Compress Forum Templates

Compress Forum Templates
Speed up your Forums & Save Bandwidth

Description:

This hack compresses your sites Templates into the database resulting in a significantly smaller page size and faster loading pages.
The benefits of this Template Compressor as opposed to virtually any other that you have installed is that this compresses the templates into the database.

Other hacks compress the pages on every page load which takes CPU/Memory usage as well as slows down the actual output of the page.

PS. Use this in conjunction with my Other Hack (Accelerated Plugins) for speeding up your forum even more (If you use plugins especially).
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107315
PS. Use this in conjunction with my Other Hack (Template Cache System) for speeding up your forum by caching its templates.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=110144


Background:

This is a semi-port from my Vbulletin 3 Version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=79923


Instructions:

1. Download Zip File, Extract files..
2. Read install.txt and follow it
3. Note: Anytime you update your templates, make sure to click "Compress Templates".
4. If you have any problems with certain hacks not working, add affected templates to "Template Ignore" setting in the Admin Control Panel settings.


Common Templates That May Need To Be Added to Ignore Settings:

phpinclude_start phpinclude_end editor_jsoptions_font editor_jsoptions_size forumhome navbar forumhome_vbshout forumhome_vbshout_shout


Updates:

Version 4.2: Forgot to upload ZIP File..
Version 4.1:
Changed setting location, you now modify them in the Admin Control Panel under Template Compressor Settings; there you can specify the templates to ignore.
Flashchat, others sometimes cause problems; so by default a few vbchat templates are listed in the ignore setting.
If you have problems with any other hacks not showing, trying add the 'forumhome' template to the ignore setting and recompress your templates.

Version 4: Integrating Hellcats regex, hopefully will solve some problems.

[buro9]

I've continued to use it even for VB3.8.4 and it works well... and I'll use it for VB4 too unless something critical happens tomorrow when I install it.

[ChopSuey]

WOW This works with 3.8.4 AND vBulletin 4.0 amazing mod thanks!

[Log on]

thanks

[zargarzone]

Will it work with 4.1.0?

[EvilDxtreme]

I'm on 4.1.1 and would love this as well. Any testers.

[revitclinic]

I did step by step installation, but "Compress Template" isn't showing on my adminCP. I understood, that I have to upload "product-tpl_compress.xml" and "cpnav_tpl_compress.xml" in includes/xml folder. Am I right?

I also updated admincp/template.php as described in install document.

Is it possible that it does not work with vBulletin 4.1.1 ?

Please help.

Thanks

[Naijasite]

its working well on 4.2

[gsk8]

I tried to use on 4.2.2, but the "Quick Reply" won't work. Also, there is no option to uninstall in Plugin Manager. System timed out when I tried to "uncompress" to get quick reply back, and had to reinstall everything again