Why doesn't the Vbulletin Modifications Forum show on forum index?
 

Silly question but its got me stumped. If I search for a specific hack, they are all in the modifications forum. This forum doesn't appear to be listed in the main index. Why not?

If all the forums were shown on the Forums page, it would be really, really long. Thus, the Mods and Articles and Styles and Graphics all have their own tabs. (Just set the display order to 0 in the Forum Manager and you can do the same thing.)

Ahhh so that's how its setup. Thanks!

No it isnt how its setup, as that stops them appearing in the forum jump menu. Its actually a little plugin that hides them.

Interesting. I didn't know that... but then I've never tried to set up my forum like this.

Paul ? Share it? Would be a great hit!

This is not pauls/vBulletin.org's mod but it does the same thing except with JavaScript. This is also for vB4.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233135

vBulletins' stock functionality does allow just putting in '0' and it hides it from forum jump/the index...last I checked it did, anyways.

That's not ideal, as it hides the forum from search pages (among other things).

Thanks for the link, i never knew that.:p

wrong again... search engines do not "look" at pages, they follow links after links to create the sitemap by themselves... there is a link in the header of the site, the search engines will go to it... even if you set your forums to 0, a crawler doesn't care.

Actually Nex, i think you have mis-read - he didnt say search engines. I believe he means it hides them from the forum list in the search page.

Yes, Paul is correct. Setting the display order to zero means that the forum is not listed on the "Advanced Search" page.

Doh.. my fault... ;)