Center or remove - Forum Title & Welcome Message
 

This small modification will allow you to either center or removed vBulletin's small default forum title & welcome message.

Credit goes to myself & CoreyLTH

You should always BACKUP your database before making changes. ;)

To Center:

In ForumHome look for

Replace with:

To Remove:

In FORUMHOME

Look for:

And wrap it around wih

So when done it will look like


v1.1 = UPDATE 02-23-2011


IMPORTANT: Always backup your database before making any edits.

In navbar look for:

READ CLOSELY:

Wrap everything around it with

except for

So the surrounding code will look like this when done....

This will remove the "Home" icon and the word "Forum" on your Forum Homepage, but still keep your quick navigation links within your forums.


This really will depend on your own liking and the name of your site. Bit if you want to change the welcome message from,

"Welcome to the X"

And change it to

"Welcome to X"

Go to:

AdminCP > Languages & Phrases > Search in Phrases

Search for

Using the Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name search, option.

There should only find 1 per language installed

Change it to

PHP Code:

If you're tired of vBulletin you should upgrade to Woltlab Burning Board http://www.woltlab.com

Nice! Cant stand that big GAP up there!!

Where is the FORUMHOME file that I need to edit? I cannot find it.:confused:

You can easily find it by clicking on
AdminCP>Styles&Templates>Search in Templates

Search for: welcomemessage

I was looking how to get rid of this message last week!

Thanks!

Now if I can also get rid of that House and "Forum" I'd be happy too!

Amen to that :D would make it look much better :D

IMPORTANT: Always backup your database before making any edits.

In navbar look for:

READ CLOSELY:

Delete everything there except for

So the surrounding code will look like this when done....

This will remove the "Home" icon and the word "Forum" on your Forum Homepage, but still keep your quick navigation links within your forums.

FUN FACT: Removing this seems to speed up the page load. I would suspect its because it queries less in the CSS for browsers to decode.

NICE!!!

Awesome... Worked great

Thank you!

Awesomeness!!! thanks very much and this really does speed the page load up :D

:up: Installed! Thanks

Nice Mod :) Cheers, will certainly give this a workout in the coming days.

Awesome,works great and looks way better..thanks for this OldSchoolDSL mate

Mate,just got rid of the house and forum bit too and that is sweet ...thank you !!!

votes = 5 stars !!!!!!

very nice mod now my board looks better

I'm glad you like it and that its working for you.

* Please remember to click installed. I keep track and update modifications based on member feedback and on how many find it useful.

I love the idea but when I did it to my forums it did some bad things that maybe you can help me with:

look here: http://www.boatinghowto.com/showthre...rbor-Boat-Show

My Join us on facebook, youtube and twitter were put in my advertising slot and it jammed them up against my breadcrumbs on the same line.

Can you help?

tim

Sorry, but that is another modification and outside the realm of support for this modification.

My best guess is you want to use the "center" option and not the remove option for your Forum Title & Welcome Message. You should (maybe) able to still remove the "House" icon and the word "Forum" though (maybe).

The links instead of an advertisement aren't a modification, or at least to me they aren't. Instead of html opening a graphic for an advertisement, the html just says join us at...blah blah...So I am assuming that if I did have an advertisement it would do the same thing.

It did not do this until I edited the code as you described, so that code edit is the causing factor.

But you can disregard the assistance, I will put the original code back in.

thanks anyway.

thanks my friend

Is there also a way to get rid of that "Home" and arrow in the cms and "blog" and arrow in the blog?
Thanks

Not without removing your quick navigation.

very cool mod! altho i didn't use it to do anything but figure out how to change it from repeating the title twice & removing the "the" from the welcome message

now it says
"welcome to"
forum title

Vs the old

forum title
welcome to the "forum title"
^ redundant & looked horrendous

Thanks again!

AdminCP > Languages & Phrases > Search in Phrases

Search for
Using the Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name search

Edit (should only find 1 per language installed)

Change it to whatever you like. As suggested though.... I want it to say Welcome to SITE NAME
and finally remove the word "the".

So you can put in
:o
Sorry for the delay in my reply or update. I only recently switched back to vBulletin (Oh how I missed it) :o

Works good...Thank You

12 - 15 - 2011 - UPDATE
v1.2

Notice: This update need only be applied if you have already reverted your code, typically during a vBulletin upgrade and / or have not already installed this modification.

The changes made will help reduce any possible conflict and help limit the need to revert templates and re-apply for future updates of vBulletin.

Further this update also includes the optional grammar correction, which not everyone may need. But can be applied at any time (this version or previous version of the code)

If none of the above is true for you .... You do not need to update.

thanks. like this.

Tested working

4.1.10

Notice: You will need to re-apply after upgrading.

I successfully removed the house and "forum" but for some reason the I cannot get rid of the welcome box/message. This is what mine looks like, any suggestions? Does it matter I am using a Completevb skin?

<vb:comment> <div id="pagetitle">
<h1>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</h1>
<p id="welcomemessage" class="description">{vb:rawphrase welcome_to_the_x, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}</p>
</div> </vb:comment>

It shouldn't make a difference unless you have another hook for something that relates to it (custom code in the skin).

Try clearing your system cache and rebuilding the theme.

Hey Old School, thanks for the reply.

When you say "rebuilding the theme" what exactly does that mean?

Clear you system cache (on the server for the forum)

1)

AdminCP > Maintenance > Clear System Cache


2)

Rebuild theme / skin / style (however you wish to call it)

AdminCP > Maintenance > General Update Tools > Rebuild Styles > YES / YES > Rebuild Styles

Repeat step #1

Right but what happens to my skin, is it going to screw anything up by rebuilding it?

It shouldn't.

It just forces the system to "refresh" the skin from start (with your made edits)

Worse case I've ever seen is the CMS looks a little odd in which case you go do the following

AdminCP > vBulletin CMS > Verify and Repair Node Table

If you're really that worried, you should have remembered to follow step 1 in all my modifications (backup 1st, always).

Yeah I am doing a back up right now before I try it :)

Hmm.. cleared the cache, rebuilt the skin and still no change. Not sure what could be the problem.

My only advise would be to try this


Try adding the comment tags above and below.

If this does not work, please contact the skin author or investigate if you have any other modifications that add or subtract in that part of your site.

has this code been updated from using <center> yet? maybe margin:0 auto; or text-align:center; ?

Originally, I used center as to make it compatible with older browsers (and smart phones). Also to void conflicts for some past popular skins.

If you wish to suggest an alternative code, please provide it and I'll review it.

Copied and pasted it, cleared cache again and rebuilt it. Still no luck and unfortunately CompleteVB is not proving to have the best customer service. I have been trying to get my login info sent out for 3 days, their "forgot your username & password" does not work... Odd that the change to delete the house and forum worked but removing the Welcome box does not.

Interesting alternative. Only thing about that is vBulletin will suggest you revert upon upgrade, as it will not merge that code.

I think that was another reason why I stuck with center code. To avoid the confusion for noobs about that.

But that is a good alternative.