I spent almost an hour trying to figure out how to hide the header picture of EduPhil.org, an online forum for stakeholders of Philippine education. The site uses MyBB, a very good forum software which I have used for my other projects as well, such as Isles Tech Forums and Review Cebu. (I am also going to use it for a student help forum I am going to start soon, as well as that of The DILFED Forum, which currently just use Yahoo Groups.)
I wanted to hide the header so that I could move the text earlier in the page and therefore present to the reader information within a few seconds. My plan was to locate the option to do that somewhere in the board settings variables of MyBB and just find an option to hide. The first problem was the place I was looking for it. It was not in the board settings but could be found in the themes section (login as administrator > Templates > Modify/Delete) instead. Failing to find a hide option, I removed the content of the Forum Logo data field. Unfortunately the script will still release an <img> tag; the source would only be the base URL of your forum (Admin CP > Board Settings > Change > General Configuration > Homepage URL). (The source would be Homepage URL + the Forum Logo string from the themes section.)
Looking at the source of the page, I knew that the HTML output at the part of the page where the picture is put is within the header template. So I just changed the header template to remove the entire "logo" (not "header") div.
Labels: customizing mybb

