[Jo_RHU]

Originally Posted by kh99

There's a mod here that does this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=266744 but the free version only does it for the CODE tag, and it looks like maybe the premium version isn't being sold any more? At least I couldn't find a link to it, or find it on his site. (ETA: he has in fact announced on his site that he is no longer offering premium vbulletin mods.)

If you can do some coding you might be able to figure out how it works and write your own.

Fantastic, this is working Thanks so much (don't know how I missed that one whilst searching, I guess just searching 'hide' instead of 'hider')

For anyone else interested, I just changed every instance of (without the spaces):

[ code ] & [ /code ] to [ private ] & [ /private ]
[ CODE ] & [ /CODE ] to [ PRIVATE ] & [ /PRIVATE ]
[ newcode ] & [ /newcode ] to [ newprivate ] & [ /newprivate ]
[ NEWCODE ] & [NEWCODE ] to [ NEWPRIVATE ] & [ /NEWPRIVATE ]

then because the plugin uses character stripping, had to change instances of '+ 7' to '+ 10' to match the word length, so increase or decrease this number as per the number of characters in your bbcode (the original was CODE, and it used +7, so you want to use your number of characters +3)

Then upload, edit the settings in the Options menu and you're done Awesome.

I want to also try and have the bbcode viewable by the thread starter so I'm going to attempt to just add a conditional for this wherever the conditional for usergroups is within the plugin, so wherever it says this:

if($vbulletin->options['bbchide_code'] && is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, explode(',', $vbulletin->options['bbchide_code_usergroups'])))

eta: updated as I forgot to include the [ newcode ] bits to change