Custom Board Closed Message
 

Something I recently saw requested.

This allows you to display a completely custom page to members when you close your forum (instead of the current standard error type page).

Note: The supplied "Board_Closed" template is pretty basic, you should customise it to suit your needs.


History:

v1.01 : Initial vb 3.6 release.
v1.02 : Added Template Caching.

first post

Was there some point to this ?

Any screen shots?

Are you kidding ? - what would I post a screenshot of exactly ?

hello Paul M,
tks a lot for share with us!:laugh:
all the best
beduino

No problem.

*Clicks Install*

I like it. Much better than the VB generic "forum closed" message.

As always, you rock, Paul. Many thanks! ;)

Nice mod. Thanks ;)

* sweeet *

/me clicks install and
/me never understood why people keep posting "First Post" crap

Thanks for this! :)

12th post - j/k!

thnx Paul, i'll check it out.

13th post

is there a point to this aswell

/me installed

And thats a good question, what the hell is the point to posting up "First Post"? WHO CARES?!?!?! There's going to eventually be 100, 200, 300, 3000 posts in here at some point in time.

/me is done ranting

Slick, Thanx Bro

this a really good mod but tell me what if i change the board closed page completely different that how will i look to the content (index) page . you know that in default admins can browse through pages when the board is closed :)

thanx man

Since you requested it, how about clicking install. :cool:

i did bro thanx alot again it works perfectly

Installed gr8 hack

Log out of your site and you'll see how it looks :rolleyes:

or use another browser ......

*confused* Before you laugh at me could you please tell me what I am supposed to do with the file I unzipped. All I have is an xml thing and I don't know what to do with it. Did I mention I am a total novice?

Import it into vB using the Product Manager.

I thought there was already an option to give a custom message when the board is set to closed, or am I misunderstanding the purpose of this mod?

Read the description.

Thanks Paul for this nice hack :)

Just what I was looking for!

*clicks installed*

when i first joined... i was wondering the same thing about posting... i chunked it up to it being a merit thing... whoever gets a certain amount of first posts... wins something....

anyway... thanks for the hack

Installed. However IMHO it would be a good idea to supply some basic instructions for editing the template.....

• $header
• $navbar
• $footer

...........for instance.

This mod is not the place for such things, there are plenty of threads on the subject, or you can ask in the appropriate forums. :)

How so ? This mod requires a template edit and the template supplied is very basic to say the least. Very poor instructions. OH I forgot, there are no BASIC instructions.
MOD rating = bad

This mod does not require any template edits, that's your choice. I'm not here to teach you how to edit templates. Surprisingly, no one else seems to have a problem.

I suggest you uninstall it, and look elsewhere for what you want.

I didn't have any problems at all. I edited the template and have a custom message now.
However it occured to me that this MOD does have the potential to cause a problem for those not used to editing the templates.

If for instance your browser crashes or you loose the connection whilst the board is in a disabled state, some may find it difficult to get back into their forum.


From your MOD post..

"should" - i.e. it's optional, not required - I'll bet most people don't (I haven't).

Im not tryna be negative.. but what in the world is the point of this when U can go to:
vb opts / Help Turn Your vBulletin On and Off / Reason For Turning Forum Off

BAM !.

Perhaps if you actually bothered to READ the description ........

Paul M, the only thing this mod missed is that it can't be used on multilanguage forums as there are no translation strings.

Also, I think that this mods control panel must be done as this mod has:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122998

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And when the board is closed the user will see smth like this:
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P.S. To understand what I am talking about you have to install this mode and see how the forums rules' page is generated there.

But that mod also doesn't have translation strings for that
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filelds.
But I know this is not to hard to implement. I hope so :p

What are you on about :confused: It's a template, you can edit it to be any language you like.

And if there are 3 languages on my forum? ;)

Any way I made a proposal above on how I see the next versions of this mod. :)