Ever got tired of all these threadlists without any thread in a closed forum?

See, no possibility to post, and still, the empty list of threads… all this because if you are in a sub-forum that you do not want to transform into a category, you have to set the Open state to off… and it leave the space for threads,… in case!

this little product file is a simple if/then statement in the end of forumdisplay that will simply make that block deactivated when in that specific situation.

no template edit, just a product import…

why?

just because i need it.. lol

there is more and more addons for the forumhome right now, but they all are craply coded, take too much place and are just adding details instead of new elements.

i have that parenting site that needs a lot of details in the front page, but i want to avoid any portal, which make forumhome bloat anyway. i’m not showing the forums in forumhome, i transform it into a real portal… so why not making a commercial package of all the possible things, in multiple blocks, selecting a structure we like… 😉

anyway, i know that the guys at Jelsofts are planing their CMS to be just that, blocks we can move anywhere…. i just don’t want to wait, i have ideas… 🙂

>> Travel:

she is ALWAYS putting so much useless things on her engines (ok, i now own all of her old stuff)… but her travel portal could easily be redefined into the MTF…

i’m not into a fight to beat everybody, but it’s easy to find inspiration when we look at what we have on the market or what’s going to be… 🙂

so, hurry up, we need this engine to run out of hell…

note to myself, find the song by Meatloaf…

Here is a screenshot of a system i’m actually coding for vbE… which will be great for any website having a support system or online chat…

There is not much involved in this system, but as my plan is to re-edit the vbPager engine from Mo, the plan will be to have the first Staff/Online Support with this. (think of merging an online chat with this engine!)

In the next hours i’ll be finishing the setup of this engine, which is not complicated, because there is just some If/Then statements…

Why i post this right now is to let members make suggestions and requests before i release the version… 🙂

note: screeny deleted, see below!

Ok, some guy emailed me yesterday, asking me if i was able to answer him about a technical questions on his site…

saturday at 23:38…

do you seriously think i will answer you at that hour of day?

The company is headquartered at Quebec city, GMT -5, and usually, we drive our business on official business hours, like 9 to 5… so here is the schedule:

Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm, GMT -5 …

and usually, i’m online on the site when at work, so if i’m not online, if it’s not in business hours, please consider waiting for an answer the next open day.

We’ve all been part of communities since kindergarten, or earlier. Churches, schools, sports teams, and neighborhoods all satisfy basic human desires to interact with others and work toward a common goal. And yet, when these communities are online and we start to think of them as “social sites,” these concepts can suddenly feel foreign. My work in communities (primarily as the editor of community-created magazine JPG) has shown me that different sets of people are usually motivated in similar ways. Most people have an innate need to belong and feel like part of something, and successfully contributing to that something can really reinforce self-worth. Whether you’re at a company such as Yelp working with product reviews, or Threadless working with t-shirts, or in a church group working on an annual recipe book, try some of these methods to nurture great content.

Entire Text and follow-up here! on AlistApart.com

This site is becoming more and more popular each day. Just in the last 48 hours, it received more than 260 visitors which gave us 87 new members. That’s not a shock, but with no advertising at all, this is good.

In the next days, i’ll be building our advertisement network, and the only way to advertise on this site will be to have a signature…

What i mean is that if you subscribe to have a signature, you’ll have the right to use it to display your banner *(default 468×60) and 2 lines of text/links…Posting or not, you’ll be seen, because your signature will rotate after first post of each threads.

keep in touch, because the announcement will be quick and dirty… first arrived, first served.

see what idea i got when playing with the soap:

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i can state without error that 95% of vBulletin admins do not know how to activate the debug mode, and i know that 96% is unable to read a product file to hack it…

this could be a good way to integrate a validation check, and announce our new versions…

isn’t ?!

this would be in addition to a major version check in the admin control main page… this is an example of per-product…

This is a Tutorial more than a product, because the only thing involved is a file edit.

You can see it on this site, all the attached images that we tag in our threads are shown in Full Size, not as Thumbnails like in the default vBulletin.

See how it goes in the default vBulletin:

And here we see it with the change made, like on vbEnhancer.com:

The only way we can do that is by editing a file that have no hook attached where it is needed.

Have you ever seen a commercial site with a ton of links in the bottom of their pages?.. like a list of their forums, or a complete navigation on a plain listing.

This place: BabyCenter | Homepage – Pregnancy, Baby, Toddler, Kids is a good example of the usage the Channels can give… go in the bottom of the page, you see the entire navigation of the site.. (ok, it’s a parenting site, so?!)

Here is what we have in store for that kind of navigation:

1- we have a « whole page version », where you navigate in one shot instead of going thru the whole forum sub-forums… other screenshots available in the attached thumbnails!

2- a « bottom of page » navigation, a list of all the channels, without any detail. As you can see, in the real bottom, you have the RSS links provided by vbSEO for guests/web crawlers. Our engine is way more attractive, and will tease the readers who are in the bottom of a page!

(you can see this in the bottom of this place too!)

Permissions to view forums is applied, so you do not see a forum you have no right to see.

No query is displayed on a vBulletin default page, as the forumcache is stored everywhere!