New design for all the RSS Feed you apply to your forum.
Actually, inside vBulletin, you have:
- a rss feed inside a forum is used only to display small amount of text from the feed itself… having to click the thread title to see the small text of the feed is irrelevant.
- no capability to show the image attached to the feed is irrelevant too, as it’s one of the gains we had lately with RSS2.
- having the RSS post have the dateline of the moment the cron will grab the info… this is irrelevant because the feed have to be fluid with its own feedline.
So now, we will see the feeds in a different way:
Does that look professional enough ?!
details of the changes:
1- Creation Date of Thread is now based on the original posting date of the feed itself. if the GMT is different, the creation date will be the moment when the cron grab the info.
2- The attached images of each feed can be retrieved on feed connection and inserted as a thumbnail for the thread.
3- Feed content is displayed in forumdisplay, instead of having to open the thread to read the comment. RSS Feeds are for insights, not for clicking all the way… so displaying the entire feed when you open the forum is better, and the display we use by default is similar to most of the News displays of these Feeds.
4- when you add the https://unpapapro.com/free-visual-elements/post-date-threads-threadbit/431/ hack, it look even more professional.
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though this hack require that you edit 2 files to work properly, because it edit the core functions of the RSS Reader, which does not contain any hook for addons.
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note: update: cloni reported that the search form on top of the page was not working properly… it is now fixed… no version change. was just a at the wrong place…
note: october 23, 2009: updated product file to version 1.0.2, edited template and product so vBSEO is not interacting anymore with the url.
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have a good feed!
Oh my god! hahah
I requested something like this on .org the other day. I was looking to strip the image because it was ruining my forumdisplay but this looks much better!
Thank you!
i simply added a CSS element to make the image align to the left instead of just showing right away, so it is not breaking the look of a good post.. 🙂
btw, you can start requesting things here too.. 🙂
i simply added a CSS element to make the image align to the left instead of just showing right away, so it is not breaking the look of a good post.. 🙂
btw, you can start requesting things here too.. 🙂
EDIT: and the next thing i do for the RSS Feeds is to apply the same technique but at the opposite, when using external.php with our own RSS Feed… adding the first attached image to the feed elements, with a link in the text, and the description, etc… because actually, the RSS Feed of vBulletin is crappy. they planned a better one for 4.0, but i will double it.
This all sounds pretty cool! I use RSS feeds a good amount on my site. My members love them. It’s a way for them to get news that might not look for. I like the plans for this in the future also!
I use provb advanced forums and this looks very nice with that. It streamlines well with my other forums. Almost like they were written together 🙂
@nexia 14018 wrote:
I just might take you up on that offer 😉
Thanks!
Great MOD, however it’s not creating thumbs of old feeds, breaking the layout of the forum.
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Thanks,
_V
logically, it store the thumbnail information when it grab the new feed, so it’s impossible to do it with old feeds… nobody can do a thing about that
and as i can see, your feed have mega sized images attached, would be good to have a resize [img] hack on your site to make them smaller and integrate better in your display…
I was thinking that also, they sure do like to attach monster size images with the feed. ;p
I may just delete that feed and start it over so they get thumbed..
_V
my engine is not generating thumbnails though, it’s adding the thumbnails to the feed…
because some RSS Feed engines can attach a thumbnail to resume the content of the feed, that’s what you see usually in News Feeds, Sports Feeds. when you click the News you enter to the full content, and the thumbnail is replaced with the actual image, like the big image of your feeds… but it’s not for all feeds.
the images that are in your feeds are actually attached images, not thumbnails.
the thumbnails are an element of the feed infos… vBulletin do not store these infos, my engine does… this is the difference.
Ah, great little engine though, going to use it even if they want to attach crazy large images, if it gets to out of hand I will just switch feeds to something more manageable.
The other two feeds are working out nicely.
Thanks Nexia,
_V
you’re welcome Shawn… 😉
error reported from vb.org, the search box is not working… my error, i kept the original code of the popup, forgot about the