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!

[Neo_Angelo]

i know this may sound like a stupid question but did you manually enter the size you wanted your icon to be underneith where you select the icon from the dropdow, it says something like

Select forum icon : Dropdown

Width Px:
Height px:

if you dont manually enter a height and width the picture will be displayed with 0x0px which will not show up..

[hhumas]

yes now working ...........

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by hhumas

yes now working ...........

You're welcome.

[persianpros]

thanks for this great mod

it has a bug :

it won't let us use images with spaces in their names like "My Test.png" and we have to change these files like "MyTest.png"

[kf4eok]

I have been using this great plugin for a long time now amd I really enjoy it. It makes my forum at http://thestarquestclub.com/forums/forum.php really stand out.
Thanks for the great plugin.

[CoZmicShReddeR]

Originally Posted by artman_hacker

thanks for this great mod

it has a bug :

it won't let us use images with spaces in their names like "My Test.png" and we have to change these files like "MyTest.png"

That's not a bug you really shouldn't leave spaces between image names best to use an underscore _ or make it all one word...

[acast]

I installed, and i have the next problem in my style:



The icons are hiding the text. Any idea of how can i solve the problem?

Thanks for all.

[Fready]

Your icons are set to what size within the mod in the options?
They are too big by the looks of it, if you have changed the size there you need to match it up in the Style Variable Editor
In there you search for: forumicon_size
And change the size to what ever size you want, try 75

[acast]

Originally Posted by Fready

Your icons are set to what size within the mod in the options?
They are too big by the looks of it, if you have changed the size there you need to match it up in the Style Variable Editor
In there you search for: forumicon_size
And change the size to what ever size you want, try 75

Hi Fready, thanks.

Are the standard size 48x48. I can put the size that i want, less or higher, and still up in the text.If i go to the style variable editor to forumuicon_size,and change there, is the same. Still up in the text.

[Fready]

Yes standard 48x48

All do is change it within the mod options in the vb options and then change it to the same size in the style variable