Exclude Forums from What's New & FORUMHOME
 

Exclude Forums from What's New & FORUMHOME

Description:
This Hack allows users to hide forums from What's New (Get New/Get Daily) & FORUMHOME

Installation:

1. Upload all files in folder upload to ther respective directories on your webserver.
2. Go to ACP / Plugins & Products / Manage Products and import product-exclude_whatsnew.xml

Where to set option:
Forums & Moderators-> Forum Permissions

Languages:
- English

History:
31-12-10: v4.0 First Release
23-06-11: v4.1 - Fixed Bug: Forums not being excluded from searches. Added Hide from FORUMHOME

this looks excellent!

Can see a lot of people using this!
Nice work

Great mod.. Thanks

Just tried it now.. It won't save the settings.. each time I go back the No is checked for any user group.

Using 4.0.7

Possible query or a way to set the default to no on forum permissions. I only want to allow a couple of forums and have way to many usergroups/forums.

Same here, I'm using 4.1.1

I will check it.
It is working fine in my five vB 4.1 test sites.

4.1 don't work well

permits imposed on no - save - I go out - re-entry permits are to be yes

and

does not maintain the exclusions forum made in the user profile

Please download zip file again.
I changed to the last 32-bit field.
Should not have any problem or conflict with others add-ons or official updates.

Note: you can use "Permission Duplication Tools" and "Quick Forum Permission Setup" to mass enable or disable.

With this new version I am having trouble in the user cp -> setting:

1. the option of choice don't appears
2. each menu item always leads to setting general

Sorry, I forgot one '=' in condition.
Download and overwrite product file again.

Check forum permissions.

Options in the cp were not save. vB 4.0.7

Download again and overwrite product.
An small typo was fixed.

Where are the options to exclude the forum ids???? I can not find them anywhere after giving permission to the admin group to use them.

In Forums & Moderators-> Forum Permissions

I haven't redownlaoded yet.. but I found another issue on my forum.. forum permission for some user groups got messed up.. mainlly registered users .. they got no permission to allowed forums and they got permissions to non allowed forums.. I didn't even mess with all the forums when I was testing this mod..

I had to recheck everything and it was a pain
Then I lost my PC Sat. so I can't do much till I deal with that

Had pretty much the same issues on our forum and have now uninstalled.
Shame as a top mod and one that's needed for Vb...

I just installed on vb 4.0.2 and i'm not seeing the "what's new" option. I can't find any other place to set this. Any advice?

I'm looking for the vb 3.8 version of this mod, anyone?

Edit: found it https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=215001

Sorry, had to uninstall. It wasn't giving me the menu in the forum manager. I just had to edit the navbar template manually to make this happen.

Great idea though.

Not meant to take anything away from this mod, but I use: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=215001

It's a 3.8 mod, but works fine on my 4.1 board.

Yep, I can't find the menu either going to uninstall this.

Nice tip, thanks, going to try that out.

Bump, could the author fix this mod please?

Will release a new version with new features soon.

Any update?

great mod! :)

Seems it odesn't work in 4.1.2 or some troubles with another hacks. I set up to exclude one forum from "What's new", but threads are still in search. It doesn't exclude.

Same here, 4.1.1, waiting for a fix

Installed on mousepad.mouseplanet.com (4.1.2). Settings appear but do not seem to have any effect.

Unless I'm missing something?

I allowed the 'Can Exclude Forum from "What's New"?' permission to each usergroup, then went to my own Settings page and selected a forum to exclude. I click the "What's New" button and still see posts from that forum. Is there something else I need to do?

Is there a way to prevent certain forums from being excluded?

I found the problem, at least on my system. In the AdminCP, under Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager -> Product : Exclude Forums from What's New you will see four plugins for this product. One of them, which hooks "search_start", is disabled. I enabled it. Now the forum I selected to exclude does not appear in search results.

I'd still like to know if there is a way to deny excluding certain forums (e.g. FAQ, announcements, etc).

Can anyone confirm if this works? Going to try it.

Just tried it (4.1.3) and was not able to load the general settings :( Back to disabled. Would LOVE to have this mod back.

Bummer, hope the issues get solved. I really need this as well.

Just installed and tested under 4.04 and yes, same problem ... not holding the settings value once set .. :(

Regards,
Doug

Been looking for this for a while... perfect for RSS feeds that wash user posts away.

Edit: doesnt work

Anyone able to get this mod to work? :confused:

Poorly documented ...

Been looking for forum selection box (one with clickable forum name options) for an hour and can't find it ...

Judging from other comments, it may be a useless exercise anyway as it doesn't seem to work, even if I find it .. :D

Regards,
Doug

Update: Still never found the one settings box, but did find the one under forum permissions ...

Set it to "Yes", but it wouldn't retain the value .... :down:

Un-installed mod ...

Regards,
Doug

Hopefully someone makes one that works.