Miscellaneous Hacks - Display Unread Posts and New Reputation Comments

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

Note: The unread posts portion of this hack only works if you use the database thread marking system, also, this attaches itself to certain phrases in the "welcome" box and will not work if they are not present (or are modified by other code).

FYI, the Forum Marking Choices are located in vBulletin Options ;
vBulletin Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type

The Read Marking options were removed from vB 3.8.11, it defaults to database marking.


** For vBulletin 3.8.11 you will need to use the Unread-posts-3811.zip **

This displays the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you (and will show up in a 'getnew' search). It also displays the number of new reputation comments since you last checked your usercp.

There is the option to count the unread posts since your last visit, or all posts considered unread. This setting reflects the divider in the 'getnew' search display. There is also the option to disable the unread posts display or the new reputation comments display.

There is also the option to display the New Reputation Comments counter as a Welcome Box Notification.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Display Unread Posts and Reputation.

Version 3.8.001 adds support for forums excluded if you have the "Get New/Get Daily Opt Out Modification" installed (by Andreas).
Version 3.8.004 adds support for forums excluded if you have the "Selective Forum Filter Modification" installed (by Psionic Vision).

To install this hack unzip the xml file and import it using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : Initial vb 3.8 Release.
v3.8.002 : Fix forum exclusion bugs.
v3.8.003 : Fix spelling and phrase bug.
v3.8.004 : Added support for Psionic Visions Selective Forum Filter.
v3.8.005 : Updated version for vBulletin 3.8.11 (only).

[Paul M]

See the "Maximum Cutoff Limit" setting in the options ;

Sets the maximum number of days that posts will be counted for, if the cutoff exceeds this then just an unread posts link will be displayed. This can save running large sql queries if members have not visited in a long time. Set to zero to disable this feature.

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by Paul M

See the "Maximum Cutoff Limit" setting in the options ;

Thanks; that was it.

[arena]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Help you how ?

Unread post not working

You Have <strong>{1} <a href="{3}search.php?do=getnew">Unread {2}</a></strong>

[Paul M]

Sorry, but what help exactly do you want ?

I cannot just magically tell you what is wrong.

I assume you have read/followed all the notes ?

[TheeMadame]

Installed easy.
Like this one very much, TY. :up:

[jgommel]

There seems to be some sorta conflict between Photopost vBGallery and this mod. With this mod enabled, my users can no longer use the Prev and Next image button/links within Photopost vBGallery. They keep getting this message, "No Image specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator". I disabled all my hook by placing the following code at the top of the vBulletin config.php file; define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

I confirmed that the issue was with one of my installed mods, so I systematically disabled one mod at a time until I found out that this mod is causing the Prev / Next image links to break.

Any ideas?

[Paul M]

Sorry, no idea, I dont have or use Photopost.

[jgommel]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Sorry, no idea, I dont have or use Photopost.

If your interested, I could give you access to the site in order to work this out? My user's really like this mod. I haven't found any other mod like this (that worked so well). Thanks in advance.

[Paul M]

Feel free to PM me access details, I'll look sometime this week if I get chance.

[Kolbi]

I can´t find:
vBulletin Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type
Can you explain me what the "Thread/Forum Read Marking Type" includes? Because I have a German version...