Miscellaneous Hacks - Removing full posts from feeds

I had a problem with content theft in the past, so i wanted to limit the content provided by vbulletin's rss feeds.

I didn't want to mess with the templates to avoid manual checks every time vbulletin updates and for the same reason i didn't want to edit php files. So i came up with this (really) tiny plugin which i hope you'll find useful.

1. Login to your admin panel
2. Expand Plugins & Products block
3. Click Add New Plugin
4. • Product: vBulletin
   • Hook Location: external_complete
   • Title: (anything you want, i entered Limit Feeds)
   • Plugin PHP Code (one line):
     PHP Code:

     $output = preg_replace('/(\<content\:encoded\>.*\<\/content\:encoded\>)/s', '', $output); 
     

5. Plugin is Active: Yes
6. Press Save

All done, now you just made content theft a bit more difficult

[yahooooh]

i test ot on 3.8.4
not work

[dlan]

vB Version: 4.0.1

[starman?]

Nice work - tagged.

[alessai]

nothing happened used it and tried google reader and it gets the full thing..... ??!

4.0.2

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please export the plugin and attach as file to this the first post. Modifications must always be uploaded as a file.

[ChopSuey]

Here it is, good luck! Install as PLUGIN

[InfoAddict]

Could you post an example of what it does to the feed?

[evildon]

Same problem.. Nothing happended..Still getting the full FEEDS

[ChopSuey]

NO people who feed from YOUR forum, don't get full feeds. Atleast thats what it says.