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  • Enable Forum Category Display on vBulletin 5.x for Responsive Windows and Mobile Devices

    Upon configuring the forums, which are in the main directory of the web server, I found that the much necessary forum category/channel descriptions that were applied, are not visible. It seems if you minimize your browser window to the smallest size (480px) or smaller (mobile), the forum category/channel description is not showing. This requires a .css stylesheet change which is easily manageable through the vBulletin Admin Control Panel.

    Login to your vBulletin Forum and follow these steps:
    • Open your AdminCP and navigate to Styles > Search in Templates
    • Search for: "hide the latest" (the stylesheet is causing the description to be hidden forcibly)

    vBulletin Search in Template




    Find the current Style applied to your forum. In my case, I went with Default Style.
    Edit the file css_responsive.css
    (Perhaps you should make a copy of this somewhere just in case)

    CTRL+F (Find [Windows]) - "hide the latest"



    vBulletin css_responsive.css


    Your new file should look something like this. You are welcome to tinker with the rest of these lines of code as well. Removing them allows them to be visible. This code is causing these things to be hidden at certain screen resolutions.


    vBulletin Show Forum Category Description on Mobile/Responsive


    Save the file. You're done!

  • #2
    Still applicable in vBulletin 5.7.5 for responsive and mobile styles. Just applied this change to the current style.

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    • #3
      Looks good to me sir

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      • #4
        Thank you. It took some back and forth to figure it out but eventually it got done. It seemed so blank and empty. What good iss finding a community forum and looking at the categories if you don't know what they're about (without clicking them)?

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