Troubleshooting vBulletin Problems Discuss New Posts Button to exclude some forums in query in the vBulletinSetup Information forums; Someone asked this question and I would like to no myself.When clicking the new posts button is there a way to exclude some forums from popping up in the search? ...

[Luigi]

Someone asked this question and I would like to no myself.When clicking the new posts button is there a way to exclude some forums from popping up in the search? For example, I don't want to see any new posts from an introduction section pop up?

[Michael Biddle]

&exclude=X

[Imperial]

Originally Posted by whitemike

&exclude=X

You can use this little addition, takes a manual edit to your navbar template like this:

/forums/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=1,2,3

1,2,3 being forum id 1,2, & 3 to be excluded from new posts search.

That'll work, but here's what I run as a small plugin. It does the exact same thing, but doesn't require any template edits:

1. Admin CP
2. Add New Plugin
3. Set Product as vBulletin
4. Set Hook location to "search_start"
5. Set title to "Exclude forum from new posts" or something similar
6. Leave the execution order at 5
7. In the PHP Plugin code field insert:
   $_REQUEST['exclude'] .= ',1,20,35';
8. Change 1,20 & 35 to match the forum IDs you wish to exclude. You must keep the initial comma before the 1, otherwise the plugin does not function.

This plugin does not affect your normal forum search function.

[noppid]

Nice work, Imperial.

This is the proper way to do this. Just a template mod leaves you open to direct access if this is a security thing. It's likely not a big deal, but hey, it's worth the extra effort.