Miscellaneous Hacks - Removing full posts from feeds

I had a problem with content theft in the past, so i wanted to limit the content provided by vbulletin's rss feeds.

I didn't want to mess with the templates to avoid manual checks every time vbulletin updates and for the same reason i didn't want to edit php files. So i came up with this (really) tiny plugin which i hope you'll find useful.

1. Login to your admin panel
2. Expand Plugins & Products block
3. Click Add New Plugin
4. • Product: vBulletin
   • Hook Location: external_complete
   • Title: (anything you want, i entered Limit Feeds)
   • Plugin PHP Code (one line):
     PHP Code:

     $output = preg_replace('/(\<content\:encoded\>.*\<\/content\:encoded\>)/s', '', $output); 

5. Plugin is Active: Yes
6. Press Save

All done, now you just made content theft a bit more difficult

[howard007]

How can you make it so that specific forums don't feed?

[ChopSuey]

I have no idea, you would need to edit the external.php i guess.

[sam.hackint0sh]

If it doesnt work for you, you need to truncate the externalcache table via execute query to see an effect. "TRUNCATE externalcache" does the trick. After that, every new query cached will no longer have the full content.

[sticky]

Can this mod be edited to provide the correct image in a feed? I have my feeds go directly into facebook but the wrong preview image is always selected. I would like for it to use the same image I use on the CMS preview.

[Naijasite]

Is not working on 4.2.0