Miscellaneous Hacks - vBulletin Style Skin for MediaWiki

vBulletin MediaWiki Skin

The purpose of this mod is to get your MediaWiki to look like your forums... A lot of people have been having trouble getting their Wikis to look streamlined with their forums, this is my first attempt.

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INSTALLATION
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1. Upload the contents of the "upload" folder to the "skins" directory of your Wiki installation...

2. Go into WIKIDIRECTORY/skins/vBulletin.php and replace all instances of <URLTOFORUMS> with the URL to your forums (ex: http://www.vbulletin.com/forums), make sure to leave the trailing slash off.

If you use the standard vBulletin skin, you are DONE. Your new skin can be selected or forced in your Wiki settings.

If you use a customized skin, please read the following steps...

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CUSTOMIZING
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3. Go into your vBulletin AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Style & Language Settings and make sure that "Store CSS Stylesheets as Files?" is set to yes and working. If it is, go into your FTP and download the CSS file from FORUMDIRECTORY/clientcript/vbulletin_css/, if you find multiple stylesheets in there, make sure to take the one with the same style sheet ID as the style you would like to enable for your Wiki. Rename this file to vbulletin.css and copy it over into the WIKIDIRECTORY/skins/vbulletin/ directory, overwriting the existing file.

4. Go into WIKIDIRECTORY/skins/vBulletin.php and find the section called <!-- HEADER -->. Make edits to this area to match the header to your skin. You can not use vB variables in this area, so make everything absolute. Be sure to remember to set the variables for the spacer_open variables towards the end.

5. Go into WIKIDIRECTORY/skins/vBulletin.php and find the section called <!-- FOOTER -->. Make edits to this area to match the footer to your skin. You can not use vB variables in this area, so make everything absolute.

6. If you know anything about skinning the Wiki, feel free to edit other areas. I have tried my best to limit the need to edit other areas.

[optrex]

Originally Posted by carrlos

This is a great addition!!! I have one situation that I hope someone can help me with: I am gettig two "TOOLBOX" and two "SEARCH" boxes on my page now. One set is expanded and the other is not. Any ideas??

Originally Posted by leonnix

Ok Carrlos I find out the problems ! All you have to do is to fix your mediawiki:sidebar page. Go and look for these line *Tool and *Search then delete them !

I have the same issue. My account has Sysops, Autoconfirmed users, Bureaucrats, Users but I can't find a page called sidebar to edit.

Please can someone point me in the right direction?

[optrex]

DOnt worry, I sorted it. I was looking for an edit button, but used the "create" instead.

[optrex]

me again - great mod I'm really enjoying myself with it. Stuck on how to include drop down menu bars though. Any advice?

[flOid]

The skin breaks the 'printable version' page of the content. It looks really bad now...is there any way to fix this, so that the printable version is being displayed as in the standard skin?

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by flOid

The skin breaks the 'printable version' page of the content. It looks really bad now...is there any way to fix this, so that the printable version is being displayed as in the standard skin?

All the "printable version" function does is change all the text to black. Thats it. It keeps the skin, but changes the text to black so that it can be printed on while paper.

[ericdesmontagne]

Hello i have planned to replace deprecated vbwiki pro by this mod... but...
is it compatible with vb 3.8 ?
is it possible to have 2 mediawiki installed and linked to the vb forum as actually in my configuration ?

Thanks for your help.:up:

[carrlos]

I'm using vB 3.8.1 and MediaWiki 1.13.4. I can't change the default skin to vBulletin. But I get a perfect preview.

Edit:

Fixed!!!! Your LocalSettings.php must have the skin in all lower case letters (vbulletin) and NOT vBulletin!

[MTGDarkness]

I can't figure out how to change the favicon away from the vbulletin default.

[Deviant++]

I've done something similar with www.circumpedia.com its still being developed but I manually skinned both of them to match

[mickknutson]

I copied the the header and footer of my code from the styles page (img attached).

Then I added it to vbulletin.php but I get variables that are not parsed in my skin now. Can someone help?