I have done a search and not found what I was looking for, I have also checked out the avialable plugins listed on this site, and the wiki section, and still no luck ?
What I want to know is this ...
Is it possible to hide or disable user profiles ?
When a post is made, clicking on that posters Avatar will display some very basic info about that person. Can this be hidden in any way ?
Many thanks
> clicking on that posters Avatar will display some very basic info about that person. Can this be hidden in any way ?
It's not perfect but when someone clicks to view profile, you can show No Permission page:
ACP > Users & Groups > Groups > you can edit user groups (Guests, Registered,...)
Edit User Group > in Tab "Forums and posts" deselect "Can view user profiles?"
This site shows such page for guests:
Quote:You are either not logged in or do not have permission to view this page. This could be because one of the following reasons:
- You are not logged in or registered. Please use the form at the bottom of this page to login.
- You do not have permission to access this page. Are you trying to access administrative pages or a resource that you shouldn't be? Check in the forum rules that you are allowed to perform this action.
- Your account may have been disabled by an administrator, or it may be awaiting account activation.
- You have accessed this page directly rather than using appropriate forms or links.
To avoid bots visiting "No permission" page, you should disallow member page in robots.txt
(06-14-2013, 08:42 PM)thebobo1 Wrote: [ -> ]> clicking on that posters Avatar will display some very basic info about that person. Can this be hidden in any way ?
It's not perfect but when someone clicks to view profile, you can show No Permission page:
ACP > Users & Groups > Groups > you can edit user groups (Guests, Registered,...)
Edit User Group > in Tab "Forums and posts" deselect "Can view user profiles?"
This site shows such page for guests:
Quote:You are either not logged in or do not have permission to view this page. This could be because one of the following reasons:
- You are not logged in or registered. Please use the form at the bottom of this page to login.
- You do not have permission to access this page. Are you trying to access administrative pages or a resource that you shouldn't be? Check in the forum rules that you are allowed to perform this action.
- Your account may have been disabled by an administrator, or it may be awaiting account activation.
- You have accessed this page directly rather than using appropriate forms or links.
To avoid bots visiting "No permission" page, you should disallow member page in robots.txt
OK, magic, thanks a lot, I got that one sorted.
But, whenever a user makes a posting, the month and year they joined is shown in the top right of that posting. Is there any way to remove this ?
Many thanks.
^ admin panel >> templates >> active theme's templates >> Post Bit Templates >> postbit_author_user
you can remove {$lang->postbit_joined} {$post['userregdate']}
Many thanks that has worked just fine !!
QUOTE: To avoid bots visiting "No permission" page, you should disallow member page in robots.txt
How is this done ?
I have a robots.txt page for my Sitemaps, but what would I place on it for this purpose ?
^ where you have robots.txt located and what is the content in it ?
you can add Disallow: /member.php or Disallow: /forum/member.php depending on robots.txt location
OK, thanks again. I have the robots.txt file in the root folder so I am assuming that the text for the robots file will be
Disallow: /forum/member.php exactly as you have shown here. This is because the forum is located on the server @ mywebsite/forum
But what would be the difference if I just used Disallow: /member.php
you can add below content to
robots.txt which is located at root folder (main web site)
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /forum/archive/*
Disallow: /forum/member.php
Disallow: /forum/captcha.php
Disallow: /forum/editpost.php
Disallow: /forum/misc.php
Disallow: /forum/modcp.php
Disallow: /forum/moderation.php
Disallow: /forum/newreply.php
Disallow: /forum/newthread.php
Disallow: /forum/online.php
Disallow: /forum/printthread.php
Disallow: /forum/private.php
Disallow: /forum/ratethread.php
Disallow: /forum/report.php
Disallow: /forum/reputation.php
Disallow: /forum/search.php
Disallow: /forum/sendthread.php
Disallow: /forum/task.php
Disallow: /forum/usercp.php
Disallow: /forum/usercp2.php
Disallow: /forum/calendar.php
Disallow: /forum/*action=emailuser*
Disallow: /forum/*action=nextnewest*
Disallow: /forum/*action=nextoldest*
Disallow: /forum/*year=*
Disallow: /forum/*action=weekview*
Disallow: /forum/*action=nextnewest*
Disallow: /forum/*action=nextoldest*
Disallow: /forum/*sort=*
Disallow: /forum/*order=*
Disallow: /forum/*mode=*
Disallow: /forum/*datecut=*
Allow: /
if you use
Disallow: /member.php then that is applicable to
member.php file on the main site
Magic stuff ! Got all that.
Many thanks