[Paul M]

Originally Posted by michaelbenson

I would have preferred to be able to place the count of unread posts where we wanted in the navbar box much easier. I ended up having to made aload of edits to the search text bit to make it replace the correct area that i wanted!

I don't see you would need to make "aload of edits". If you want to place it somewhere custom, just put a comment in the template at the location you want ( like <!-- unread posts here --> ) and change the search to look for that comment. Simple really.