This is something I picked up somewhere along the way on another forum that uses vBulletin.
If you wanted to see the 'new posts' on the site, it'd keep you busy most of the day due to the sheer volume of traffic. In some cases, the sub-forums may be areas not of interest to you (personally I stay far, far away from the Bear Pit).
So the question becomes "How do I see the new posts in only the forums I'm interested in, without having to tediously navigate to each one separately?"
If you hover your mouse pointer over the 'New Posts' link in the upper left corner of the forum pages, you'll see the following URL appear:
You can either right click on that link and select 'Copy link location' to get the address as shown above, or just copy-n-paste from here to a new browser window or tab. Just paste it, don't hit 'Go', 'Enter', etc. We'll come back to it and edit it further.
On the main forum page, hover your mouse cursor over the name of a forum you are interested in. If you hold it there for a few seconds, you should see a URL for that link pop up next to the cursor. For example, take a look at the link for the 'Firearms for Sale' forum down in the SH Post Exchange section. You should see something like this:
The thing that you want here is that number at the end - '23'. Write that down on a piece of paper and keep it handy. Now go find the forum numbers for any other particular forums that you want to see the new posts from. For this exercise, I'll use the 'Optics for Sale' and 'Options & Accessories' forums - 29 & 45, respectively.
Now we're going to take those forum numbers, and use them to create a custom bookmark that show us *just* the new posts in those three 'For Sale' forums - and thats it. No Bear Pit, no Maggies Drawers, nothing else.
This is where we take that first URL and modify it a bit. If you pasted it in another browser tab earlier, great. If not, do so now.
Then we're going to modify it slightly, like so:
If you look closely, we basically deleted everything after '=getnew&' and added 'include=' and then a comma-separated list of the forum numbers we're interested in.
High-light that - all of it - and copy it. If you don't, you'll have to do it over
Now click back at the end of the URL in the address bar (so its not high-lighted anymore) and then hit 'Enter'. The forum software should return a page full of new threads (since the last time you marked the forums read), and if you look over in the far right column where it says what forum each thread is from... they're all from those three forums that we wanted.
The next step is to save all this B.S. as a book mark, so you don't have to think about it again!
Do whatever you have to with your browser to save this page as a book mark. Give it a distinctive name - like 'SH - For Sale' so you know its different from your regular SH forum bookmark. Now comes the critical bit - open up the properties of that new book mark in your browser, and look at the 'Location' field where it stores the URL address for the search we just did. Odds are its *not* going to look like that last address I showed you above with the forum numbers in it. It's probably going to look something more like this:
Which isn't terribly useful unless you want to keep doing the same search (same date and time) over and over again.
So high-light everything in that field, and delete it. Now paste in the URL that we made above, the one with the forum numbers at the end, and click 'Ok' to save the changes. FWIW, it never hurts to open the Properties back up and verify that it got saved the way you wanted it to.
Now you have a nice new custom bookmark that will just show you the new posts in the 'For Sale' forums, rather than the dozens of pages of new stuff from the entire site. Way faster, easier and more focused when you are looking for info!
If you want to add forums to the 'new posts search' that you just made, simply open up the Properties for the bookmark and add the forum number to the list at the end of the URL. Remember that they need to be separated by commas!
Well, I hope this helps some of you out there... I know it was one of the reasons I was *very* glad to see the 'Hide go to vBulletin.
Monte
If you wanted to see the 'new posts' on the site, it'd keep you busy most of the day due to the sheer volume of traffic. In some cases, the sub-forums may be areas not of interest to you (personally I stay far, far away from the Bear Pit).
So the question becomes "How do I see the new posts in only the forums I'm interested in, without having to tediously navigate to each one separately?"
If you hover your mouse pointer over the 'New Posts' link in the upper left corner of the forum pages, you'll see the following URL appear:
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http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_PostYou can either right click on that link and select 'Copy link location' to get the address as shown above, or just copy-n-paste from here to a new browser window or tab. Just paste it, don't hit 'Go', 'Enter', etc. We'll come back to it and edit it further.
On the main forum page, hover your mouse cursor over the name of a forum you are interested in. If you hold it there for a few seconds, you should see a URL for that link pop up next to the cursor. For example, take a look at the link for the 'Firearms for Sale' forum down in the SH Post Exchange section. You should see something like this:
Code:
http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/forumdisplay.php?f=23The thing that you want here is that number at the end - '23'. Write that down on a piece of paper and keep it handy. Now go find the forum numbers for any other particular forums that you want to see the new posts from. For this exercise, I'll use the 'Optics for Sale' and 'Options & Accessories' forums - 29 & 45, respectively.
Now we're going to take those forum numbers, and use them to create a custom bookmark that show us *just* the new posts in those three 'For Sale' forums - and thats it. No Bear Pit, no Maggies Drawers, nothing else.
This is where we take that first URL and modify it a bit. If you pasted it in another browser tab earlier, great. If not, do so now.
Then we're going to modify it slightly, like so:
Code:
http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/search.php?do=getnew&include=23,29,45If you look closely, we basically deleted everything after '=getnew&' and added 'include=' and then a comma-separated list of the forum numbers we're interested in.
High-light that - all of it - and copy it. If you don't, you'll have to do it over
Now click back at the end of the URL in the address bar (so its not high-lighted anymore) and then hit 'Enter'. The forum software should return a page full of new threads (since the last time you marked the forums read), and if you look over in the far right column where it says what forum each thread is from... they're all from those three forums that we wanted.
The next step is to save all this B.S. as a book mark, so you don't have to think about it again!
Do whatever you have to with your browser to save this page as a book mark. Give it a distinctive name - like 'SH - For Sale' so you know its different from your regular SH forum bookmark. Now comes the critical bit - open up the properties of that new book mark in your browser, and look at the 'Location' field where it stores the URL address for the search we just did. Odds are its *not* going to look like that last address I showed you above with the forum numbers in it. It's probably going to look something more like this:
Code:
http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/search.php?searchid=42940Which isn't terribly useful unless you want to keep doing the same search (same date and time) over and over again.
So high-light everything in that field, and delete it. Now paste in the URL that we made above, the one with the forum numbers at the end, and click 'Ok' to save the changes. FWIW, it never hurts to open the Properties back up and verify that it got saved the way you wanted it to.
Now you have a nice new custom bookmark that will just show you the new posts in the 'For Sale' forums, rather than the dozens of pages of new stuff from the entire site. Way faster, easier and more focused when you are looking for info!
If you want to add forums to the 'new posts search' that you just made, simply open up the Properties for the bookmark and add the forum number to the list at the end of the URL. Remember that they need to be separated by commas!
Well, I hope this helps some of you out there... I know it was one of the reasons I was *very* glad to see the 'Hide go to vBulletin.
Monte
