Some Questions

[griffinzx10]

I had some questions about my VB forum. I wanted to make some changes and wanted to know how I would go about this. I will list them. Any and all feed back would be greatly appreciated.. Thank you in advance to those that took the time to read and respond.

1. I want to get some different templates so users can choose the skin of the forum. How do I go about finding them? Uploading them? Is this difficult to do?

2. Certain sections of my forum we designate as Anti-Hijacking zones, and try to be pretty strict about it. Is there any way that I can set the default color of those threads to something different than the Blue color it shows now? So this way every time someone posts something in that section, it is a differnt color by default. And if someone uses the new posts button, will the different color still show, kind of a way to let someone who is using the new posts button know that this is an anti-hijacking zone?

3. Is there a way to turn off the user post count? And if so, will this affect the counter on the site for threads/posts?

4. Is there a hack for a shoutbox? How easy/hard is it to insall?

Sorry for the long post, and sorry if these sound remeadial, I am still new to this whole process.

Thanks again...

[Kirk Y]

1. If you click the Styles tab up top, you can find Styles that users here have created and made available for the community. There are other sites that also have premium skins available for purchase: ExtremePixels, vBStyles, etc.

To give your users the ability to select multiple styles: Go into your AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Style and Language Settings -> Allow Users to Change Styles -> Yes

2. I'm not sure what you mean... I don't really understand what you're after.

3. If you're referring to the "Posts:" string in the postbit, then yes, you can remove it from the postbit template.

$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]

4. Yes, the one that many users use is vBShout: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93097

It's fairly easy to install, just a few file uploads and a Product Import -- like most of other mods on the site.

[griffinzx10]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

1. If you click the Styles tab up top, you can find Styles that users here have created and made available for the community. There are other sites that also have premium skins available for purchase: ExtremePixels, vBStyles, etc.

To give your users the ability to select multiple styles: Go into your AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Style and Language Settings -> Allow Users to Change Styles -> Yes

2. I'm not sure what you mean... I don't really understand what you're after.

3. If you're referring to the "Posts:" string in the postbit, then yes, you can remove it from the postbit template.

$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]

4. Yes, the one that many users use is vBShout: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93097

It's fairly easy to install, just a few file uploads and a Product Import -- like most of other mods on the site.

Thank you for your reply, regarding number 2 what I was referring to was is there a way to Change the Default color for thread topics in just a few areas of the forum.
Lets say I have 7 different sections on the forum, and of those 7 I want 4 of them to be a little different. What I mean by different is this, in those 4 sections, let say that I want every thread that someone posts to automatically be a different color. If the vb software has the threads default color as Blue, can I make it so that those 4 different sections have every new thread created as a different color then blue, say red??

I hope this gives a clearer explination of what I am looking to do....

Again thanks all for the help

[Kirk Y]

Well, I've written a modification called Thread Title Coloring (Search if you're interested) that does that, but it's on a global scale, allowing the coloring of different types of threads: Closed, Stickied, Moderated, etc.

If you've got any experience with PHP IF Conditions, then it wouldn't be difficult to modify it to act in such a way... in fact, you've just given me an idea for a new version.

[griffinzx10]

Thank you, I will check that out..
Question about using the post count,
3. If you're referring to the "Posts:" string in the postbit, then yes, you can remove it from the postbit template

If I do this, will it remove the post count for site members, but still keep the overall post count of the site? meaning if Bob has 3000 posts, and I remove the post count, it wont show that bob has 3000 posts, but if you look at the site stats, it will show that the site still has 7000 threads and 150,000 total posts on the entire site?

[Kirk Y]

It just removes the data from being displayed -- it's not going to alter your forum's data; that's why Templates and PHP Files are seperated from one another, you can't damage your forum by editing templates - you could make it look really ugly, but you wouldn't damage it.

[griffinzx10]

Ok, so please deal with the not so smart guy here... I can remove the post count from all the members profiles, and leave it on for the forum..

Lately, a lot of people have been posting a bunch of crap, just so they can have a higher post count.. I figure if I eliminate people's post count, it will decrease the postwhoring on my site..

[Kirk Y]

Yeah if you just remove all the postcount bits from the templates, that'll do it.