Prevent guests from choosing skins

This simple tweak prevents guests from having the option of changing skins. This is useful if you have multiple skins, but you want your guests to view your board with the default skin only.

Go to Admin CP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager and select your default style to edit.

In the footer template find
<if condition="$show['quickchooser']'">
and replace this line with
<if condition="$show['quickchooser'] and $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!='1'">
Guests will not be shown the skin selector drop down menu.

VERY nice little tweak Dave - thanks :)

You could also use....
<if condition="$show['quickchooser'] and $show['member']">
;)

Thanks Redline and Peggy.

Some might be wondering why you might want to do this. I wanted to create a Lite version of my skin for members - particularly useful for those on dial-up but also loads a lot quicker. Great for power users who don't mind missing some of the glossy effects and a less than polished header.

But in doing it, I recalled a discussion somewhere expressing a concern that different skins might result in more duplicate content. Ordinarily a change of skin would only produce a change in CSS in the main which a crawl wouldn't pay attention to, but with a Lite version the changes are quite drastic. So going this way I'm not risking any potential duplicate content issues.