Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums v4.x

Turn a forum into an article forum. Sub-forums are turned into categories.

• Posts/Articles show in searches & in new posts
• Create as many sub-forums/ categories as you need - categories display in navbar
• Follows forum permissions
• Can still rate thread, etc.
• Different postbits for article and replies (comments) - Optional
• Choose what to display in postbit for article and comments
• Choose what to display on articles in vBulletin Options

Installation:

1. Upload articles.php
2. Import product file
3. Create a forum in admincp
4. Go to vBulletin Options->Article forum Options

Remember to click Mark as Installed to receive updates and support

[WorldCraft]

For some reason I'm not seeing Article Forum Options in settings. If I reinstall this product will all existing posts be wiped?

[da prez]

I hope I can explain this so it makes sense.

My home page is content.php and I have removed the code from my vbcms_content_section_page template,
so articles don't show up on the front page.

Is there anyway that articles can be displayed on their own pages instead of my content.php page ?

This is gonna sound crazy, but if I only have one article it works like I would like, but if I add another article it shows on my home page with sidebars etc.

I have attached a pic that shows when I have just the one article.
Which is the way I would like it all the time ... if possible.

[wildheart]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

Ok, besides the obvious fixes what does everyone want? I was thinking that the forums could be selected individually rather then parent/category style...anyone else for this? Post your suggestions please, I need something like this for one of my forums. I am rewriting this and will provide everyone a copy once complete. Bananalive has been back and has blatantly ignored my PM as well as others request for fixes.

If I can get a mods approval to start a new mod this would help everyone out.

I will pay for that and I am sure many other members will also pay for it.

This is still a huge problem:

Originally Posted by Front Range

The image setting changed my entire forum rather than just article images. Comparatively minor template edits I'm guessing but the image settings threw me.

Only images that were uploaded outside the forum showed up as thumbnails and all other images were large. After trying to fix it, it reverted ALL the images on my forum to tiny thumbnails that nobody could make out. The only way we got it fixed was by loading the previous day's backup and loosing all posts for 2 days.

[Kiint]

I have a Sub forum "News" which I have set the articles mod to convert. Is there a way to change the title to "News" (the name of the forum) rather than "Articles"?

Also, the link above the articles links to "News -> Articles" How can I change this to the parent forum? in this case "Home -> News"

any help is appreciated

[artcrimes]

Working 4.2.0?

[mitch84]

work with vb4.2.0pl3 but don't work on cms

[Chadi]

Is there a way to hide certain sub-forums?

[MoveOver.cc]

Hi,

Firstly great mod.

I have a problem, I have vbgarage installed and the "Vehicles" link which should be under the username is in the wrong place.

Cany anyone advise.

Thanks

[MoveOver.cc]

Fixed, just changed to use default postbit.

[marccap]

Installed - Nice

I've also adding more of a gap above/below the posts as it was looking abit squahsed