Miscellaneous Hacks - [AJAX] Thumbs Up?

Thumbs up/down system for all content of vBulletin!

This mod gives a simple thumbs system for:

• Forum posts
• Pictures
• Picture comments
• Profile visitor messages
• Social group messages
• vBCMS articles
• vBCMS article comments
• vBBlog entries
• vBBlog comments

Features

• Thumbs up/down rating system
• Ability to turn off "thumbs down" votes
• Uses AJAX technology (= no page refresh when voting)
• Ability to turn off system on each section
• Show who vote feature (with ability to turn it off for up or/and down thumbs)
• Postbit statistics
• Top X rated contents in latest 7 days
• Notification system for new thumbs (with ability to turn it off via usercp)
• Only first post feature
• Ban user/usergroup feature
• Turn off system on individual forums
• Importers from Post Thanks/Groans/vBSEO Likes, included!
• Thumbs Up? Center:

• - latest thumbs on "my" content
• - latest thumbs "I sent"
• - top rated contents
• - statistics

Credits to my friend Lea Verou for designing the appearance of this hack!

Language packs
German

How to install?
Read the documents inside the *zip file.

How to upgrade?
1. Upload and replace the new files.
2. Import XML product with "Allow overwrite" to YES.

Changelog:
v1.0 - first release
v1.5.2 - 1 bug fixed (only first post function issue), 2 phrase edits
v1.8.0
- new feature: support for vBCMS articles & comments
- whos online locations added
- new feature: top rated (in latest 7 days) contents page
- new feature: postbit statistics
- change: only one button when "thumbs down" are disabled
- new feature: ability to change the color of the thumbs box and the color of amount font via admincp
v1.9.0
- new feature: support for vBBlog entries & comments
- small fix to box template (thanks to Valter)
update 22/12/2012
- bug fixed: guests could not show the thumbs number (shows a zero for all posts)
- to install this fix just upload and replace the updated file includes/functions_sc_thumbs.php. It is not necessary to re-upload all files or upgrade the product xml


If you like this hack, nominate it for MOTM!

-Scandal

[kyroxj]

Originally Posted by Azum

You were supposed to enter the userID of the user with the thumbs you wanted to delete, not yours.

i did do that it was not mine

it cleared the count on mine only but

[daviet]

The plugin has been working great for forum posts but for those that have been promoted to CMS articles, the thumbs count displays incorrectly, mostly 0's, when there are some that have been thumbed up.

I'm still looking at replicating the issue, but it seems if a thumbs up is given on the CMS page initially, the count does show up.

Anyone else experience this?

[Marv]

Hi Scandal,

just a short question, because many are using Tapatalk to participate with their smartphones: is this mod compatbile with that App, so that the vbSEO supported "likes" given their will be reflected and counted towards the votes of your mod?

The question has been asked a few times in this thread, but hasn´t received an answer yet..

[Marv]

Originally Posted by Marv

Hi Scandal,

just a short question, because many are using Tapatalk to participate with their smartphones: is this mod compatbile with that App, so that the vbSEO supported "likes" given their will be reflected and counted towards the votes of your mod?

The question has been asked a few times in this thread, but hasn?t received an answer yet..

For those asking the same question: no, you have to choose between this mod OR the vbSEO likes.

Scandal,
may I make a suggestion?

Your mod has a good potential to boost the user engagement. But like in any good software, sometimes simple things make them even better. For the most part your mod is self-explanatory. But there are 2 or 3 issues that could make it more intuitive for new visitors or members who aren?t used to the new likes system.

1. For a random visitor it isn?t clear at the first glance, what the number next to the thumbs means. Is it 6 votes in total, 6 negative or 6 positive ones? No big thing, but it would be useful for them if the respective thumb would be coulored and the other one grayed out. So they get it right away. Members also
2. When a member has already voted, the clicked button becomes gray and the other one stays colored, i.e. you have liked a post, the green like button turns gray and the dislike-thumb stays red. That?s a bit confusing and the first time I liked a post yesterday made me think I`ve clicked the wrong button. I guess it would be a good addition, to change the way this part works, so that the clicked button stays and the not clicked button turns gray. That way, when a user comes back to this post the other week, he can see instantly a) that he has voted already and b) what he voted for.

These two changes would make your mod really intuitive, because a mod where the enduser has to scratch his head with a new function, that seems to be working different (or they feel it would do the opposite) of what the majority of other sites uses as a likes system, has an unnecessary hard stand. 10 Minutes after installation I received 4 PN?s from users telling me, the new likes-system would be broken

[Jennifer2010]

Does anyone know how to make the thumbs appear on posts only (not on the original post in the thread?)

[bobber]

hello, I have a problem, it was a new style instaled, unfortunately, the hack is not shown there, in the older Styls but already.
What can I do that is the hack also displayed in the new style?
thanks for info

[ku-med]

Would be great if the thumbs up system linked to the reputation system as well

like each thumb up will give the user 1 rep point

Thanks for the amazing mod

[pablodip]

install all good, but I see the buttons

[Fields]

Originally Posted by pablodip

install all good, but I see the buttons

You mean you don't see them?

[djbaxter]

I just installed this on 4.2.3 (with thumbs down disabled) and I'm not seeing any thumbs at all in posts.

What am I doing wrong?

Added: Never mind. Read instructions first for template edits.

BUT:

Any way to make the image and number slightly smaller?