Love this hack!

One thing that is strange on my install is some white padding between forums now. It only appears when I select the 'tabbed' style. The parent style does not have that problem.

Eg: http://www.wpguild.com/index.php

Also, once ive gone into a sub forum, the tabs disappear. Is there anyway to have them their at all times?

Hey Bob, great mod. I'm having some troubles setting up remote links as well. Looked at the DD thread.

Any ideas how to achieve that I tried adding

to my index.php, but that obviously was too simple thinking (btw using the 1.5 version of the mod)

I was sort of skimming the thread and it appear this works for 3.7.x, right?

Also, I saw something about Google not being able to crawl or get certain content with the tabs. What's the story with this?

I have worked out that this can be done through Usergroups. If public joinable secondary usergroups were set, up one for each tab and users selected which tabs of forums they were interested in viewing, then all the search, new posts etc would only display what their usergroups were allowed to see

Now the final thing and what seems to be the most elusive feature for me is how to get the tab bar after my first main category of generic forums.

I have experimented but can't get it to work. My main category of generic forums is ForumID 4 so somewhere in the compilation of the forum home page i.e. as it is creating the forums to display it need to have an "if" in there. So as it creates the page if condition="$forum[forumid] == 4" then start creating the page as normal (without tabs) and then if condition="$forum[forumid] != 4" THEN create the tabs.

I know it sounds easy for a non coder which I am but no doubt it may not be as easy as that.

Any suggestions on how I can do this as I so desperatly need it - my forum members need it :)

Its actually very easy to pull off by using some code from version 1 (to do the forums before the tabs).. I don't have time to explain it right now as we've been evaced from our property do to forest fires, so I have limited internet access at the moment. Just hang on for a few days and I will show you how simple it is to do..

Thanks a million Bobster

One more thing - I have just noticed that the "Who's Online" page is showing many blank locations for users - anyone else have this and is there a fix?

Thanks!

Is there a way to disable the collapse? When I installed this I had a few catagories collapsed and now no matter what I do I can't get them to un-collapse. I would like to just disable them. Anyone?

Nevermind, seems to be working great now!

Let me explain why I am saying changing it doesn't seem easily achieved. Unless I am reading your reply wrong, you have say 3 tabs (made up):
Tab One: Forum IDs: 2, 5, 8
Tab Two: Forum IDs: 1, 4, 7
Tab Three: Forum IDs: 3, 6

Now, as I understand it, if you are viewing tab one you would like the quick search to only search Forum IDs 2, 5, and 8. But viewing tab two, you want it to search 1, 4, and 7. The problem is not learning how to specify the tab URLs, it is learning how to dynamically change the values as you switch tabs unless we redesigned how TFH looked by removing the navbar and forcing it into the tab view so it could be different per tab.

Also, I am not sure if we can limit new posts and the other suggested items based on forum ids.

Yes, this works with 3.7.x and according to the website where the engine was found, it says it is search engine friendly.

I believe Bob uploaded a .xml that has WOL fixes, if not, it is fixed in 2.0 already.

This is a known bug and we are working on fixing this in 2.0. I don't have a solution for you now, Bob?

The who's online thing is not working.

:)