Consdering that vBSEO is a commercial mod, there is no way I can make any of my modifications compatible with it if they are not already. vBSEO conflicts with a lot of hacks, so please ask the author of vBSEO to consider the existence of other hacks and maybe rework the inner structure of his product. Thanks.

Just an FYI who used the forum filtering hack (don't remember the exact name in 3.0.x):

I just installed this after upgrading to 3.6

I ran into the issue where the field you added to the usertextfield table, 'excludeforumids' happens to be the same field name as the old version, but the difference it that field was showing up in the user table.

So when i installed yours, and set the forums to be allowed to be excluded, i was surprised to find that the exclusions from my old version were still there.. However, I couldn't change them.

I fixed the probem be dropping that column from the user table.. Everything working great now.

Thanks for this hack.

I've noticed that when excluding categories, posts that were made in (sub)forums in those categories, the posts are still visible in get-new and get-daily searches. Is it possible to fix that?

In this version, you need to select all subforums that you want to make invisible individually.

Is there another version then?

No, this is the latest version released...

Oh, you had me confused then by saying "In this version, [...]"

It's not a big problem anyway.

i have a similar problem as described above. on 3.6.4 all i see is [Reset exclusion] without any list of forums. i have enabled excludability in all forums (set to 1) but that doesn't seem to help.

Save at least one forum via admincp after you run the query.

Is there a way I can have it so all a user has to do is just select the parent forum and simply have all the associated sub forums hidden as well? I heard you say that there was a max number of forums that could be excluded, and it's tedious selecting new forums like that.