Hide Avatars & Signatures from Guests

I searched the forum for this template modification and failed to find a satisfactory result. The following template modifications will prevent guests (unregistered / not logged in) from seeing avatars and signatures.

Why? Some communities have avatars with NSFW (not safe for work) avatars and signatures. This adult content should not be viewed in most workplaces or by new guests not wanting such exposure. This insures that they won't run into problems until they register -- after which they were hopefully instructed to disable them in their User CP if desired.


Before starting you'll want to verify the usergroup id of Unregistered / Not Logged In. It should be one, but check in your Usergroup Manager to make sure.
Anyways...

Go to your Admin CP and open your Style Manager. Find your default style and select edit templates from the drop down menu. Expand Postbit Templates and select postbit.

Find...

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<if condition="$show['avatar']" 


Add before...

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<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 1"> 


Find...

PHP Code:

$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td></if> 


Add after...

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</if> 


Find...

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<if condition="$post['signature']"> 


Add before...

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<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 1"> 


Find...

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        <!-- / sig -->
        </if> 


Add after...

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</if> 


The same edits must be made in postbit_legacy.

Avatars and signatures should no longer be visible to guests. Be sure to verify that registered users can still view avatars and signatures.

I'm no expert coder and I'm a relative newbie to vBulletin, but I hope this helps someone. It helped me.

[Alfa1]

Since the template has got hooks for the signature, it seems better to use a separate plugin if you only want to hide signature from guests. Hiding signatures from guests can do a lot of good for your SEO.

Why not use the hooks: postbit_signature_start and postbit_signature_end to add the code that Zieen describes above?

Originally Posted by Fungsten

I'm not sure but I think if you go to where the group IDs are you can add them separated by commas.

<if condition="!in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], array(1, 2, 3))">

[saviola8x]

i like it.

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Since the template has got hooks for the signature, it seems better to use a separate plugin if you only want to hide signature from guests. Hiding signatures from guests can do a lot of good for your SEO.

Why not use the hooks: postbit_signature_start and postbit_signature_end to add the code that Zieen describes above?


<if condition="!in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'], array(1, 2, 3))">

How did that work. If it didn't try "|" without the ".

[baktabul]

I want to hide ads from all members, is there any basic way ?

[siliconfinance]

search template conditionals and locate the if statement that looks like this:

<If guest>
Ad
</if>

[Spada_FMC]

I really love this easy looking mod! However, I was hoping I could just have the ability to hide images in the signature for multiple groups.

What's the best way to accomplish that?

[thompson]

thanks for that

[busybeeburns]

Originally Posted by MoB Dudditz MD

Very nice - something so simple that I have overlooked but needed.
Cuts loading time and saves bandwidth of visitors.TY

I believe you can go one step further by combining both conditionals.

<if condition="$show['avatar'] AND $show['member']">

<if condition="$post['signature'] AND $show['member']">

SEE BELOW
This way, you avoid the extra </if> since its not needed
and saves a few characters of code in the process.

In your postbit and postbit_legacy
FIND:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['avatar']"> 


REPLACE WITH:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['avatar'] AND $show['member']"> 


FIND:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$post['signature']"> 


REPLACE WITH:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$post['signature'] AND $show['member']"> 


this worked thanks!