True. I figure newer members won't notice the difference, but the existing members are already set to stay at the old view. For now that's good enough for me. I think this should have been a user-selectable option in vB itself, as I know a lot of users (including myself) prefer the postbit over on the side (either left, or on the right like phpBB3 does) as it makes reading posts much easier. I prefer signatures off as well, but being an admin means I have to monitor those, as does my staff.

I may hit the database in a few weeks to see who is using the horizontal vs. the vertical postbit layout.

The only other swap I can think of, would be to copy the contents of the postbit_legacy template to postbit, and vice versa. That would mess up future upgrades (you'd have to revert templates, redo the swap, then re-insert any custom template edits by hand), but it may be another quick and dirty way to handle it. If there are hooks in both that are specific to postbit and/or postbit_legacy, those would have to be renamed as well. Untested, of course...and I'm not brave enough to try it even on my test forum. ;)

Has anyone else had a problem where you lose the search results highlighting when this plugin is enabled? One of my admins pointed this out, and members noticed it as well. Not sure if it's a conflict with other plugins, or if it's this one in particular, but when I disable it, the search highlighting begins working again. (Search highlighting is when you do a forum search, and your search word is highlighted in the text of the post.) What happens is, the < span class="highlight" > code around the search word is missing.

I'll experiment more to see if this is indeed the case or not.

I have just replicated this too.... did not test for it originally, but thought I had it covered when I created it.... oh well :(

It is just when the legacy postbit is selected when this hack is enabled.

I have to hand 3 assignments in for university tomorrow, but I will be looking at this at the weekend and see if I can fix it.

I don't see how they could affect each other, but they do. I'm glad that you could replicate it though--I was thinking it might be incompatible with another plugin I had installed. I even uninstalled a couple of old ones, but still, no highlights came back.

The only manual change I made to both postbits was adding a display for the iTrader ratings. If you want to compare notes on which plugins we might have installed, let me know.

No problem--school comes first! :up:

I am definitely going to have to dig deeper, as I can not for the life of understand why this is happening, the words should be highlighted by they are not, and I am really hoping that the solution does not include core file edits.

This may take a while, but I will get back to you.

omg been waiting for this. admin and me just had a fight over which postbit to use. this solves that problem. ;)

thoughI too would love if legacy were default :(

I wish the legacy postbit were the default also. The horizontal is just clutter--posts interrupted by avatars, usernames, locations, etc. I wouldn't even mind a right-hand postbit, as long as it's off to one side and out of my way. Imaging reading an interview in the newspaper where, every couple of sentences, a strip of information were placed above each reply. *sigh*

One of my online buddies who runs a vB forum found a template modification that will show a user's signature only once within a thread (or page within a thread). Another way of reducing the clutter.

I found a bug with this mod while using TfSEO...

If a user is using the legacy postbit, they get uncached templates:

Uncached templates: pagenav (1)
Uncached templates: pagenav_pagelink (1)

Well, they are cached for me, so I am pretty sure it is not a bug. There is only one confirmed bug in this hack at the moment, and that is when searching the key words are not highlighted, and I am currently looking into that.

I have debug mode enabled on my testbed and those are not un-cached when this hack is enabled and in postbit_legacy mode.

I also have over 20 hacks enabled as well (I always like to test my hacks in a mixed environment, just in case there is a problem with other hacks I write).

This hack does not have anything to do with pagination at all, so I am pretty sure it is another hack that is doing this.

thank you