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Filter Threads By Post Icon · **Released**: 10-21-2005

Yep, tested and works w/ 3.6.0, no code changes at all. You can find the 3.6.x thread for this hack here.

This is the 3.5.x version of JMPZ's hack by the same name. (linkage)

This hack allows you to click on a post icon, and it will show only the threads with this particular post icon. Once this happens an unfilter button will appear, allowing the user to once again view all threads.

As for WHY someone would want this, here's an answer to that question:

Some forums use the forum icons to convey if a thread has been sufficiently answered or not, or to convey some other meaning. If a poster wants to look for unanswered threads, they could sort by the icon used for the thread.

Think of this as a poor man's thread prefix hack

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Should take less than 5 min to install.

noonespecial · #22 04-19-2006, 05:03 AM

Basically, I just wanted a feed I could offer for each picon.

so picon1 had a feed, picon2 had a different feed that showed just threads in one forum with that icon.

The application is my news forum uses icons to sort bands - if i had an rss feed for each icon people could subscribe to news for each band.

Wired1 · #23 04-19-2006, 12:01 PM

Gotcha. That'd be a completely different hack then. Depending on how the news is seen, you could put each type of news in its own sub-forum and then use vB's normal feed / forum to accomplish the same thing.

Joey805 · #24 05-15-2006, 10:20 PM

Is there a way with this hack to just put a link the the navbar to display threads with a certain post icon (example, my news items) ?

I don't need all the extra stuff that this has. I would just like my users to be able to get a list of all threads marked as news.

Thanks,

Joey

PennylessZ28 · #25 05-16-2006, 03:57 AM

You know this is cool, but here is my question. I have seen some other sites, like http://forums.somethingawful.com/ that have individual post icons per forum.

I'd be very interested in that too.

Wired1 · #26 05-17-2006, 02:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joey805

I don't need all the extra stuff that this has. I would just like my users to be able to get a list of all threads marked as news.

I'm assuming they're all in the same forum? If so, you can VERY easily make a link for new posts only from a certain forum, or all posts except from certain forums, or a combination.

Wired1 · #27 05-17-2006, 02:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HR3rdGen

You know this is cool, but here is my question. I have seen some other sites, like http://forums.somethingawful.com/ that have individual post icons per forum.

I'd be very interested in that too.

SA's running a VERY old / outdated vB version. WHY I HAVE NO IDEA.

It's a different hack entirely, I'd have to look into the code to see how it's done. May want to put a request in the request area, as I wouldn't be surprised if someone could do it quicker than me

Joey805 · #28 05-17-2006, 03:04 AM

The posts are all in different forums and they are marked as news items based on their post icon.

Benj · #29 08-06-2006, 01:20 PM

hey will this work with 3.6 anyway to do this also without file edits ? plugin ?

Wired1 · #30 08-08-2006, 12:15 PM

Tested and works w/ 3.6.0, no code changes at all. You can find the 3.6.x thread for this hack here.

RobParker · #31 12-30-2006, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PennylessZ28

You know this is cool, but here is my question. I have seen some other sites, like http://forums.somethingawful.com/ that have individual post icons per forum.

I'd be very interested in that too.

It would be very useful if someone could get somewhere with this.

We use one forum on our site for news with VBA and hence making it have different post icons to our normal forums would be great.

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