Replace User's Online Status Image with Text Equivalent
 

This is a pretty basic template change while will remove the online/offline status pips, and replace them with a Text status bar instead.

Edit the postbit_onlinestatus Template and replace the whole thing with:
Remember, if you know what you're doing, you can replace the colours with ones that suit your forum's style.

Save that, then open the postbit or postbit_legacy Template (Whichever one you use.)

Find this and delete it:
Then find:
Then add below:

That's it, folks! Enjoy it, and the original idea came from Tony's vB3.0 mod.

Nice, I like this!

This hack is very old...

can we get a screen shot to have a general idea of how it looks thanks...

Well, given it is simply text, I'd imagine viewing text stating your online, offline or invisible :).

It simply replaces the online/offline images vBulletin uses by standard with that of basic text.

<if condition="$show['reputation']">$post[reputationdisplay]</if>

this doesnt exist in 3.5.4 postbit templates

You can pretty much stick it where ever you want it to show up.

thank you

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for. :)

Installed. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Kind of off-topic: Can you do the same thing with reputation?

Instead of showing the image, show the specific number.