This nifty little utility will present a list of all of your forums RSS feeds on one page! Your users can then easily pick & choose which forums they want to subscribe to via RSS, Google, Yahoo, or Bloglines.
Ever go to a big site like CNN and view their page of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to? This is the same thing but for your vBulletin forums!
In addition to your users, the search engine spiders will love this!
We went out of our way to make sure that this CinVin vBulletin add-on was quick & easy to both install and modify!
Automatically adds an RSS button to your footer template.
Correctly shows where your visitors are when viewing the Who's Online page.
Forums can be specifically excluded from being listed.
Ability to specify which usergroup to use for permissions when viewing the list of forums.
"Link" forums can be turned off from showing.
All options are configured through the vBulletin ACP.
All descriptions and names are completely phrased so you can quickly add alternate lanquages or change the existing wording.
All display output is handled through vBulletin templates so you can quickly change the output appearance.
All templates and phrase are installed as a vBulletin product through your ACP which means there are no file edits!
Debug mode to help you with any problems you may be having.
Installation only take a few moments...
Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded.
Upload the single PHP file and single folder in the upload_to_your_forum_folder folder from the download to your forums folder.
Go into your ACP and select Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product => {Select the CinVin_vB_Forum_Feed_Listing.xml file from the download} => Import
FAQ's
- What vB versions? This should work with all versions of vB 3.6.x and above. It should also work with vB 3.5.x but I have not tested it on that version.
- Can I remove the "CinVin" text at the very bottom? NO! Believe it or not that little text is what allows us to work on hacks like this for free and, more importantly, to continue to support them. You are free to move the notice to your footer template, for example, if you would like to keep your notices all together but for removing it entirely a Branding Free license is available through CinVin.
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Looks like there is still an issue with at least one of the templates. Please try the following...
In your ACP uninstall the product and then install a fresh copy from 1.0.2 release.
Upload a fresh copy of the 1.0.2 PHP file.
In your ACP choose ACP => vBulletin Options => External Data Provider => Thread Cutoff and bump that number up! The default is something like 30 (if I remember correctly) and some of your forums have no recent activity in them so for those forums you'll get a 'blank' feed since there were no recent threads within the cutoff period. In FF nothing is displayed but in IE you'll see the XML container. That's why, for example, the "PC Games" RSS feed will be blank in FF but the "PC Games Reviews & Previews" RSS feed isn't.
done, its odd how some show and some dont. I know certain forums have activity and they're showing blank?
Great mod! Anybody have any ideas as how to present this to my members? I'd rather not put up a sticky and point members to the cv_rss_feeds.php page. Maybe a button or link somewhere.
Great mod! Anybody have any ideas as how to present this to my members? I'd rather not put up a sticky and point members to the cv_rss_feeds.php page. Maybe a button or link somewhere.
Great mod! Anybody have any ideas as how to present this to my members? I'd rather not put up a sticky and point members to the cv_rss_feeds.php page. Maybe a button or link somewhere.
For Cool SciFi I just put the RSS image in my footer template as a link. The code to insert would be...
So, KW802, where are we at with this? Just wonderin'
I've only got a few minutes but in short... with version 1.0.2 I added a debug option to help figure out problems like this one. Completely uninstall the version you're running (delete the PHP file and then in the ACP choose Plugins & Products => Manage Products => CinVin Forum Feed Listing => Uninstall) and then install a fresh copy of the 1.0.2 package. After that modify the cv_rss_feeds.php and look for...
Code:
$debug_mode = 0;
... and change it to:
Code:
$debug_mode = 1;
After that run it again to see if any message are displayed (would be at the top of your screen before your vB output). I'll try to catch you on IM again ASAP.
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Originally Posted by iardon
Thanks, I used that idea.
It makes life easier and most sites just have a simple "RSS" link or button at the bottom. I am a bit disheartened, though, that you went ahead and removed the tiny little CinVin text at the bottom of the screen and replaced it with your own rather than waiting for my answer to your original question last night. There is a branding free option available through CinVin for those that wish to remove it entirely like you did. People are also free to move it into their footer template to keep all of their copyrights & various notices together in one place.
by the way yes my guests have permission to see the forums
also should i have to set the rss for each forum if yes how?
I'll have to check out your site a little bit later when I have more time. What version of the package are you using and did you import the XML into your Product Manager?
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12-08-2006, 05:49 PM
There is a branding free option available through CinVin for those that wish to remove it entirely like you did. People are also free to move it into their footer template to keep all of their copyrights & various notices together in one place. 
