Forum: Tutorials & How To's

Hi Guys, I have another question - big surprise, eh? :) Okay, here goes. When I use my forums Admin account and I click a User's Public Profile, in the Contact info there are two (2) options. Okay, now if I click the second option, send user an email - even if their registration...

Before you perform a vBulletin upgrade or install a hack that affects the database, you should always backup your database. The purpose of the backup is simple. If something goes wrong and your database becomes destroyed, you have a copy available. Without a backup, your data can be lost...

Use this tutorial to change the color of usernames in postbit and the Whos Online box. Many admins do this so that members can distinguish between administrators, moderators and other usergroups. Go into adminCP Usergroups Usergroup Manager on the right, select the usergroup you want to change...

Forum Usability – Make member’s life easier Although this guide focuses primarily on vBulletin usability and using example directly from the vBulletin forum software, it can be applied to most forum software. Ask yourself... When setting up your forum, you need to ask yourself, what is...

To create a new profile field - Login to your Admin CP Scroll down to User Profile Fields Click on Add New User Profile Field Fill out all information on the next page. Pay special attention to Field Required (yes or no) and the display page. Save (make a note of the # of the profile field,...

I have used the default vB skin for this tutorial to assist the majority of boards. How things look may be slightly based on your forum's skin/theme. Thread Tools: When viewing an individual board you'll see a menu option called Thread Tools. Click it with your mouse and it will magickally...

You've found a nice skin/style that you want to install on your forum? GOOD! You can do this in 4 easy steps: download skin's zip file to your computer and extract somewhere on your computer where you'll easily find it. Desktop works best for most people. Most skins come in a folder named for...

(Various links removed from post) What To Expect From This Guide This will be a guide revealing the "secrets" of starting up a new forum, because so many people attempt to do so, and so many of them fail. There are no true secrets that nobody knows about, but there are things you should...

It is not the best thing to do, but if you really want to remove the underline from all the links on your forum(including user names) here is how. adminCP>Styles & Templates>Style Manager> In the drop down menu next to the style you want to do this on choose Main CSS. Now scroll down the...

Today's update is a customization tutorial on the power of replacement variables. Replacement variables work like the search and replace function of many text editors. In the AdminCP you simply specify a chuck of text you want to be replaced and and alternate for that chunk, and vBulletin will...

I have posted this also on the official vbulletin.com site but I though I share it with you too For the browser to be able to recognize an icon, it needs to be named favicon.ico and placed in the root directory of your forum. On a fresh installation the icon looks like . So, how to change it...

Hey all, i ran across a problem while trying to sticky my own thread on my site, but could not due to a embedded youtube video in my signature. It was just a simple little centered embedded video, but the drop down menu was hidden behind it when clicking on thread tools right above. The...

So you have a new vB skin/style and you want to make it your forums' default? No problem! Simply follow the easy instructions below: Log in to your Admin Control Panel (ACP) Go to vBulletin Options On the right, select Style & Language Settings You'll see Default Style Select the style you...

Avatar and profile picture sizes are set by usergroups. Go into your Admin CP Scroll down to Usergroups and click on the right, choose the usergroup, select edit in dropdown menu, and click Go. scroll down to Picture Uploading Permissions.Here you can enable or disable avatars and profile...

How to make your header image expandable to screen width? First create your header image 780px width like the example image shown below... Then Crop the leftside (your logo part):

So, you activated the RSS feed of your forum, someone told you (most likely a user) that it would be a nice feature to have. But you maybe don't care one way or the other, it can't hurt, right?. But then you start to wonder how it is being used, or maybe how could you promote it's use, since...

First create a new directory (folder) via FTP, something like /smiles Log in to your ACP, expand "Smiles" on the navigation panel, click "Add New Smile" In the right frame you will see two boxes, ignore the first one. The second Box "Add Multiple Smilies", is where you will be working. ...

Does your forum have that irritating member that LOVES to type their post in text size 5, 6 or even (heaven forbid!) size 7?!? Well now you can do something about it! This tip will limit the available sizes in your text editor. Login to your ACP Go to Styles & Templates Style Manager On...

If you want to disable certain BB Code options, such as font size, or html wrap code, from the text editor, it's easy! Login to your ACP > vBulletin Options > BB Code Settings. Here you can uncheck any boxes associated with the BB Code that you don't want available on the forum text editor. ...

I have seen this asked by many users on vBulletin help forums. If you don't want a new user to confirm agreeing the rules while registering then here is what you can do. 1) Open the register.php. 2) Find this code: else { $show = false; $templatename = 'register_rules'; } 3)...

Signatures in posts became alot more fun with the introduction of the 3.6.x version of vBulletin! Fortunately for administrators, setting signature permissions was made easy as well. Good thing too, because I have seen alot of member signatures get really out of hand! :eek: In just one easy...

Hello, I'm posting it becouse when I was searching for how do that, I didn't find it anywhere! I decided so to take a look to vB.com's docs (online manual) You can find it here]. First step for create a style, is go to your vB AdminCp. Then, you will need to go to -> Styles & Templates -> Style...

Hello everyone! I am writing that maybe someone needs it. You have a homepage and you want to include a vBulletin file from outside the vBulletin directory. You have tried many ways but you couldn't do that. Okay, all you need is that: chdir('path/to/your/forums');...

There are actually two different ways to get to your welcome email. You can follow the instructions on this thread, which also gives you some pretty handy tips and suggestions, or you can follow the path below, and still use the tips on the other thread :) To enable the Welcome Email, simply...