Forum Home Enhancements - Latest Posts

Latest Posts
by: Michael Biddle

What this does?

This addon will add the latest posts of your forum to all pages.

What version does it work on?

This modification was written in vBulletin 3.8.7, however, it should work will most of the later 3.x series.

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
11. Date - Choose to include the date and time posted.

Installation?

1. Import Product

Due to popular demand, this product has now been updated to show globally.

[Michael Biddle]

Maybe it is due to the a custom template? Have you tried to add $platest into forumhome template?

[RedHacker]

I don't understand...

[Michael Biddle]

It should work with 3.8.x. Do not PM me with the same exact message of your post. That is the fast track to my ignore list.

[boandmichele]

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

It logs every single user out, or it logs the user out that clicks that link?

sorry for the late reply. i was having some sort of logout issues anyway with the forum, regardless of both of your products. it was something in the navbar. i reverted the template, then put the link for the last 50 back, and it worked. everything is fixed.

the reason i found this is because a member that used IE said that clicking 'log out' made her computer freeze up, so i went looking online and found that people who reverted the templates fixed the problem.

so, navbar template, something i did, im not sure what. :/

thanks for the reply, and again thanks for the mod

[sparklywater]

I have the latest posts displayed on my forum homepage.

However, when I close a particular thread on my forum, that thread gets totally removed from the list of latest posts.

Is it not possible to close the thread but still show that thread's posts in the list of latest posts?

[Taragon]

Originally Posted by sparklywater

I have the latest posts displayed on my forum homepage.

However, when I close a particular thread on my forum, that thread gets totally removed from the list of latest posts.

Is it not possible to close the thread but still show that thread's posts in the list of latest posts?

Go to the Latest X Post on Forum Home > main code plugin and change

WHERE post.visible = '1' AND thread.visible = '1' AND open = '1' AND $platest_and AND $platest_and_1

to

WHERE post.visible = '1' AND thread.visible = '1' AND $platest_and AND $platest_and_1

[sparklywater]

thanks

[AURFSCAN]

Works great but smilies dont show, only smilie text ..any fix for that

thanks

[Taragon]

Originally Posted by AURFSCAN

Works great but smilies dont show, only smilie text ..any fix for that

thanks

It is possible, although it would require to change the plugin from something like this:

// strips the bbcode out of the post
		$row['pagetext'] = strip_bbcode($row['pagetext'], $stripquotes = true, $fast_and_dirty = false, $showlinks = true);

to this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82693

It 'd probably be best to wait for the author's reply for this question.

[Michael Biddle]

Well this mod strips the bbcode, so parsing it is not really an option. Reason it is stripped is if you use the cutoff, then it could cut out the end bbcode, so you would just have the starting bbcode shown.