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What this does?

This addon will add the latest posts of your forum to all pages.

What version does it work on?

This modification was written in vBulletin 3.8.7, however, it should work will most of the later 3.x series.

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum
11. Date - Choose to include the date and time posted.

Installation?

1. Import Product

Due to popular demand, this product has now been updated to show globally.

Please use $platest for manual template insertion.

Thank you , Screenshots please :)

Updated

some thing is wrong it does not show under forum

That helps me help you in no way at all. Please be more specific.

When you select "Under forum" as the display location, it doesn't display. (is what helpmehost was saying) and I have the same problem...

where do you add $latest? I

You add $platest the forumhome template.

When it is going under their it is looking for this comment line in the template

<!-- what's going on box -->

If that is not in the forumhome template, then the auto edit will not work.

thank you

nice hack :)

Ahhh $platest not $latest (it says $latest in the admincp)

Installed.no problems,thanks Michael.:up:

What have Lizard King to do with this - how did he force you? (nice update :-)

i supplied him the fixed query

tx great hack

It was'nt showing after I installed and set up
Im running 3.7.2 PL 1

Very nice.

Is there a way to remove the title bar entirely?

EDIT: Figured it out. ;) Thanks again.

a very good hack, thanks alot. Installing was easy.
But I have a little big problem:
I have 178 forums on my board and want to show only 1 of them in the hack.
Is there a way to make it easier and faster, beside of adding all 177 forums into the exclulde field?
Maybe adding a new line (form) into the hack so you can add "include Forums" and not only "exclude Forums"

If you only want to include one then you can edit the 'main code' plugin that is added with this addon. Find:

PHP Code:

---

WHERE post.visible = '1' AND thread.visible = '1' AND open = '1' AND $platest_and AND $platest_and_1 


---

Change to:

PHP Code:

---

WHERE post.visible = '1' AND thread.visible = '1' AND open = '1' AND forum.forumid = x 


---

Where x is your forumid.

Great, thanks for your quick help, Michael.
Dont want to become a pain in your a**, but now I have another problem:

I want to use this hack as kind of advertising and this means that I want to show the latest x posts from a forum, which is not accessable (not visible) for normal users. They should see topic-titles, but not the content of the post. Is there any chance to make it work?

Well if you set the cutoff to 0, then they will only see the titles. The change above will not include the forum permissions, so all will show.

As admin I see other latest posts than a normal user.
Example: I´ve a private area and only one usergroup (specials) can enter this area. If I now setup the hack to exclude all other forums so that only this private area is using the hack.
The result is that I (logged in as admin) see the latest posts (topic titles) in the private area, while normal members see nothing.
So the hack is using the forumpermissions of the different usergroups.
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What I have in mind is to show the latest posts from a specified forum, no matter if the members have the permissions to enter this specified forum or not. As I have set the cutoff to 0, they only can see the topic title and if they click on such a link, the board-software, depending on the usergroup-persmissions, will either show them the topic or give them an error-message

Like I said, the fix above will not use the forum permissions. It will show to all.

sorry I was a bit next the track. Got it now and it´s working like a charme.
Thanks alot for these fantastic hack.

helloo ,

how to show the prefix thread , and (tag+attachment icons)

thank you

I don't know if this can be done but what if I wanted to make the title of the threads in bold?

Thanks.

You could edit the template forumhome_latest_bit

Find:

Replace with:

That took care of it. Many thanks! :)

Is it possible to add Post Icons?

Great mod!

can the lastest posts display on Independent page ?
so members can read/reply all threads on one page!
i call it "virtual global forum"
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works great for me. thanks

This is great! Thanks for sharing :)

Installed and Works Great.

Would like some help in changing the template to display the following: delete "Forum" and "Author" info and replace with "Last Reply" and "Replies/Views".

Deleting the existing "Forum" and "Author" code is not a problem - need help with the new code to replace them with the "Last Reply" (date) and "Replies/Views" (counts from the posts - how many times viewed and how many replies). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Great hack, but just a little question from my side... what do I have to do if I would like to also have an highlight on the latest posts if they're new?
Or for example - if I would like to have the thread icon (I hope you know what I mean?) in front of the latest posts?

Installed.

Is there no way to use this on the 'showthread' template? I tried adding $platest to showthread, but it doesn't work. Is there some technical reason this can't be done?

Also, my question from earlier (which others have asked since) :

The technical reason is that it is only to be shown on the forumhome template.

I am REALLY hoping to include a column for the post icons... can we get any help on this Mr. Biddle?