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I'm about to take the plunge and upgrade to vB5. Is there a way to import the look and feel of my site (its customized style) into the new vB 5 theme? Or do I need to rebuild this from scratch? Has anyone dealt with this during their upgrade?
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vBulletin 4 themes, styles and addons are completely incompatible with vB5 so will need to be rebuilt from scratch.MARK.B
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Well, that is disappointing. A forum can be the livelihood of a website. Making big changes can alienate the membership. I was hoping that vB would have foreseen this and developed a import/export tool for styles and themes. Is there anything like this that you know of at the .org site? I'm sure that most anyone upgrading has had the same issue.~ Master of my own Domain ~Comment
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No, there's no import functionality, sorry. The platforms between major upgrades are *completely* different. This is true of most forum software.
Templates and stylevars don't even use the same syntax. It would need to be done manually.
We have som styling guides though:
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