Forum Display Enhancements - Tag Cloud on Forumdisplay

vbulletin 4 version




What does this product do?
It displays a tag cloud of all tags used within actual forums on top of FORUMDISPLAY. If a user clicks on tags, only threads within actual forums are displayed then.

How to install?
Just import product. Done.

Optional: To also only show threads within actual forums once a user clicks on a tag on showthread, change template tagbit to

<a href="tags.php?$session[sessionurl]tag=$tag_url<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'">&forumid=$threadinfo[forumid]</if>">$tag</a>

How to uninstall?
Just deinstall product. Done.

How to change location of tag cloud box?

• Replace this code from manage plugins > plugin forumdisplay_start (Forum Tags)
  

  $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace('$navbar','$navbar'.fetch_template('tag_cloud_headinclude').'$cloud_html' .'<br />',$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']);

  with
  

  $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace('$navbar','$navbar'.fetch_template('tag_cloud_headinclude'),$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']);

• Put $cloud_html in FORUMDISPLAY style to show tag cloud.

Details

• no options available yet
• uses standard tag options made in admincp > tags
• Does not add phrases, templates.
• It uses standard tag cloud template, but shows it on FORUMDISPLAY
• Tag cloud is only shown in actual forum when tags were used
• threads tagged within subforums are not shown
• Tag cloud is automaticely placed below navbar template
• Tag links are altered to let tags be searchable by forum
• Tag.php has a new option forumid to only show tags from specific forums
• If you click on a tag, only topics within actual forum are displayed
• Tag size is dependent on how many threads are tagged only within actual forum
• Adds 1 query to forumdisplay

Version history

• 30.7.08 version 0.1
• 31.7.08 version 0.2 Templates are cached
• 24.8.08 version 0.3 Pagenav bug resolved
• 9.1.09 New description how to change location of tag cloud box (solved bug)

[TurkYasam]

Hey there,
Thanks for this usefull hack..I want to customise for just one thing and I couldn't find how..
For SEO needs,I don't want to create double url's so I want to remove tag search within actual forums..So how can I remove forum id from tag URL?

Just, http://www.mydomain.net/tags/yargi.html instead of
http://www.mydomain.net/tags/yargi.html?forumid=1133

thanks..

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by TurkYasam

Hey there,
Thanks for this usefull hack..I want to customise for just one thing and I couldn't find how..
For SEO needs,I don't want to create double url's so I want to remove tag search within actual forums..So how can I remove forum id from tag URL?

Just, http://www.mydomain.net/tags/yargi.html instead of
http://www.mydomain.net/tags/yargi.html?forumid=1133

thanks..

There seems to be no way to do this as your SEO product most likely is not able to include forumids in tags. You can however use <a href="" rel="nofollow"> statements. This way search engines do not go after this link.

[TurkYasam]

Actualy, I strontly want the robots follow this but I just want remove that forum id from url.. So let me clear it out, you saying there is no way we can remove that extra line from URL that your hack adds?

regards..

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by TurkYasam

Actualy, I strontly want the robots follow this but I just want remove that forum id from url.. So let me clear it out, you saying there is no way we can remove that extra line from URL that your hack adds?

regards..

tag script needs to know which forum it should search for. It fetches these datas from url. So url must be changed anyway. It is be possible to do replace url ?forumid=123 with something like tag/tagname/forum123.html but I do not know how to do that in SEO.

[TurkYasam]

I might be getting annoying but I will insist..
ThorstenA, why dont we let it fetch as it is now but in its template can't get output without that forumid url? Or can you tell me which template or plugin thats adds the URL? So, If I would add rel=nofollow which temlplate or plugin I should edit? If it is using global template, isnt that gonna add this rel=nofollow to global tags too?

[ThorstenA]

I can not help you further. Please note that this product is marked as not supported. Thank you.

[TurkYasam]

Again ThorstenA, Thanks to you too..
I guess I got it..
For those who is wondering how here the solution I found, (Because of my very limited knowledge of PHP, it is in your own risk)

From your plug-ins find "forumdisplay_start"
and delete below code (you will find two of this)

PHP Code:

 . '&forumid=' . $foruminfo['forumid'] 


It worked for me, I hope same thing for you..
It is just good for solid seo..

[laxyy]

awesome, is it possible to add these tags in discription

[ThorstenA]

Originally Posted by laxyy

awesome, is it possible to add these tags in discription

How to change location of tag cloud box?

• Delete this code from manage plugins > plugin forumdisplay_start (Forum Tags)
  

  $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace('$navbar','$navbar'.fetch_template('tag_cloud_headinclude').'$cloud_html' .'<br />',$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']);

• Put $cloud_html in FORUMDISPLAY style to show tag cloud.

[onehost]

I am looking for a particlular tag cloud script where you can add certain words, and when those words appear in a post/article on the forum, then a URL will be attached to that word. I have seen this before, I assume the forum owner was using this as to advertise his url on certain tag keywords...i have even seen that you can click on a tagged word, and a box ad/url comes up, and so so on...

anyone know where i can find this mod/hack?

Thank-You