"Forum contains no new posts", etc icon

Jelsea · 03-10-2009, 08:35 AM

Hello

I just purchased the vBulletin license last night, and have been (miraculously) able to muddle along for the most part in getting it set up. One thing I cannot seem to find is the place where I can change the "forum contains no new posts" "forum contains new posts" icons to graphics of my own choosing. Could someone here point me in the right direction? Thank you!

**GTAce** · 03-10-2009, 08:41 AM

This will depend on the skin you're using, but more likely than not, these icons will be in the /statusicon/ folder

For the default vB template, it would be:

http://yourdomain.com/forum/images/statusicon/

There are a few different images you'll want to change - new posts, no posts, locked forum, linked forum, etc.

Jelsea · 03-10-2009, 09:34 AM

Thanks for the reply!

I am hopelessly lost. I'm in the Style Manager> StyleVars where it shows sizes and dimensions as well as image paths. I see this:

Quote:

Icon Status Folder: images/statusicon

Where it says "images/statusicon" , obviously that's some sort of a file path. But it's not like there are any individual icon file paths that I can just switch out with something else. I can't see any graphics at all --just the one file path. I'm wondering if this involves some sort of coding that is beyond my skill level? Or am I just missing something?

**GTAce** · 03-10-2009, 09:39 AM

These are actual images uploaded to your server. You need to change them using an FTP program or some control panel file manager - whatever you used to upload all of the vBulletin files to your website, you should be able to use to replace these images as well.

Jelsea · 03-10-2009, 09:51 AM

Ahhhh. This makes sense. I purchased the whole thing (hosting/vBulletin) from urljet.com I will poke around in there. Thank you for the help!