Forum Display Enhancements - User Avatars In Thread Listing

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What does this plugin do?

This plugin add user avatars to the thread listing in forum display page. See the sceenshot for sample.



How to Install the plugin?

This plugin requires you edit vBulletin templates.

Import the xml file from the product manager..

Edit the threadbit template.

Find

<vb:if condition="$show['threadicon']">

And add the following just above it.

<a href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw thread}, null, 'postuserid', 'postusername'}"><img height="32px" width="32px" style="float:left;margin-right:4px" src="{vb:raw thread.avatarurl}" border="0" /></a>

Find

<dt>{vb:rawphrase last_post_by}</dt>

Please note: Some custom templates have the above code as

<dt class="lastpostby hidden">{vb:rawphrase last_post_by}</dt>

And add the following just above it.

<a href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw thread}, null, 'lastposterid', 'lastposter'}"><img height="32px" width="32px" style="float:left;margin-right:4px" src="{vb:raw thread.lastposteravatarurl}" border="0" /></a>

Edit forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates as follows.

Find

{vb:raw forum.lastpostinfo}

And add the following code just above it.

<a href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw forum}, null, 'real_lastposterid', 'real_lastposter'}"><img height="48px" width="48px" style="float:left;margin-right:4px" src="{vb:raw forum.avatarurl}" border="0" /></a>

Edit search_threadbit

Find the first occurrence of

<div class="inner">

And add after that

<a href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw thread}, null, 'postuserid', 'postusername'}"><img height="32px" width="32px" style="float:left;margin:7px 4px 0 0" src="{vb:raw thread.avatarurl}" border="0" /></a>

Then again find

<dl class="threadlastpost td">

And add after that

<a href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw thread}, null, 'lastposterid', 'lastposter'}"><img height="32px" width="32px" style="float:left;margin-right:4px" src="{vb:raw thread.lastposteravatarurl}" border="0" /></a>

Edit search_results_postbit

Find

<div class="contact">

And add after that

<a href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw post}, null, 'userid', 'username'}"><img height="32px" width="32px" style="float:left;margin-left:4px" src="{vb:raw post.avatarurl}" border="0" /></a>

Upgrading Instructions

If you are upgrading the plugin, just import the new plugin file and overwrite the existing plugins. Once done make the necessary edits to the search templates.

Credits

1. Last poster's avatar idea by James from VirtueScience

Support

This plugin is supported, so you can post your issues and queries either on my blog or in comments below.

If you would like to Optimize your vBulletin for Less Server Load & Better User Experience, read this post on Optimizing vBulletin

History

Updated 21st August

1. Added support for avatars in search results.
2. Fixed bug for thread started by guests.

Updated 18th August

1. Avatar of sub forums last post bug fixed.

Updated 17th August

1. Added Support for avatars in forumhome
2. Avatars linked to member urls

Enjoy!!!

[nacaruncr]

I talking about this.. -the red part- (excuse me my english :S)

[shabbirbhimani]

Originally Posted by XANDERER

but two user has the same, See the user names in the picture

Topic name : [ İnceleme ] Red Faction Armageddon
Nick : XANDERER
Avatar picture : seems avatar

Topic name : [ ?n İnceleme ] Euro Truck Simulator 2 ( ETS 2 )
Nick : XANDERER
Avatar picture : avatar does not appear

the same user name XANDERER (that is my nickname)

Edit : problem is solved
I installed the xml file again

That was because of the sub forums issue which I am glad is solved for you.

[shabbirbhimani]

Originally Posted by nacaruncr

I talking about this.. -the red part- (excuse me my english :S)

No this is not the feature of this mod and probably some other mod.

[DjEddie]

what bug was on the subforums? .. mine look ok without doing this update .. unless I missed something?

[BlueCheri]

Thanx for reply and your time.

Originally Posted by shabbirbhimani

I already see it as reduced on the threadlists and if you want to reduce the size on the home page as well you can do that by changing the size from 48px to anything you like

Change height="48px" width="48px" to the size you prefer.

[shabbirbhimani]

Originally Posted by DjEddie

what bug was on the subforums? .. mine look ok without doing this update .. unless I missed something?

The bug was that the avatar was being fetched of the forums last post and not of the sub forums but the vBulletin last post had the data about the sub forums last post.

So for example forum 1 contains last post which is 3 days old and forum 2 which is sub forum of forum 1 contains last post of 2 days old then vBulletin would show data from forum 2 where as my plugin was showing the avatar of forum 1's last poster. This has been now fixed.

[nCODE]

hey man, found a problem

you know, all the avatars are not "square"... so sometimes, the avatars get stretched... and the best way to get rid of it is to remove

width="48px"

as if only the height is set, the width will automatically be scaled

[duketxboy]

if we installed and just needed updated... do we just reupload the file?

[FReeSTER]

Originally Posted by nCODE

hey man, found a problem

you know, all the avatars are not "square"... so sometimes, the avatars get stretched... and the best way to get rid of it is to remove

width="48px"

as if only the height is set, the width will automatically be scaled

Good to know
thanks

[shabbirbhimani]

Originally Posted by nCODE

hey man, found a problem

you know, all the avatars are not "square"... so sometimes, the avatars get stretched... and the best way to get rid of it is to remove

width="48px"

as if only the height is set, the width will automatically be scaled

Great tip.

Originally Posted by duketxboy

if we installed and just needed updated... do we just reupload the file?

Yes re-upload the file as well as edit templates once again to have the new code in the templates.