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.

[FalkinPro]

Thank you, got it up :banana:

Thanks Amy. Looks great!

-FalkinPro

EDIT: Got the numbers setup. And no longer does a 2 appear on the home page. But, but when I go to ..../index.php&page=2 , I get

"The requested URL /index.php&page=2 was not found on this server."

HMmmm.....

[amykhar]

It comes up for me. It's not an & it's a ?

http://forums.falkininvesting.com/index.php?page=2

[FalkinPro]

Figured it was something simple!

Amy, I sincerely thank you so much for you help, support, and most importantly great add ons. You rock

Best Regards,

-Falkinpro

[djjeffa]

Originally Posted by amykhar

I have made significant changes to this gang. It is now a product. You can set which page to put a forum on in the admincp in the forum settings section. Forums default to page 1.

I believe, but have not tested, that this works for multiple pages - not just 2. No tinkering required.

Amy

gee now you do it after i went nuts figering it out lol
how do i undo the original hack so i could inststall this?
and will this hurt my results on the search engins? In other words will spyders have trouble seeing the new added pages?

[amykhar]

I would 'uninstall' simply by not doing the code changes the next time you upgrade. Import the product and allow overwrite. Set up each forum in the admincp and create your links to your other pages.

As far as SEO goes, you won't lose any on forumhome or the forumdisplay pages for the forums. It may take some time to build up pagerank on the new pages though.

[texasasl]

I will be appreciated if somebody can tell me how I can "install" in 3.5.3 this nice job. Thanks

[djjeffa]

A few questions
1. did anyone do more than 2 pages sucsesfully?
2. could anybody else post a link to there site that has this hack?
3. Is there a way to show all the forums on the main page and then have sepret pages to break them down as well?

[amykhar]

1. yes
2. mine, but I haven't got a link to page 2 on the navbar right this sec cause I'm working on a style. I'm probably going to split into more than 2 pages when I get more time to organize things.
3. Probably, but not the way the hack is now written and I don't have time to investigate that at the moment.

[djjeffa]

Originally Posted by amykhar

1. yes
2. mine, but I haven't got a link to page 2 on the navbar right this sec cause I'm working on a style. I'm probably going to split into more than 2 pages when I get more time to organize things.
3. Probably, but not the way the hack is now written and I don't have time to investigate that at the moment.

thanks for the info and keep me posted lol
I did you hack mannaul from the old one you had but lost it when i upgreaded.

[Lost_Prophet]

Fantastic! Wonderful!
This mod is 100% what I wanted for the site I've just started developing!!