Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Posts on Forum Home

Latest X Posts on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

What version does it work on?

This modification should work on any version 3.6.0 and up! Including the new 3.7

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 10 Settings
4. 27 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Fixes?

2.3

1. Fixed the cutoff bug

2.2

1. Fixed Bug

2.1

1. Changed variables, so that you can see this, and latest X Threads on forumhome.

2.0

1. Feature Added: Time and Date
2. Added feature where if Cut Off is 0, then it will not display the row

1.9

1. XHTML and CSS Compliant

1.8

1. For some reason a phrase didn't save so I uploaded it with it.

1.7

1. Added option to enable/disable auto location
2. Added 3 automatic locations

1.6

1. Added Permissions based on forums

1.5

1. Fixed Look - Made Link Thread Title, with text under it

1.4

1. Fixed Bug - Was showing up hidden/moderated posts

1.3

1. Fixed Bug - Didn't display threads in excluded forums
2. Added Check Version

1.2

1. Cached Templates
2. Moved Plugin Location to allow global use of $latest

1.1

1. Added default value to excluded, which was causing an error if null
2. Made Collapsible

Please Click Install if you use

[Smoothie]

Would it be possible to get this to collapse like the rest of forum_home?

[Michael Biddle]

was mentioned already, ill put that out with next release. soon more hten likely

[Smoothie]

Problemo!

Page generated in 0.15297 seconds with 12 queries (2 queries for uncached templates)

Uncached templates: forumhome_latest (1)
Uncached templates: forumhome_latest_bit (5)

[Michael Biddle]

It is not cached becuase its constantly updated, at every page refresh, but not even a noticiable load IMO

[g00gl3r]

How can i stick it at the bottom of the forum?

[g00gl3r]

Originally Posted by whitemike

just go ahead and delete the str_replace at the bottom of plugin, then move $latest where you want it to go

Where's the str?

[Michael Biddle]

Inside of plugin forumhome_latest

Find:

	//adds location to forumhome template
	$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMHOME'] = str_replace(
		'$navbar',
		'$navbar $latest',
		$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMHOME']

And Remove it.

Then place:

$latest

Where you want it

Also updated so now it collapses

[ubblite]

Mike, did you see my post above regarding permissions?

[Michael Biddle]

Just read your message, sorry, must of read over, anyways it does not use permissions, I designed this mod for a customer this way, because he wanted it, he recently bailed on me, so I decided to release it to the public. Will think about doing that in the near future . Thanks and sorry

-whitemike

[g00gl3r]

I'm trying to stick $latest in my footer, will that work or what? It seems to not do anything when I stick it anywhere in the footer, tried a few places.