Miscellaneous Hacks - Display Unread Posts and New Reputation Comments

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

Note: The unread posts portion of this hack only works if you use the database thread marking system, also, this attaches itself to certain phrases in the "welcome" box and will not work if they are not present (or are modified by other code).

FYI, the Forum Marking Choices are located in vBulletin Options ;
vBulletin Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type

The Read Marking options were removed from vB 3.8.11, it defaults to database marking.


** For vBulletin 3.8.11 you will need to use the Unread-posts-3811.zip **

This displays the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you (and will show up in a 'getnew' search). It also displays the number of new reputation comments since you last checked your usercp.

There is the option to count the unread posts since your last visit, or all posts considered unread. This setting reflects the divider in the 'getnew' search display. There is also the option to disable the unread posts display or the new reputation comments display.

There is also the option to display the New Reputation Comments counter as a Welcome Box Notification.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Display Unread Posts and Reputation.

Version 3.8.001 adds support for forums excluded if you have the "Get New/Get Daily Opt Out Modification" installed (by Andreas).
Version 3.8.004 adds support for forums excluded if you have the "Selective Forum Filter Modification" installed (by Psionic Vision).

To install this hack unzip the xml file and import it using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : Initial vb 3.8 Release.
v3.8.002 : Fix forum exclusion bugs.
v3.8.003 : Fix spelling and phrase bug.
v3.8.004 : Added support for Psionic Visions Selective Forum Filter.
v3.8.005 : Updated version for vBulletin 3.8.11 (only).

[Paul M]

You have customised (translated) one of the phrases at sometime in the past, you need to delete (or update) the custom version.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

hi Paul, i've a trouble with this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=217771

check the pick:



can you fix this trouble?

Your picture is far too small, I cant see anything at all in it.

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Your picture is far too small, I cant see anything at all in it.

[IMG=http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5154/fnivfederazioneitaliana.th.jpg]

check now ...

[CPOWA]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You have customised (translated) one of the phrases at sometime in the past, you need to delete (or update) the custom version.

Hi Paul,

Sorry to bug you again, but I can't find any phrases that I?ve modified which would affect this product. Are their any phrases I should be looking at in particular?

I know the mod works and always has. Just as a cross check, I reinstalled 3.8.3 into my localhost, loaded this mod, and it works fine!

EDIT: Another thing I noticed is that the mod works IF there are New Posts.

Nita

EDIT: Problem solved. There were indeed modified phrases. I thought uninstalling the product and reinstalling would have gotten rid of them. Apparently that's not the case.

[Trek]

Hey Paul,

I've been using this mod since you released it for 3.8. It's working great. I've also been using the Selective Forum Filter mod as well, but had it disabled. I read in this thread that your latest version uses that mod's forums exclusions.

I've updated to your latest version (The Selective Forum Filter mod hasn't been updated since release), so I have the latest versions of each.

The problem I'm having is the exclusions don't seem to be working. I can verify that the forums are excluded (as they don't show up at all), but when new posts are made, they are still added to the unread counter and are visible when clicking the unread posts link.

It's entirely possible I'm doing something wrong, so please let me know. vB 3.8 BTW.

[Trek]

Nevermind, I have it working.

After echoing out the excluded forums variable to make sure it was populated, I realized my mistake.

I had selected a category to be excluded, thinking it would exclude all of the sub forums under it. So of course, I'd see all of the posts as unread, it was a category. Once I selected all of the forums under it, things were excluded as expected.

Thanks again and sorry about that!

[RedHacker]

It very nice and worked. It is easy to enter new posts and new thread and down from Private messages....?

[RedHacker]

How to change color numbers to unread posts with bold and color RED....?

[Paul M]

Edit the phrases to add html to colour the text as desired.

[hyppa]

Nice, but it looks like i cant get the It to displays the number of new reputation comments given. ?