Hmm, that is sad! Any word from vBulletin regarding this? I mean on one hand they want to promote plugins and on other they have a system where you cant really live without a file edit. Although config.php isnt a big issue here, but why edit anything to begin with?
I tried editing config.php as follows:
Code:
if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
$specialtemplates[] = 'item';
}
but it didnt show anything in the index page. Then I just edited the $specialtemplate array in index.php manually, added 'item' and it worked fine.