As I said before I think this is a great hack. Do you think you could write it in a version that is similar to your 3.0 version that gave you check boxes next to each forum title on the main forum page?

Thanks,
Parker

Yes, however, I am not going to do that.

Hmm, I had this hack at one point, but when we moved forums, things got messed up, I had the white space in the edit options area where this is supposed to be however I'm getting this error when trying to reinstall.

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE usertextfield ADD excludeforumids VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL ;;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'excludeforumids'
Error Number : 1060
Date : Wednesday, May 10th 2006 @ 03:24:12 AM
Script : http://www.sy******ms/admincp/plugin.php
Referrer : http://www.s*******/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address : 24.******
Username : HAL-9000
Classname : vB_Database

Remove the appropriate line from the XML file...

This has been asked but I will ask again, is there anyway in the acp to set this so that certain forums can not be excluded like news and announcements and rules or something similar?

Love it Installed

No, that is not currently possible.

I can't answer for this one specifically, but I have a similar hack by Andreas installed. And with that one, you can easily set those restrictions in the Forum Permissions section of the AdminCP. You can set which usergroups can and cannot "exclude Forums from Get New Posts."

It doesn't remove forums from from the forum list though. It only omits posts from those forums from the "Get New/Get Daily" searches.

That this is the hack upon which this one was built. The forum setting will be added in future version.

Will they work together? Or must they only be one or the other installed?

Although you might be able to install them together, they won't work together, meaning permissions of one won't affect the second...