vbWiki Pro's Forum Headers

One of the functionality added by vbWiki Pro is the ability to add forum specific links, editable in your wiki.

Editing Forum Headers

These links are editable by any member (or those with the appropriate permissions) by clicking on the 'edit' link.

The links shown in the Forum Headers are stored and edited using MediaWiki. This gives you or (and/or your community members) the ability to edit what links are shown on each forum by simply editing a page in the wiki.

When editing the Forum Header you can specify links to local or external pages. The links should be separated by commas, or placed each one in different lines:

The format used for each link follows MediaWiki's wikitext syntax:

• Link to wiki articles: [[article_name|title]]
• Link to external sites [external_link title]

Configuring Forum Headers

Forum Headers are configured from within vbWiki Pro's Admin CP (see Admin CP screenshot)

When vbWiki Pro is installed, Forum Headers are disabled by default, and must be enabled first before they can be used

In addition to enabling the system in vbWiki Pro's Admin CP, you also need to decide where in your forum layout you want to show vbWiki Pro's Forum Headers and modify the FORUMDISPLAY template accordingly (in vBulletin's Style Manager) by adding this line to:

$vbwiki_forumheader_bits  

The following example adds the Forum Headers right before the thread list:

Optionally, Forum Headers can also be added to all threads. In order to do this, enable the setting: "Show Forum Headers when viewing threads?", and insert $vbwiki_forumheader_bits in the SHOWTHREAD template.

Forum Headers updating process

In order to not impact the performance of your site, Forum Headers are updated in a background process (cron job) every 10 minutes.

This means that if you modify the content of a Forum Header, the forum will not reflect these changes until the background process runs and updates vBulletin.

Customizing how Forum Headers look

vbWiki Pro's Forum Headers can be fully customized. From changing the background color to changing how each link is displayed. This is accomplished by editing the following templates form within vBulletin's Style Manager:

• vbWiki_FORUMHEADER
• vbWiki_FORUMHEADER_link