Security Board Rules

[paul]

If you edit it, I'd be interested in getting the code if you want someone to test it.

 

[CiaranR]

Got this done easy enough in the end, just took a bit of thought as to the best way to do it.

So, I moved all the topics to a new sub forum, Security Updates, and the simply added this to the SQL that generates the latest posts. (64 being the id of the Security Updates sub forum)

WHERE .... AND `forumid` != 64;

As an additional step I restricted this sub forum to registered users, this has the effect of removing it from the RSS feed and prevents google from crawling it and seeing it as duplicate content.

Another benefit of this strategy over just stopping posts from the ArticleBot user appearing, as first mentioned, is that if any new security feeds are added to this sub forum they will also be treated like this too automatically.

 

[Forbairt]

nicely done ... leaves the main security forum nice and tidy as well


though the security feeds won't get indexed by search engines now either .. unless its possible for the "google bot" to see registered users forums ?

 

[CiaranR]

though the security feeds won't get indexed by search engines now either .. unless its possible for the "google bot" to see registered users forums ?

This ... prevents google from crawling it and seeing it as duplicate content.

I would have seen this as a feature rather than a bug, as this would all be dup content.

 

[mneylon]

though the security feeds won't get indexed by search engines now either .. unless its possible for the "google bot" to see registered users forums ?

That's intentional.

The feeds are pulled from other sites, so they are NOT original content for the spiders

 

[Forbairt]

thought it might be something like that just thought I'd ask anyways

 

[paul]

i can still see them in my view ?

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I thought it would be better to just have them go to one thread.
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[CiaranR]

i can still see them in my view ?

What is that a view of? don't recognise it.

 

[paul]

When I look at new posts. They show up there.

The screenshot is small, after the board resized it. Sorry I didn't realise.

 

[mneylon]

When I look at new posts. They show up there.

Use the new posts at the bottom of the main page

 

[CiaranR]

Ah that view is powered by vBulletins search feature and not the Latest posts plugin or the the RSS feed.

I could take a look see what I could do if lots of people use that view and Michele doesn't mind again.

edit: or just do that

Use the new posts at the bottom of the main page

 

[mneylon]

The problem with the search thing is that it's a core VB function. If you hack it to ignore a forum or forums now it will break with the next upgrade ....

 

[CiaranR]

Best leave it as then I guess.

 

[paul]

You could edit the style
How To Include / Exclude Forums From "New Posts" - vBulletin Community Forum

That is not updated in the core

 

[CiaranR]

Ah handy feature that looks dead easy to implement. Well found Paul, that should cover all the bases now.

 

[mneylon]

You could edit the style
How To Include / Exclude Forums From "New Posts" - vBulletin Community Forum

That is not updated in the core

Perfect

Frodo - are you updating that?

 

[CiaranR]

Perfect

Frodo - are you updating that?

done

 

[mneylon]

done

Cool

 

[paul]

good stuff. I won't even complain about them appearing here...

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[paul]

most of the security threads only have 1 view, so I guess people aren't reading them...