[JJR512]

slideboxer, possibly, but I'm not sure what the results would be if you just used a simple include statement...you might need to reformat the templates.

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After having this hack in operation for a day or so on my real board, I've fixed a few minor little details that escaped me earlier. Most critical, though, is an entire group of instructions that I forgot to include, that without doing, would leave some of the features of this hack unusable. This section of the instructions adds settings to your Admin CP (in the vBulletin Options section as a new group of settings) that allow you to turn on or off vB Code support in news items, the img tag, post icons, etc. It also allows you to set the maximum length of an article, as well as how many appear on the page.

Because there were some minor modifications to the two main code files (newspost.php and homeindex.php), I have attached a new ZIP file to this post. If you have already installed the second version of this hack (posted a day ago), please upload the two main files, and follow Part 5 in the Instructions (the first four Parts are the same and can be skipped). If you have installed the original version (from the first post), please uninstall it by reversing the directions, then just start with the new version from scratch.

EDIT: Hack updated; see Post #69