Thanks vBulletin!

The folks at vBulletin gave Enthusify a nice shout out in today's vBulletin customer email. They write, "With these easy-to-use add ons, you will tweak and customize your vBulletin forum, adding highly functional, new capabilities to the software without needing to learn a lick of programming code." You can find Enthusify's vBulletin 5 Connect classifieds plugin here. Thanks!

Enthusify Gives Auto Parts Forum an Overhaul

Today, Enthusify cleaned up its vBulletin 4.x demo site. You can explore the Auto Parts Forum to get some hands on experience with Enthusify's classifieds plugin for vBulletin.

Enthusify is hiring: Technical Intern

What You'll Be Doing:

• Building features for a marketplace for enthusiasts.
• Deploying growth hacking techniques to support the growth of the marketplace. 
• Rapidly developing new features both server-side (.NET) and client-side (jQuery).
• Proposing/exploring new tools and technologies to use to support our growth.
• You will get the opportunity to work with a variety of new web technologies and bring tools from your own experience into our environment. Your intelligence, ingenuity, and problem-solving skills are more important than your experience with the particular tech stack that we're using, but you should be happy to learn new technologies and start using them quickly.

Who We Need:

• The ideal candidate has hands-on development experience with consumer web sites. Some .NET, and Javascript/jQuery experience is a plus.
• Experience with vBulletin or other forum software platforms is a plus.
• Ecommerce and online payment processing experience is a plus. 
• If you think you might be a good fit then email us at chad@enthusify.com, tell us about a few related projects that you've worked on, and we'll go from there.

What We Offer:

• Hourly pay for some technical interns and course credit for others. 

What Problem is Enthusify Solving:

• Each year, auto, sport, and hobby enthusiasts sell their niche products, parts, and accessories. For enthusiasts, the experience of buying and selling is fragmented and frustrating. The owners of enthusiast websites suffer from administrative burdens related to their marketplaces. Enthusify's mission is to help millions of auto, sport, and hobby enthusiasts buy and sell simply and securely between one another.
• Enthusify is a member of MuckerLab, an LA-based technology accelerator, part of the TechStars network.

How do you redirect the "Post New Thread" or "New Thread" buttons in vBulletin

vBulletin 3

How to change the link for the "Post New Thread" button in vBulletin 3 (for a specific subforum)

1. Login to the vBulletin Admin Control Panel for your site.
2. Expand the section in the left navigation called “Styles and Templates” and select the subsection “Search in Templates”
3. At the top of the page is a text field labeled “Search for Text.” Write in the field “FORUMDISPLAY”
4. A list of templates should load on the left side of the main window. Select “FORUMDISPLAY” and click on the “Customize” button on the right side of the window. (If you’ve edited this template before, click on the “Edit” Button instead.)
   Note: The template name will be red if it has been edited before.
5. Find the section <!-- controls above thread list -->
6. Find this code

<a href="newthread.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newthread&amp;f=$foruminfo[forumid]" rel="nofollow">

7. Replace the code in step 3 with this code

<a href="<if condition="$foruminfo['forumid']=='21'">http://www.skilodgeforum.com/classifieds.php<else />newthread.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newthread&amp;f=$foruminfo[forumid]"</if>" rel="nofollow">

8. Replace the 'forumid' in step 7 with the id of the sub-forum you wish to target. (in this example, we are targeting subforum 21)
9. Replace the url in step 7 with the url you wish to link the "Post new thread button" to. (in this example we are linking to http://www.skilodgeforum.com/classifieds.php)
10. Repeat steps 6-9 in the section <!-- controls below thread list -->
11. DONE!

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vBulletin 4

Changing the link for the "Post New Thread" button for a specific subforum in vBulletin 4

1. Login to the vBulletin Admin Control Panel for your site.
2. Expand the section in the left navigation called “Styles and Templates” and select the subsection “Search in Templates”
3. At the top of the page is a text field labeled “Search for Text.” Write in the field “FORUMDISPLAY”
4. A list of templates should load on the left side of the main window. Select “FORUMDISPLAY” and click on the “Customize” button on the right side of the window. (If you’ve edited this template before, click on the “Edit” Button instead.)
   Note: The template name will be red if it has been edited before.
5. Find this code. It appears multiple times. I counted 3 times.

<a href="{vb:raw $vboptions.vbforum_url}{vb:if "$vboptions['vbforum_url']", '/', ''}newthread.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=newthread&amp;f={vb:raw foruminfo.forumid}"

6. Replace each instance of the code in step 5,  with this code

<a href="<vb:if condition="$foruminfo['forumid'] == 4">http://www.theautopartsforum.com/vbtest/classifieds.php<vb:else />{vb:raw $vboptions.vbforum_url}{vb:if "$vboptions['vbforum_url']", '/', ''}newthread.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=newthread&amp;f={vb:raw foruminfo.forumid}</vb:if>"

7. Replace the 'forumid' in step 6 with the id of the sub-forum you wish to target. (in this example, we are targeting subforum 4)
8. Replace the url in step 6 with the url you wish to link the "Post new thread button" to. (in this example we are linking to http://www.theautopartsforum.com/vbtest/classifieds.php)
9. DONE!

Changing  the "Post New Thread" button text for a specific subforum in vBulletin 4

1. Login to the vBulletin Admin Control Panel for your site.
2. Expand the section in the left navigation called “Styles and Templates” and select the subsection “Search in Templates”
3. At the top of the page is a text field labeled “Search for Text.” Write in the field “FORUMDISPLAY”
4. A list of templates should load on the left side of the main window. Select “FORUMDISPLAY” and click on the “Customize” button on the right side of the window. (If you’ve edited this template before, click on the “Edit” Button instead.)
   Note: The template name will be red if it has been edited before.
5. Locate the section <div id="above_threadlist"
6. Locate the code  {vb:rawphrase post_new_thread}
7. Replace the code in step 6 with this code

<vb:if condition="$foruminfo['forumid']== 4">Sell an Item<vb:else /> {vb:rawphrase post_new_thread}</vb:if>

8. Replace the forumid in step 7 with the id of the subforum you wish to target. (in this example, we are targetting subforum 4)
9. In step 7, after the formid and before the <else> statement, write in the text you'd like to replace "Post New Thread" with. (In this example, we have renamed the button "Sell an Item")

Note: This approach does a flat override of the text in the button. This approach does not support dynamic changes to the text (example: if your users are using vBulletin in a different language)

10. Locate <div id="below_threadlist" and repeat steps 6-9.
11. DONE!!

Enthusify ships 10 features and bug fixes

Enthusify just shipped 10 bug fixes and features. No action is required. All these updates automatically populated to our partners.

Feature: 'Edit listing' button color changed for improved usability.
Feature: Members can now see sold listings. This helps sellers price their items and helps with SEO.
Feature: More clear 'New Listing' steps.

Bug fix: 'Cancel' button in light box now works when composing a message.
Bug fix: 'Learn more' link fixed when editing an existing listing.
Bug fix: Changing the title of a listing no longer breaks a listing's URL.
Bug fix: Editing a listing no longer creates a new thread.
Bug fix: Listings now support a greater range of high bit order characters.
Bug fix: Attribute values are order properly.
Bug fix: Grid/listing view choices persist within a session.

For more information about Enthusify's classifieds plugin for vBulletin you can visit the vBulletin classifieds mod pages for the versions 3.x - 5