Split ForumHome Page into Multiple Pages

What it does is to allow you to take some forums off your Forum Home page and display them on a second instance of the forumhome page.

This is useful if you have a long list of forums and have some forums like archives that your users don't need to access very often.

This mod differs from Kirby's (Andreas's) in that his allows you to limit the NUMBER of forums shown per page. Mine allows you to select the specific forums to show.

I have not tested it, but I believe this will allow you to use any number of forumhome pages. You could do one per category if you show chose.

This is now a product. No code changes are required on your part. Please note that if you have microstats installed, it will yell about an uncached template. The template is not uncached. It doesn't exist. It is not creating extra queries. I am not sure how to suppress that error at this point.

My thanks to Kirby for pointing the way on how to make the functions_forumlist part of this mod a plugin instead of a code change.

Demo:

Page One
Page Two

Instructions:
1. Install the product.
2. Go to each forum and set which page to display it on. 1,2,3 etc. I have only tested 1 and 2.
3. Create links to the other instances of forumhome. Put these links where you would like them to be - in your navbar, side panel, header, tabs, whereever. Example links are the demo links posted above.
4. Contribute something to this site. Help somebody with a question or release some code of your own. Keep the giving circle going.

[Luky]

4 posts in a row dude....

It wont work for me, i think it might be my vbSEO .htaccess?

[OCB]

I love this hack ...

But is it avalaible for vB 3.6.X, or is there an equal hack ???

Thank you very much

[Coleccromos]

To forgive for my English and if this answer this in this thread

My idea is to make in my forum a second it paginates with several sub forums and several categories.

As I have to make it

[BCC]

Is this Modification Avalible for 3.6.x?
I have installed it on my 3.6.x Board and it has a Couple of Errors or Bugs.

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by BCC

Is this Modification Avalible for 3.6.x?
I have installed it on my 3.6.x Board and it has a Couple of Errors or Bugs.

im running it on my 3.6.7 board fine (as far as i know)

www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/ check out the gfx or techzone or general games section, they are on different pages.

what problems/bugs did you find?

I know of a few that have been mentioned here already, and it appears a user has posted a fix for one of them above, checking that out now.

would be so nice if Amy could update this to include what the above user included. if not, it all good ^^

edit:

1 possible fix that would be great if you could fix is this:

My page 3 is here for example http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/gfx.html

when you click on the help request forum, it takes you to this:

http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/help-request/

When your inside that forum, the thingy in the navbar does not include the actual page, so users can not go back to the page 3 but instead have to go back to page 1.

example of what it looks like:

Gamerz Needs - For All Your Gaming Needs! > GfX - For All your Graphic Needs

but instead it should have this:

Gamerz Needs - For All Your Gaming Needs! > Page 3 title > GfX - For All your Graphic Needs

[dpatel304]

Great mod! Quick question (sorry if it has already been answered). Is there a way to have a different skin for the second page? I am able to do it for each individual forum, through vB, but I would like the entire page 2 to be a diff skin. Thanks.

[lasto]

works fine on 3.6.8

just letting others knows

nice hack by the way amy

[pandaram]

Hi,this hack was working fine on my 3.6.8 board.I just installed a new skin ,but now the page 2 option is not showing up....can someone please help me...?

[sokol]

I have Vbulletin 3.6.8 pl2 and the plugin installs fine, however all forums still show up in the main forumhome page. I do have index.php renamed forum.php if this might cause a problem.

~Sokol

[Hornstar]

I have been using this for over a year now and it has been working good. hopefully it will continue to work for 3.7

Originally Posted by sokol

I have Vbulletin 3.6.8 pl2 and the plugin installs fine, however all forums still show up in the main forumhome page. I do have index.php renamed forum.php if this might cause a problem.

~Sokol

Go to forum manager, and any forum you want to change to a different page, then you will need to set which page you want it shown on.
Have you done this?

For us who are running /forums/index.php

The code to show page 2 is: /forums/index.php?page=2

Have you tried: forum.php?page=2