Miscellaneous Hacks - What's New - Reloaded

This Add-on changes the behaviour of the What's New tab to include new content from all available configured content types (Blogs Entries, Articles, Social Group Messages, etc.) instead of only new forum posts.

As an added bonus, it also does also show an indicator for content that was not updated since your last visit but is still unread.

Attention
This Add-on is kinda resource intensive, you might not want to use it on a large/busy forum!

History
1.0.0 Beta 3
Removed useless code and navbar link "New Content".

[New Joe]

The 'Up load' file has a folder called 'All' to be uploaded into the 'Packages' folder, so do you upload the folder called 'All' or just upload the folders within the folder called 'All'?

I see it says about

configure this Add-on correctly:

Where do you 'Configure' this after installing? I installed the xml file via my Admin CP, went into the vB Options but wasn't able to find anything to do with this Mod.

[Andreas]

@New Joe
I've updated the package with a more sophisitcated readme.txt, does that answer your questions?

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by Andreas

@New Joe
I've updated the package with a more sophisitcated readme.txt, does that answer your questions?

So the update only add more detail to the readme.txt or should I update?

[Andreas]

Yep, it's only a new readme.txt

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by Andreas

Yep, it's only a new readme.txt

Thank you for your quick reply.

Re-downloaded for my local copy and also to remove the vBulletin.org "update notice"

[Zweeper]

Originally Posted by RedTrinity

Whenever I activate this plugin, it replaces the list of unread threads on the Whats New? page with:



When I click on the "here" link, I get:



When I disable the plugin, the original Whats New topic list returns.

Is there any way this mod can be activated without 'losing' a member's existing list of unread topics?

hm i have the same problem right now. what have you changed to make it work for you?

[Zweeper]

*push*

[OldSchoolDSL]

Disabled

I liked this modification, because it showed updates not only for the forums.... But for the blogs & groups as well.

However, it seems that this didn't work out as well as I wanted it to.

I would click "whats new" and even though there was a lot new... It always told me nothing had happen within the last 24 hours.

[MarceloS]

I congratulate the coder for this product, it is an awesome idea.

For me this product would be awesome if it had the option to show new posts first and in the bottom the post updated in the last 24h.

Or if it showed blog posts when you clicked the "posted today" link "/search.php?do=getdaily"

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Disabled

I liked this modification, because it showed updates not only for the forums.... But for the blogs & groups as well.

However, it seems that this didn't work out as well as I wanted it to.

I would click "whats new" and even though there was a lot new... It always told me nothing had happen within the last 24 hours.

[xtumen]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Disabled

I liked this modification, because it showed updates not only for the forums.... But for the blogs & groups as well.

However, it seems that this didn't work out as well as I wanted it to.

I would click "whats new" and even though there was a lot new... It always told me nothing had happen within the last 24 hours.

Yes, by default it shows nothing. You need to turn on in the settings whatever you want to see in the What's New.