How to Disable vBadvanced when using vBulletin mobile style

by James on January 24, 2012

*This is not for the mobile suite app, this is for the premium mobile style

I love vBadvanced and use it on a couple of my forums. But there is one thing that bothers me, it doesn’t look good on a mobile phone when using the vBulletin premium mobile style.

On one of my forums I wanted to skip the vBadvanced homepage and go directly to the forum itself. Here is how I did it:

Go into your AdminCP and click on the Styles & Templates section and click on your Mobile Style (don’t do this on your main site), click on edit templates and find the adv_portal, this should be located under the vBadvanced CMPS Templates.

Remove all the code and replace with:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
</head>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=forum.php">

</html>

This will redirect all mobile users to your forum itself when using the vBulletin Mobile Style.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Make sure you always back up your forum before doing any changes to your site.!

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SQL Query to Remove “Receive Emails from Administrators” in vBulletin

by James on September 22, 2011

Sorry Guys I scheduled this post for the wrong day, DOH!

As you saw in my post the other day about vBulletin and AOL emails fiasco. How do I uncheck all the “Receive Emails from Administrators” without searching the entire AOL and removing them one by one?

First I did a search in my AdminCp, just to see how many would be affected and this forum it was 225 users with AOL email addresses.

So how do you “bulk” uncheck the “Receive Emails from Administrators”, you can run a SQL query in the vBulletin AdminCp.

****FIRST Back-up your data, always do this! (Also I’m not responsible for data loss)

UPDATE user SET options=options - 16 WHERE options & 16 AND email LIKE "%@aol.%";

And this will uncheck all AOL emails. In less than 15 seconds I was done and hopefully no more issues.

On this week’s Forum Advice Friday, I’m going to post a question to you about the “Receive Emails from Administrators” and looking forward to hearing from you and your thoughts

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