Troubleshooting shoutbox on a particular theme? [RD]

[Skidjit]

Not sure where to put this. I don't really want to have this feature on my site. It's always been disabled on all of my home made skins/themes. However, last night I uploaded a theme for the first time only to see it's there.

How do I remove the shoutbox feature from an uploaded theme? (I don't know how to locate the creator of this cool theme, in order to thank her, and ask a couple more questions.)

Thanks for any help

[Stinky666]

Jul 21, 2015 7:09:39 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

Not sure where to put this. I don't really want to have this feature on my site. It's always been disabled on all of my home made skins/themes. However, last night I uploaded a theme for the first time only to see it's there.

How do I remove the shoutbox feature from an uploaded theme? (I don't know how to locate the creator of this cool theme, in order to thank her, and ask a couple more questions.)

Thanks for any help

Go into your Layout Templates, and then depending on whether or not the shoutbox appears on ALL pages of the forum, or JUST the home page, go to "Home" or "Forum Wrapper". Use ctrl+f and type shoutbox, then hit enter. It should find it. And simply remove it

[Skidjit]

OK I'll go give that a try. I know I remember seeing it on a couple of pages so it probably is on all of them. I'll go check that out again before I try the rest of what you said.

[Skidjit]

Stinky666

I'm not sure if I'm deleting all of the content or too much. But I did that for both HOME as well as for FORUM WRAPPER as you said, but nothing's changed. (and I saved the page after I did the edit each time.)

I took out the square brackets around the work 'shoutbox' as well as the dollar sign in front of it. Hmm?

OH and it's only showing up on that one skin. Wasn't sure if I mentioned that.

[Stinky666]

Jul 22, 2015 5:59:36 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

Stinky666

I'm not sure if I'm deleting all of the content or too much. But I did that for both HOME as well as for FORUM WRAPPER as you said, but nothing's changed. (and I saved the page after I did the edit each time.)

I took out the square brackets around the work 'shoutbox' as well as the dollar sign in front of it. Hmm?

OH and it's only showing up on that one skin. Wasn't sure if I mentioned that.

Was it a theme you downloaded/installed from the library or is it one of your own? If it's a premade one, can you link me to it so I can download and install to try help you better?

[Skidjit]

A theme I downloaded from the library.
It's on page 31 about half way down.
Called: Sunshine Daisies Buttermellow

It's a Hufflepuff theme. I have one person on my site who calls herself a Hufflepuff. I don't know how to contact the maker of this theme in order to ask if she's made any for the other houses. These are really good.

Oh and thanks Stinky666 for taking the time to help.

www.proboards.com/library/themes/item/208

edited to add: This is my site below. Who knows, it might be something I have, or don't have, on my site that is causing the problem.

lovegood-lounge.proboards.com/

[Stinky666]

Jul 22, 2015 7:23:02 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

A theme I downloaded from the library.
It's on page 31 about half way down.
Called: Sunshine Daisies Buttermellow

It's a Hufflepuff theme. I have one person on my site who calls herself a Hufflepuff. I don't know how to contact the maker of this theme in order to ask if she's made any for the other houses. These are really good.

Oh and thanks Stinky666 for taking the time to help.

www.proboards.com/library/themes/item/208

edited to add: This is my site below. Who knows, it might be something I have, or don't have, on my site that is causing the problem.

lovegood-lounge.proboards.com/

Hiya, if you go to Admin > Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper
Scroll down to the bottom, to find line 72 and remove the entire line: $[shoutbox]
For me that completely removed the shoutbox. Does that not work for you?

[Skidjit]

Yep. That did the trick. Thank you soooo much.

[Stinky666]

Jul 22, 2015 8:30:05 GMT -8 Skidjit said:

Yep. That did the trick. Thank you soooo much.

You're welcome