Add-On Releases - CES Site News

CES Site News
Version: 1.6.3
vBulletin 3.7.x, 3.8.x supported

*** NEWS ***
5/15/2008 - v1.6.3 released
5/5/2008 - v1.6.2 released
5/2/2008 - v1.6.1 released
4/17/2008 - v1.6.0 released
11/7/2007 - v1.5.1 released
9/9/2007 - v1.5.0 released
4/12/2007 - v1.4.1 released
4/5/2007 - v1.4.0 released
4/1/2007 - 4/2/2007 - v1.3.1 through v1.3.2 released
3/30/2007 - v1.3.0 released
3/23/2007 - 3/26/2007 - v1.2.0 through v1.2.4 released
3/14/2007 - v1.1.1 released
3/12/2007 - v1.1.0 released
2/9/2007 - v1.0.8 released
1/29/2007 - v1.0.7 released
1/23/2007 - 1/27/2007 - v1.0.0 through v1.0.6 released

Known Issues:
- none

What It Does:
This allows you to turn one of your forums into a news blog.

Live Installation: http://www.crackedeggstudios.com/news.php
This site is usually an update or two ahead of what's available in this thread, because that's where we do all our testing.

Products to Install: 1
Plugins Included: 14
Files to Upload: 7
Files to Edit: 0
New Templates: 8
Template Edits: 0

Mod Features:
- adds options to the Forum Manager
- uses forum permissions
- threads in the given forum become articles
- pull articles from other forums
- full-text articles are displayed in a customized forumdisplay
- post replies are added as comments
- set number of articles and comments per page
- turn on/off announcements in news display
- turn on/off attachments in news display
- turn on/off last comment in news display
- ajax quick edit in news display (basically, quick edit in forum display)
- display articles on every comments page
- limit size of article preview
- additional BB-Code tags for articles

BB-Code Tags:
[previewlength]value[/previewlength]
Placing this anywhere in an article overrides the preview limit for that article only. Multiple [previewlength] tags are cumulative. A "Read More..." link will appear if this tag is used.

[preview]value[/preview]
Placing this anywhere in an article defines text that will only show on Newsdisplay. Text contained in this tag completely replaces the post text on Newsdisplay. Multiple [preview] tags are cumulative. A "Read More..." link will appear if this tag is used.

[more]value[/more]
Placing this anywhere in an article defines text that will only show on Shownews. Text contained in this tag does not replace the post text on Shownews. It only hides text from Newsdisplay.

*** Changelog ***
As of Version 1.6.3:
- bug fix: preview functions do nothing since alias support added
- bug fix: preview functions never worked on editpost or newthread
- bug fix: inconsistent postbit after quick edit
- updated files: news.php, shownews.php, ces_news_bbcode.php,
ces_news_quick_edit.js

As of Version 1.6.2:
- bug fix: more database errors in vB 3.6.x
- bug fix: post controls hide on news display in IE7
- bug fix: threadbit and postbit widths inconsistent
- updated templates: ces_news_postbit, ces_news_threadbit
- updated files: shownews.php

*** Screenshots ***
1. New Forum Manager Option
2. Site News Settings
3. News Articles (forumdisplay)
4. Comments (showthread)

[Chadi]

I ended up upgrading to 3.7.0 VB today and re-uploaded the CES files.

IE shows page not found/error, while FF shows loop error

The logs:

- - [08/May/2008:19:59:20 -0500] "GET /shownews.php?t=20961 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "http://www.talkjesus.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) G

I still get a blank page now when going directly to the "blog" forum.

[thincom2000]

I would expect that the infinite redirect is probably a conflict with vbSEO. The two products must be fighting over who gets to change the thread URL... vbSEO is a paid-on, so I cannot offer support for this issue.

I would recommend making sure that any vbSEO showthread_start or forumdisplay_start plugins, if it has any, have an Execution Order HIGHER than 5. If this doesn't help, I would need admin access to see what your setup is like.

[thincom2000]

Recently found a bug where sometimes the AJAX Quick Edit on newsdisplay uses the shownews postbit and vice verse. Fixed in demo.

[thincom2000]

Found a few other bugs recently. Mainly that since adding support for news.php aliases, the preview, previewlength, and more BB-Codes stopped functioning properly.

@chadi, I suspect the solution to the BB-Code issue may also solve your vbSEO issue. Try out the new patch and let me know.

[tpearl5]

This is a great idea. I wish there was a way to mark any thread from any forum as 'news' and then have it display a list of those 'news' threads. That was really what I was looking for.

[Sworm]

Hi all,
i have a problem in the CES Last Thread Title Maximum Displayed Characters.
Ive forget to modify the XML file

<thead>
	<tr align="center">
	  <td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="175" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
	  <if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
	  </if>
	</tr>
</thead>

replacig with this (like the rests of all my forums):

    <tr align="center">
      <td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
      <td class="thead" width="70%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="20%">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="5%">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="5%">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
      <if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
      <td class="thead" width="0%">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
      </if>
    </tr>

Without this replacement in the forum home, the space on the title of post is to small of the others forum, and is not great to look.

Can i reupload the XML without lost the articles that i have already added?
Or i will lost all the articles?

Can i reupload in the plugin system with the "yes" check?

AnyOne can help me?

Sorry for my bad english.

[thincom2000]

You can edit the template in vBulletin's Style Manager. I'm sure there's a tutorial on this somewhere, but you don't need to be editing any XML files for something like this.

[Sworm]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

You can edit the template in vBulletin's Style Manager. I'm sure there's a tutorial on this somewhere, but you don't need to be editing any XML files for something like this.

Thanks for the reply thincom, i have alreadu edit my vb teplate for all others forum, only the ces forum is not alineated with the others....
Can you explain me how can i do without edit the xml?

[thincom2000]

The name of the template is ces_newsdisplay

[Sworm]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

The name of the template is ces_newsdisplay

TX i will try to do this.