vBulletin Mods

A few have asked for this, hope you like it.

As the title suggests, this is a lightweight style for vBulletin 3.8.7 (and probably most versions before that - A quick test showed it also working under vBulletin 3.7.7!)

It's lightweight (low bandwidth) and works well on most handheld / mobile devices. Some have been know to use it on their desktops and I personally use it for Google as a way of significantly reducing the bandwidth they use.

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Install Instructions
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• Backup
• Download and extract ZIP file locally
• Upload contents of forum folder to your forum root
• Go into your AdminCP->Style Manager->Download / Upload Styles
• In the "Import Style XML File" section browse to "lightweight-vbulletin-3.8.7-style.xml" (extracted form the zip file)
• If you are running a version of vbulletin other than 3.8.7, select Yes in "Ignore Style Version"
• Click the "Import" button.
• Edit the header template and change the 2nd line to reflect the Style ID of your default style and location of your home page (forum.php or index.php) and text for the anchor (Default Style).
  
  

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• Return to vBulletin.org and click "Mark as Installed"
• Reply to this thread leaving feedback and a rating

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Release History
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18th May 2011 - 1.0.0 Initial Release
20th May 2011 - 1.0.1 Bug Fixes and enhancements

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Screen Shots
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http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/attac...1&d=1305693901 http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/attac...1&d=1305694377

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Branding Free
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If you wish to remove the branding/copyright notice from the footer - send me a donation of an amount you can afford, or that you think is fair/reasonable, it's up to you how much. (can't get much fairer than that) You can do this by clicking the "Support Developer" link above (a few lines below the "Mark as Installed" link).

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Bugs fixes for next release
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Issue:
extra "> in template forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost
Resolution:
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Issue:
Inconsistencies in disaplying locked forums
Resolution:
See this post

Thanks.

This is great that you have updated this for 3.8.7 and are not leaving the 3.x series behind! Downloading now!

Top class, looks very neat and smart, thanks. :) Just one thing I had to do different to your instructions was to have my Default Style a parent of this style to stop the random album images mod from displaying at the top. Apart from that everything else seems to be 100%

I still haven't upgrade to 4 yet, I think I'll stick with 3.8 for life :rolleyes:

I just (quickly) tested this, and it also works on 3.7

@Viper - you could also write a plugin to disable that add-on if this style is used:

Title: Disable Products For Lightweight Style
Hook:style_fetch

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Edit - in the above, if it doesn't work, try the following code (one of them should work)

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Perfect, thanks Dartho. I'll give that a try.

dartho- I'm not following the logic of when a thread is highlighted in light blue in showthread and when its not. I know bold means unread but what does the highlight indicate?

Edit: Actually I'm not sure about the bold either...

Also with regards to the Default Style link, if you -or anyone interested- use this code it will keep the user on the same URL when changing back to the default style:

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If you link me up with an example, I could look. via PM is OK.
Worked it out. Not highlight is 'hot' new threads (thread_hot_new). I'll fix that up.

To fix, edit the CSS, search for

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replace with

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search for

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replace with

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Thanks for the code for default style link, I'll put that in.

Thanks. :up:

Amazing! Can't wait to install. Thanks. Long live vB 3.X!!!!!

Good stuff. Thank you!

I just installed this on vB 3.8.5 a few minutes ago. I'll see if I get any feedback from my members that could be helpful. I manage the forum from mobile quite a bit, and this is great.

I would be interested in how to force search engines, robots, spiders, etc. to use this version. I've hacked mine so that a non-member cannot see the "style chooser" on my page, but that shouldn't matter I suppose.

THANK YOU!!!

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I would like to add options to the style in the vBulleting Options panel, similar to the "Mobile Style Options" that allow you to append all posts with either the mobile user agent (browser, etc) or custom text like (posted via mobile). In fact, this is the very same options from your original "mobile" style that I'm referring to. Should I attempt to take this on myself, or will you be adapting some of those awesome options to the "Lightweight" style?

I'm going to have to make it a point to donate for all this hard work.

Thanks again!

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Thank you again! I'm sticking to 3.8 as well

You need to add the "dot_hot_new" variants to that as well :)

Also the logo is never actually used...?

I used the mobile detect hack and added search engine useragent snipperts to teh user defined section (Yahoo!,Baiduspider+,Googlebot,msnbot,Slurp)

I'll do something at some stage. You could try the following for appending useragents to posts: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=185987

Thanks, and yes - I should probably do a logo rather than text.