Removing Birthday section of profile

[iowahawx]

Due to some strange glitch with our vBulletin setup and its incompatibility with our host co.'s setup, all of the birthdays for our members are defaulting to Nov. 30th.

Instead of messing around with fixing the issue (believe me, we've tried and the host co. has been less than cooperative) I was hoping there's just some way to remove the birthday section of each user's profile.

Is there some way to do this?

[daemon]

Yes there is .

To remove it from public display, go to:

Admin CP --> Style Manager --> « » --> Member Info Templates

Then edit the MEMBERINFO template to find:

			<if condition="$userinfo['birthday'] OR $customfields">
				<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
				<if condition="$userinfo['birthday']">
				<tr>
					<td>
						<strong>$vbphrase[birthday]</strong>:<br />
						$userinfo[birthday]
					</td>
				</tr>
				</if>
				$customfields
				</table>
			<else />
				<em>$vbphrase[n_a]</em>
			</if>

And replace it with:

			<if condition="$customfields">
				<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
				$customfields
				</table>
			<else />
				<em>$vbphrase[n_a]</em>
			</if>

And if you wish to prevent people from entering a birthday in their profile in the first place, go to:

Admin CP --> Style Manager --> Modify User Option Templates

And edit the modifyprofile template to find and remove:

			<if condition="$show['birthday_optional']">
				$birthdaybit
			</if>

[iowahawx]

Worked like a charm, I appreciate the help

[shawno]

An oldie - but very useful.

Could I ask another question - I removed this because we didn't want the Google spidering showing birthday's on the crawl that they do.

Am i right in assuming by removing this code from the page Google will not display this information when they re-crawl the site? If not, how can I block this field being spidered?

Many thanks

S

[daemon]

Correct, removing that code from the page will not display it to anybody, including spiders.

[shawno]

Thanks daemon.