Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Threads on Forumhome

Latest X Threads on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum
11. Date & Time - Enable/Disable the time and date from being shown

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 11 Settings
4. 29 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Releases

1.0 - Initial release
Please Click Install if you use

For Latest X Posts on Forum Home CLICK HERE

[pjaco]

Thanks

[Michael Biddle]

Glad you like it.

[ErnestA]

Looks like a great mod? Will you be making a version for vBulletin 3.8?

[Michael Biddle]

This should be compatible with 3.8.

[prolific_one]

I have looked through forumhome and forumhome_latestthreadbit trying to find how I can make my cell rows only one row of text. right now the 'latest x posts' column lists the thread title/time on one line then the text preview on the next line. I'd like that all on one line. Is this a simple fix that i just don't see?

[Michael Biddle]

Originally Posted by prolific_one

I have looked through forumhome and forumhome_latestthreadbit trying to find how I can make my cell rows only one row of text. right now the 'latest x posts' column lists the thread title/time on one line then the text preview on the next line. I'd like that all on one line. Is this a simple fix that i just don't see?

In the template: forumhome_latest_thread_bit

Find:

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$threadid" class="smallfont">$threadtitle</a>
        <if condition="$vboptions['latest_thread_time']"><span class="smallfont">$date $time</span></if>
        <if condition="$vboptions['latest_thread_cut'] != '0'"><div class="smallfont">$pagetext</div></if>

You can make it something like:

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$threadid" class="smallfont">$threadtitle</a>
        <if condition="$vboptions['latest_thread_time']"><span class="smallfont">$date $time</span></if>
        <if condition="$vboptions['latest_thread_cut'] != '0'"><span class="smallfont">$pagetext</span></if>

[Zi55]

Michale Thanks for this nice hack , but can you make it use datastore or cache , so we can save MySQL cpu usage .
Thanks ,
Zi55

[Michael Biddle]

It is only one query on the forumhome page, it really does not have usage at all.

[royong]

Installed and works on 3.8.x ... good mod ... and easy to install ... thanks.

I made some modifications on forumhome_latest_thread_bit and I have my display now as

<date><time><thread01><forum><author>
<date><time><thread02><forum><author>
<date><time><thread03><forum><author>
<date><time><thread04><forum><author>
<date><time><thread05><forum><author>
<date><time><thread06><forum><author>

Question ... I would like to change to

<date><time><thread01>...<date><time><thread04>
<date><time><thread02>...<date><time><thread05>
<date><time><thread03>...<date><time><thread06>

thereby removing the display of <forum> and <author> but using the space in the row to display another thread...

any advice?

many thanks in advance!