Add-On Releases - CinVin vB Forum Feed Listing

[ BY REQUEST ]

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!
• Compatible with vBSEO.
• Easy integration with vBadvanced CMPS.
• 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

You're all done! Just point your browser to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/cv_rss_feeds.php to view your new RSS feed listings.

DEMO #1: CinVin RSS Feeds (this is the 'stock' version)

DEMO #2: Cool Sci-Fi RSS Feeds (this one has been integrated with vBa CMPS)


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.

[jarod1981?]

Hello Guys!

I have installed this product but I see only one link with RSS, the principal title of my forum; other sections there aren't

Link

I have also check in my ACP and RSS, Javascript in External Provider are active...Please, How Can I resolve this problem?

Thank all

[ChurchMedia]

Great hack! It was working fine, then I just started getting a blank page. I'm not sure what could be conflicting with it. One thing that is curious is that you are using the variable $adv_portal_forumlist, which looks like a CMPS module. I'm using CMPS, but I don't see how your variable could be conflicting.

Anyway, any ideas would be great. I'd love to get this back online. Thanks!

[SmoothCriminal]

The feeds seem to be updated by a cron job. May I know which cron job is involved in this, so that I can run it manually when I require.

[Discussions]

Originally Posted by jarod1981?

Hello Guys!

I have installed this product but I see only one link with RSS, the principal title of my forum; other sections there aren't

Link

I have also check in my ACP and RSS, Javascript in External Provider are active...Please, How Can I resolve this problem?

Thank all

That is a known flaw with the program. It refuses to add in categories that are anchored (#) Supposedly there is a new version that is being tested..that fixes this issue. It has not been released.

[Brandon Sheley]

has this been updated to work with vBSEO yet ?

I guess I'll un-install it if its never going to be

[KW802]

A quite FYI...

- Version 2.x is delayed as I work out some vBSEO issues. The current version posted in this thread is supposed to be working just fine with vBSEO according to their developer guidelines but obviously it isn't. When I use their functions to create vBSEO standardized URLs I am getting mixed results. As soon as I hear back from their tech' guys for a resolution I'll either update this thread or incorporate the changes in the new version.

- If you are getting a blank page when attempting to view the RSS results for an individual forum then make sure that you have (a) RSS feeds enabled in your ACP and (b) the last thread in that forum is newer then the X days specified in the ACP.

- If you are getting a blank page when attempting to the cv_rss_feeds.php page then the usual problem is a missing template (eg: something may have gone wrong when importing the product). If you are still getting a blank page then try either installing a fresh copy and importing a fresh copy of the product (uninstall the current one loaded and then install the fresh product XML) or you can submit a Support Ticket at CinVin and I'll take a look.

[Lizard King]

Kevin ,
In rss feeds there is currently a problem it doesn't recognize the forumids so it takes all forums feeds. I also double checked it on your board and you also have the same problem.
http://www.ayyas.com/rss if you check in here you can see that RSS and Bloglines images donot have the forumids but yahoo and google have the forumids. Is there any workaround for this ?

also i dont want to read 11 pages what is the problem with vbseo

[flindersredclaw]

Installed no drama on 3.6.4

Just imported the product
uploaded the images folder to ../forum/images/
uploaded the php file to ../forum/

Checked the page and all is working.
http://www.crayfishmates.com/forum/cv_rss_feeds.php

Thank you very very handy.

[Eagle Creek]

Sweet! Used the FTP program and clicked the install button!

[gator777]

This works great! Thanks for all your hard work, as it is really appreciated.