Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Posts on Forum Home

Latest X Posts on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

What version does it work on?

This modification should work on any version 3.6.0 and up! Including the new 3.7

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 10 Settings
4. 27 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Fixes?

2.3

1. Fixed the cutoff bug

2.2

1. Fixed Bug

2.1

1. Changed variables, so that you can see this, and latest X Threads on forumhome.

2.0

1. Feature Added: Time and Date
2. Added feature where if Cut Off is 0, then it will not display the row

1.9

1. XHTML and CSS Compliant

1.8

1. For some reason a phrase didn't save so I uploaded it with it.

1.7

1. Added option to enable/disable auto location
2. Added 3 automatic locations

1.6

1. Added Permissions based on forums

1.5

1. Fixed Look - Made Link Thread Title, with text under it

1.4

1. Fixed Bug - Was showing up hidden/moderated posts

1.3

1. Fixed Bug - Didn't display threads in excluded forums
2. Added Check Version

1.2

1. Cached Templates
2. Moved Plugin Location to allow global use of $latest

1.1

1. Added default value to excluded, which was causing an error if null
2. Made Collapsible

Please Click Install if you use

[Michael Biddle]

Okay g00gl3r sorry about this.

I had the plugin location in forumhom_complete, I moved to a global position.

Please re-download and reupload. $latest should work In any location now (just tested footer)

ALSO

I cached it up as requested before

[BuzuL]

Originally Posted by whitemike

just add a condition to the if is_member_of($user, 6); for admins only

if i'd know to add " if is_member_of($user, 6); " code I'd do this myself but i don't know where should I add this code

[giotmuadong]

how come my shows the "last reply" in Latest 5 Posts instead of the title itself?

[Michael Biddle]

Can I have a site, So i can see what you are talking about.

[giotmuadong]

sure, http://www.giotmuadong.com/

[kafi]

Is there any chance to redo this nice add-on with better forumgroup option?

I imagine this as a block with css tab browsing between different forumgroups tabs.

Lets say that we have tabs 3.5|3.6| - OR - coding|design|chitchat| and within those tabs to have last x threads....
This will be very handy for big forums so that users can quickly find threads of their interest.... Lets say I am not interested in coding threads so I simply click on "design" tab and will see latest threads of my interests....

[Michael Biddle]

that would not be too hard to do I suppose. Just add a where thread.forumid = w/e , but I am not doing it in CSS, I am keeping it as is, because it goes along with vbulletins table structures, so it will work on all skins

[kafi]

Thanks whitemike, can you be more specific on how to achieve this? If not css, Is there a way to reload lastposts table with ajax so that only this tab will reload instead of entire webpage?

[Michael Biddle]

I guess what I am trying to say, Is yes, It can be done in CSS, but for the sake of the public, I am keeping it as is layout, due too everyone normally uses thead, tcat, etc. To help blend with colors, but yes, you can customize it.

[kafi]

hmm I do not really care about css or table, what I want to do is that I want to have more than last x threads option

I want to offer last x threads from certain forums group (user can click which one) not from entire forum. But I do not know how to achieve this.
Say that there will be 4 forum groups (topics) setted by admin and then user will click on forumhome-lastpoststable which he wants to see.