Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Posts on Forum Home

Latest X Posts on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

What version does it work on?

This modification should work on any version 3.6.0 and up! Including the new 3.7

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

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 10 Settings
4. 27 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Fixes?

2.3

1. Fixed the cutoff bug

2.2

1. Fixed Bug

2.1

1. Changed variables, so that you can see this, and latest X Threads on forumhome.

2.0

1. Feature Added: Time and Date
2. Added feature where if Cut Off is 0, then it will not display the row

1.9

1. XHTML and CSS Compliant

1.8

1. For some reason a phrase didn't save so I uploaded it with it.

1.7

1. Added option to enable/disable auto location
2. Added 3 automatic locations

1.6

1. Added Permissions based on forums

1.5

1. Fixed Look - Made Link Thread Title, with text under it

1.4

1. Fixed Bug - Was showing up hidden/moderated posts

1.3

1. Fixed Bug - Didn't display threads in excluded forums
2. Added Check Version

1.2

1. Cached Templates
2. Moved Plugin Location to allow global use of $latest

1.1

1. Added default value to excluded, which was causing an error if null
2. Made Collapsible

Please Click Install if you use

[Scandal]

Originally Posted by impuLsive

Anyway to get a date and time on it? And how to prevent double threads from appearing...I dont need the same thread shown 5 times because of 5 new replies. Would be nice if it just edited the name, and thats it.

+1
I need to view the date and time of posts.

[I have click INSTALL but I wait for this function to install on my forum ].


[sorry for my bad english... ]


-philos

[thuffner]

Hey whitemike. Just thought I'd post to thank you for the XHTML/CSS compliancy!!!

Thanks so much! Works beautifully

[yoyoyoyo]

thanks - very interesting... the option to have "lastest X Threads" as an option instead of posts would be great

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by yoyoyoyo

thanks - very interesting... the option to have "lastest X Threads" as an option instead of posts would be great

Same here.

[Wheezy]

This is really an excellent MOD; I love it. However with the update, I see there is now a display of the first [x] characters of the thread. Is there a way to delete that description entirely? Then it would just display the thread title, forum name and author.

Also...

And how to prevent double threads from appearing...I dont need the same thread shown 5 times because of 5 new replies. Would be nice if it just edited the name, and thats it.

I would like this too!

[testebr]

How to do same without add querys?

[Michael Biddle]

Originally Posted by testebr

How to do same without add querys?

If the 1 small query bothers you then I do not think its in your best interest to use this

[Michael Biddle]

Updated to 2.0

Read the changelog above

[Wheezy]

Originally Posted by whitemike

Updated to 2.0

Thanks! Just what I needed Any word on fixing the repetitiveness of last posts in the same forum?

[ParsianSat_Net]

Where shall I downlod the new version?(2.0)
Thanks a lot