my-fourm-here.com/forum

and the links to the forum and to log-in/register/user cp are taking them here:

my-forum.com/forum

the paths and url are correct with the full site name in the vbnews.php file so I'm not sure why its getting cut off. thanks!

To which site are you redirecting? If it's to my site (http://www.madebymary.com) then most probably you forgotten a URL unchanged as the defaults are the URLs to my site.

No its changing to a shortened version of my site's url

say for example my site is named: http://www.bestmoviesaboutdogs.com/forum

its linking to: http://www.bestmoviesabout.com/forum

:confused: How it's possible? This URL that you're redirecting, is a know url to you? I mean eg a subdomain, or a redirected domain etc, or it's a totally unknow URL?