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

[Bill from Cleve]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Sub-Forums to the selected 'Article Forum' will be shown as categories.

That's the problem, I don't want to mix the news section with the adult section. Just thought it would be a great feature to add multi forum ID's to the config.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Saviour

Can we have the ability to disable comments for articles?

You should be able to do that just by turning that permission off in the Forum Manager.

[GhoHan]

i hope you can add more...
for no thumbnail like thread thumnail
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=214755

when people post without picture on thread will display image no thumbnail or no picutre at article category viewer.

regards,

[maidos]

thanks alot.
Another question is how ican have a normal forum view when i access from forumdisplay?
Because i wish to have announcement and sticky threads and with the article view the sticky isnt really a sticky anymore.

[Saviour]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You should be able to do that just by turning that permission off in the Forum Manager.

...thanks, DJ...

Also found out you can just close the thread, too. Yet...as an "article" forum, most threads are informative any way, without the need for comments. Why not just have that ability to turn comments on/off when creating the article?

Also...

I have a few items showing up in the Comment postbit, that I don't want there...but there isn't the ability to remove them...nothing related to them in the comment postbit section of the AdminCP mod.

[Digital Jedi]

On the other side of that spectrum one enhancement I'm making to the postbit is a Tcat bar beneath the first post that says COMMENTS.

[Saviour]

I created an article, welcoming users to the new article section...and made it a sticky when I created it. Yet, on the articles.php page, it just moves down to the next article. I know I can sort these, manually, using the tools on the articles.php page, but I want it to appear as the first article on that page...and remain as the first article on that page.

Any suggestions?

[Saviour]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

On the other side of that spectrum one enhancement I'm making to the postbit is a Tcat bar beneath the first post that says COMMENTS.

Personally...and this is just me...as an article forum, none of the postbit info should be carried over to the articles. Makes it look like a forum...when it should just be for articles. The person who posted the article...should just have their username and time it was posted...same for Comments. I have so many mods I'm using that add things to the postbit...and that information cannot be removed from the postbit unless I edit it in the style I'm using and that defeats the other mods' use in other areas of my board.

I hope you can see my point...

[Saviour]

One more thingy...heh...

WOL reads "Unknown location" for articles.php. This needs to be addressed, as well.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Saviour

Personally...and this is just me...as an article forum, none of the postbit info should be carried over to the articles. Makes it look like a forum...when it should just be for articles. The person who posted the article...should just have their username and time it was posted...same for Comments. I have so many mods I'm using that add things to the postbit...and that information cannot be removed from the postbit unless I edit it in the style I'm using and that defeats the other mods' use in other areas of my board.

I hope you can see my point...

I'll be using a child style with all the hooks, or most of them, stripped out just for that. You can override a users style choice for an individual forum in the Forum Manager and a child style will keep what you want form the parent style and not what you remove. Pretty much what I had been doing all along with the plugin I was using. Still am using it in some places.