Forum Display Enhancements - Sorky - SubForum List Control

Purpose
This plugin allows extensive control of how SubForums are displayed.

• Use any mix of between 0 and 10 columns
• Different layouts can be used on specified forums
• Change formatting
• Display Thread/Post counts
• Limit the number of SubForums shown (Show More/Less)
• Collapse entire display
• Sort SubForum display order
• plus lots more!

Installation
Import XML file (as product): AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

Options
To set the options go to: AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Sorky - SubForum List Control

Tips
To get it on the Forum Home page, set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Forums - Forum Home" to "1"

For all other forums, set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Forums - Forum Display" to "1"

You should also set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Sub-Forums" to "1" Note: Setting it higher will also work!

Version Log
For previous versions see 3.7.x or 3.6.x Mods
v1.5.2 - 28th of January, 2009 = official release for 3.8.x (click here for more information)
v1.6.0 - 11th of April, 2009 = Removed (small bug found)
v1.6.1 - 13th of April, 2009 = Remember show/hide state + more (more information here)
v1.6.2 - 27th of April, 2009 = Debug opton + more (more information here)
v1.7.0 - 21st of May, 2009 = New & improved sorting (more information here)
v1.7.1 - 23rd of May, 2009 = alt text for show/hide image (more information here)
v1.7.2 - 17th of June, 2009 = Removed (small change simply combined with another in next version)
v1.7.3 - 17th of June, 2009 = Hide SubForums: prefix & count tool-tip as well as the SubForums (more information here)
v1.7.4 - 23rd of June, 2009 = Hide specific SubForums from the SubForum list (more information here)
v1.8.0 - 17th of August, 2009 = Display of SubForum descriptions (more information here)

Hall Of Fame (Donations - Greatly Appreciated - Thank You)
Fungsten US$25
Budweiser US$20
CreditForum US$25
lazyseller US$30
Alisa Lindsay US$10

Acknowledgement
Thanks (and apologies) to Cybernetec for the ideas & inspiration to generate this Mod.

Keywords
SubForum, SubForums, Sub-Forum, Sub-Forums, Table, List, Grid, Child, Children, Parent

Settings, Demonstration Screenshots, Notes, etc
See v1.5.2 post (click here)

If you like this Mod please click INSTALL.

[CrashPush]

Great mod and good job on it. I wish I would have found it earlier. I have a small issue that I just can't figure out. I got the rest to look exactly how I want except for this.

I want to eliminate the space between the main forum's description and the sub-forum title. Attached is a screen shot.

I'm stumped.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by CrashPush

I want to eliminate the space between the main forum's description and the sub-forum title. Attached is a screen shot.

Best you can hope for would be to use table formatting options to minimize padding and spacing or to adjust the position...

Put formatting in here: "SubForum Outer Box (table) formatting"
or here: "SubForum Table (table) formatting"

PS: You can use "style=...

[CrashPush]

Originally Posted by Sorky

PS: You can use "style=...

I'm sorry but I don't understand what it is I'm supposed to do.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by CrashPush

I'm sorry but I don't understand what it is I'm supposed to do.

You can insert CSS style options into the HTML for either the inner or outer table so as to adjust the display of that table. I just googled "table position CSS" and found "http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_positioning.asp" which has some great examples. I even tried one as follows...

SubForum Outer Box (table) formatting

style="position:relative;left:-10px;top:-10px;"

Enjoy!

[jimsflies]

I can't seem to get the subforums to display like I would like. I don't want to list the last post, threads and post colums in the forums that I have enable your mod (see attachment) I want the subforum list table to span across the width of the category table.

I played around forum listing display display options and it seems if I chose anything other than 2 for the depth of forum home, the subforums won't appear at all.

Any suggestions?

[GHC Webmaster]

Originally Posted by jimsflies

I can't seem to get the subforums to display like I would like. I don't want to list the last post, threads and post colums in the forums that I have enable your mod (see attachment) I want the subforum list table to span across the width of the category table.

Any suggestions?

I have something like that (similar to for example http://ubuntuforums.org/) and you will have to edit templates (and be familiar with html) to achieve that.

[jimsflies]

Are you also using this mod to achieve that look, or is that all manual template mods you are using?

[GHC Webmaster]

Originally Posted by jimsflies

Are you also using this mod to achieve that look, or is that all manual template mods you are using?

I'm using this mod as well. By the way: ubuntuforums does have a last post (in a different layout), we don't.

You can have a look at http://www.globalhealingcircle.net/community/index.php
(The forums itself are members only, but you can see the front page.)

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by jimsflies

I can't seem to get the subforums to display like I would like. I don't want to list the last post, threads and post colums in the forums that I have enable your mod (see attachment) I want the subforum list table to span across the width of the category table.

In vBulletin, you can have a Forum or a Category [See option "Act as Forum (Will act as category if no)"]. If you made "Coral" a Category, the last post, etc would not appear, but it would also no longer allow posts in that location, just in the SubForums.

Formatting and appearance of the rest of the forum display is outside the scope of this PlugIn.

Having the columns hidden if there are SubForums would be possible to achieve by doing custom template modifications or through another PlugIn.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by GHC Webmaster

You can have a look at http://www.globalhealingcircle.net/community/index.php
(The forums itself are members only, but you can see the front page.)

Thanks for sharing - Looks like my PlugIn was perfect for you and your template mods work nicely with it! :up: