[Booyakan]

Thank you both.

I ended up not using any plugins or includes. I just edited my showthread.php. That worked for me. If anyone sees anything wrong with doing it this way please let me know, thanks.

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// check forum permissions
$forumperms = fetch_permissions($thread['forumid']);
if (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview']) OR !($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canviewthreads']) OR ($threadinfo['threadid'] == 1014)
)
{
print_no_permission();
}
if (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canviewothers']) AND ($thread['postuserid'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] OR $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == 0))
{
print_no_permission();
}

//