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.

[FleXy]

change 777 permissions for cv_rss_feeds.php and i think it will be on fly.

why do you need this mod? explane me please how you will use it

[harley_m]

Version to from the cinvin site is much better - I advise those who use this to upgrade.

Well done with this, excellent stuff.

However...

Why display private forums if feeds are not going to work from them? All private forums show up as blank pages, which is kinda good or else anyone with the right URL could read private forum content - but why have them in the list at all? it confuses my staff and makes them ask me if they can get feeds of the staff forums!

Is it not possible at all for the rss file to check cookie permissions on the browser in which the feed was being displayed - to allow for rss feeds of private forums?

It doesn't seem impossible to me thinking about it, but that doesn't mean it isnt!

Thanks

Harley

[M_OReilly16]

I can't log in over at cinvin, I get a 404 error. Can anyone here or someone from cinvin send me or upload the newest version here? I would really like to have this please

[Basit]

Only Forum main link is appearing.

http://www.hallagulla.com/urdu/cv_rss_feeds.php

Can you help me fix this so it show all forum rss feeds ?

Many Thanks.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Kevin? Are you supporting this? Can we have the newest version please?

@ anyone - is there supposed to be something in the ACP to edit settings? Or is that part of the update promised here that's not here? ? I saw a screenshot on one of the posts in this thread, but I can find nothing in my acp for this.

[RedGTiVR6]

installed!

[pcoskat]

This mod is FAB! thank you

[wolf32]

Seem to have a problem...Once I click on the 'RSS' icon, I get a blank screen. I looked at some of the previous posts to see if anyone had anything similar happen to them, but couldn't really come to a solution for the problem. You can find the problem Here.

Any suggestions?

Great mod, *clicks installed*

[pcoskat]

Does this mod do anything to change the feeds?

On my board without this mod, all feeds have the post information within the {description} node.

But on my board with this mode, there is a {description} node which is truncated, and a {content:encoded} node which contains the post information.

The reading I'm using ONLY reads {description} so this is causing me problems. I disabled the mod, and will wait for my feeds to refresh, but wanted to see if anyone knew the answer.

Thanks!

[Scalemotorcars]

Just added it to 3.6.5 Works perfectly. Thanks :up: