This nifty little utility will present a list of all of your forums RSS feeds on one page! Your users can then easily pick & choose which forums they want to subscribe to via RSS, Google, Yahoo, or Bloglines.
Ever go to a big site like CNN and view their page of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to? This is the same thing but for your vBulletin forums!
In addition to your users, the search engine spiders will love this!
We went out of our way to make sure that this CinVin vBulletin add-on was quick & easy to both install and modify!
Automatically adds an RSS button to your footer template.
Correctly shows where your visitors are when viewing the Who's Online page.
Forums can be specifically excluded from being listed.
Ability to specify which usergroup to use for permissions when viewing the list of forums.
"Link" forums can be turned off from showing.
All options are configured through the vBulletin ACP.
All descriptions and names are completely phrased so you can quickly add alternate lanquages or change the existing wording.
All display output is handled through vBulletin templates so you can quickly change the output appearance.
All templates and phrase are installed as a vBulletin product through your ACP which means there are no file edits!
Debug mode to help you with any problems you may be having.
Installation only take a few moments...
Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded.
Upload the single PHP file and single folder in the upload_to_your_forum_folder folder from the download to your forums folder.
Go into your ACP and select Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product => {Select the CinVin_vB_Forum_Feed_Listing.xml file from the download} => Import
FAQ's
- What vB versions? This should work with all versions of vB 3.6.x and above. It should also work with vB 3.5.x but I have not tested it on that version.
- Can I remove the "CinVin" text at the very bottom? NO! Believe it or not that little text is what allows us to work on hacks like this for free and, more importantly, to continue to support them. You are free to move the notice to your footer template, for example, if you would like to keep your notices all together but for removing it entirely a Branding Free license is available through CinVin.
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Why display private forums if feeds are not going to work from them? All private forums show up as blank pages, which is kinda good or else anyone with the right URL could read private forum content - but why have them in the list at all? it confuses my staff and makes them ask me if they can get feeds of the staff forums!
I agree, and will uninstall until this can be fixed - a shame,too - this hack is about 99% there...
Yes. As long as the basic architecture of the forums aren't changed between versions then it should work going forward as well.
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Originally Posted by MissKalunji
i got some sub categories and they aren't showing in the rss...what can i do about it?
Could you let me know what the URL and missing sub-categories are? Feel free to PM the info if you prefer not posting the URL in public. I'm in the midst of working on the code to add a new feature that somebody had requested so if there is a bug then this is the perfect time for me to dig into it.
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Originally Posted by MissKalunji
If you are logged in as admin you will see everything log out completely and you will only see what guest as permissions too...
Yes. As long as the basic architecture of the forums aren't changed between versions then it should work going forward as well.
Could you let me know what the URL and missing sub-categories are? Feel free to PM the info if you prefer not posting the URL in public. I'm in the midst of working on the code to add a new feature that somebody had requested so if there is a bug then this is the perfect time for me to dig into it.
I've updated the original post to include a new attachment, version 2.1.1 of the project.
There has been several additional to the application since the original version released here at vB.org -- After upgrading check your ACP for some of the new options.
This version also includes a bug fix for people running vBSEO and were experiencing an issue with no forums being listed on the page.
Please let me know if you have any questions or issues with the latest version.
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08-09-2007, 01:27 PM
