Hide Version Number. Updated with hiding the version everywhere automatically.
 

This is a small hack that it will allow you to turn off the public display of the version number of your vBulletin forum. You can enable and disable it at the Acp-Options-Forums Home Page Options.

I know that it can be easily done by changing the language phrase but this way is handier in my opinion.

Updated: With hiding the version in the templates automatically with thanks to Boofo.

Update again. Now it hides the version at the archives as well and therefore the version is hidden everywhere.

thanks, maybe you should change it from MYBB in description :)

I caught that as well and I did change it. Thank you :)

Is this allowed by IB? If yes, you should remove it from the Page's Source as well, if possible.

I am not sure I know what you mean if it is allowed by IB? Did you mean if vb allows it? if so, then yes. You are allowed to remove the version number.

You don't hide the version number from the js files.

What is the + side of having this?

It helps a bit on avoiding being targeted by the hackers that hunt for version vulnerabilities by googling for them and hacking forums at random.

I see. i wil have to use this then. thanks.

You are welcome.

Ok, thanks for the reply borbole.

Good hack for people who don't want to deal with changing it manually.

nice mod, thanxxxxxxx

You are welcome.

Indeed.
You are welcome.

You are welcome.

I'm still showing

Anyway for your code to remove that?

You can remove that manually at the template where it is defined as my hack doesn''t do that. It simply removes it from the footer.

installed tnks man

You are welcome.

Thanks for the info

I was one of the first sites to upload to vbulletin 4.0 Beta. I literally went live when vbulletin was in beta. After that my site got hacked a bunch of times...and it was hackers searching for my specific version of vbulletin that targeted my site after looking at the logs.

So good mod.

LOL no point in using this, as you can view page source of your site :)

You are welcome.

Thanks for clicking the Install button.

I know what you mean and that is exactly the idea behind the mod although some may argue that it adds security through abscurity.

As stated above, the point for using this mod is to hide the version number when hackers google for outdated version and hack forums at random. It helps a lot in this case, trust me :)

well, nice one but let me tell u something , it's not hide the version number in the archive , i hope u will fix this :)

Your wrong... this mod only removes the version number, but its useless because you would still appear on google because this is coded into one of the templates:

Obviously you can take it out if you find the template (not changable in general settings), but you would have to do this every time you upgrade...

Doesnt help at all because google checks the meta rather than content in 99.99% of all cases...

I am not wrong at all. If you search at google for, Powered by vBulletin? Version 4.0.1, for ex, your forum will not come up in the search results, if the version number is hidden. And that is the wole idea of the mod as stated above numerous times.

Installed great mod!

One question though. This hack removes it from the forum area, but my version of Vbulletin still shows up on the CMS homepage? Is there anyway to remove that number too?

It should be a way to remove it from the cms homepage but to be honest I don''t know vb''s cms as I have never used it. Sorry that I can''t be of help.

it is not showing up on my cms homepage with the older version but the new update it does so just use the previous version if you have not got it i can pm you it

This hack delete our french copyright, a suggestion:

• In "Hide Version" pluginn find:

• Replace with:

I hadn''t thought of other languages to be honest as I use only english at my forum. Thanks for reminding me and for posting the code. I am sure it will come in handy to a lot of people who use another language other than english.

Uploaded it and turned it on in admin CP but it never worked for me :(

Only the display of the translation copyright or the hack himself ?

Nice one but does not really help. Just open the Source Code and u will find at the very top
Would be nice if u would do a recode, that will hide the whole Version Numbers

It was still showing the 4.0.1 but now that I've updated to 4.0.2 it's working correctly now :up:

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Thats what I said. As long as this is in the source code, google and other search engines will always show your website... regardless of it been removed from the bottom of the footer... please research how google uses the meta tags...

its not working in the cms page

Sorry about that but I don''t have a cms that I could test it.

Definitely, this CMS causes a lot of issues. It only remains to edit directly the phrase: remove Version {1} from powered_by_vbulletin. I didn't find others methods.