Forum Home Enhancements - Latest Posts

Latest Posts
by: Michael Biddle

What this does?

This addon will add the latest posts of your forum to all pages.

What version does it work on?

This modification was written in vBulletin 3.8.7, however, it should work will most of the later 3.x series.

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum
11. Date - Choose to include the date and time posted.

Installation?

1. Import Product

Due to popular demand, this product has now been updated to show globally.

[Michael Biddle]

If you only want to include one then you can edit the 'main code' plugin that is added with this addon. Find:

PHP Code:

WHERE post.visible = '1' AND thread.visible = '1' AND open = '1' AND $platest_and AND $platest_and_1 


Change to:

PHP Code:

WHERE post.visible = '1' AND thread.visible = '1' AND open = '1' AND forum.forumid = x 


Where x is your forumid.

[MrAd]

Great, thanks for your quick help, Michael.
Dont want to become a pain in your a**, but now I have another problem:

I want to use this hack as kind of advertising and this means that I want to show the latest x posts from a forum, which is not accessable (not visible) for normal users. They should see topic-titles, but not the content of the post. Is there any chance to make it work?

[Michael Biddle]

Well if you set the cutoff to 0, then they will only see the titles. The change above will not include the forum permissions, so all will show.

[MrAd]

As admin I see other latest posts than a normal user.
Example: I´ve a private area and only one usergroup (specials) can enter this area. If I now setup the hack to exclude all other forums so that only this private area is using the hack.
The result is that I (logged in as admin) see the latest posts (topic titles) in the private area, while normal members see nothing.
So the hack is using the forumpermissions of the different usergroups.
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What I have in mind is to show the latest posts from a specified forum, no matter if the members have the permissions to enter this specified forum or not. As I have set the cutoff to 0, they only can see the topic title and if they click on such a link, the board-software, depending on the usergroup-persmissions, will either show them the topic or give them an error-message

[Michael Biddle]

Like I said, the fix above will not use the forum permissions. It will show to all.

[MrAd]

sorry I was a bit next the track. Got it now and it´s working like a charme.
Thanks alot for these fantastic hack.

[luffy]

helloo ,

how to show the prefix thread , and (tag+attachment icons)

thank you

[TitanJeff]

I don't know if this can be done but what if I wanted to make the title of the threads in bold?

Thanks.

[Michael Biddle]

You could edit the template forumhome_latest_bit

Find:

$pthreadtitle

Replace with:

<strong>$pthreadtitle</strong>

[TitanJeff]

That took care of it. Many thanks!