Administrative and Maintenance Tools - AutoBump - Automatically Bump Threads

This hack is compatible with vBulletin 3.5 and 3.6

AutoBump is a tool that bumps threads that meet certain admin-set conditions for a certain period of time. It is intended for busy forums in which some threads are buried before a user's question can be addressed.

AutoBump will run as a cron job every 30 minutes and will Bump threads according to the conditions you set in the admincp.

Settings include:

• Reply Count Limit - Restrict threads bumped by their reply count.
• Bump Threshold - Restrict threads bumped by their original post date. (To prevent threads from being perpetually bumped).
• ForumID List to AutoBump - Specify which forums ought to be affected by AutoBump.

Don't forget to Install.

[forumrunt]

Installed, would love if we could designate a username and have it post a reply to bump it.

[Rick]

I've been having a problem with this hack on my site. Here's what it's doing:

More info.. at 11:00 they stopped bumping and they are all marked as 11:00. Soo, it looks like somwehre "around" 10:00 (AZ time) it start bumping them and keeps bumping them every minute until 11:00 (AZ time).. then it stops.

I have the cron job set to run every 10 hours.

What am I missing??

[jack-d]

This could be very useful but I might suggest that you allow the time to be bumped to be a chosen one rather than every 30 minutes. I would use it once a day.

And one other feature would be to bump all open threads and ignore closed threads.

Thanks for your work on this...

[ETDC]

This looks good but what would be great is if someone could do a hack that bumps a specific selected thread every so often.

[Pamela]

*clicks install*

This will come in handy! Thank you!

[MikeWarner]

This is just what I need except one thing - I would like to set which usergroups this bumps. I want to ad a premium service to our classifieds forums where their posts will autobump - but I don't want non-premium users being bumped.

Please help, I'll make a donation if you can add this functionality - many thanks.

[Rick]

ForumID List to AutoBump - Specify which forums ought to be affected by AutoBump.

I just added a new forum to my site and did not include it's I.D. in the box mentioned above. Even so it is still bumping posts from that forum.

What's up with that??

[nanabite]

Anyone tried this on VB4?

Also, the following features would be a nice addition I think:

1. Ability to enable/disable based on Usergroup
2. Ability to set a maximum number of bumps

[Pamela]

Works great on 4.0.3

[crumblepie]

Firstly, thank you so much for this mod, I appreciate your work! I was wondering what I should set the settings to if I want the cron to run once every Sunday? Should the minute be * where it will run just once on Sundays, or would doing that make it run every single minute on Sundays? Thanks for any help in advance!