[dead7]

I'll try to post a screenshot here in a bit. This is a temp design so a login won't work since its not active to show.

Basically you're familiar with navbar and how your hack goes into that template to display X Unread Posts.

I have removed everything from navbar except the breadcrumb portion which gives the breadcrumb nav as people use the forums.

I then added a right column to the entire forum. I took the Welcome/PM/Unread Posts from the navbar and added it into my right column on the top.

Therefore what navbar had, i removed, and put inside of my right column.

Basically in the end, all i did was move $newposts to my right column and removed it from navbar template. Everything the phrase has displays just fine, just the actual count of how many posts are unread doesn't show up.

For instance i changed mine to say

# Unread Posts since your last visit.

It now says

Unread posts since your last visit

It doesn't even render that $newposts variable to show the actual number of posts.

If this still isn't clear let me know and i'll find a way to get a good screen shot in the half_done design that we're trying this in.

Thanks for your help on this support issue Paul, its truly appreciated.