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NashChristian
06-02-2008, 06:12 PM
Hello Brian,

I'm running into situations where having my set to "forums" is causing some confusion. For example, I've had people who could care less about the discussion forums, but who have tried to register at my site for some of the other features, like the articles system.

All of the language of the vB engine refers to my site as "forums". For example, "Register at Forums", etc... So they get confused and abort the registration process, because they don't want to register for "forums".

I've done a phrase search, and there are SEVERAL phrases which I would have to manually edit, to make this use my [bburl] instead of my [bbtitle] to correct this. This wouldn't be so bad if it was a one time deal, but I believe I will have to redo this work when I upgrade to newer versions of vB, so that seems like a pain.

Is there a better way for me to do this? I believe that I originally set my Forum Name to "forums" instead of "NashvilleChristian.com" so that my breadcrumbs would track propperly, and to differentiate the different parts of the site.

How would you recommend that I handle this? I always want my site referred to as NashvilleChristian.com. (During registration, in email notices, etc...) The forums are just one [B]component of that site. (My vBa components are actually a larger component of that site than the "Forums" area.)

I'd rather not try to reinvent the wheel here, but I need to add some clarity for people.

What's the easiest and BEST way to handle this?

Thanks!
Jeff

Brian
06-04-2008, 01:14 PM
I've had sort of a similar gripe with vB for years since I just use 'Forums' for the title on another site of mine. There's really not a simple way that I'm aware of to fix that, though it might not hurt to post on vb.com to see if they have any suggestions.

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NashChristian
06-05-2008, 11:02 PM
Thanks Brian. I will try vb.com and see what they say.

Is any sort of a plug-in possible (like the mail plug-in), but to change what name displays in the other areas of the site, like the registration process?

Also, if I edit all the phrases involved, am I correct in my assumption that this will be a huge maintenance issue whenever I upgrade to the latest and greatest vB version? I've never done an upgrade yet, so I'm apprehensive about what it involves for any modifications which I've made.

Thanks.

:) Jeff

Brian
06-06-2008, 01:47 PM
I'm sure some plugins might be possible, but I'm not really sure what exactly it would entail. Just changing the phrases though should not create much of a problem. Custom phrases are not overwritten during vB upgrades, so you should not ever lose any of that work. The only time there should really be an issue might be if vB changes one of those phrases, but even then it's only a matter of comparing the new phrase to the old and making any necessary changes.

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NashChristian
06-06-2008, 01:52 PM
Ok. Thanks Brian!

:) Jeff