The best thing I can suggest is for you to look at the default/original vBulletin navbar template, locate $template_hook[navbar_buttons_left] or $template_hook[navbar_buttons_right] are normally located and put either of those hooks in the appropriate position in your customised navbar template and select the appropriate navbar placement option in this hack's vBulletin options for it to display. I can not be any more specific than that, because as you said, it is a customised template.

well, I can put the code into the navbar myself, that's not an issue, just need to know what exactly to put in - like whatever the code is that makes the link.. for example my user cp link, the code is:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="usercp.php">User CP</a></td>

so I can add in the link myself, if I now what to put between the two TD's - for example:

<td class="vbmenu_control"> Mosh's Unanswered Thread Info Goes Here</td>

Cool :)

Here you go, everything in the below HTML tags including the tds, just copy and paste where you need it:

Okay, I tried to add it into my navbar template, and got this error message:

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/jilly/public_html/forums/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3938) : eval()'d code on line 162

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.
and line 162 in my template is where I tried to put the code from above.

I know where I went wrong with this. Try this:

tried the new one, but still got the same error.. D'oh!

OK, the below is tested and working, so for the last time, copy and paste the below :)

yay, it worked! Thanks Mosh, awesome!

How (or where) do we remove the title 'Unanswered Threads' from the search drop down. It looks redundant. We need it to look more like what is used on this site...

Thanks :)

This change is not supported, but should work.

Edit the Forum-wide Search For Unanswered Threads plugin, find:
Change to: