Legacy InfoPanels - Product specifications

Major feature updates are currently not possible due to design decisions taken by Internet Brands.

InfoPanels allows you to display useful and interesting information in a much more user friendly way, allowing your members to access important areas of the forum, and important information, without having to go through different menu screens.

Major Features
Welcome Panel: A block above your normal forums, the Welcome Panel provides a range of stats important to your members such as their post count, % of total forum posts they have, new posts, new PMs etc.

Top X Stats: This block lets you see a continuously updated feed of links to the latests posts made by your members, and many other things that users can choose between. This fits perfectly above a Shoutbox, for instance, to give people an easy view of new posts while they chat.

vBulletin Cache Integration: Further reduce the load from the Top X Stats by integrating InfoPanels with vBulletin 5's cache, ensuring that manual refreshes don't cause additional server load.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Welcome Panel

• The user's picture with link to the profile where they can edit their User Picture
• New posts and threads since the user's last visit
• Time and date
• # unread PMs (# total PMs)
• Forum Stats: Total Members / Total Threads / Total Posts
• Top Poster with link to their profile, showing number of posts and threads they have
• Own Posts / Threads
• # Posts Per Day (# Posts Today)
• % of forum's total posts
• What forum the user is most active in (# posts and # threads)
• Latest News ticker with fade between news items (settable in vBulletin Options)
• Link to User Settings page

Top X Stats

• Choose "X"
• Disable each individual block
• Set various options per block
• Create new blocks with different options based on each Block Type
• User Stats
  • Newest Members
  • Top Posters
  • Top Thread Starters
• Forum Statistics
  • Newest Replies
  • Most Viewed Threads

Caching

• Fully integrated with vBulletin 5's new Cache functionality using the "Standard" cache type
• Settable Time-To-Live in vBulletin options to balance stale content with resource savings
• "Global" stats such as the Forum Stats in the above list are cached user-agnostic
• Per-user stats like # Posts Per Day are cached per-user

Easy Setup

• A hassle-free Module setup lets you drop the Welcome Panel on literally any page via vBulletin 5's Site Builder!
• Configurable Module title lets you rename the "Welcome Panel" header should you choose
• Fully integrated with the Site Builder under the "Display" grouping

vB4 / vB5 Differences

Upgradable: Yes


Currently Missing Features

Top X Stats

• "Detached" Top X Stats