Show Thread Enhancements - Chief First Post - Every Page - [Thread Based]

Chief First Post - Every Page [Thread Based]
With this mod, you can convert the view of the thread in to 4 different type. Additionally you can change the view as you edit click the edit button. The 1st message of the thread will stay at top all the time even while you are checking other messages related to this subject.

Thread Type
Postbit Article
Postbit Flipped
Postbit Normal
Postbit Legacy


install

Go to your admin cp, then:
Plugin System -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product] -> Select 'product-chiefpost.xml' from your computer then press 'Import'

Modifications Info

Plugin : 12
Phrases : 3
Template : 3
Setting : 0

Versions:
v1.0 - 24 August 2007
-First release

v1.0.1 - 26 August 2007
-Rating Phrase fixed

v1.1.0 - 6 May 2008
-vBulletin 3.7 release
-Rating Phrase fixed

v2.0.0 - 13 Octaber 2008
-vBulletin 3.8 release
-Template Problem Fixed
-No Rating Problem Fixed

With this mod, you can convert the view of the thread in to 4 different type. Additionally you can change the view as you edit click the edit button. The 1st message of the thread will stay at top all the time even while you are checking other messages related to this subject.

[MagicThemeParks]

Here's a demo of my customized 'chief first post'

DEMO: United States History Forum - New York State Information

[MagicThemeParks]

For those having overlapping text issues with the postbit area, you can make a quick edit to the postbit_articles template by searching for this line...

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>

and changing it to this....

<div style="width:95%;" id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>

Example: George Washington - Official President Thread


Another fix was to include the AdLocation correctly in the template. Go to postbit_articles template and search for this...

<!-- message -->
<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>
<!-- / message -->

and replace it with....

<!-- message -->
<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">
$ad_location[ad_showthread_firstpost_start]
$post[message]
</div>
<!-- / message -->

Hope that helps :up:

[letsjoy]

Atakan KOC, please create it fro vb 4.x
Thanks

[sa3eka.com]

translate to arabic

الترجمه للعربية

http://www.traidnt.net/vb/traidnt1931560/

[gutelaune]

I hope for a version vb4.x

[sergio00]

ATAKAM dont wanna reply the question and suggestion. He MP is bloked

[CrashPush]

This mod seems to be working fine. The only thing is that the default setting on the mod needs to be changed from Postbit Article to your forums default postbit setting.

[mykkal]

Hi there, I'm hoping the plugin developer see's this. I've been using Chief First Post for years. I love it. It helps guests or members on each page to understand the conversation without reading threads. This is really useful on posts with many pages of threads.

However, I just signed up for Google webmaster tools and it notified me of a problem. Because Chief First Post repeats the first post on every page the meta descriptions for each page are the same! This causes Google to rank low or not index these pages. It also keeps search engines from indexing relevant content on sequential pages in the thread.

I'm using vBSEO. Other SEO plugins also seem to scrape the meta description out of the first paragraph of each post.

Is there anything you can do? I want to continue using this plugin and I know that if I've just discovered this issue that it must be plaguing other users as well.

Please help. This would be the only disadvantage to this plugin. I created a post on vBSEO's website asking if they could help as well. Maybe the developer could work with them?

I'm willing to pay for a quick fix since every post with multiple pages is being dropped from the search engine index or being demoted in ranking.

I created a post on vBSEO's forum's asking for their help. If this author can help that would be great. I every almost all of this plugin's base is using vBSEO.

http://www.vbseo.com/f67/using-chief...iptions-55252/

[mykkal]

Is this still supported?

[mykkal]

To Atakan KOC, can you help me with this? I love this mod and want to continue using it without penalties to my search engine ranking.

Honestly I think its so cool it should be in the core of every vbulletin style... but there's just that one thing.