Forum Home Enhancements - Seperate Forum Categories

Separate Forum Categories

• Version: 1.0.1
• Author: RS_Jelle
• Description: This mod separates each forum category on the forum home without any template edits. The category header is added to the top of each separated category. This will be done for ALL the styles on your forum. Have a look at the attached screenshot and everything will become clear if you don't get the point
• Why? I created this mod because someone requested it.
• Limitations:
  1. It's possible that this mod won't work properly on highly customized styles.
  2. The 'Last Post' column can be smaller than normal if the thread titles of the category forums are all small (you can only fix this with a template edit). Have a look at the attached screenshot to see this limitation.

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Installation
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1. Import the product
2. Enjoy!

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History
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• 1.0.0: Initial release
• 1.0.1: Moved the version check to the vBulletin.org version check system

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[zeropaid]

I see the problem, I will work on a fix and post here asap.

[danhaga]

is it possible to use html in the newly created sepparation? For example, is there a way i could insert a banner in the new space?

[HellRazor]

Originally Posted by zeropaid

I see the problem, I will work on a fix and post here asap.

Thanks for doing this! Looking forward to your fix.

[Smoothie]

I tried messing around with the templates to get this to line up correctly. I edited forumhome and the template that gets installed with this mod, I think it was called forumhome_separate_categories. I got them to align perfectly. Problem was that when the browser window was large, the columns aligned, but when you resized the browser window smaller, the columns became unaligned.

the percentages were like this, for both templates;

<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
      <td class="thead" width="55%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="25%">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="10%">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="10%">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
      <if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
      <td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>

[Daky]

RS_Jelle,
do you plan on fixing this "problem" (if you can call it).

I really would like to use this script.

Thank you

[stan111]

confusing .. anyone make it easier for me
and where do i upload this file?

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by stan111

confusing .. anyone make it easier for me
and where do i upload this file?

AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
Select the file and hit the Import button, that's all.


@everyone: I'm planning a fix for the alignment problem, but it will require template edits ofcourse.

[kal-L]

Great!! Works like a charm mate! So much faster than manual edits

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

@everyone: I'm planning a fix for the alignment problem, but it will require template edits ofcourse.

IM looking forward to thise

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
Select the file and hit the Import button, that's all.


@everyone: I'm planning a fix for the alignment problem, but it will require template edits ofcourse.

RS, any idea when this fix will come about?