Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums

Article Forums v4.x for vBulletin v4.x

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Turn a forum into an article forum. Sub-forums are turned into categories.

• Posts/Articles show in searches & in new posts
• Create as many sub-forums/ categories as you need
• Follows forum permissions
• Can still rate thread, etc.
• Different postbits for article and replies (comments)
• Choose what to display in postbit for article and comments
• Choose what to display on articles in vBulletin Options

* Not compatible with 3.7.x forums *

Installation:

1. Upload articles.php
2. Import product file
3. Create a forum in admincp
4. Go to vBulletin Options->Article forum Options

Remember to click Mark as Installed to receive updates and support

Possible Future Additions:

• Make article collapsible
• Allow multiple article forums

Translations:

• German/ Deutsch: http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=6048
• Russian: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=643

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

This, I must say, is actually quite brilliant. And I'm not one to gush.

Just out of curiosity, when an image is too close to the top of the article, the preview of the article shows the URL to the image mixed in with the text. Is that unavoidable, or is it something that can be addressed later?

Thank you

A simple fix might be to remove all images, but this would only work if it was only images causing the problem.

[maidos]

how is it possible to add an own column(category), at the sides? is it possible you can make it easy to allow us make numbers of column with just few clicks? and also option to add an own sub page at the article page. Like if you click a link from the column it will take u to anew article page?
how do i enable bbcodes at article aswell?
becasue the article content contain url but its not clickable
The postbit looks broken with your vborg first post look-alike and pleae allow more options to hide at Article Postbit like on comment postbit =)
also it seems space and <br> doesnt work which seems to be compressed which isnt really nice to read. I intend to show full messages
Can youalso disable the article view and have a normal forum view at forumdisplay.php ?

how do i remove the title "Articles" ?
thanks

[Davidhin]

This mod is great although one slight problem, when installed all images which are uploaded to the forum filesystem show as links and not inline as they used to, this affects every forum board and not just the board I have it set the plugin to.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Davidhin

This mod is great although one slight problem, when installed all images which are uploaded to the forum filesystem show as links and not inline as they used to, this affects every forum board and not just the board I have it set the plugin to.

Try disabling 'Full Size Attachments'

AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Article forum Options -> Full Size Attachments -> No

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by maidos

how is it possible to add an own column(category), at the sides? is it possible you can make it easy to allow us make numbers of column with just few clicks? and also option to add an own sub page at the article page. Like if you click a link from the column it will take u to anew article page?
how do i enable bbcodes at article aswell?
becasue the article content contain url but its not clickable
The postbit looks broken with your vborg first post look-alike and pleae allow more options to hide at Article Postbit like on comment postbit =)
also it seems space and <br> doesnt work which seems to be compressed which isnt really nice to read. I intend to show full messages
Can youalso disable the article view and have a normal forum view at forumdisplay.php ?

how do i remove the title "Articles" ?
thanks

sub-Forums to the selected Article Forum are shown as Categories.
BB Code will parse when viewing the article.
Showing full articles on articles.php would disrupt page
Add the styleid to the Banned Styleid list in the options
You can change Articles by altering phrase in phrase manager called 'articles'

[glowinggal]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Edi template: af_articlebit

perfect! Thanks - and for anyone who wonders it - i removed:

<if condition="$thread[replycount]"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]$thread[highlight]#comments"><phrase 1="$thread[replycount]">$vbphrase[x_article_replies]</phrase></a></if>

[glowinggal]

* can i move the thanks button to the top for the article or in the author's box instead or in addition to the one that is there already? our articles tend to be quite long so it would be nice to have it at the top too.

* also what about putting a "back to the top" function or button somewhere; i have the code and image to do it since we use it in our forums already - just need to know where to place my "back to the top" code

[glowinggal]

Originally Posted by glowinggal

how about being able to have a "articles submitted" count in their profile somewhere?

Any ideas if this is possible?

[glowinggal]

"printable version" with vbSEO enabled not working:

http://www.siteurl.com/forum/thread/print-thread_id%-titleofarticle.html

[Digital Jedi]

I just noticed something. In IE you get a broken image placecard holder when an article doesn't have a corresponding image. Do all the articles require an image to prevent this?