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Suppose you install a new vBulletin 4 plugin that affects all your styles. For instance, the Subforum maganer plugin I talked about some days ago. This Subforum manager plugin does NOT work with the mobile style included in vBulletin 4.1.8. If the mod has an on/off switch, then you can write a plugin to turn [...]

Imagina que quieres añadir a tu foro vBulletin una página con código HTML/PHP custom pero utilizando el sistema de plantillas de vBulletin. Para verlo, nada mejor que un ejemplo. Vamos a añadir una página de ‘Reglamento’ a nuestro foro. Estos son los pasos que debes seguir: Creación del fichero reglamento.php Generamos un fichero llamado reglamento.php [...]

Another common thing I usually do for my clients is to redirect non-www version of their vbulletin forums to www-version. This can be easily achieved by creating a .htaccess file which contains: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] Just replace domain.com with your domain name and upload the file to the /public_html [...]

List subforums in new lines can be achieved in vBulletin 4 just by making changes to CSS files. If you are looking for the vBulletin3 way, check this link EDIT: Just found this plugin which does the job and lets admin control the display of subforums in columns too! Cool, ain’t it? To remove the [...]

Muchas veces, las traducciones (aka language packs) de vBulletin salen bastante tiempo después que las versiones oficiales. Es por ello que, si descargamos la última versión de vBulletin para instalarla en nuestro sitio web, es posible que aun no tengamos disponible la última actualización de la traducción al español. Hay una forma de engañar a [...]

A common question asked in forums is “how to add a right sidebar to vBulletin 4″. In vbulletin 3 this could be achieved by changing the templates or installing hacks (for instance, Ultimate Side Columns. In vb4 it is way easier. Log in to admin panel (usually in http://yoursite.com/admincp), then: ACP > SETTINGS > OPTIONS [...]

There is a common thing for vBulletin users to want to customize the login box. This can be done by Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates -> navbar (Note for spanish users: Buscar Plantillas de navegación entre las plantillas, y dentro de ella, navbar) [...]

A client’s vBulletin board uses vbadvaced news module to display posts from a hidden forum. Every post is wrapped with adv_portal_module_wrapper. My client did not want the topic links to be displayed, so he asked me to hack the code to achieve this. Change adv_portal_module_wrapper The adv_portal_module_wrapper you will find in you ACP —> style [...]

vBulletin users usually purchase vBAdvanced to increase their forums potential. It is a great tool for doing things like: Creating google adsense module For my adsense ads in my right column I just created a simple template with the Adsense script inside of a <center> tag. Follow this steps: 1 AdminCP > vBa CMPS > [...]

A client of mine asked to show a “Google News” RSS feed in his vbulletin forum board. More precisely, he wants this RSS feed to be shown in the main page of the vBAdvanced “home” page. The RSS url to display is: http://news.google.es/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=es&hl=es&topic=h&num=3&output=rss First step: create a custom php file using Google AJAX Feed API. [...]