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Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Thank you for your fast response.

No problem. I'm very impressed at how easy it is to build plugins in 3.5. It took me several hours to put this together, but I'm very new to vbulletin and I didn't know the in's and out's of anything.

In the future for this script, I'd like to add an installer that creates everything for you, but I don't quite know the best way for doing this yet and I'm going to have to add a function to search for the carp files and accepts some user input for location. I'm also not sure if I should just insert the code into the template or if I should just have the users do that themselves.

Before I go that far, I'm going to wait for any feedback about better ways to go about this. If there's a more performance friendly method, I should use it.

Carp is an caching RSS script. Which basically means it will look for a locally cached version fo the rss feed to display first and if one does not exist it will go out and grab the latest version online. The configuration above expires caches every two hours, so if you update your blog it can be up to two hours before the latest blog entry appears. If 10 different people have blogs configured and post in a thread it can mean that 10 different http queries need to go out to display the thread if it has not been viewed in a long time.

Another way to go about this is to set up a cron job to regularly update the cache files, but that could mean that every time it runs 150 http queries go out if you have 150 members with blog entries configured, and it very well could be the case that 50 of those members are not active posters.

These are all reasons to post the plugin here, though. As I get feedback, I can improve the script and everyone can benefit.