Board Optimization - Exclude service forums from "New Posts" Search

Several users on my forum complaining, that when they click "New Posts" link on navbar, they get their search results jammed with posts from "User Infraction Discussion Forum" and from "Post Reporting Discussion Forum". So, I written a small mod to exclude these service forums from "New Posts" results.

Forum ids to exclude are taken from VBulletin settings (VBulletin options -> User Infractions & Post Reporting Options)

Please note:

• Permission adjustments on mentioned service forums to hide them from search may not always be desired as users MUST HAVE a right to prove their innocence in those forum and discuss/review existing cases of other users. That's why this small hack was written.
• Turning off "Index New Posts in Search Engine" in forum settings DOES NOT hide threads in that forum from "New Posts" link on navbar. That's why this small hack was written.

[Tettinntil]

Originally Posted by Halarkin

I installed this, but I tweaked it to exclude a self-defined list of forums instead of just the specified ones.

I would very much like to know how to do this!!

[PGP]

Good day, Vlad
Could you please add one variable? To add more custom forums to exclude from "New posts" search?

[rtburk]

Is this compatible with VB 3.7.4? And what if it is not a service forum but a forum I use for news feeds set up by rss feed that I do not want included in new poets but do want members to see them on the board? Will it work for this?

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by rtburk

Is this compatible with VB 3.7.4? And what if it is not a service forum but a forum I use for news feeds set up by rss feed that I do not want included in new poets but do want members to see them on the board? Will it work for this?

Try this mod, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=305979

[rtburk]

It worked well. Thank you!