diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f30b478..29595fc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Advanced-Sidebox 3.1.16
+## Advanced-Sidebox 3.1.17
 
 <p align="center">
   <img title="Advanced Sidebox Logo" alt="Advanced Sidebox Logo" src="http://i.imgur.com/4QWLq5V.png" />
diff --git a/Upload/inc/plugins/asb.php b/Upload/inc/plugins/asb.php
index 5ae64b5..92f87df 100644
--- a/Upload/inc/plugins/asb.php
+++ b/Upload/inc/plugins/asb.php
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 // for modules
 define('IN_ASB', true);
 define('ASB_MODULES_DIR', MYBB_ROOT.'inc/plugins/asb/modules');
-define('ASB_VERSION', '3.1.16');
+define('ASB_VERSION', '3.1.17');
 define('ASB_CUSTOM_VERSION', '2.0');
 define('ASB_SCRIPT_VERSION', '2.0');
 
diff --git a/Upload/inc/plugins/asb/acp.php b/Upload/inc/plugins/asb/acp.php
index 32472d9..5a0a916 100644
--- a/Upload/inc/plugins/asb/acp.php
+++ b/Upload/inc/plugins/asb/acp.php
@@ -1815,4 +1815,41 @@ function asbUpdateThemeSelectSettingOnEdit()
 	asbUpdateThemeSelectSetting();
 }
 
+/**
+ * add our user sidebox preference setting in user edit
+ *
+ * @param  array options
+ * @return void
+ */
+$plugins->add_hook('admin_user_users_edit_other_options', 'asb_admin_user_users_edit_other_options');
+function asb_admin_user_users_edit_other_options($other_options)
+{
+	global $mybb, $user, $lang, $form, $form_container;
+
+	if (!$lang->asb) {
+		$lang->load('asb');
+	}
+
+	$checked = false;
+	if ($user['show_sidebox'] > 0) {
+		$checked = true;
+	}
+
+	array_unshift($other_options, $form->generate_check_box('show_sidebox', 1, 'Show side boxes', array("checked" => $mybb->input['show_sidebox'])));
+	return $other_options;
+}
+
+/**
+ * update the user sidebox preference when saving the user
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+$plugins->add_hook('admin_user_users_edit_commit_start', 'asb_admin_user_users_edit_commit_start');
+function asb_admin_user_users_edit_commit_start()
+{
+	global $mybb, $extra_user_updates;
+
+	$extra_user_updates['show_sidebox'] = $mybb->input['show_sidebox'];
+}
+
 ?>
diff --git a/Upload/inc/plugins/asb/modules/recent_posts.php b/Upload/inc/plugins/asb/modules/recent_posts.php
index 029d215..0063495 100644
--- a/Upload/inc/plugins/asb/modules/recent_posts.php
+++ b/Upload/inc/plugins/asb/modules/recent_posts.php
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ function recent_posts_get_postlist($settings)
 		// we just need the text and smilies (we'll parse them after we check length)
 		$pattern = "|[[\/\!]*?[^\[\]]*?]|si";
 		$post_excerpt = strip_tags(str_replace('<br />', '', asbStripUrls(preg_replace($pattern, '$1', $post['message']))));
+		$post_excerpt = htmlspecialchars_uni($parser->parse_badwords($post_excerpt));
 
 		if ($settings['max_length'] &&
 			strlen($post_excerpt) > $settings['max_length']) {