Forum Home Enhancements - Alternative Forumhome Lastpost Display

This tutorial changes the look of the last posted post in the forumhome template. The vertical column for the last posts disappears and a box with the last posted post appears below the forum description. Also see the included screenshot to get a better view of this mod.

History:
Version 1.0: First release.
Version 1.1: Added collapsable boxes.
Version 1.2: Fixed boxes for subforums.
Version 1.3: Fixed scrambled box without forum description, fixed box for no-posts forum, added missing "collapseimg" variable to lastpostby.gif, compatible with vBulletin 3.7.x.
Version 1.31: Small adjustment to the "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template.

Support only for people who've marked as installed.

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[bxbigt]

Demo?

[EWGF]

Sorry, I have it only implanted on my testvb at the moment. But the screenshot is animated, so it gives a good impression of how it seems to work.

[Barakat]

works good ........

nice

[Preech]

Never mind, I didn't read the entire first post.

[Meatshield]

Could this be collaped by default?
and if so what edits do i have to make?
Thanks

[glorify]

Does this work well with category view? All the rest in the past haven't worked well at all.

[EWGF]

Originally Posted by Meatshield

Could this be collaped by default?
and if so what edits do i have to make?
Thanks

Yes, that is possible. Note that visitors with javascript disabled, can't see the content of the by default collapsed box.

In forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post, search for:

<div id="collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]" class="smallfont" style="padding:6px; margin-top:6px; border: 1px solid #000000; $vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby]

Add after:

; display:none

Originally Posted by glorify

Does this work well with category view? All the rest in the past haven't worked well at all.

It works fine now.

[TCattitude]

For last vBulletin 3.7.0 RC3 this search and remove in forumhome_forumbit_level2_post:
<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

now is this:
<td class="alt2">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

Nice template mod, i like it!

[YLP1]

How do you change the background of the last post info to like alt2 or alt1? Thanks in advance.