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Remove Thread Views on Forum Display · **Released**: 06-23-2008

This is a simple template edit to Remove Thread Views from the forum display when viewing a forum section with threads in it. Some people like to do this to reduce people from complaining about "I have 200 thread views and only 3 replies... waaaahhh", so this is a simple thing you can do to eleviate those annoyances on your forums.

**TIP: COPY these two templates & paste them into your Notepad program and save them to your hard drive as .txt template backups in case you need to restore the original code then easily.
I always like to warn people to make backups just in case heh. OK then... on to editing...

Templates to edit: 2

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FORUMDISPLAY template
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Find this code:

Code:

<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap">$vbphrase[views]</span></td>

Delete it.

Find this code:

Code:

<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=views" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[views]</a> $sortarrow[views]</span></td>

Delete it.

Find this code:

Code:

<option value="views" $sort[views]>$vbphrase[number_of_views]</option>

Delete it.

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threadbit template
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Find this code:

Code:

<td class="alt2" title="<phrase 1="$thread[replycount]" 2="$thread[views]">$vbphrase[replies_x_views_y]</phrase>">

Replace it with this code:

Code:

<td class="alt2" title="<phrase 1="$thread[replycount]">$vbphrase[replies_x]</phrase>">

Find this code:

Code:

<td class="alt2" align="center">$thread[views]</td>

Delete it.

Done. The Thread Views column on the forum display page should be gone now. Hope that helps anyone who is looking to do the same

**Screenshot added

Keesa · #12 12-13-2008, 06:20 AM

When I follow the instructions you give, I ended up with this.

:sad:

This hack worked for me better.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=161233

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