Remove "Powered by Invision Board" from the first page title

[Chris Christian]

Here is a solution for you:

ADMIN CP -> LOOK AND FEEL

Click "Edit Board Header & Footer Wrapper" for your skin.

Find:

<title><% TITLE %></title>

Replace it with the title of your choice. Example:

<title>This is my title</title>

Save it and you are done! :)

[.Timmy]

Actually, that's a stupid way of doing it since it will strip the entire global title from your site. You won't have the topic title or forum title when you're viewing topics or forums (or any other page for that matter).

[Luke]

Actually there may be something you can do. In the global header there is an "exec" tag thing where you can run PHP script in your header and anything the script "prints" goes to the location where you have the tag. If you were able to get that title into the script somehow, which may be a variable already set and accessible, you could take that and parse out the "Powered By" part.

EDTIT: Bah.. Nevermind. The "$output_array" doesn't have the right scope for you to access it.... Not only that but the exec tag happens after the <% TITLE %> tag is replaced, so you can't parse it out between the <title></title> tags... Oh well, worth a try anyway.

[UltimoGuitarist]

Here is a solution for you:

ADMIN CP -> LOOK AND FEEL

Find:

<title><% TITLE %></title>

Replace it with the title of your choice. Example:

<title>This is my title</title>

Save it and you are done! :)

Anyone see anything wrong with doing this method? I'm gonna try it.

EDIT: Worked like a charm.

[Michael]

Timmy pointed out what was wrong with that method.

[Chris Christian]

Actually, that's a stupid way of doing it since it will strip the entire global title from your site. You won't have the topic title or forum title when you're viewing topics or forums (or any other page for that matter).

Can you read the entire topic before post, please?

First, I gave a REAL solution to the TOPIC STARTER, because of this:

I have submitted a ticket to Invision. Here is the response.

It really does not help.

Joannes

IPS does not resolve the problem for the user, and this solution works like a charm. Nobody cares about topic titles or other things in browser title bar, so, before posting stupid things, please read the ENTIRE topic first. :)

[bfarber]

Err, actually a lot of people care about the topic title in the browser bar. I don't think what he posted was stupid.

And Timmy, Chris's solution wasn't stupid either, since it's effectively the only easy way to replace the title.

Please refrain from calling each other, or each other's suggestions, "stupid"

[Luke]

It's not the smartest way to remove it because it makes all your search results have the same title, and effect position ranking :)...

If only the exec tag could take place after the tags like <% TITLE %> are replaced instead of before... It would be an easy no-modification solution.

[Chris Christian]

It's not the smartest way to remove it because it makes all your search results have the same title, and effect position ranking :)...

If only the exec tag could take place after the tags like <% TITLE %> are replaced instead of before... It would be an easy no-modification solution.

Yes, it

[Nils]

Yes, it

[The Clash]

I don't use IPS hosting, so I'm not sure as far as the quality of service/support on that end, however, if you won't take the time to go in and make the needed changes to remove that (which can be done legally on a fully-licensed IPB), then in my opinion, that's just poor support, something I wouldn't expect from IPS. Unless, of course, it is 100% impossible - like I said, I have no idea how the files are encoded/set up with IPS hosting.

Regardless, that line in the title should be removed.

[Michael]

They'd have to take an unencoded boards.php file, make the change, then encode it and upload it over the existing one. Where does it end, then? How many more of these suggestions would they be asked to make new encoded files for for minor little changes like this? I don't see anything wrong with IPS making a decision that they won't do this, they shouldn't have to worry about keeping different sets of files with some different edits in each.

[Labonte18]

Technically, that is part of the Copyright.. An exception is made to allow the changing of it..

Perhaps, it would be a better idea to stop taking the inch and grabbing for the mile, and just sit down and be quiet about it, before you find out that the solution is to remove the exception?

I mean.. From the IPS standpoint, that seems like the easier way to deal with it. They're being nice about allowing people to change/remove that, and now everyone's raising hell because it's not easy enough to do?

If I were in those shoes.. I'd be saying "OK.. No problem, we'll make it easy.. You can't remove/modify it anymore."

Well within their rights.. So perhaps folks that just can't figure it out should just drop this before they cock it up for everyone?

I mean.. DAMN. You're dying of thirst in the friggin desert and someone hands you an RC Cola.. You gonna say "No, Thanks.. You should be giving me your Coke."?

[Mark]

FYI, if you purchase the full copyright removal license, it is removed automatically.

[Strange_Will]

FYI, if you purchase the full copyright removal license, it is removed automatically.

Cool, $300 to remove a title.

[The Clash]

Cool, $300 to remove a title.

Don't forget the Powered By IP.Board 2.3.1

[Strange_Will]

Don't forget the

Powered By IP.Board 2.3.1

[Antony]

If I'm correct the license agreement says that the copyright message in the board footer may not be altered.

Simply put, this increases search rankings for IPB. There is no reason to retain it from the customers point of view.

[W13]

The "Powered by" message in the title is too much imo. The copyright at the bottom is fine the way it is- but the "Powered by" in the title DOES hurt the user experience. People often look in the title bar to see what website they're on and what the information on the page is about ... the "Powered by" message makes it look long and messy.

[elj]

So it's an extra "perk" for people who have purchased a license that they can remove it. If you haven't purchased a license (the encoded files that you receive as part of the hosting don't count), you can't remove it.

It seems fair enough really.

[Luke]

I would personally like it removed completely... No option at all. It does hurt a sites search rankings in a big way. I know I've dropped 100k on Alexa after I decided not to care about modifications anymore, such as this... But at this point I'm not going to complain about my board anymore. When I go around searching for other sites, seeing "Powered By Invision Board" in a search link is useless, especially since the search link length is limited. If you wanted to search for boards using IPB, you could easily search for the copyright in the footer.

[Millar]

Not only is it ugly, but it is extremely long. Ok, maybe a small note would be considerable but the current one is not the shortest. :o

[Katsuma]

I like it in there. It makes its easy to locate the line in the file I need to edit to what I like since it can not be done (yet) from the ACP. It would be nice if it was changable from the ACP too but its so simple IMHO to change it in the file that it doesn't matter to me really.

[Nils]

So what you're saying is, you want to keep the text there because otherwise you couldn't remove it? Interesting reasoning...

[Devon Z]

Sorry to bring back an old thread but can't you just go to: YourForumDomain/Path/admin/index.php?section=tools&act=op&code=setting_view&conf_group=15 then put "Turn off copyright?" to "Yes"?

I did this and the footer copyright stayed in place and the ( Powered By Invision Board ) was removed from the title.