Best vBulletin 4.0 Template Changes To Do

[daveaite]

This is an extensive list of changes I always make to all my forums. Definately a page you want to save. It's information from all around the web gathered into one Masterful thread for me to remember. I'm sure this will be useful to you.

Every time you install a new theme, you have to redo your custom work. Here's most of my template changes.

1. This little tweak replaces the mouseover text on showthreads so that instead of saying "reload this thread" you get a more content relevent mouseover title.

Open:
SHOWTHREAD
Find

    {vb:rawphrase reload_this_page}

Replace with:

      {vb:raw threadinfo.title}

Add button New Thread in SHOWTHREAD
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Find

      <div id="above_postlist" class="above_postlist">
                 <vb:if condition="$show['largereplybutton']">
                         <a href="newreply.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}p={vb:raw LASTPOSTID}&amp;noquote=1" 
  class="newcontent_textcontrol" id="newreplylink_top"><vb:if condition="$show['closethread']"><span>+</span> {vb:rawphrase reply_to_thread}<vb:else />{vb:rawphrase closed_thread}</vb:if></a>

Add Below:

<a href="newthread.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=newthread&amp;f={vb:raw thread.forumid}" rel="nofollow" class="newcontent_textcontrol" id="newthreadlink_top"  style="margin-left:10px;"><span>+</span> {vb:rawphrase post_new_thread}</a>

Full Size Videos in CMS

First you edit the vbcms_article_preview_object_size stylevar to the size you want.

Then in vbcms.css change
Code:

.showpreviewonly object {
    border:{vb:stylevar vbcms_article_preview_image_border};
    outline: {vb:stylevar vbcms_article_preview_image_outline};
    float:{vb:stylevar left};
    margin:{vb:stylevar vbcms_article_preview_image_margin};
    {vb:stylevar vbcms_article_preview_object_size};
}

to
Code:

.showpreviewonly object {
    border:{vb:stylevar vbcms_article_preview_image_border};
    outline: {vb:stylevar vbcms_article_preview_image_outline};
    margin-top:10px;
    {vb:stylevar vbcms_article_preview_object_size};

Tested with Dailymotion, Vimeo and YT

[PEARCE.PETE]

In the left hand window (the project editor) double click on Thisworkbook. Now copy this code into the right hand window.