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!

[Jacob_ITAPros]

Nice work. If there were an "Add URL?" option to allow for the icon to become "clickable" and behave as a hyperlink I'd be highly interested.

Tagged for future releases.

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Jacob_ITAPros

Nice work. If there were an "Add URL?" option to allow for the icon to become "clickable" and behave as a hyperlink I'd be highly interested.

Tagged for future releases.

Can you elaborate a little more? Not exactly sure what you are asking.

[texasteamplayer]

really great.

[texasteamplayer]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

Can you elaborate a little more? Not exactly sure what you are asking.

probably he means if you click on the icon,it will bring up the forum. or perhaps all unread posts in that forum (would be useful).

Also, I'm specifying that I want my 90x30px icons to be allowed to be 90px in the mod (you say the default is 48)...however it's not observing that. I set it at 90px, I hit save, and it remains at 48px.

issue?

[texasteamplayer]

recall, if you currently double click a forum icon (originals) it will mark all new posts in that forum as read. You should add this (or replicate the original function) to your mod.

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by texasteamplayer

probably he means if you click on the icon,it will bring up the forum. or perhaps all unread posts in that forum (would be useful).

Also, I'm specifying that I want my 90x30px icons to be allowed to be 90px in the mod (you say the default is 48)...however it's not observing that. I set it at 90px, I hit save, and it remains at 48px.

issue?

This is actually only when you select "Under Forum Title". I will update the mod so it works for all locations.

Originally Posted by texasteamplayer

recall, if you currently double click a forum icon (originals) it will mark all new posts in that forum as read. You should add this (or replicate the original function) to your mod.

This is being looked at for the next version.

[Dark_Wizard]

New version just released. I made changes to provide more granular image sizing (width and height) and added css positioning relative to top so the icon can be centered when using smaller than 48x48px icons. All images will work with the icon size not like earlier versions.

Mark forums read will be coming in a later version.

[texasteamplayer]

good changes. I'll updated in a sec.

also, noticed that the icons work when looking at the full forum index, like here:


but if you bring up an individual forum category (in this case, teamplayer media), the icon's aren't shown for the forum categories.

[texasteamplayer]

and templates have to be reverted and updated every time? with every update? that's odd.

why?

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by texasteamplayer

good changes. I'll updated in a sec.

also, noticed that the icons work when looking at the full forum index, like here:


but if you bring up an individual forum category (in this case, teamplayer media), the icon's aren't shown for the forum categories.

Easy fix. I'm on my way out the door but if you want to look at it until I get back then look at template "forumhome_forumbit_level1_post" for the changes.