It's on my to do list to type up the instructions! I ended up helping the wife make some cookies last night so my choices were... (A) Type up some instructions or (B) Eat some freshly baked cookies. I went with choice B. :D I'll get something typed up today.

As others have mentioned, it's based upon the permissions of the user who is viewing the page. You see everything because you are likely the admin' of your site. Logout and view the page as a guest or a non-admin account.

I have yet to see any blank pages with IE. I'll play around with FF & Opera today to see what I get. If you're getting a blank page though... it's most likely not because of this hack. When you click on the RSS button, for example, you're seeing the output of the normal vBulletin "external.php" script. But, who knows, I'll check it out.

No, guests can not view private forums. The views are permissions based like any other page in vB would be.

Yep. :)

Do you have an IM address I can you reach you to ask a quick question to confirm my suspicion on what the problem is?

Hmmm, I did test as a guest. All they have to do is simply view the RSS feed and the private content is there.

For example the private boards on my site, guests can view forum and post titles but can not view thread content. With the RSS hack in place the content provided in the feed is viewable in a text form (as to be expected). But this is still a concern for my site as I run a parenting board and my private boards are those that contain pics of the kids. It's the published links that are my concern...

Actual private categories and their forums are hidden as they should be. Let me reinstall and see if I missed something.

eta: Odd, this is happening on some but not all. I've checked all my permissions, tested as a guest and everything else I can think of. I'm going to go ahead and click install because I think this is an awesome mod. And if I may, I would really love it if you could give us the ability to choose which forums to provide feeds for in your next version. Thanks!

Tobybird, this hack to view the forum list would have no affect on what guests can & can't see once they go to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/external.php as that is controlled through the permissions of the stock vBulletin external.php script. Even if a private forum was accidently listed with this hack then once they clicked on the link they still wouldn't be able to see anything if the forum permissions are correct. If a guest is able to go directly to your external.php link and view threads from a private forum then a different problem is going on.

KW802, would you mind if I pm you with a link showing exactly what I'm talking about?

Sure, no problem. As long as it isn't a NWS site I can take a look this afternoon, otherwise it'll have to wait until I get home.

How can I whave the rss feeds to my webpage?

If you're talking about putting the feed(s) on an external php page then take a look at this. Worked for me. :)

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me to.

whats the difference to forums where this nice hack works perfectly ?

Edit: sorry read not all the thread news.

sent new pm

I've tried a few different things & Kihon Kata was kind enough to help me experiment a bit this morning and so far the only thing that I can find in common so far with Kihon's site and RexB's site is that they are both running vBSEO. I wouldn't think it'd make a difference but that's the only thing so far I'm finding. Cocko, do you have vBSEO on your site as well? I can't view your site from work so I can't check myself right now.