Reducing number of links on Forum Home page .. suggestions required

**Jaffery** · 11-24-2010 08:15 AM

Hello,

I find that there are lots of link on Forum Index / home page even for guest.. if I have 40 forums, number of links would be around 160 ..
How can I reduce them but keeping the necessary ones only , please suggest me way to do that as vbulletin is still not easy for me..

1. We can remove link which leads to user profile below every new post link..
Please tell me how to that if it is ok...
2. Remove RSS link in front of each board ... rather making a RSS page which shows link to each board RSS.. How ?
3. What if we completely remove link to latest post as well latest thread from forum INDEX page which is shown in front of every board ?

Kinly suggest !

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-24-2010 04:46 PM

We recommend removing the links in the right post for guests, and there is a simple vbseo feature to do so on the Guest-only enhancements menu.

The rss link is part of the template, and if you want to remove it, you will need to peroform a template edit or two.

**Jaffery** · 11-25-2010 04:11 AM

I have used it however, when I remove the "last post link" column , still in particular forum index (not main forum page) it is showing last post column, can we have option to remove that too through vbseo ?

Btw, any hint what to change where in order to remove RSS link ? or rather making them available to members only ?

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-25-2010 08:44 PM

Not with vb4. due the table-less design, if that div is removed, the whole float design will break. it will require massive css changes as well.

You can find the rss link in the foumrhome_level_x template areas most likely. look for rss.php and you can either wrap it in a conditional or remove it.

**webmastersitesi** · 11-26-2010 12:17 AM

I wanted to remove the rss links so i made following:
1) find:
"forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template in template search section

2) remove
" <vb:if condition="$vboptions['externalrss']"><li class="forumactionlink rsslink"><a href="external.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}type=RSS2&forumids={vb:raw forum.forumid}" title="{vb:rawphrase view_forum_rss_feed}">{vb:rawphrase view_forum_rss_feed}</a></li></vb:if>"
this will remove the rss links from your home page.

**Jaffery** · 11-27-2010 08:26 AM

What tag or condition if I want it to show to logged in user only.. like

Instead of removing .. I add :

Code:

<vb: if [CONDITION FOR LOGGED in USER]>
<vb:if condition="$vboptions['externalrss']"><li class="forumactionlink rsslink"><a href="external.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}type=RSS2&amp;forumids={vb:raw forum.forumid}" title="{vb:rawphrase view_forum_rss_feed}">{vb:rawphrase view_forum_rss_feed}</a></li></vb:if></vb:if>

The bold part is condition to check for member logged in or not... of if there is way to allow it for some specific usergroup only ?

**Andrés Durán Hewitt** · 11-27-2010 06:31 PM

Hello Jaffery,

You may use these conditionals: vBulletin Template Conditionals - vBulletin.org Forum

**Jaffery** · 11-29-2010 07:18 AM

Here is my head section of any given topic at my forum:

Code:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en" id="vbulletin_html"> 
<head> 
<base href="eTI - Providing you knowledge and Information! - eTI" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]--> 
    <link rel="canonical" href="IAS officer has 220 bank accounts, assets in millions:eTI" /> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> 
<meta id="e_vb_meta_bburl" name="vb_meta_bburl" content="http://etalkindia.com" /> 
 

<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 4.0.8" /> 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/y...event.js?v=408"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/y...n-min.js?v=408"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
<!--
    var SESSIONURL = "";
    var SECURITYTOKEN = "guest";
    var IMGDIR_MISC = "http://www.vbseo.com/images/misc";
    var IMGDIR_BUTTON = "http://www.vbseo.com/images/buttons";
    var vb_disable_ajax = parseInt("0", 10);
    var SIMPLEVERSION = "408";
    var BBURL = "http://etalkindia.com";
    var LOGGEDIN = 0 > 0 ? true : false;
    var THIS_SCRIPT = "showthread";
        var RELPATH = "showthread.php?t=5389";
// -->
</script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/v...-core.js?v=408"></script> 
 

 

 

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="eTI-True Indian Community-Forums RSS Feed" href="eTI-True Indian Community-Forums" /> 
    

        <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="eTI-True Indian Community-Forums - General News Discussion - RSS Feed" href="eTI-True Indian Community-Forums" /> 
    

 

 

 

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/v...s?d=1290959111" /> 
        

 

    <!--[if lt IE 8]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/popupmenu-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/vbulletin-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/vbulletin-chrome-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/vbulletin-formcontrols-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/editor-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <![endif]--> 
 

 

    

    <meta name="description" content="IAS officer has 220 bank accounts, assets in millions AIPUR: BL Agrawal, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in Chhattisgarh, has been found to have at least 220 bank accounts and assets" /> 
        <title> IAS officer has 220 bank accounts, assets in millions:eTI</title> 
 

    <link rel="canonical" href="IAS officer has 220 bank accounts, assets in millions:eTI" /> 
    

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/v...tedit.js?v=408"></script> 
    

    

    

    

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/v...ditor.js?v=408"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/v..._edit.js?v=408"></script> 
    

    

    

    

        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/v...htbox.js?v=408"></script> 
    

 

    

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/v...s?d=1290959111" /> 
    

    <!--[if lt IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/toolsmenu-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/postlist-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/showthread-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/postbit-ie.css?d=1290959111" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00002l/poll-ie.css?d=1290959111" /><![endif]--> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://etalkindia.com/clientscript/v...s?d=1290959111" /> 
 

 

<script type="text/javascript"> 
//<![CDATA[
 

window.google_analytics_uacct = "UA-19902905-1";
 

 

//]]>
</script>

Is it usual with all vb forum or I am the only one with so much codes in head section alone !
PS: I have disabled HTML Cleanup option of VBSEO here while copying the head section code !

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-29-2010 04:49 PM

Normal. there's a lof of css and js that should be combined by vB.

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