Tagged Threads: Subscribed Threads behave like Sticky Threads

[high]Installation Instructions[/high]

Step 1: Upload the .xml file to the Product Manager
Step 2: If "Check Thread Subscription" is turned off in your vBulletin Options, you will need to enable it for this to work (Thanks to teach1st for pointing that out )
Step 3: Click [high]INSTALL[/high]

[high]What does this Plugin do?[/high]

Basically, this will display (by default - colours/decoration changeable) a "Tagged" thread (aka Subscribed) as a Sticky thread in the forum it was posted in, per user :devious:

[high]Are there any screenshots?[/high]

See post below

[high]Version History:[/high]

1.0.0: First release

Chris

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by teach1st

Installed, but not working as described. Tried two different users, two browsers.

ON EDIT: Working now. "Check Thread Subscription" must be enabled in ACP Thread Display Options.

Ah I didn't check if Thread Subscriptions were needed - I had mine on by default

I'll include that in the post, thanks

Chris

[.Tim]

Great hack!

[TygerTyger]

Now that is a cool plugin. What a brilliant idea, custom stickies basically.

I have a suggestion/question...would it be possible to choose which subscribed threads were stickied and which weren't? On the basis that if you have a lot of subscribed threads/existing stickies or a combination it will get quite full quickly.

[Chris M]

Currently no, but when I expand upon it I don't see why not

Chris

[Chris M]

Onimua pointed out something, as he runs both my Strike through threads plugin and this plugin

If you run both, edit the Subscribed Plugin:
Change the code to:

PHP Code:

if ($thread['issubscribed']) 
{
    if (!$thread['open'] && !$thread['sticky']) 
    {
        $threadbit =& $threadbits_sticky;
        $thread[threadtitle] = '<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #FF0000;">Tagged: </span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: #FF0000;">' . $thread[threadtitle] . '</span>';
    }
    else
    {
        $threadbit =& $threadbits_sticky;
        $thread[threadtitle] = '<span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tagged: </span>' . $thread[threadtitle] . '</span>';
    }
} 


Then edit the strikethrough plugin, and change the code to:

PHP Code:

if (!$thread['open'] && !$thread['sticky'] && !$thread['issubscribed']) 
{
$thread[threadtitle] = '<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">' . $thread[threadtitle] . '</span>';
} 


This should solve the problem of them clashing

Chris

[akanevsky]

Great hack! WIll install LateR

[john1744]

This is absolutely wonderful Chris, my users have been wishing they could self sticky threads forever.

[FleaBag]

Hey Chris, loving this addition! A question though...

BTW, I have 'Sticky' renamed 'FYI'.

Please see attachment. As you'll see FYI is in bold and not hyperlinked, and normal thread highlighting dependant on thread state occurs [in this case, not bold, because there are no new posts]. The word 'Tagged' though is hyperlinked, and I'm assuming the thread is bold by default [in this case I have removed the colour and moved the bold to 'Tagged' only]? Any way to avoid this and have it act like vB's natural way of working?

[john1744]

I stripped out the HTML that edited the threads in my xml, it was causing some funky issues in our HTML enabled forums.

However one bug I did note that is serious is threads I have tagged only appear stickied on the pages they are currently resting in. They aren't global forum stickies. I'd rather have that.

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by john1744

I stripped out the HTML that edited the threads in my xml, it was causing some funky issues in our HTML enabled forums.

However one bug I did note that is serious is threads I have tagged only appear stickied on the pages they are currently resting in. They aren't global forum stickies. I'd rather have that.

If you mean they are stuck on every page, you need to turn on the vBOptions setting to do so...

If you mean in every forum, then this most likely will require code modification

@FleaBag - I shall investigate it but I am almost certain that to do it to that detail will require code modification

Chris