Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Posts on Forum Home

Latest X Posts on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

What version does it work on?

This modification should work on any version 3.6.0 and up! Including the new 3.7

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 10 Settings
4. 27 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Fixes?

2.3

1. Fixed the cutoff bug

2.2

1. Fixed Bug

2.1

1. Changed variables, so that you can see this, and latest X Threads on forumhome.

2.0

1. Feature Added: Time and Date
2. Added feature where if Cut Off is 0, then it will not display the row

1.9

1. XHTML and CSS Compliant

1.8

1. For some reason a phrase didn't save so I uploaded it with it.

1.7

1. Added option to enable/disable auto location
2. Added 3 automatic locations

1.6

1. Added Permissions based on forums

1.5

1. Fixed Look - Made Link Thread Title, with text under it

1.4

1. Fixed Bug - Was showing up hidden/moderated posts

1.3

1. Fixed Bug - Didn't display threads in excluded forums
2. Added Check Version

1.2

1. Cached Templates
2. Moved Plugin Location to allow global use of $latest

1.1

1. Added default value to excluded, which was causing an error if null
2. Made Collapsible

Please Click Install if you use

[carphead]

Excellent Mod.

Is it possible to have a include only version? So that only x forums are included. At the moment I've excluded about 120 forums just so I can display the posts from one forum (announcements).

Works very well as it is. Thanks.

[Michael Biddle]

Originally Posted by carphead

Excellent Mod.

Is it possible to have a include only version? So that only x forums are included. At the moment I've excluded about 120 forums just so I can display the posts from one forum (announcements).

Works very well as it is. Thanks.

Then the older version would have worked well for you...

Ill see if i can write it back up for you tonight some time

[thompson]

is there a chance to get it on threats instead of posts ?

[adsense-id]

Can I removed .... when I set cut off to zero?

[tg__]

I installed in my forum version 3.6.8 and it doesn't works

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by tg__

I installed in my forum version 3.6.8 and it doesn't works

I just installed it on 3.6.8 and it worked.

[richTV]

Originally Posted by whitemike

Well I could make Latest Threads, its just a matter of changing the post table to the thread table

Hi.

I'd be interested in this as well. My website has a Movie and Pic section that gets so much traffic that we had to set up those 2 forums such that it would keep the newer threads on top thus keeping older threads under it even if replies were made to older threads. When we didn't have this set, newer threads could be pushed back many pages quickly. I'd prefer the default setting so if newer threads could be outputed in this mod, this would be great!

**clicks install for later use**

[raiderlax]

How do you put it in a sidebar? I put the $latest on my sidebar and it doesn't show up???

How to fix?

[raiderlax]

bump

[Michael Biddle]

it will only work on forumhome