Guest only enhancements

jbartle · #1 11-10-2007, 03:56 PM

I'm glad you guys have added this in 3.0.1! If you had it previously, I must not have noticed it lol. Anyways, I love this feature and I just wanted to add a few more options to this.

I've made a product for TMS to make a lot of things not viewable to guests. I think these would be great to have, at least as an option if people would like to enable it or not.

Here's the list of things I have in my TMS file (some you've already added):
Replace the old title and meta tags with modified title and meta tags **
Remove "Powered by" in forum title from showthread and forumdisplay
Remove the forum description from navbar
Remove much coding from the guests usergroup:
-Skin selector
-Display options
-Forum rules
-Forum Tools
-Icons from forumdisplay
-Last post information for many templates
-New Thread image/coding (since most sites don't allow guests to post)
-Icons and Logins from forumhome
-Display Mods
-New reply, close buttons
-A lot of postbit information:
--Avatar
--Edit note
--Information (posts, location, etc)
--The small buttons (quote, multi-quote, etc)
-What's going on

** I think it would be nice to be able to have an option in the vbseocp to allow you do use a different set of meta tags. Or if anything, predefine the section with meta tags you think works best. These are the meta tags I use (I've removed the metatags from the headerinclude btw):

Showthread:

Code:

<title>$thread[title]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if> - $foruminfo[title]</title>
<meta name="description" content="The $thread[title] page is where you will $foruminfo[description]" />
<meta name="keywords" content="$thread[title], $foruminfo[title], $vboptions[keywords]" />
$headinclude

Forumdisplay:

Code:

<title>$foruminfo[title_clean]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if></title>
<meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title], $vboptions[keywords]" />
<meta name="description" content="The $foruminfo[title] page is where you will $foruminfo[description]" />
$headinclude

Forumhome:

Code:

<title> <phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase> </title>
<meta name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]" />
<meta name="description" content="$vboptions[description] " />
$headinclude

Or people can predefine their RR's to put in their metatags with this new layout. I was reading at vBulletin-faq that you want to have the title tags above everything else, which is pretty much opposite of what vBulletin comes default with which is why I brought this up.

I'm sure some people wonder "why do you want to fill in the blank", but if you have it so you can enable or disable it, then it would suite everyone's needs.

Of course, most of this recoding would have to be done on the default skin, but for me that's fine. I mainly use the default skin...I just use my own graphics.

Plus, most of it should work on custom skins if you use the find function and then add <if......guest> above it.

I hope at least some of this is taken into consideration and hopefully in the end it can help out the whole vBSEO community.

jbartle · #2 11-11-2007, 04:26 PM

50 views and no thoughts? Would anyone like to add to the list? I figured that removing much coding from guest view would help since most guests can't use most of those features, thus removing much code to improve your content-to-code ratio.

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