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Do you want it CSS-driven? It’s trivial to modify the Indicate New plugin. Just look for where it says <strong> and </strong> (near the bottom) and change that to <span class="new"> and </span>. You can then use content-before to add the NEW or do whatever else.

What’s new and what isn’t isn’t yet implemented.

I think it should not be hard to code such a plugin. It would have to create a new database table, like bb_read, with the following fields:

– bb_user

– bb_post

– bb_last_comment_read

This way you could modify the posts query, left joining it with this table. If the join is NULL (please correct me if i’m wrong, i haven’t done these things in a lot of time), then the user has never read the post. If bb_last_comment_read is less than the actual number of comments or replies, then he hasn’t read the last post.

Another interesting alternative is what the folks at wordpress.org are doing … for non-visited links they have a font with a font-weight: bold style. So you can see which topics are new.

I don’t know who you have to sleep with to get _that_ plugin. It’s not me. I’m shying away from implementing it because I’m not sure what a good method is.

Do you know if it would be possible to modify the plugin to differentiate between a .no_new_topic and a .new_topic class, for use in CSS instead?

Yeah. Change the function fel_indicatenew() to this (note that I’m using classes ‘no-new-topic’ and ‘new-topic’ here):

function fel_indicatenew($title)

{

global $topic, $bb_current_user;

if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() )

{

$feluser = bb_get_user($bb_current_user->ID);

if( ($topic->topic_time > $feluser->last_visit) && ( $topic->topic_last_poster != $feluser->ID ) )

{

$title = '<span class="new-topic">' . $title . '</span>';

} else {

$title = '<span class="no-new-topic">' . $title . '</span>';

}

}

return($title);

}