Forum Display Enhancements - Center or remove - Forum Title & Welcome Message

This small modification will allow you to either center or removed vBulletin's small default forum title & welcome message.

Credit goes to myself & CoreyLTH

You should always BACKUP your database before making changes.

To Center:

In ForumHome look for

PHP Code:

<div id="pagetitle"> 
<h1>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</h1>
<p id="welcomemessage" class="description">{vb:rawphrase welcome_to_the_x, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}</p>
</div> 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

<center> <div id="pagetitle"> 
        <h1>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</h1> 
        <p id="welcomemessage" class="description">{vb:rawphrase welcome_to_the_x, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}</p> 
    </div> </center> 


To Remove:

In FORUMHOME

Look for:

PHP Code:

<div id="pagetitle"> 
<h1>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</h1>
<p id="welcomemessage" class="description">{vb:rawphrase welcome_to_the_x, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}</p>
</div> 


And wrap it around wih

PHP Code:

<vb:comment>  </vb:comment> 


So when done it will look like

PHP Code:

<vb:comment> <div id="pagetitle"> 
<h1>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</h1>
<p id="welcomemessage" class="description">{vb:rawphrase welcome_to_the_x, {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}}</p>
</div>  </vb:comment> 


v1.1 = UPDATE 02-23-2011

Originally Posted by wolfey

Now if I can also get rid of that House and "Forum" I'd be happy too!

IMPORTANT: Always backup your database before making any edits.

In navbar look for:

PHP Code:

<ul class="floatcontainer">
        <li class="navbithome"><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" /></a></li>

        {vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
        {vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
    </ul> 


READ CLOSELY:

Wrap everything around it with

PHP Code:

<vb:comment> </vb:comment> 


except for

PHP Code:

{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb} 


So the surrounding code will look like this when done....

PHP Code:

<vb:comment> <ul class="floatcontainer">
        <li class="navbithome"><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" /></a></li> </vb:comment>

        {vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
        <vb:comment> {vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
    </ul> </vb:comment> 


This will remove the "Home" icon and the word "Forum" on your Forum Homepage, but still keep your quick navigation links within your forums.

Optional - Grammar correction

This really will depend on your own liking and the name of your site. Bit if you want to change the welcome message from,

"Welcome to the X"

And change it to

"Welcome to X"

Go to:

AdminCP > Languages & Phrases > Search in Phrases

Search for

PHP Code:

welcome_to_the_x 


Using the Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name search, option.

There should only find 1 per language installed

Change it to

PHP Code:

PHP Code:

Welcome to {1} 


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[Drucifer]

I'm looking for ways to add a TimeAndDate.com countdown calendar to the header that is top of all my Mets Paradise forums.

The HTML code for the countdown calendar I customized is . . . .

PHP Code:

<iframe src="http://free.timeanddate.com/countdown/i3hziqy1/n179/cf100/cm0/cu3/ct4/cs1/ca0/cr0/ss0/cacfff/cpc000/pc039/tcfff/fs100/szw240/szh120/tatCiti%20Field%20Opening%20Game/tacf71/tptTime%20since%20Event%20started%20in/tpc000/matstarts%20in/macf71/mpc000/iso2013-04-01T13:10:00/bas7/bat4/bacf71" frameborder="0" width="254" height="134"></iframe> 


I would like the calendar box to appear in the upper left corner of the header. At the same height as the Welcome line.

[craigvm]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

IMPORTANT: Always backup your database before making any edits.

In navbar look for:

PHP Code:

<ul class="floatcontainer">
        <li class="navbithome"><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" /></a></li>

        {vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
        {vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
    </ul> 


READ CLOSELY:

Delete everything there except for

PHP Code:

{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb} 


So the surrounding code will look like this when done....

PHP Code:

<div id="breadcrumb" class="breadcrumb">
    

        {vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
    <hr />
</div> 


This will remove the "Home" icon and the word "Forum" on your Forum Homepage, but still keep your quick navigation links within your forums.

FUN FACT: Removing this seems to speed up the page load. I would suspect its because it queries less in the CSS for browsers to decode.

just done this and it only got rid of the house image the word forum is still there

[gariksher]

Thanks, Installed!

[illusioN-tEk]

working for 4.2.2 :up:

[kf4eok]

Thanks for the great work to get this done. It sure makes the forum look much cleaner.
I am using VB 4.2.3 beta and this works great even with my custom style.
Thanks

[OldSchoolDSL]

No longer supported as I no longer use vBulletin having moved to both WoltLab Burning Board and Invision Power Board.

I give 100% permission to reuse, modify, improve, enhance, and redistribute this code as freeware to anyone, everyone, and everywhere.

Good luck

[iamme_meisi]

While this can be deemed as 'old' I'd like to thank you for the effort. I appreciate the time taken, and being able to remove the home button as well was just an added bonus.