Postbit/Postbit legacy

[Peggy]

I hope I'm asking this in the correct forum.

if you have more than one style on your board, is it possible to use postbit on one and legacy on the other? Or do you have to use either one or the other?

[John]

Yes, you can use a different postbit in each style Peggy, however there is a slight trick to achieving this.

Because the postbit is determined at global level, it can't be changed by the user without a hack, alas - there is another way to do this. Read on...

1 - create your two styles
2 - on style 1 edit and make the postbit template the same as the postbit_legacy template
3 - on style 2 edit and make the postbit_legacy template the same as the postbit template

... and then because in each individual style the postbit and postbit_legacy templates are the same, regardless of which one you selected in the AdminCP as the default, the one will be postbit layout and the other postbit_legacy.

[Peggy]

Oh Lord somehow I knew it was going to be difficult, if possible at all

thank you John... I *think* I got that... *wink*

[Joeychgo]

Its actually not all that difficult. You just swap the 2 templates on one style.

[Peggy]

did you forget who you're talking to...........??

[John]

Did you get this to work Peggy?

[Peggy]

I haven't even tried yet John, afraid I'll screw it up, lol

[Peggy]

hahahah I DID IT!! do you believe that? I did it

thanks again John! *kiss*

[Peggy]

and after all that, noone likes the legacy postbit, so I changed it back to the postbit.

[WoodiE55]

vBulletin.com also has a nice how-to to make this a user option w/o having to create a new style.


-Michael


EDIT: Link added: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=169124