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I’m working on my first vB 3.5 plugin Almost done.

It lets forum users choose which forums to load on their forum home. For example, if you are a webmaster but have no interest in search engine discussions on Webmaster-Talk, you might want to hide them altogether instead of simply collapsing the category.

I’d like to add some sort of quick-lookup to the forum home to show a simple overview of the hidden forums, an easy way to access them incase the user wants to pop inside for some reason. That would be the better alternative instead of going into their user cp and unhiding it just to reach the thread listing. Also, I’d like to add a better way to choose unhideable forums via the AdminCP (instead of the simply textarea). It’s kinda hard though because there are no hooks in the vB ACP, and I don’t want to resort to file edits. So I’m hoping they’ll have some ACP hooks in the next release.

So there you have it 100% using hooks too — no file edits! As it stands, there may be one or two template edits (one to add an item to the user CP nav and the other to add a ‘forum overview’ thing I was talking about).

vB 3.5 beta was released just a little while ago! Wooo! Read the announcement made by Kier.

Other then some really cool new features (taking advantage of AJAX, of course ;-)), including the much-requested inline-moderation (the one the IPB fanboys are mad about, as if IPB thought of it first!). But most of all, the underlaying code has change considerably. Along with hooks for plugins, everything has undergone a huge overhaul, I’m still exploring the code now.

So happy hacking!