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United-Forum CSS Sprites - ludicrous speed - NOW!
Developer Last Online: Feb 2013
tl;dr Makes your forum faster.
Want an easy one-click installation for this addon? . Vote for this jira-entry Add on currently is in beta stage When visiting a website, speed is a very important factor not only for users but crawlers as well. Long loading times are a nuisance since your time is basically wasted during the waiting period. Hence, we are trying everything we can in order to speed up our site. One great way to improve loading times is by the use of css sprites. Unfortunately these are not implemented by vBulletin. We therefore decided to develop our own css-sprite add on for vBulletin boards and want to share this code with the worldwide vBulletin community. Live demo The add on is permanently running in our vBulletin board ( > 2.000.000 posts), take a look:vBulletin performance using css sprites Our tests are based on version 0.7.0. We used the analytic tools firebug network utility and the googlelabs.com page speed sitecss sprites - what are they? The intention behind css sprites is the bundling of many small graphics into one large graphic in order to decrease the number of required http requests. This shortens the loading times of the given website. In addition, the the accumulated size of all small graphics is higher than the size of the sprite due to reasons of compression.What is the gain in using css sprites? Aside from the technical implementation, the question on how much one actually does gain by using css sprites is of the most interest. Obviously they decrease loading times - but how important are small loading times and what is the impact on vBulletin overall loading times?Add on features In the current released beta version 0.7.2, sprites are available for FORUMHOME and FORUMDISPLAY. Coming up next SHOWTHREAD.Installation First of all, if you didnt want to change the templates manually, install the Template Modification System (TMS). Now proceed with the installation:
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Hi Sebastian
I mean the forum custom icons, see the pict |
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The mod I use for custom icons is https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=244351
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Works great for me on vb414. There are less requests like promised.
However I use Absolute path (http://cdn.domain.com/forum/image/buttons vs. images/buttons) in my image_dir style vars and this plugin doesn't seem to support it when I run the "refresh". Overall I think this is a very significant performance enhancer that VB should have built into the software about 2 years ago. Thank you for writing this add-on and keep it going. |
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@giorgino
The way you use that mod seems to be no different than the basic vb4 setting (forum prefix). check our board. We have different icons for almost all our games - starcraft2, tiberium twilight, tiberium wars, red alert3.... www.united-forum.de |
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@giorgino
The feature to use forums custom icons is builtin in vBulletin 4. You can add to every forum an own imageprefix, so it will use forums custom icons. If you use the vBulletin imageprefix for your your forums, these icons will instantly added to the sprite. If you want to further use the Forum Category Icons addon, i can create you a plugin, so this icons will also added. But i would advise you to use the builtin solution from vBulletin, so you didnt need an extra addon and an extra plugin from us on top of this. This could make your workload during every vBulletin Update easier (less addons and plugins = less problems) ### @klaus Can you send me the output, when using an absolute path, via PN? This would help me finding the problem Best regards Sebastian |
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Will give it till it can be loaded with less fuss... looks good :up:
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I don't know how to customize each icon per forum basis, with standard vB4 features. Can you advise me a guide to perform this? So I can uninstall the plugin and use yours? |
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@giorgino
In the ACP go to -> Forum Manager -> search for the forum you want to edit -> edit forum -> scroll down to 'Style Options' -> Prefix for Forum Status Images --> add your forum prefix there (you can have a different one for each forum - and you need to add the prefix in your subforums as well, if you want the special icons to show up there). For forums which should use the default icons - do nothing. you then need icons which are named accordingly So if your forum prefix is, let's say, 'sc2_' you need the following additional icons sc2_forum_new-48.png sc2_forum_old-48.png sc2_subforum_new-48.png sc2_subforum_old-48.png In your ../statusicons folder. |
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In order to use sprites we need to replace the image codes in those templates. And since images are widely spread around in those templates it is a bit of a hassle to replace that code. In addition we can't just upload the whole templates cause the code inbetween the image parts might be modified heavily on some boards and shouldn't be replaced. If anyone has an idea how to make it easier - please let us know. |
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