Open the template, look at the class elements and pick the ones you want to customize.

I've the same problem.

Is it a known issue?

did you add the required variable to your navbar template?

What are you holding for future use?

As mods grow I use the first post to share common hacks. This one has not had any such contributions apparently.

When we do limited guest viewing does that affect to search engines as well ? I meant to ask if its a good thing or a bad thing since my forum is new. ? Thanks

Read the install file as the main thread indicates. Explains this at length.

I'm glad to answer any follow up questions but start with what's already explained.

You mentioned not limiting bots by cookies, why not check their USER AGENT? Generally bots have static user agents.

Cookies insure any basic spider makes it through without having to worry about listing every bot known.

With hundreds of bots and evolving names [a smart bot would certainly check with another user agent to detect content gaming] it's not the primary method I went for. 5 or 6 of the biggest are whitelisted this way however. You are free to add as many more as you like.

After expanding the capability of Ted's excellent mod into support our vbCMS extension, we've started to look at ways to ensure people just don't clear cookies and start over using our site research resources without registering.

So, here's what we'd like feedback on ... :)

Ted offers a method to log users as an option in his mod, but before we turn it ON, we wanted to query ...

Combined with storing the IP log forever (if you wanted), this seems to be an obvious method of getting people who clear cookies (or have that browser option OFF) be forced to register to continue to view our site all, unless of course they change IP addresses.

We get about 600 members logging in every 24 hours with about 3,000 guests (supposedly no bots as per Paul M's mod). Is there anyone here with a medium sized site who uses this option and if so, what kind of performance hit do you get using it? Also, did you find it affected "spiders" in a negative way?

Thanks for any feedback .. :)

Regards,
Doug