Two questions please...
 

Firstly, I'd like to know how (like on this site) some sites have the forum name and a description under the navbar.

Example: on General vBulletin Discussions page it says...
Secondly, I'd like to know if it's possible to turn of the display of the box on the forumdisplay.php page that says "Showing Threads x to xx" and has a dropdown that lets them choose: Sorted By, Sort Order, From, etc.

I'd like to set the settings in the admin panel and not allow the users to change them. This should be possible with an <if> </if> conditional, no?

THANK YOU!

Its a stock feature of vBulletin 3.5/6 I believe, using the default templates will show you this.

Any reason you dont want your users to have a choice in how they view their forum?

My mods just have a pet peeve about new users signing up and reviving threads that are like 6 years old in the general chat areas, with like a "me too" or "this is awesome, thanks" post.

I'd still like to have the threads there for searching and archiving purposes, and this is just for the general chat areas, the rest i'd leave alone.

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Aha, the forum description got messed up in my custom template (typo of "$forum[description]" instead of "$foruminfo[description]") and that's why it wasn't showing up. That's what happens when you try to do everything yourself and are up all night, every night, doing it because you have a real job during the day. lol, silly me.

THANKS AGAIN!

I'd suspect that they found those threads by searching, rather than by scanning through page after page of threads.

This might be more effective:
This is a private mod I use to prevent thread digging; ignore the "Member" and "Senior Member" stuff, that ties in with my activity mod, but it should work fine without if you use the "Junior Member" setting for all users. Threads can still get dug up by mods and sticky threads are exempt.

This is not a release. This mod comes as is, with no support.

I looked thru the .xml maually just now, and this looks like just what I need.

One question, do I need to create a "Junior Member", etc usergroups before importing this? Is that the name of a usergroup, or is it using some other method to determin who is a junior member, etc?

I'd like to use it with my "registred users" which is the base level on my boards, and "members" which is next up... anyone above "members" inherits the settings from "members", so it's all good from there.

This way users who are registered, but either haven't subbscribed or been automatically promoted to a "member" (or above) are not allowed to revive old threads, but everyone else is.

Can I just change the .xml to work with those groups? I know you said you'd not give support... I just thought you may feel like answering, if not i'll figure it out eventually... THANK YOU!! :D :up:

As I said, it's designed to work with my activity mod. If you're not using the activity mod, everyone is treated as a Junior Member. Anyone who is a moderator of the forum containing the thread is exempt (including super mods and admins). At the top of two of the plugins is the logic to determine if a user is Junior(1),Normal(2), or Senior(3). Feel free to modify it at your own risk if you aren't satisfied.