Personal Sticky Threads
 

What are "Personal Sticky Threads"?

Personal Sticky Threads (aka "Personal Stickies") is an Add-on for vBulletin that will allow your users to sticky threads that only they will see as stickied; these "personal stickies" will appear beneath normal sticky threads. This Hack was originally designed by Mephisteus for vBulletin 3.5, and re-released (with his permission) for vBulletin 3.7.x. This hack requires a couple of File Edits, and should be attempted by those who are comfortable editing vBulletin source files. That said, I have included modified detailed instructions that should make installation straight-forward and easy.

Special thanks are owed to Mephisteus, for allowing an updated re-release for vBulletin 3.7, and to john1744 and zendive for improving upon the query alterations. As I typically disclaim with my other Add-ons, I am generally a neophyte at this sort of stuff and I tend to modify hacks and tinker with pre-existing code to get the results that I want. That said, please use this discussion thread as a community-support and mutual learning opportunity.

Finally, if you like this hack and install it, please:


Requirements

• vBulletin 3.7.x Series

Installation

Installation is straight-forward. Simply download the attached archive, decompress on your local hard drive, and review the Installation.txt file for the specific steps. There are, broadly, four steps:

1. Import product-personalsticky.xml
2. Upload the two images into their respective folders
3. Perform two file edits to forumdisplay.php
4. Perform four template edits to three templates.

Add-Ons

This modification can be further customized:

• Limit to Specific Usergroups (iRO Wiki, imported from 1.0.3b)

Version History

• 1.0.3c: Updated for vBulletin 3.7.3 (August 28, 2008)

nice one!

Great stuff.

Sadly, I don't really go with file edits... It just makes more work when upgrading.

other than that, nice hack!

This thread is worth it....even for the file edits!

Absolutely. Unfortunately, there's no way around them for this sort of functionality; I couldn't find any hooks that existed that allowed me to modify the pre-existing queries, and I didn't want to add any new queries. As it stands, the two (minor) file edits to a (single) file enable this hack to keep overhead low/non-existent. That said, you are totally right -- these file edits would have to be something that would be maintained while upgrading.

Glad that you like it! Some great work by coders far better than I went into this add-on; be sure to Mark this Add-on as Installed if you go with it. :) Thanks!

REally nice hack

but like Fresh Froot said .. editing templates is a pain specaily when upgrading

so maybe you can do something about it

I'm totally open to suggestions! Like I said, I'm still pretty new at this, so if anyone knows of better hooks that accomplish the same thing as these two minor file edits (less than a few characters each) without adding any queries, like the file edits accomplish, please let me know! I'd love to learn. :)

Great mod , i remmber there is another mod it is add a favorite thread for you !

I think what is really needed is a bookmark feature so people can tag threads of interest and then be able to find them. Having those thread stuck to the top means that they are always in your face. I suppose its the right answer for some applications, but not the general case, IMO.

Anybody know of a well-done bookmark hack?

yeah nice work and thanks for sharing. I might hold off on this. I have a feeling some members might think it is global and will go crazy with it until they realize it is only showing for them lol.