Post status icons

[paul4]

Hi, newbie here.

Wow, two sets of vBulletin forums, only just found this one :o

We have recently decided to move our 10 year old message board (6000 members) to vBulletin. We have managed to customise the board to match our style, but have a few things I cannot do. The "old" message board system relied on CSS as a customisation "tool", I'm not sure where to start on vBulletin. It is difficult to move to a.n.other system as the methods and terminology are alien, but this (as best I can explain it) is one of my requirements.

re. Post Status Icons. I don't want several of the Post Status Icons: "Hot Threads"; "No New Posts "and "You have posted in this thread" ones - leaving me with the two I do want which are the "New Posts" and the "Thread is closed". I have only found removal options for the "hot thread" ones in the CP, so i removed them.

I found a thread on "the other forum" and from that I deduced that there were no removal options in the CP for the others? So, I made some replacement 1px x 1px icons as described but these show as a dot ,since they are displayed against a black and a grey background on my board I had to choose one of the two colours (maybe transparency is somehow an option I could look at). The problem is that the "key" explaining the meaning of the symbols remains at the bottom.

How would I remove this please?

Reiterating, I just want a "New Posts" symbol and the words "new Posts", and a "locked symbol" and the words "Thread is locked"

thanks

[Hell Bomb]

they are at the bottom of your FORUMHOME and FORUMDISPLAY templates just remove the ones you want to get rid of :)

[paul4]

Thanks Tom

Please bear with me as this is so new to me as yet.

Where and how do I find these FORUMHOME and FORUMDISPLAY templates? I've navigated around the AdminCP quite a bit and see "Save" buttons but whilst just looking am apprehensive about withdrawing without saving - is it ok just to use the browser's back button or just navigate further without hitting the "Save"?

paul4

[Hell Bomb]

go to the admincp and you should see Style and Templates. in that mini category click style manager, then go to your style and from the drop down menu select edit template.

[paul4]

Just seen this, so thanks again

That was very helpful, I am finding my way slowly around now. But it's PHP and I know very little about this although it looks "fairly recogniseable"

Can one make changes; see the effect; and then if not as expected (or simply that the changes were wrongly actioned :o) get back?

Is that what the "revert" button does?

Also, do you close the board and do this, or make a copy of the style and try changing that?

Sorry for the newbie-type questions but am still a bit apprehensive at this stage

Another example of the sort of this I want to do, apart from the post status icons question, is how to change the colour of the "thread title" , in this case "Barbel Talk"

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

I could try, if I could find where maybe, but would not be sure if there were other texts affected too.

paul4

[Hell Bomb]

Hmmm I'm really not sure but ill be take a look around and see if i can find it, ill post back when I find it. I think it will be in the navbar template under navigation/breadcrumb as what you want to change is the breadcrumb.

[paul4]

Thanks again. Would appreciate your help for sure :)