[sandy771]

Its not a control panel issue I am afraid.

I received this from someone at vB

It is hard-coded into the blog.php page to not allow unregistered users to see the blog page (see around line 328

The code the seem to be referring to is:

/* Check they can view a blog, any blog */
if (!($vbulletin->userinfo['permissions']['vbblog_general_permissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_vbblog_general_permissions['blog_canviewothers']))
{
	if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] OR !($vbulletin->userinfo['permissions']['vbblog_general_permissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_vbblog_general_permissions['blog_canviewown']))
	{
		print_no_permission();
	}
}

I tried commenting it out but it made no difference, I could not log out and then go direct to the blog, nor could I hit the blog button on the front page - in both cases I was presented with a login page.

So I assume that there is something else. I am not very familair with php and not at all familair with vBulletin hacking so some pointers would be useful.