Allow Guests to view thread titles only...

This mod is made base on the request from this thread

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=108975

This is a crude work so it requires a couple permission settings to get to what you are looking for.

Currently, vb 3.5.x has the forum permission that either allow or disallow member/guests from viewing certain forum. I found out that we could enhance this feature by allowing viewer to browse the contents of these forum. However, they cannot view the content of a thread title. Once they click on the title they are prompt to register.

This hack will work on

printthread

showthread

archive/index.



Upload

bitfield_groupcantreadcontent.xml to includes/xml

request.gif to archive

request.gif to images

Import product through admincp



Permission Setup

To allow guest to view the content

1. Forum permission : Allow them the view in whatever way you like
2. Usergroup permission: Leave the Can Read Thread Content to NO
3. Forum Manager : Set the Can Read Thread Content to YES

To disallow guest to view the content

1. Forum permission : Allow them the view in whatever way you like
2. Usergroup permission: Leave the Can Read Thread Content to NO
3. Forum Manager : Set the Can Read Thread Content to NO

I will try to give as much support as my work schedule permitted.

Don't forget to click INSTALL for being to receive notification once I have new update

[denby]

Originally Posted by Moya

I tried that and it gave me this picture. How do you setup the forum the show the title without the ability to view thread content?

What you need to do is set the forum permissions for each forum for the Unregistered/Not Logged In usergroup as follows:

Can View Forum Yes
Can View Thread Content No
Can View Others' Threads Yes

vB can't tell who the guest is (whether or not they have posted in the forum before) and so all threads are by someone else. But they are still not allowed to view the content.

Hope that helps.

[Rated]

This hack isn't really good if you want your forums to get good SERPS. A spider has the same privileges as a guest :knockedout:

[ang2el]

I loved this hack but alas... it restrict the registered user also......... what to do

[smokering]

Originally Posted by pixelpunk

nuke this thread please, this mod's unnecessary

well, maybe for you experts it is but i gonna click INSTALL!

thanks Moya needed this one

[ang2el]

checked everythin is alright. My biggest problem is I can't see the hack's control pannel

[ang2el]

Moya I don't see this option

Attachment 44868

can you edit the hack again? is this a bug?

Help please

[PassLab.net]

install

perfect ! This is what I was looking for, thank you

[bigmonay2k]

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

I'll make sure to bash one of your hacks...oh wait, you have not released any.

lol

[demojames]

Just a quick question: Will this make the thread titles show up in the today's post to guest? Will this hack achieve this?

I currently have the vB default set to do this, but the threads are not showing up in the "today's post" shown to guest.

Thanks in advance

[domokun]

I read earlier that you were wondering how vBulletin has this feature installed as default. I looked into this and discovered that if you set the usergroup to view the forum and other's thread (set to yes) then set view thread content to (no) then it'll let guests view the thread titles without getting access to the content itself. As for the nice message, one way to fix that would be to look up phrases that contain a part of the default message, then changing that message to make it more pleasing to the eye.

But thanks for the hack anyway, although I learned it's not needed, if it wasn't for this hack, I wouldn't have thought about giving guests this option.

Domokun