[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by odln018

That's odd, I defined a new category and the "Link" button popped up, my apologies for the firedrill

No problem. Perhaps the coding is too clever for its own good.

Originally Posted by odln018

1) How would I go about adding in images/banners to category descriptions?

The easiest way to do this for banners is to use Vb codes e.g. the img code. For small icon images, you can try Edit Category/Display Settings/cat_icon and cat_icon_new

Originally Posted by odln018

2) I placed the cpnav_xlinks.xml into my /forums/includes/xml directory, yet I do not see an option in the VB ACP to access it. What have I done wrong here?

Usually the Links and Download group appears close to the top of the list in the left hand column of the ACP. Sometimes I've noticed that you need to close all browser windows completely and restart before VB picks up these xml files.

Originally Posted by odln018

3) How can I get rid of "Submitted by", Date, hits, size, display order when viewing entries?

You can get rid of several of these by changing the permissions (LDM/Admin/Permissions)

"Submitted by" - take away can_view_names permission
hits - take away can_view_hits permission
display order - take away can_set_display_order permission

For Date and size you would have to edit the template (VB/styles/style manager/edit templates) If you're using the standard layout (outer box with inner box on the right hand side, you would have to edit the links_linkbit template. As example, I attach a modified version of the links_linkbit template without the right nahd box.