In your template you have 'postdate' and 'posttime' instead of 'firstpostdate' and 'firstposttime'

In the 5th line of your template, try changing...

<smallfont>$thread[postdate] $thread[posttime]<br>

to

<smallfont>$thread[firstpostdate] $thread[firstposttime]<br>

Hope this get's it!

Its working now. The template was weird. For some reason, my on/off graphics were linked to:

I saw the new style Im working and notice its using the same green buttons here. I freaked out at my co-designer, I thought he ripped them, but he said he didnt even touch the template. Im confused how the hell that got in there. Well I reverted back to the original template and added your code and it works great now. Just gotta reapply that CSS rollover code.

Perhaps I copied the URL by mistake and pasted in there, but I dont ever recall (certainly not today at least) wanting the URL to the new/off buttons, so I wonder wtf happened?

Well anyway thanks for all the help!

LOL - don't rip on yer poor co-desingner - it's the way VB handles replacement varialbles, even in code - it's happened to all of us!

Just be careful when copying code directly from the site - if it says { imagesfolder} (without the space after the {) it will give you the local reference path to it...

Glad it's working for you now - it's a great little hack!

PS - for clarity the following are the same except for the space following the {... In both cases I typed in the word imagesfolder and imagesfolder - in the first case the {} brackets are around the statement, in the second, I left a leading space after the first { - and here is the result - the absolute local path to this installations 'imagesfolder' shows up in the first case!! Welcome to the world of replacement variables...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/greentek
{ imagesfolder}

In both cases, I typed in imagesfolder - but in the first example, I left no spaces between { and the name. vBulletin then parses it as the path to the local 'imagesfolder' (which is https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/greentek) - which is what happened to you. This can be annoying at times, but one of the things you have to watch for! :D

Try it for yourself and see...

cool, nice little hack