Remove guest welcome / first visit message
 

Hi,

this is only a little one but everybody starts from the scratch :)
I spent some time to search for that issue so I think it's of value to documentate it for others looking for the same issue.

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What ...?

vb shows to unregistered users a guest welcome message (first visit) on the Forum Home.


Why ....?

Maybe you just like to have that message gone or use the Notice system (Display this notice if > user belongs to usergroup "unregistered / not logged in"

How ...?

• Go to your Admin Control Panel
• Open the "Styles & Templates" > "Style Manager"
• Select "Edit templates"
  • you have to repeat that step for every parent style
• Find the "FORUMHOME" template and edit it
• Find this block
  
  Code:

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  <if condition="$show['guest']">
<!-- guest welcome message -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td class="tcat"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt1">
        <phrase 1="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" 2="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
    </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
<br />
</if>

  ---

• Remove it & save the template

hehe simple :) but i think thats a very good way to tell the guests who visit your forum what the site is about ..

it may not be a good idea to remove that ..

well, I totaly agree with that. But since vb offers the Notice system I prefer to use that instead of the "guest welcome message". Especially as you can use the Notices on every page (-> search engines reffering to threads) and the guest welcome message is only shown on the forum home

thanks for sharing this :D

yeah i agree with pip, i want to use the notice system instead of the first visit message, thanks alot for this pip. :)

Actualy I was thinking about doing this the other day since I use the notice system to post welcome and other messages based on conditionals and this was redundent.

Though I highly recommend you use TMS to do ALL template edits :)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=152931

I was exactly lookig for this, Thank you.

Thanks for this - it is definately a great addon for my sites.