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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Some days ago I migrated a vBulletin 3.8.5 from one hosting to another. Everything seemed to be working fine, but yesterday a user informed of some problem. Before the migration he had no signature and after it he decided to add a custom signature to his profile. Well, all of the posts he was creating [...]

How can you change the sticky style that is applied to sticky posts in vBulletin? Follow this steps: First step Just go to Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> Edit Templates -> yourtemplatename. Scroll down to “additional CSS definition” and add the following: .stickyprefix { color:#FF4400; font-weight:bold; } Save your template. [...]

Imagine you’ve got a vbulletin forum running in your site. Lets suppose you want to add a new form to your forum. How does vbulletin deal with parameters? You can see the official documentation here. I prefer to explain things with an example, so lets go for it. I will take for granted that you [...]