Integration with vBulletin - BoardTracker Advanced Topic Tags System - v2!

BoardTracker Thread Tags Mod - ***version 2.1***

This easy to install mod adds a complete thread tagging and tag search system to your board. Tags are displayed with the thread, similar to the tagging and tag search often used on blogs, and link to a tag search system on your board which is powered by boardtracker. (meaning no search load on your servers!)

Tag search and tag results are fully integrated with your board, similar to our other board search mods.

New in version 2.1:

Locally cached tagclouds updated by vb cron
Full css customization of tagclouds on any vb page
Restrict tagging to certain usergroups
Disallow tagging in specific forums
Tag posting uses the standard vb 'censorwords' to block posting of innappropriate words
Tag search uses the standard search 'badwords' list


Advanced tag search options include:

Search tags by user
Search tags by forum and related forums
Search by boardtracker category
Search tags on all boards in boardtracker (optional)
Restrict search by date range
Tag cloud and 'related tags' cloud on search results - fully customizable!
Mod_rewrite option for tag links
RSS feed for tag searches
Search tags on a single or multiple specific boards you define thereby allowing you to create traffic trading rings with other board owners or just within your own boards if you have more than one.
Many options to play with the in admin panel!

If your board is not yet indexed by BoardTracker, make sure to submit it!

Tags created are indexed and searchable on boardtracker search engine also and can appear in various boardtracker tag clouds bringing you more traffic!

Once you have the mod installed and your users have started tagging, you will be able to add tag clouds to any page on your board - just copy/paste the following onto any vb page..

<!-- Tag Cloud -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
        <td class="tcat">$vbphrase[bt_tag_cloud]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
        <td class="alt1" align="center">
        {$bt_cloud}
        </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- End Tag Cloud -->

Or even easier, just paste the following line onto any vb page and wrap it in whatever html you like..

{$bt_cloud}

You can also add your tag cloud to any site with this simple bit of html/js.

You can see an example of the tag search on our demo forums (using tag results from another board just for example since there are no real threads/tags there)

Also see here the advanced tag search demo.

For support you can post here or on boardtracker support forums.

To upgrade from the last version just install the product in the usual way, upload the files and then go through the template edits as described in the included README file. There are additional template edits and also modified (simplified) edits to the previous versions template edits so you should remove the old ones and add these although the old ones will still work as long as the additional new edits are also done.

Make sure to activate the 'BT Tag Cloud Cache' sheduled task once everything else is done (scripts uploaded etc) - requires cURL which most people have already but if you dont have then just use the standard html/js version of the tagclouds and leave the scheduled task inactive.

Also there is a vb3.5 version here.



updates:
v2.1.3 - fix to forum/usergroup restriction process - reinstall the product file to upgrade.
v2.1.2 - fix to bt_cloud.php cron script so to upgrade you only need to upload that file to the vb cron directory.
v2.1.1 - minor fix to the font-size setting in tags_default.css so to upgrade you only need to upload that file.
v2.1 - added locally cached tag clouds with cron, usergroup and forum restrictions, censorwords filters, full css customization for tag clouds on any page.

v2.0.6 - fixed problem affecting tags on quickedit
v2.0.5 - added missing space in tag link
v2.0.4 - made search options link more clear and other small stuff
v2.0.2 - small fix in bt_topic_tags template for forum list
v2.0.1 - fixed small bug in bt_topic_tags template

[Andromeda2875]

I am having a heck of a time getting this thing to work. I want it above the threads and I keep getting parse errors. Can anyone assist?

[Brandon Sheley]

It worked great for me but one thing I dislike is the results on boardtracker.com don't have re-written url's as vbseo does

Hope this gets fixed and I'll re install

[Andromeda2875]

it takes a long time to get activated in the system. I have been waiting for that email with my boardtracker id and it has not arrived.

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by Andromeda2875

I am having a heck of a time getting this thing to work. I want it above the threads and I keep getting parse errors. Can anyone assist?

Originally Posted by Andromeda2875

it takes a long time to get activated in the system. I have been waiting for that email with my boardtracker id and it has not arrived.

This will change very soon. Adding new boards is going to be much faster.
We will keep you informed soon about your board's addition.

[Andromeda2875]

Thank you. Do you have an approximation of time?

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by Andromeda2875

Thank you. Do you have an approximation of time?

Very soon as we are about to roll out the new system

[woodysfj40]

One feature I need to see is a timeout for those rare occasions when the Boardtracker site is down...it can make some page loads on the forum VERY slow...while it's a rare frustration, it's enough to generate a pile of complaints from my users, something I really can't tolerate.

15.25 seconds, and the Tag Cloud portion never loaded....

please let me know when a solution for this is created so i can re-activate this plugin.

thanks!

[BoardTracker]

Originally Posted by woodysfj40

One feature I need to see is a timeout for those rare occasions when the Boardtracker site is down...it can make some page loads on the forum VERY slow...while it's a rare frustration, it's enough to generate a pile of complaints from my users, something I really can't tolerate.

15.25 seconds, and the Tag Cloud portion never loaded....

please let me know when a solution for this is created so i can re-activate this plugin.

thanks!

We will create an IFrame version of the TagCloud as well as an SSI option with a cron so that you can store a cached version of the tag-cloud's JS on your server and refresh it every X minutes. (this option you can implement immediately by the way. If you have access to cron we can show you how to do that).

[TheBlackPoet]

im using 3.64.. and i installed... it works fine until i want to create a new thread... then i get a dbase error... i uninstall it .. and my site is back to normal... BUT i was having this same problem with another hacker earlier...

im wondering if it is because i need to update the templates since i just upgraded??? i will be coming back to this because it looks really good...

installed..

[SBlueman]

Is there a way to set permissions so only a certain usergroup can use the topic tags?