Forum Home Enhancements - Forum Category Icons (Advanced)

This is a hack that will add icons to your forum categories on the forum home page.

History: I was the originator of this hack back in the vBulletin 1.x days and continued this in vb 3.7.x. I have had numerous requests to port this to vb 4.x.x so here you are.

Please click install if you want support for this mod and to encourage me to continue adding features!

Enjoy!

You can find nice icons here, here and here.

Thanks to LatinoCheats for this link.

Changelogs:

1.2.0:

• * Option to change icon location i.e. After Status Icon, Under Forum Title or Replace Status Icon.
  * Now contains a dropdown listing your icons in the folder so you just select and save.
  * Displays icon in forum manager when editing a forum that contains an icon.
  * Change icon width and height so you need to only upload one size icon.
  * Set icon position so you can center the icon when using smaller icons.
  * Dropdown of transparency settings for icons used to replace status icons when indicating "Old Posts".
  * Allows you to mark forum/subforum as read.
  * Now shows locked icons (lock icon added to download and this overlays the status icons when indicating a locked forum).

1.2.1:

• * Now works for Mark Forum/SubForum as read!

1.2.2:

• * Fixed: template bug.
  * Added: Now shows locked icons (lock icon added to download and this overlays the status icons when indicating a locked forum.)

1.2.3:

• * Added: Automatic Template Edits!
  * Added: Only jpg, gif and png icons allowed. (extensions checked in forum edit).
  * Fixed: Mark Forum Read for specific forum/subforum.
  * Fixed: Now shows non-transparent status icon when "Show Locks" is enabled.

1.2.4:

• * Fixed: Users Viewing. (This is working on a default vb style, others styles may have issues)
  * Fixed: Mark Read should now be fixed, working fine on my end.
  * Fixed: Icon not appearing when "Forum Description" disabled.

2.0.0

• * Icon size can be set either globally or set per forum, setting is in vb options.
  * When selecting an icon in forum manager the selected icon now shows to the right of the dropdown so you can see what you are selecting.
  * If your upgrading from 1.2.4 and had to do manual template edits then you will need to revert the templates and redo the edits.

Upgrades: For those upgrading just make sure when you import the product you select "Allow Overwrite". You will also need to revert your templates (only for users of version 1.2.2 or earlier) and then follow the instructions as outlined in the install.html file.

Note: Before you ask, yes this works with all browsers. (Tested on FF, IE8, IE7, Chrome, Safari and Opera)

IMPORTANT! If you use the "Auto Template" feature of this mod and it doesn't work then you MUST do the manual template edits outlined in the install.html. This plugin was created using a default vbulletin style.

If you like this mod than please nominate for "MOTM".

Donations are gladly accepted!

[vetty]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

Subforum icons were never added to this mod. If and when I have time I will look into it....

Originally Posted by New Joe

I know it even does with 4.2.0 But before 4.1.10 all Subforums also showed images when set, after 4.1.10 they don't.
That's what I'd like and many more who have posted the same would.

Thanks for the reply above DW, hope to see this fixed soon, it will save me a lot of time with my SubForum images.

REALLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ?????????????????

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

Subforum icons were never added to this mod. If and when I have time I will look into it....

I'm using 4.1.11. Will it work If I upgrade to 4.1.12 Boofo, New Joe ?

[Disco_Stu]

I just installed this on 4.1.12 and it works great. I had to use the manual install but I'm sure that's due to my custom templates.

One thing that seemed rather odd: I only see the icon option in the Forum Manager when I am creating a new forum. It does not show up for existing forums. Is this a bug or by design? My site is still in the development phase so it's not a big deal as I can recreate the forums without losing posts but it may be an issue for existing sites.

Marking as installed. Good work! Well done!

[Disco_Stu]

One other thing: Because you cannot see the icon option on existing forums this means that once you assign an icon you cannot change it unless you rename the icon and name a new one with the old icon name.

[New Joe]

I think we are all going around in circles with our posts about the mod.

It's like I said a few pages back.
This mod works great, all versions of vB including the latest 4.2.0 Beta.

But from 4.1.10 this mod stopped showing images for Sub Forums.
I don't mean on the MAIN Forum page, as the icon shown for Sub Forums there is just a very small icon.
But when you click on a forum category which has a Sub Forum in it, the icon within that sill not show the custom icon you set for it, this is from 4.1.10 and after.

And that's about it, this modification wok on all vB Forums right up t0 4.2.0 But the Subforums stopped showing the icons you set them to show from 4,1,10, before they did, as I have a 4,1,3 forum working showing this and then a test forum at 4.1.12 and 4.2.0 showing they stopped the icons.

[Disco_Stu]

I just created a forum and assigned an icon to it. That worked fine. Then I created a sub forum and tied it to the first forum and assigned an icon to the sub forum with this mod and that also worked. And this is in 4.1.12

So I don't know why you're having problems.


BY the way...my prior post was incorrect. I can see the icon option on existing forums that were created after this mod was installed. Older forums will not show the icon option if they were created prior to installing this mod. This is certainly understandable.

Again...great mod!

[New Joe]

Can you PM me a link to this site as you posted above, I have no idea why non of us others don't have the images showing.
I like to see it to believe it.

[topsoftware]

@ Disco_Stu

How did you "tie" the subforum to its parent forum?

Thanks.

[Disco_Stu]

Originally Posted by New Joe

Can you PM me a link to this site as you posted above, I have no idea why non of us others don't have the images showing.
I like to see it to believe it.

I sent you the url

I forgot to tell you that the sub forum is under the "Flash forum". Click on that to see the sub forum

[Disco_Stu]

Originally Posted by topsoftware

@ Disco_Stu

How did you "tie" the subforum to its parent forum?

Thanks.

In the forum manager. When creating or editing a forum you specify the Parent Forum in the first section.

[New Joe]

Thanks for the PM, I checked your site but you don't have any Sub-Forums.
Not sure you're getting what Sub Forums are DS


Example, go to www.vbulletin.com/forum/
You will see a Forum called: vBulletin Announcements
Then you will see this Sub Forums attached within that Forum such as:
eBulletins & Press Releases
So when you are actually here: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...-Announcements
Those Sub-Forum icons are the ones which stopped showing custom icons after 4,1,10, before 4,1,10 the icons you had added would show, now they don't.

This is what I have been talking about for weeks if not months now.
It can't be a big thing, just some kind of Template code change or hook or something after 4.1.10 came out, I just wish it could get fixed