Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Posts on Forum Home

Latest X Posts on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

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

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 10 Settings
4. 27 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Fixes?

2.0

1. Feature Added: Time and Date
2. Added feature where if Cut Off is 0, then it will not display the row

1.9

1. XHTML and CSS Compliant

1.8

1. For some reason a phrase didn't save so I uploaded it with it.

1.7

1. Added option to enable/disable auto location
2. Added 3 automatic locations

1.6

1. Added Permissions based on forums

1.5

1. Fixed Look - Made Link Thread Title, with text under it

1.4

1. Fixed Bug - Was showing up hidden/moderated posts

1.3

1. Fixed Bug - Didn't display threads in excluded forums
2. Added Check Version

1.2

1. Cached Templates
2. Moved Plugin Location to allow global use of $latest

1.1

1. Added default value to excluded, which was causing an error if null
2. Made Collapsible

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Reserved for Future Use

[Xplorer4x4]

Looks much nicer and cleaner then Chris_M's version(no offense to him). I would love to see the collapse function included. ;)

looks good, a collapse function would be nice.

* loco.m installs

[Reject]

i tried to install it and i recieved that error in the forumhome

You must first be a registered member to view any code.

thanks anyway

make sure you have a value in all of the fields in the acp options

[Atakan KOC]

Thanks....

Updated to 1.4. If it is not showing up on forumhome, then add $latest to forumhome. Try reuploading this new file though

[IDesign]

Okay I got this hack, installed it and now I don’t know what to do? How can I make this appear in the frontpage of my forum…?

Also another similar questions. Anyone knows where to get LAST xx TOPICS OF vBulletin in a html template

you must enable the hack first in vboptions