- Not really. I'm saying from experience that if you are going to get into coding, it really helps to be able to search for a word in all files in a directory. You want to know whenever that phrase comes up and you want to do something instead. How else will you find all instances you have to change - by just opening up all files and doing a search in that particular file? If you want to just open up the files and search for the code, then that is fine. I know there are other users who do it that way. But, personally, I would not be able to use that method. I would not be able to guess every file I would have to look at and I'm not a new user to vbulletin.
- I suppose you could create a
Custom Profile Fields and then put a condition in all those templates - if fieldx == 'yes', show this code, else show that code, type of thing. You can try that on your test site and see how that works out.