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.

[soundbarrierpro]

Originally Posted by KW802

It already does that. If you are running the absolute latest version then go into the ACP and remove the value from the UserGroup field.

Would you be able to identify why the feeds are all blank here? My post is a few back. I also posted in your cinvin forum and I marked as installed.

Thank you

http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net/cv_rss_feeds.php

[KW802]

Did you try turning the Debug option to see if any messages are given?

[soundbarrierpro]

Originally Posted by KW802

Did you try turning the Debug option to see if any messages are given?

Hi, thank you for reply.
Yes, all i got was VbSEO disabled and debug enabled. The feeds are still just blank.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Hi, thank you for reply.
Yes, all i got was VbSEO disabled and debug enabled. The feeds are still just blank.

It looks like none of your forums are viewable as guest! The problem appears to be with the way your forums & permissions are configured.

http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net

What value do you have in the 'user group' option in the ACP for the feed listing? If you remove the value do the feeds show when you are logged in? What is the date of the newest thread in the forum that you are trying to view versus the thread cutoff in your ACP in the external data feeds options??

[soundbarrierpro]

Cinvin forum feeds
2 for registered users (still can't see anything as registered or administrator)

External Data Provider

Enable External Javascrip Yes
Enable RSS Syndication Yes
Enable Podcasting (RSS Enclosure) Yes
Enable XML Syndication Yes
60 for thread cutoff
60 cache lifespan
100 maximum external records

Last post was 12/20/07

[Humayun1]

Hello I have installed this mod and is working fine for me; am really glad to have such a beautiful and important mod. I am getting a little problem and it is that i have integrated another mod for downloading softwares in my forum "DownloadsII 5.0.6 by CyberRanger & Jelle" but the rss feeds are not including this mod.
Is there any way that it also include list of software categories and softwares inside it; that will be really helpful in boosting in SEO.

Thanks

[soundbarrierpro]

Originally Posted by KW802

It looks like none of your forums are viewable as guest! The problem appears to be with the way your forums & permissions are configured.

http://forum.soundbarrierpro.net

What value do you have in the 'user group' option in the ACP for the feed listing? If you remove the value do the feeds show when you are logged in? What is the date of the newest thread in the forum that you are trying to view versus the thread cutoff in your ACP in the external data feeds options??

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Cinvin forum feeds
2 for registered users (still can't see anything as registered or administrator)

External Data Provider

Enable External Javascrip Yes
Enable RSS Syndication Yes
Enable Podcasting (RSS Enclosure) Yes
Enable XML Syndication Yes
60 for thread cutoff
60 cache lifespan
100 maximum external records

Last post was 12/20/07

Bump??? Still got nothing. Is there anything else which can be enabled/disabled/tested? Above is my last response to author.

[hanetworks]

I debug and has this error

DEBUG: User does not have permissions to view the forum

i logged in as admin and i certainly have permission to view the forum, what could be the problem?

i only see the title of of the forum in you cv_rss_feeds.php

[hanetworks]

and after i get vbseo 3.1 enabled, i see a blank page with an line of error. after that i exclude cv_rss_feeds.php and now i get this:

DEBUG: DEBUG MODE IS TURNED ON
DEBUG: vBSEO mode is turned ON in the module properties but vBSEO does not appear to be installed and/or enabled.

however, i still have this problem
DEBUG: User does not have permissions to view the forum

[aj8690]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

I found the error....

Line 195 of cv_rss_feeds.php should read

vbseo_get_forum_info (not get_forum_info)

PS: We are running the lastest version of vBSEO

Thank you!