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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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]

Nothing that I can think of off the top of my head. I will look into it and see it their is any differences.

Chris

[DragonByte Tech]

Updated to v1.1.2

Feature: Added DBTech Affiliate ID support.

Chris

[Elixar]

How can we make it to where only certain usergroups can see the hidden posts?

[ozzy47]

Staff Only Hidden Posts allows Administrators, Super Moderators, Forum Moderators, and any additional usergroups that has moderation privileges, to post/view hidden posts.

[Elixar]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Staff Only Hidden Posts allows Administrators, Super Moderators, Forum Moderators, and any additional usergroups that has moderation privileges, to post/view hidden posts.

Hi ozzy,

I have some moderators in private areas that are not Staff, so I do not want them to see these hidden posts.

[Alan_SP]

As far as I tested it, staff see only hidden messages if they moderate place where they are.

For example, you're the mod of forum x. And in that forum you make hidden message. You see it. Because you moderate it.

In forum y you're not moderator. Hidden message there you wouldn't see till you become moderator of forum y.

Supermods and admins moderate all forums they see (you can make them not to see certain forums, if you want to), so they can see all hidden messages in all forums they see.

[ozzy47]

Yep, that sounds about right.

[iNate19]

Hey, can you use this to hdie a thread that your working on and then make it visible when ti is done??

[ozzy47]

I believe so.

[mobster46]

Background color dont work

Also, when I hide a message, it seems hidden when I do not hide any other messages I write later.