Mini Mods - [OzzModz] Exclude Forums From New Posts Search

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Here is a small modification you can use to exclude forums from showing in the New Posts and Today's Posts searches.

It is a simple installation, just import the product XML, ozzmodz_excl_new_posts

You can edit the options under the settings, [OzzModz]: Exclude Forums From New Posts Search Settings

Complete Feature List

• Option to disable the mod completely.
• Option to choose which forums, new threads / posts won't show in the New Posts and Today's Posts searches.
• Option to select which usergroups will still see the posts showing up in the forums you chose to exclude, useful for guests, so search engines can find the posts easily.

Frequently Asked Questions.

Q. Why do I need such a thing, you ask?

A. You may have some forums that you have set up to get RSS feeds from a outside source, so when you click on the New Posts, or the Today's Posts, you would see all them show, not anymore. Or you may have forums that have results from a sporting event, and some members may not have watched it yet. So if they were to view the Activity Stream, they might see the results that another user posted, spoiling their unknown outcome of the event.

Q. How did you come up with this mod?

A. New Joe gave me the idea.

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I appreciate the support!
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v1.0.0 Initial release.

[dknelson]

I understand and wish I had the tech knowledge to provide more helpful insight.

[edunite]

Can this mod be modded to also exclude a user/sub forum from showing up in "Last Post"?

This is on the main forum page on the right which shows who the last post was by, and the thread title. The RSS feeds will show up there on the front page, but ideally these posts will be hidden unless going into that forum.

[ozzy47]

Not the way the mod is, it only works on the search function.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Love it Ozzy!! Finally got to installing it to keep all the "New Member Welcome Threads" from showing up in the New Posts search.php page lol ... it works like a charm !!!

I was getting a lot of complaints that all the new member welcome threads were getting spammed by other members thus the list was mostly that and they had to go through pages to find the good posts lol ...this did it !!! Love you Ozzy !!! haha !

[ozzy47]

Glad you like it and found it useful, and thanks for marking as installed.

[CAG CheechDogg]

By the way, this works great with VSA's Advanced New Posts mod

[CAG CheechDogg]

I kept forgetting to add it Ozzy! I remember asking you about VSa's Advanced New Post mod if it worked with it and you didn't know .. so I completely forgot about it !!! sorry my Man but I can confirm it works very nice with it !!!

[ozzy47]

Excellent, glad to hear. BTW, I sent you a PM on OzzModz with a XML to Try for the Welcome mod.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Ok good stuff ..Ill check out right away ....

[ozzy47]

Cool, hopefully it will solve the issue there.