Hide profile search links from unregistered users to prevent bots from using them
 

In profiles there are links that are used to search latest posts, threads, blog posts etc. Unregistered users can use them by default so it may be a good idea to hide them to prevent bots from increasing server load.

search-links.png

How to hide the links?

1. Search for the row in the step 2 or go to AdminCP → Styles & Templates → Style Manager → Your style → MEMBERINFO
2. Find this row:
   
   HTML Code:
   <img src=span style="color:#0000FF""{vb:stylevar imgdir_siteicons}/forum.png"/span alt=span style="color:#0000FF""{vb:rawphrase find_all_posts}"/span class=span style="color:#0000FF""inlineimg"/span /> {vb:rawphrase find_all_posts}
   
3. Place this code above it:
   
   HTML Code:
   
4. Find HTML Code:
   
5. Put this end tag above it:
   
   HTML Code:
   ]

Now these links should be viewable only by users logged in.
Attached Images

• https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/images/attach/png.gif search-links.png&lrm; (12.0 KB)