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...

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['avatar']" 


Add before...

PHP Code:

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


Find...

PHP Code:

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


Add after...

PHP Code:

</if> 


Find...

PHP Code:

<if condition="$post['signature']"> 


Add before...

PHP Code:

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


Find...

PHP Code:

        <!-- / sig -->
        </if> 


Add after...

PHP Code:

</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.

[Mum]

Originally Posted by MoB Dudditz MD

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']"> 


I tried this but doesn't work for 3.6.8 are you able to help me? All i want to do is hide the signatures unless you are logged in.

[Fungsten]

I can't see it using an admin account. Uninstalled the mods.

[Mum]

What do you mean you can't see it? Once you've made the changes, only members will see it. So you need to log out, having an admin account won't help.

[Kimmi]

Will this also stop certain usergroups from seeing the sigs.. or does some k now what code i could change to do so.?

thanks

[deezelpope]

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']"> 


Beautiful! Thank you, this is exactly what I've been looking for!:up:

[urdu]

Hello,

if i want add more then 1 group

like Users Awaiting Email Confirmation and (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation

so what i do ?

[urdu]

Originally Posted by urdu

Hello,

if i want add more then 1 group

like Users Awaiting Email Confirmation and (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation

so what i do ?

no body here in vb.org can help me ???

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by urdu

no body here in vb.org can help me ???

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

[urdu]

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.

you mean like this ?

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 1,2">

or

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 1, 2">

or

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 1 , 2">

========
i tryed all these one by one but not working even i got error

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by urdu

you mean like this ?

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 1,2">

or

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 1, 2">

or

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 1 , 2">

========
i tryed all these one by one but not working even i got error

Don't know. Sorry.