The default single-post comes a little too stripped IMHO. User feedback says that they miss the normal navigation and don`t know how to get back to the forum. If visitors click on a direct link to a single post e. g. in a google search result the bounce rate is probably very high as they don`t find the way into your forum.

The template name for the single post view is "SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST". The first thing I changed was the title.

default:


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<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $vbphrase[view_single_post] - $threadinfo[title]</title>
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changed version:

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<title>$threadinfo[title] - $foruminfo[title_clean] - $vboptions[bbtitle]</title>
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Now the title of the thread comes first, followed by the name of the forum containing the thread/post. The last string is your forum name. This should give better ranking results than the default title.

After that I inserted the
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$header
$navbar
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vars directly after the body tag but it seems that they don`t get parsed in this template. So the default navigation and header won`t appear above the single post. Does anyone know how to change it?

Without the navigation on top the only way for a visitor to get (back) to the forum is to click on the close window link at the bottom of the page or the "Thread: Threadname" link on the top right of the page. I prefixed the latter link with "Go back to " to make it a bit more clear that this is a way back to the forum.

On the top left we find the following output: "View Single Post". Is this relevant? I don`t think so and that`s why I replaced the code
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$vbphrase[view_single_post]
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with
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<h1>$threadinfo[title]</h1>
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. So now the title of the thread is displayed as a first level headline instead which also should be better for SEO.

The last thing I did was to create a new channel in Google AdSense and add a 728/90 google add after the
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<if condition="$show['reputation']">
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condition.

The result doesn`t look very pretty yet but I hope it`s more usable: Eure absoluten Lieblingsrezepte vom Wunderkessel! - Was kochen wir heute - Wunderkessel - die Koch-Community mit Herz (http://www.wunderkessel.de/forum/390129-post1.html)

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