vBulletin FAQ

In order to remove all vBulletin tags, you should access the vBulletin database and truncate the content of the tagtable. Run the following MySQL query: TRUNCATE TABLE tag; (You can run a MySQL query using phpMyAdmin. More information how to do … Continued

In order to remove the Community link from the main vBulletin menu you should edit your vBulletin template. Open your vBulletin admin area and navigate to Styles & Templates->Style Manager->Edit Template->Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates->navbar. Remove the following code from it: <li … Continued

In order to edit the page margins of your forum navigate to your vBulletin admin panel->Style Manager. Pick Style Vars from the drop down menu. Search for doc_margin and enter the preferred values. Save the changes, reload the vBulletin front-end and the modification will … Continued

When you install a new vBulletin 4 or upgrade from vBulletin 3, you will notice that the topics’, threads’ and posts’ URLs are rewritten in a new way. For example the following vBulletin 3 URL: http://forum.XonHost.com/showthread.php?t=3 will be changed to: … Continued

If you see an error message similar to the following one: Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 11111111) (tried to allocate 1111 bytes) in your_php_file.php on line 111 it means that the execution of the above php file needs more … Continued

Forums are popular targets of spammers. Besides the automatic bots and robots which are usually blocked through different techniques like captcha scripts, there are many human spammers. Project Honey Pot provides an enormous database with IPs from which spam attacks … Continued

You can alter the vBulletin navigation menu’s visualization components like the background and font colors and the font style from your vBulletin admin panel->Style Manager. Pick Style Vars from the drop down menu. The navbar variables are responsible for the navigation bar … Continued

If you get a “MySQL server has gone away” when using the file download feature in vBulletin, this probably means that your forum’s attachments are stored in the database. This increases the size of the database which results in slow … Continued

In order to remove the What’s new tab from the forum’s navigation menu open your vBulletin admin panel->Styles & Templates->Style Manager->Edit Template->Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates->navbar. Remove the following code from it: <vb:if condition=”!$vboptions[‘selectednavtab’] AND THIS_SCRIPT == ‘search'”> <vb:if condition=”$show[‘member’]”> <li class=”selected”><a class=”navtab” … Continued

If your forum is ranked well among search engines it is a good idea to make profit of that without causing inconvenience to the regular user. Thus it is a good idea to place a banner only for unregistered or … Continued