XF 1.5 Miscellaneous improvements

Today we'll be talking about some smaller improvements that we have made in XF 1.5 which have been heavily requested.


Ability to disable trophies globally
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The above option appears below the Trophy list in the Admin CP and in the User Options option group which makes it easy to switch off the Trophy system.

When disabled, trophies will no longer be awarded, nor will the UI display anything that mentions trophy points. The "User Title Ladder Field" will automatically switch to "Messages" if trophies are disabled.

No "Most Points" tab on the Notable Members page.
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No Trophy Points stat on the visitor panel...
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...or the member card.
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Threads with the latest posts in the sidebar
In XenForo 1.4 we introduced the "New Profile Posts" sidebar block, this time around we're introducing something very similar in the form of a "New Posts" block:
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You can control the number of threads shown in the list with this (Node & Forum List) option:
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Setting it to 5 would display the 5 threads which have most recently been posted in ordered by last post date. Of course, should you not want to display this block, you can set this value to 0.

Clicking the thread title will take you to the first unread post in the thread. Clicking the date will take you to the latest post in the thread.


Independent language selector for the Admin CP
Should your forum have multiple languages installed, your admins will now be able to independently choose which language should be used in the Admin CP:
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The current language is displayed in the footer and clicking on the language name opens the language selector:
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Changing the language in the front end doesn't affect the choice you made in the back end and vice versa, though you can quickly revert to forum default by clicking "Use forum language preference".


Resend a user's email confirmation from the Admin CP
From the User edit page in the Admin CP if a user is awaiting email confirmation then you can resend that confirmation to them:
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Once resent, any previous confirmation emails will become invalid and only the new one they receive will work. The user can already do this themselves from the front end but sometimes it is useful for us to be able to do it on their behalf.


Additional Moderator Log logging
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We now log a couple of additional actions in the Moderator Log. Specifically when a user is spam cleaned or when a user is warned.


Bulk add-on toggle
When things go wrong, a common troubleshooting step is to disable all add-ons. Up until now this has been done one of two ways. Either you disable each add-on one by one, or you disable event listeners in config.php.

Both methods are usually effective but disabling each add-on manually can take time and disabling event listeners doesn't actually disable things like template modifications.

So, we've added a Disable All Add-Ons button to the Add-on List:
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Notice that at least one add-on is already disabled, so when we click Disable All Add-ons we can disable the rest of them:
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When we do this we cache the list of add-ons which are currently enabled. This gives us the ability to be able to only re-enable the list of add-ons which were not already disabled (these are checked by default):
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That's all for today. Still plenty more to show though, so until next time... :)

Just a reminder: Please do not post suggestions in this thread (even if you feel they are related). Use the dedicated suggestion forum so they can be tracked; suggestions made in this thread are unlikely to be implemented.
 
Is "disable all addons" switch to "enable all addons" when all addons are disabled?

When we do this we cache the list of add-ons which are currently enabled. This gives us the ability to be able to only re-enable the list of add-ons which were not already disabled (these are checked by default):
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Go back to the OP to see the attachment, when you re-enable them, it pops up a dialog box that shows you which addons were previously enabled and allows you to select if you want to disable other addons that were previously enabled or vice versa.
 
Thank you so much for these improvements. All of them are very important ones
(I can uninstall 5 add-ons thanks to this).


For the bulk add-on toggle I have a question (which was really needed, thanks).

Let's say I have 60 add-ons. But only 50 of them are active.
Now when I use the bulk add-on toggle and disable them all, all my active 50 ones will be disabled. Ok.
But how about when I will re-toggle and want to enable them again?
Will the cache know the previous "active" list and will only enable those 50 active ones? Or will it enable all installed add-ons, no matter if they were previously enabled or not, so in this case all 60?

Because if the bulk enabling enables all add-ons, then we have to remember every time which ones were disabled previously.

Hope you understand the question.
 
Go back to the OP to see the attachment, when you re-enable them, it pops up a dialog box that shows you which addons were previously enabled and allows you to select if you want to disable other addons that were previously enabled or vice versa.
My bad, I misread that :p I thought it was a window to be sure that we wanted to disable these addons
 
I'm concerned about the ability to 'like' profile comments... It means members will be able to artificially bump up each others "received likes" count by constantly liking each others profile posts (which my go un-noticed by staff who do not frequently check everyone's profiles).

Likes should be for quality forum content, not "I just got back from walking the dog lol!".

I assume there is a permission to disable profile 'likes'?
 
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It's linked to the Like profile posts permission. If you set that to Not Set then it will prevent profile posts and comments being liked.
 
It's cool to have an option to disable the trophies, but why not have made that also for the help page? This is something which is not necessarily used on some sites.
 
Wasn't a suggestion, was more just a joke ;)

Also, apparently quotes are not working. I clicked 'reply' on your post and it put this in my quickreply:

Code:
[QUOTE="Brogan, post: 946909, member: 521"][/QUOTE]

without the contents :eek:

Seems I can replicate it on that post you made, but no others. Even with multiquote. Probably because that post was just a quote in it. Meh
 
Threads with the latest posts in the sidebar
In XenForo 1.4 we introduced the "New Profile Posts" sidebar block, this time around we're introducing something very similar in the form of a "New Posts" block:
WoW, another great inbuilt addon for New Posts, can remove third party addon.

Thanks for that great update!
 
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