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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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).

[Oblivion Knight]

Just an observation, shouldn't the query on usercp_start have some kind of condition to check whether or not the reputation system is enabled.? Somewhat of an unnecessary additional query if not..

[Paul M]

Yes, That sounds sensible.

Im not going to release an update just for that, as its very minor, but Ive updated my master copy so it will be included in the next release (which will prob be vb4).

[smooth-c]

Is there a way to have these off by default?

[Paul M]

Sorry, dont really understand what your asking.

[Fulla]

Hi Paul, thx alot for the mod, been using it for a while

I've came across a problem lately, since I installed VBAdvanced adding a front page. The links on front page won't work, they link to a wrong address.

Main Page: www.gamingcraft.net
Forums: www.gamingcraft.net/forum

Clicking New Posts on Main Page, trys to redirect to http://www.gamingcraft.net/search.php?do=getnew (Without the /forum included).

Is there a way I can edit it to forcefully include /forum?
(Same for new reputation).

[Paul M]

Use the links path setting in the mods options.

[wAnBoA]

Thanks for the mod, Paul M.
Do you think it's possible to have an option so that we can set the forums we want to be included?
It would be useful if we only want a few forums to be included instead of the exclude option.

[Paul M]

Sorry, that wont happen in this version.

If I have the time I may think about it when its upgraded for vb4.

[Quantnet]

Will there be an option to show unread blog entry as well?

[Paul M]

I cannot answer that until we see how v4 works, but unlikely for the moment, I dont actually use the blogs.