vBulletin is a great forum script, however like every thing else, it’s not a complete solution in itself and requires a bit of tweaking to get it working the way you want it to work. Today we are going to talk about a small trick to show active threads on home page and RSS feed in vBulletin i.e. threads which have just received posts, instead of only restricting feeds to latest posted topics. Which makes your forum look less active and restricts member’s ability to keep track of recently made posts.

Here is what you can do to fix this.

1. Go to Admin Panel.

2. Under Styles & Templates choose Style Manager.

3. Now you need to edit the style you use or one by one edit all the styles being used on your site.

4. From the template list choose to edit Headinclude template.

5. Find the following code

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed” href=”external.php?type=RSS2″ />

6. Add &lastpost=1 after external.php? i.e.

<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed” href=”external.php?type=RSS2&lastpost=1″ />

7. That’s it

To edit Javascript syndication, find the following line in the code

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”external.php?type=js”></script>

Add &lastpost=1 after external.php?type=js and you are all set, now RSS and Javascript feeds will display latest posts, which includes latest posted topics.