vBulletin Blog - vBdiary & vBblog - Convert a forum into a diary or weblog (blog) forum.

Notice: This mod is no longer being developed by the original author. As of today (1-1-2008) it will be continued by Laura!

This mod will enable you to convert a forum into a diary of weblog (blog) forum. A diary or blog can be started by any user who has permissions to post in the forum and only the author of the diary is able to post entries.

The autor of the diary is able to protect the diary with a password so that only users (also guests) who know the password are able to view the diary or blog.

This mod may contain some bugs as I did not yet test it extensively. Please let me know if you find any bugs and I will work on it. Feature requests are also verry welcome!

Have Fun!
Jan Jaap

Updates:

• v1.1
  • Diary Forum Display
  • Diary Thumbnails (professional, using the vBulletin Avatar thumbnail management system)
  v1.2
  • vBBlog extension
  • Comments page (comments per diary/blog entry)
  • Customized Diary/Blog template wich shows the post date for diaries and entry title for blogs in a <h2> tag.

This mod makes use of the original vBulletin systems so it will perform on a big high traffic forum. Aprox. 30 hours have been invested in this mod so far. Ofcourse also a lot of study work to get to know the vBulletin systems like Postbit factory and datamanager.

No template edits are needed, all is managed via the plugin system, a onetime install and further configuration from the original vBulletin forum adminpanel.

Screenshots:

Forum Configuration Options


New Diary & Edit Diary Password Option


Password Screen if protected by a password, admins do not need to enter a password.


Diary Forum Display

[furst]

Originally Posted by Zia

did he going to drop this add-ons?

I sure as hell hope not. He had to hire a coder to finish his other hack, so maybe he doesn't have much time for this any more... I really want this vBblog add-on though, so let's hope he hasn't abandoned it.

[Allan]

This is stable and work perfectly or always beta and some bugs ?

[Zia]

Originally Posted by furst

I sure as hell hope not. He had to hire a coder to finish his other hack, so maybe he doesn't have much time for this any more... I really want this vBblog add-on though, so let's hope he hasn't abandoned it.

yea hope for the best....

Originally Posted by Allan

This is stable and work perfectly or always beta and some bugs ?

it works but not perfectly..see above u will see bug report..

as a coder do u have any fix?

[jw00dy]

I'm guessing we've never heard back on the "no DataManager" error?

I guess I'll have to remove this until it's fixed. Great mod though as long as you don't try and use attachments.

[furst]

Originally Posted by jw00dy

I'm guessing we've never heard back on the "no DataManager" error?

I guess I'll have to remove this until it's fixed. Great mod though as long as you don't try and use attachments.

The only problem is with attachments? I thought the commenting system was bugged out...

[jw00dy]

I didn't try the comments, so I'm not sure.

But when trying to add a picture to be associated with the blog, I get the no DataManager problem. Otherwise, it worked fine.

[scan-pa]

Originally Posted by furst

The only problem is with attachments? I thought the commenting system was bugged out...

Yes that is the major problem. This hack should never have been posted till the code was finished. The parts he added need to be removed till it's fixed.

I had 2 sites that this hack would have been well used.

Uninstalled.

Decided to go with a commercial product. vBlogetin.

Will keep looking for this to be finished in the future.

[Moya]

This is still in Beta stage, which means it is full of bugs

[basilrath]

this annoys me

does this mean we need to sort the bugs etc

ill sort it

give me a little time

[parabat]

Originally Posted by basilrath

this annoys me

does this mean we need to sort the bugs etc

ill sort it

give me a little time

Good man Basilrath :up:

-PB