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

[Michael Biddle]

@ mj, I only provide support for users that click install.

@ joel, I might consider this in future versions.

[Lord Zedd]

Whitemike,

I would like to put the latest post on a html page. How do I do this? Is that possible?

[kafi]

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

You can grab the last # posts on forumhome by just adding some code in functions_forumlist.php without adding any query, I think !

is that right?

[itsonlychand]

Can any one help me to show latest posts on site home page which is not vbulletin. site is like site.com and forums are site.com/forums

How i can display latest posts from site.com/forums on any page at site.com ?

Thanks in advance

[Bounce]

Thanks,good work

[joelrodrigues]

Originally Posted by whitemike

@ joel, I might consider this in future versions.

Great! I will wait for!
Best regards!

[BennyCanadian]

Hey man. Sweet hack.

This thing would be perfect if I could place it on my home page. which is already a vB template.. is there anyway I can tweak this PHP code to allow me to use it on all my templates? If not could you point me in the direction of a mod that will allow me to display a forum on my home page as a news feed? Thanks for any help you can give!

Great work mate

Benny

heres my site ... the home page is just a completely separate template.. www.thenorthernwatch.com

[jbldesign]

Hi.

How do I get "Latest post" to only show last latest post in same thread?

If 5 posts are made in the same thread, then all Latest 5 posts - is from same thread, as it is now!

I would love to have the 5 latest post, from 5 different threads...help :-)

[OnyxChase]

Is there any way to get avatars in these latest posts? That would be awesome. Thanks!

[OnyxChase]

Is there any way to enable BBcode or at least get some smilies to show up? Thanks!