Welcome Panel for 3.8?

[Blue91]

That didn't work either. I took all of the code from my navbar template (where the welcome panel mod is) and pasted it where you said in the adv_portal template between the $header and $navbar text. All it got me was a second "stock" welcome panel and navbar links. See screenshot below. I've since reverted it.

Here is what I don't understand. The adv_portal template calls for $navbar. Well, my navbar template has everything I want to see. WHY isn't this what shows on the vbA page? It's as if the adv_portal template is pulling the navbar template from somewhere else instead of pulling the navbar template from within the same style.

I've made numerous changes to my navbar template. Half of them show on the vbA site home page and half of them don't. Example... my dynamic Forums / Home Page link shows correctly. My "Better" New Posts show correctly. My "My Threads from Past Month" shows (under my quick links menu).

However, my Welcome Panel doesn't show and my UserCP dropdown menu doesn't show even though the codes for these are in the same navbar template as the others that I listed above. Is it because they might be pulling info from templates or hooks or something like that? I'm not familiar enough with that stuff yet to know what's causing some to work and some not to work.

Hopefully I'm being clear enough with my descriptions.

Thanks.