Tamplate crashes after refresh.

[tim.liton]

Hello guys.

Am using a template from here (free one) & the developer have encrypted his css.
I have made all changes via additional.css and are working great.
The only problem I have is that the template crashes after I refresh the page. After 2-3 refresh's it comes back to normal.

Any Idea how to fix it? Thank you guys!

[RichieBoy67]

Try turning off caching under style and language settings in the admincp and use the maintenance tool to rebuild styles.

[tim.liton]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

Try turning off caching under style and language settings in the admincp and use the maintenance tool to rebuild styles.

Thank you Richie but am not able to find caching option under Style and Language. Could you please explain it where to find it?

Thank you.

[Dave]

Encrypted his CSS? There's no such thing as CSS encryption.
All client sided code can easily be de-obfuscated.

[tim.liton]

Originally Posted by Dave

Encrypted his CSS? There's no such thing as CSS encryption.
All client sided code can easily be de-obfuscated.

Yes, it looks like this:

<stylevar name="blockhead_border" value="YTo0OntzOjU6InVuaXRzIjtzOjI6InB4IjtzOjU6IndpZHRoIjtzOjE6IjEiO3M6NToic3R5bGUiO3M6NToic29saWQiO3M6NToiY29sb3IiO3M6NzoiI0RBREZDQiI7fQ==" />

		<stylevar name="blockhead_color" value="YToxOntzOjU6ImNvbG9yIjtzOjc6IiM0RTRFNEUiO30=" />

		<stylevar name="blockhead_link_color" value="YToxOntzOjU6ImNvbG9yIjtzOjc6IiM0RTRFNEUiO30=" />

[Dave]

Those are base64_encoded values which vBulletin uses to store changed style variables in the exported style.

https://www.base64decode.org/

[TheLastSuperman]

Did you edit the styles .xml file after exporting in an attempt to copy/paste style related variables and such to your new style?

If so then that is what caused this confusion, next time use this mod to export custom templates easily then import - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=257072

[Dragonsys]

Originally Posted by tim.liton

Yes, it looks like this:

<stylevar name="blockhead_border" value="YTo0OntzOjU6InVuaXRzIjtzOjI6InB4IjtzOjU6IndpZHRoIjtzOjE6IjEiO3M6NToic3R5bGUiO3M6NToic29saWQiO3M6NToiY29sb3IiO3M6NzoiI0RBREZDQiI7fQ==" />

		<stylevar name="blockhead_color" value="YToxOntzOjU6ImNvbG9yIjtzOjc6IiM0RTRFNEUiO30=" />

		<stylevar name="blockhead_link_color" value="YToxOntzOjU6ImNvbG9yIjtzOjc6IiM0RTRFNEUiO30=" />

Those are style vars, you edit them via the Style Manager in ACP. They are not encrypted.