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.

[DragonByte Tech]

Ok I will look into these as soon as I can, I am a little bit tied up at the moment, but I should be able to look into it this weekend.

Chris

[Alan_SP]

Just found out that it doesn't work with doublepost prevention mod from Paul. I know you use it too on your site.

This is just to inform you, probably you wouldn't be able to fix this...

[Alan_SP]

And I just discovered from where dot is when I checked navbar template. It's my fault, it's in the phrase welcome_x_link_y, I just didn't noticed it before. Sorry, my mistake completely.

Also, one thing I noticed, if we disable notification of new hidden posts in header, the link isn't available anywhere. Could you provide alternative link and also, if you maybe create notification that will be used with vBNotifications?

EDIT: Now I'm using this location for hidden posts:



It's in Croatian, but I think it's obvious enough where it is. To achieve this you need to edit file: \dbtech\staffonlyhiddenposts\hooks\parse_templates .php

Find this code:

PHP Code:

$vbphrase['welcome_x_link_y'] .= "<a href="sohp.php?do=viewposts&type=moderated">" . $phrase_link . "</a>"; 


You just need to use different phrase where the link will be added. I used phrase new_posts_nav so code should look like this:

PHP Code:

$vbphrase['new_posts_nav'] .= "<a href="sohp.php?do=viewposts&type=moderated">" . $phrase_link . "</a>"; 


Effect is shown on picture. Of course, you could choose some other phrase you like to have this added. And I think you could add it to more than one phrase, if I'm not mistaken.

[DragonByte Tech]

Yeah it does conflict with Paul's mod, and I suspect it would do the same thing with regular moderated posts, as this mod uses vBulletins Moderation feature to hide the posts.

Glad to hear the dot is sorted out, one less thing for me to look for.

I will also look into alternative ways to display the notification link, as far as working with vBNotifications I think that has to be done from within that mod.

Chris

[Alan_SP]

Thanks, now only thing if you could do is that moderators see only hidden posts they could actually see.

And of course, some things I asked on DBTech forum...

[DragonByte Tech]

Alan SP I have not forgot about you, I am just tied up with my new mod, I will get to it as soon as I can.

Chris

[Alan_SP]

No problem, I understand. If and when you can, I'm sure you'll do everything you can. :up:

[Tripolis]

I want to uninstall it:

uninstall.php not found in directory

Missing a file.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Tripolis

I want to uninstall it:



Missing a file.

Sorted, please re download the product, upload the new files, and then you should be able to uninstall it.

Chris

[Alan_SP]

I see that this version has a lot changes in files (different file sizes). I usually download from DBTech site, as it has latest fixes. What's new in this version here and latest version od DBTech? I downloaded files 16.4.2012.