Forum Home Enhancements - Forum Category Icons (Advanced)

This is a hack that will add icons to your forum categories on the forum home page.

History: I was the originator of this hack back in the vBulletin 1.x days and continued this in vb 3.7.x. I have had numerous requests to port this to vb 4.x.x so here you are.

Please click install if you want support for this mod and to encourage me to continue adding features!

Enjoy!

You can find nice icons here, here and here.

Thanks to LatinoCheats for this link.

Changelogs:

1.2.0:

• * Option to change icon location i.e. After Status Icon, Under Forum Title or Replace Status Icon.
  * Now contains a dropdown listing your icons in the folder so you just select and save.
  * Displays icon in forum manager when editing a forum that contains an icon.
  * Change icon width and height so you need to only upload one size icon.
  * Set icon position so you can center the icon when using smaller icons.
  * Dropdown of transparency settings for icons used to replace status icons when indicating "Old Posts".
  * Allows you to mark forum/subforum as read.
  * Now shows locked icons (lock icon added to download and this overlays the status icons when indicating a locked forum).

1.2.1:

• * Now works for Mark Forum/SubForum as read!

1.2.2:

• * Fixed: template bug.
  * Added: Now shows locked icons (lock icon added to download and this overlays the status icons when indicating a locked forum.)

1.2.3:

• * Added: Automatic Template Edits!
  * Added: Only jpg, gif and png icons allowed. (extensions checked in forum edit).
  * Fixed: Mark Forum Read for specific forum/subforum.
  * Fixed: Now shows non-transparent status icon when "Show Locks" is enabled.

1.2.4:

• * Fixed: Users Viewing. (This is working on a default vb style, others styles may have issues)
  * Fixed: Mark Read should now be fixed, working fine on my end.
  * Fixed: Icon not appearing when "Forum Description" disabled.

2.0.0

• * Icon size can be set either globally or set per forum, setting is in vb options.
  * When selecting an icon in forum manager the selected icon now shows to the right of the dropdown so you can see what you are selecting.
  * If your upgrading from 1.2.4 and had to do manual template edits then you will need to revert the templates and redo the edits.

Upgrades: For those upgrading just make sure when you import the product you select "Allow Overwrite". You will also need to revert your templates (only for users of version 1.2.2 or earlier) and then follow the instructions as outlined in the install.html file.

Note: Before you ask, yes this works with all browsers. (Tested on FF, IE8, IE7, Chrome, Safari and Opera)

IMPORTANT! If you use the "Auto Template" feature of this mod and it doesn't work then you MUST do the manual template edits outlined in the install.html. This plugin was created using a default vbulletin style.

If you like this mod than please nominate for "MOTM".

Donations are gladly accepted!

[Masked Crusader]

Also, if I have a category with subforums (and the category has an old/new icon), how can I give that category the icon that it needs?

[Masked Crusader]

Originally Posted by shanejeffery86

Also, if I have a category with subforums (and the category has an old/new icon), how can I give that category the icon that it needs?

Figured this out. Nevermind

[Zet_Ahmad]

not working with 4.1.x

[OldSchoolDSL]

Tagged

Would like to see an update for this (please)

[Boofo]

Why does there need to be an update? This works fine on 4.1.0 PL2.

[Da-Vinci]

Is there a way to not resize the icons? I have tried setting the size to 0px width & 0px height but the icons don't display when I do that. I have made custom images to the size of my liking using the old version or other version of this hack, when a default size was not available, but now I don't see an option to not resize.

The height of my icons is always 50px but for a few of the icons I use I would like the width to be defined by the width of the image, which in some cases is about 75px.

Any help would be great, I would be willing to edit whatever files necessary.

Great hack btw, I love the features you've added to it.

[garyhartaz]

What can I do to make the icons that I am adding look better? These are 2 icons, 48x48, that I downloaded from one of the sites the author has in his instructions.

[BIS]

Great mod. But is there any way to have different icons for different skins?

[horussjr]

Originally Posted by garyhartaz

What can I do to make the icons that I am adding look better? These are 2 icons, 48x48, that I downloaded from one of the sites the author has in his instructions.

Download only .png icons. greates quality of transparency



PS: can you update this mod to work with vBulletin Project Tools and also to add another icon on top of the icons from links? Like if forum = link show image on top of the user set like an arrow. Thanks

[Mist Viper]

Are you updating this for 4.1.0?