Mini Mods - [DBTech] Staff Only Hidden Posts v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present Staff Only Hidden Posts v1: Staff Only Hidden Posts allows Administrators, Super Moderators, Forum Moderators, and any additional usergroups that has moderation privileges, to post/view hidden posts.


Why Staff Only Hidden Posts?

It is a neat tool for staff to post in a thread but not allow everyone to see what they posted. These posts are only viewable by the aforementioned usergroups. This Mod uses the vBulletin moderation feature to achieve this. The post however will not show up in the Moderation Queue in the Admincp or Modcp. It is fully phrased so you can edit it to your languages.

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Priority support for this version is handled at http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List

• General Settings
  • Toggle plugin on or off
  • Option to show notification in header
  • Option to display version number in footer
  • DBTech Affiliate ID support

To have a different background color for hidden posts follow this.

In postbit_legacy find:

<div class="postbody">

Change to:

<div class="postbody <vb:if condition="$show['moderated']">moderated</vb:if>">

Then add some CSS to additional.css like:

.postbitlegacy div.postbody.moderated {
background: {vb:stylevar sohp_background};

Then to set the background color go to stylevars, under DragonByteTechMods look for sohp_background and you can set the color there.


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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage.
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification.

[HHelp1]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Sorted, re download the files.

Chris

I just did that redownloaded but it still said : bitfield_dbtech_vbnavtabs.xml not found in directory /home/pureglit/public_html/includes/xml/

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by HHelp1

I just did that redownloaded but it still said : bitfield_dbtech_vbnavtabs.xml not found in directory /home/pureglit/public_html/includes/xml/

Could you pm me a admin account and ftp info and I will look into it.

Chris

[leejohn02]

getting the same error

Installation Failed
Sorry, the product encountered an error during installation. More information is provided below to help address the issue.

bitfield_dbtech_staffonlyhiddenposts.xml not found in directory /home/pureglit/public_html/includes/xml/

[DragonByte Tech]

Anyone getting a error like this, bitfield_dbtech_staffonlyhiddenposts.xml not found in directory /home/*******/public_html/includes/xml/ re download the files, upload them to your server and import the new xml, I do think it is sorted, seems their was a file missing when I packaged the product. Sorry for the confusion.

Chris

[leejohn02]

got it installed now every time i view a thread im getting a message saying
moderated"> before the actual post and thats in every post not only in the staff sections

[DragonByte Tech]

Sorted, re download the product and re upload it.

Chris

[HHelp1]

IS there any way that Only Staff can see thread? 0.o APPRECIATE that!

[DragonByte Tech]

Not at this time, it is only to hise posts within a thread.

Chris

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by HHelp1

IS there any way that Only Staff can see thread? 0.o APPRECIATE that!

I made request for that too.

Will see if it's possible to do this. I also requested, if it could be made that this threads could be made into sticky ones. Would be useful, enabling moderators to communicate in their forums.

Anyway, as a workaround this, you could use some thread like forum rules (not for the site as whole, but every forum could it's rules), you make it sticky and use it for moderators to discuss things.

Just to note, reply to post that's hidden stays hidden too, you don't need to explicitly make it so. It greatly speeds things up and makes this mod much easier to use.

[LLent]

one of my mods hid a post by accident is there a way to make that post normal again so everyone can view it if not can we make it so we can view these again by everyone thanks