v3 Articles 1.0.1 - [vB 3.0.1]

v3 Articles 1.0.1

By John Warwick, Web Development Freelancer (john@eovieinteractive.com)
Fully tested and working on vBulletin 3.0.1.
Part of www.v3arcade.com

Important Security Fix - Please download v3 Articles 1.0.2.zip
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If you are upgrading, please read Security Fix Upgrade.txt
If you are installing for the first time, read Instructions.txt

INTRODUCTION
v3 Articles was originally written for the fine people at www.DodgeTalk.com, for use with their vBulletin forum. The purpose of this add-on is to provide a place in vBulletin for articles (e.g. news, reviews, editorials) similar to that of the thread interface - but with a more content-oriented approach.

Features:
- Usergroup based permissions
- Full editing/deletion/moderation system
- Article attachments
- Article ratings
- Comments system
- "Featured Article" system, give great articles top exposure
- Introduction and category description text
- Smilies and icons
- Full BBCODE/WYSIWYG support
- Attachment captions
- Full page navigation for articles and comments
- Comment dupe checking
- Status icons
- View users' ratings in their comments

Alternatively, check the screenshots!

I've tried to make the installation as quick and painless as possible. Enjoy!


WORKING DEMO
You can see a working demo of v3 Articles at www.v3articles.com. (Part of the v3 Arcade website.)


MANY THANKS
- Ron Wilson, of DodgeTalk.com
- Everyone on v3Arcade.com who donated to keep the server running


SUPPORT
Support can be found in the v3 Articles thread on vBulletin.org, and shortly on v3arcade.com. (I'll set up a priority support system.) As always, I'll happily give support for real problems. However, a lot of the time people ask questions about things which have already been answered hundreds of times. If you have a problem caused by not reading through the instructions or checking through the support thread, I can't guarantee a response.


DONATIONS
v3 Articles is free, but my server isn't! Any donations are hugely appreciated in order to help me keep my v3 sites running. (PayPal: john@eovie.com). Many thanks to those who donate!
If you're looking for someone to install v3 Articles for you, email me at john@eovieinteractive.com.


PLEASE CLICK INSTALL
Needless to say, if you install this please click the "Install" button. Thanks.

[Pitman]

I'm kinda hoping for a little more detail later on kinda like the forums showing the category they are viewing with a link to the category and the title of the article. Along with all of the extras like Posting New Article, blah blah

[JustAskJulie]

Originally Posted by mixylplik3

Along these lines, it would be nice to be able to remove a featured article so nothing is there. Once it's set, it's locked in.

Actually I believe in the main settings you can turn off the "featured article" altogether. Otherwise, you can change the featured article by just featuring a different article.

[bgtking]

My attachments are not showing up as thumbnails since I updated to the latest version. Does something need to be updated since they changed attachments with the new update?

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by bgtking

My attachments are not showing up as thumbnails since I updated to the latest version. Does something need to be updated since they changed attachments with the new update?

Did you rebuild your thumbnails like it said to do?

[aranthorn]

Outstanding hack. Is there any way to automate a RSS feed? I'll admit it, I went through most of the pages in this thread and did the search thing, but no luck.

Anyway, outstanding hack!

[bgtking]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Did you rebuild your thumbnails like it said to do?

Yes, and the attachment thumbnails work in the forums, but not for the articles.

[mixylplik3]

Originally Posted by JustAskJulie

Actually I believe in the main settings you can turn off the "featured article" altogether. Otherwise, you can change the featured article by just featuring a different article.

I must be missing it, because I can only find a limiter for the featured article preview size.

Is this hack being actively developed?

[ChurchMedia]

I wrote a small add-on that will add printable versions of v3 articles. You can find it here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=66979

Thanks again for this cool hack!!

Enjoy,

[the Sandman]

I'm getting one uncached template, forumhome_subforumseparator_post, on most pages within the V3 Articles. How can I fix this?

[JustAskJulie]

Originally Posted by mixylplik3

I must be missing it, because I can only find a limiter for the featured article preview size.

Is this hack being actively developed?

You're right. I went back and looked and couldn't find it either. I thought it was an option, but I guess it's not.

That does kinda suck that once you feature an article you can't go back to not having a featured article. Personally, I'd just like to be able to move where the Featured Article shows up.