Mini Mods - Hide Version Number.

This is a small hack that it will allow you to turn off the public display of the version number of your vBulletin forum. You can enable and disable it at the Acp-Options-Forums Home Page Options.

I know that it can be easily done by changing the language phrase but this way is handier in my opinion.

Note: This mod it will hide the version at the footer only. It is meant to add some kind of security for ex, when hackers google for outdated version and hack forums at random.


To remove the version from showing when viewing the page source, do the following edits to the headinclude template

Find the following code:

<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin $vboptions[templateversion]" />

and change it to:

<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin" />

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Skydiver10

Great hack! Nice work!!! Thanks for all of your hard work on the scripts! :-)

Nominated for MOTM!

Is there still a way to externally view the version number, or does this hack pretty much take care of it?

There are numerous ways to find out which version you are running.

[Eduardo Leon]

dont work for me :S

[alfaowner]

I can still see the following when viewing the source even though its removed the version:

<!-- CSS Stylesheet --> <style type="text/css" id="vbulletin_css"> /** * vBulletin 3.8.4 CSS * Style: 'AO Grey'; Style ID: 50 */

[peril]

Looks like this hack is not working anymore.

[jluerken]

Is this one working for 4.2.x too or if not can we get an update?

[borbole]

Originally Posted by jluerken

Is this one working for 4.2.x too or if not can we get an update?

This is the 3.8x version. 4.x version can be found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=235252