Part 2.3 - Current Theme

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To reach the current theme section, first go to your admin panel. There, towards the left, you can see the current theme link.


Once you have clicked on the Current Theme link, you will see these options:

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You should have the following options:
1. Logo image URL
2. Number of recent posts to display on board index
3. Show who is viewing the board index and posts
4. Select the default smiley set for this theme
5. Show the last modification date on modified posts
6. Show members list bar on board index
7. Show current position in forum as link instead of text
8. Show view profile button under posts
9. Enable and show 'Mark as read' buttons
10. Enable inline links
11. Enable SP1 style statistics on board index
12. Allow users to turn off word censoring feature
13. Show BBC buttons on posting and PM Send pages
14. Enable collapsible additional options
15. Enable News?
16. Show news fader on board index
17. Fading delay between items for the news fader
18. Show user avatars in message view
19. Show personal text in message view
20. Show latest member on board index.
21. Show buttons as images instead of text
22. Show gender images in message view
23. Hide post group titles for grouped members

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Logo image URL

If you enter the URL of an image here, it will replace the name of your forum at the very top(see image 1) with an image. If you are using Photobucket to store the image, then you will need to paste in the Direct Link URL(see image 2).

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Image 2</sub>

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Number of recent posts to display on board index

The recent posts are displayed on the board index, in the info center(near the stats).
If you set this to 0, no recent posts are displayed. If you set it to a number, say x, then x recent posts are displayed on the board index.

This is what recent posts look like:

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Show who is viewing the board index and posts

This gives you 3 options - don't show, show only numbers and show member names.

With don't show, nothing is displayed.

With show only numbers,only the number of members is shown.

With show member names, you can see something like this:


The one on the left is while seeing a board and the one on the right is while viewing a topic.

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Select the default smiley set for this theme

This is where you can select a default smiley set for your forum.

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Show the last modification date on modified posts

Generally, when you modify a post, a little note is added to it that tells you when it was modified, and by whom, as show in this picture:


This option lets you enable and disable it.