Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ BY REQUEST ]

This nifty little utility will present a list of all of your forums RSS feeds on one page! Your users can then easily pick & choose which forums they want to subscribe to via RSS, Google, Yahoo, or Bloglines.

Ever go to a big site like CNN and view their page of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to? This is the same thing but for your vBulletin forums!

In addition to your users, the search engine spiders will love this!

We went out of our way to make sure that this CinVin vBulletin add-on was quick & easy to both install and modify!

• Automatically adds an RSS button to your footer template.
• Correctly shows where your visitors are when viewing the Who's Online page.
• Forums can be specifically excluded from being listed.
• Ability to specify which usergroup to use for permissions when viewing the list of forums.
• "Link" forums can be turned off from showing.
• All options are configured through the vBulletin ACP.
• All descriptions and names are completely phrased so you can quickly add alternate lanquages or change the existing wording.
• All display output is handled through vBulletin templates so you can quickly change the output appearance.
• All templates and phrase are installed as a vBulletin product through your ACP which means there are no file edits!
• Compatible with vBSEO.
• Easy integration with vBadvanced CMPS.
• Debug mode to help you with any problems you may be having.

Installation only take a few moments...

• Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded.
• Upload the single PHP file and single folder in the upload_to_your_forum_folder folder from the download to your forums folder.
• Go into your ACP and select Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product => {Select the CinVin_vB_Forum_Feed_Listing.xml file from the download} => Import

You're all done! Just point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php to view your new RSS feed listings.

DEMO #1: CinVin RSS Feeds (this is the 'stock' version)

DEMO #2: Cool Sci-Fi RSS Feeds (this one has been integrated with vBa CMPS)


FAQ's
- What vB versions? This should work with all versions of vB 3.6.x and above. It should also work with vB 3.5.x but I have not tested it on that version.

- Can I remove the "CinVin" text at the very bottom? NO! Believe it or not that little text is what allows us to work on hacks like this for free and, more importantly, to continue to support them. You are free to move the notice to your footer template, for example, if you would like to keep your notices all together but for removing it entirely a Branding Free license is available through CinVin.

[AzzidReign]

Originally Posted by KW802

I finally got around to updating to vBSEO 3.0.0 Gold and... the problem seems to have gone away with the current development version of the forum feed listing.

http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php

Give me a little bit of time this afternoon to package it up and update the attachment.

I posted a solution to get it to work with your current version :P

Originally Posted by BobbyBig

It isnt working with vBSEO.

If you do this, it will work (quoting myself from 1 page back...I'm glad you tried to read the thread <_< ):

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

I got this working for with vBSEO now!!! Thanks should go to MaestroX at vbseo.com.

Just add

cv_rss_feeds.php

to the "Exclude Pages?" option in your vbseocp.

[ChurchMedia]

It looks like KW802 hasn't updated the download here, but at his site, www.cinvin.com, he has Version 2 posted. Version 1.x wasn't working for me (and I have vBSEO). Version 2 works great! NO problems!

Thanks for the great hack!

[breamy1990]

theres no external.php page, it shows blank on my site when i click the rss buttons

is there anyway to make the feed only display certain forums ?

[Mrdby]

any demos?

[olympist]

How can I modify external.php update time. It seems that it updates every 20 minutes. I want it to be shorter.

[cash7c3]

perfect

[SAT2M]

Hi
I install it but When I was subscribe in google yahoo or blog it shown this message
No feeds were found. Please verify that the website publishes an RSS feed.
or
Preview not available. Add this content to your page to see it.

this is our site addresses: www.sat2m.com & this is our rss feed http://www.sat2m.com/cv_rss_feeds.php

please help me

[Snider]

just installed it over at www.forumjunkies.net - loving it - I just added a icon to it and place the icon where I wanted it !!

Great stuff

[FleXy]

please, explain, why my forum need this mod? how can I use it?

[vibe]

I experienced a "blank page" too but I got it working now. I'm not sure which step fixed the problem but I'll tell you everything I did.

First I didn't check if RSS in ACP was on, sure enough, it was off. I turned it on and still no go. i went to http://------.com/forum/external.php, still blank. I went into "external data provier" and just turn everything on, then rebuilt style, reload cv_rss_feeds.php and no more blank page.