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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Forum
-Subforum
--Sub-subforum
---Sub-sub-subforum
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Originally Posted by Doug Nelson
Perhaps we could get an option for one feed to include it's subforums?
That's really outside of the scope of this script. The links provided in the forum listing point to the vBulletin "external.php" file and being able to point to a folder & pick up it's sub-folders is something that I know people keep asking Jelsoft for but, as of yet, I don't think it's high on their priority list (I know I'd like to see that ability as well).
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Originally Posted by Doug Nelson
And perhaps the indentation for subsubs could be a bit more obvious?
It should already be doing...
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My Site
Forum
Subform
- Sub-subforum
-- Sub-sub-subforum
... so it looks like it's really the first layer deep that you'd like to see indented as well. The very first version actually did that but I didn't think it looked good, at least on my site, because of the sheer volume of dashes that were being shown on the screen. I'll put it on my To Do list to see about perhaps adding an option to the ACP that determine what level the dashes start. Would you want the generic link (the very first link shown at the top for all forums) considered to be the first level or the actual categories be the first level?
It's really a question of where do you want to present the link to your visitors. Some sites, IMHO, go overboard and have an RSS link just about everywhere they can squeeze it in and others bury if RSS feeds are not considered a major item for them. At least for me personally I went with just a link in my footer template (eg: scroll to the bottom of the page). If you come up with a spot of where you'd like the link, and whether you want a graphic link or a text link, just let me know where and I'll walk you through changing the template.
I think it looks just fine where you have it as its visible without being cluttered.
I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me where to put the code so I could do the same :up:
You found a bug. If CMPS is installed on the site and the page is not being integrated with CMPS then the error occurs. The way the old CMPS 2.x & older integration worked it requires a file to be included and the method I was previously doing always included the file if it found it. Apparently it doesn't like that with CMPS 3.x so now I'm wrapping the file include inside of a conditional. I'll post an updated version this afternoon.
cool! I'm getting the same error. looking forward to the fix.
I've been out of pocket for a few days... I'll post the updated version and the template install either late tonight when I'm back home or Wed. from the office during the day.
An updated version has been posted. Version 2.3.0 adds a new feature (hence going to 2.3.x instead of continuing the 2.2.x line) and some bug fixes. Please read the change log in post #2 of this thread for details of what has changed since the version you are currently using. In short... new option to automatically show the RSS button in your footer, bug fix for CMPS users, changed a template to remove session IDs.
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Originally Posted by Doug Nelson
Has an updated version been posted? Right now I don't have it active, waiting for the fix.
Doug, you never got back to me about the depths and what what depths the indicators should start showing. I was hoping to include it in this release but if you let me know what you're thinking I'll put it on the mental To Do list for a future date.
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Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU
cool! I'm getting the same error. looking forward to the fix.
You should be good to go now with the latest version.
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Originally Posted by Vinyljunky
I think it looks just fine where you have it as its visible without being cluttered.
I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me where to put the code so I could do the same :up:
Thanks for your time
VinylJunky
2.3.0 adds a new feature to make life easier... the RSS button can now be automatically shown in your footer template! Try the newest version and if the automatic option does not work for you then your template may be missing the code of HTML the plugin is looking for in which case I'll walk you through it via PM.
Doug, you never got back to me about the depths and what what depths the indicators should start showing. I was hoping to include it in this release but if you let me know what you're thinking I'll put it on the mental To Do list for a future date.
Sorry. I got to thinking that sub-sub-subforums were a really bad idea, so I got rid of them all.
2.3.0 adds a new feature to make life easier... the RSS button can now be automatically shown in your footer template! Try the newest version and if the automatic option does not work for you then your template may be missing the code of HTML the plugin is looking for in which case I'll walk you through it via PM.
Got your PM, thanks. Looks like you're having a problem with external.php not showing you any threads and not a problem with this script. I replied to your PM with a theory of what I think is going on.
Thanks man but i havent got any reply ... any help would appreciate
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