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[Sean James]

Installing a vBulletin skin is very easy to do and will only take about 5-10 minutes. The longest part is waiting for the images to upload to your server.

As well as including a readme_install.txt with all our skins I decided to write a tutorial with detailed descriptions and screenshots for users who are not as familiar with installing skins.

Quick Installation based on BP-Black
1: Upload the image directory "BP-Black" to your server "*your forums*/images/BP-Black/
2: Goto Administration page click the 'Styles & Templates' tab and then click 'Download / Upload Styles'
3: In the section 'Import Style XML File' click the browse button and upload the .xml files provided in the package.
4: To change the logo go back to 'Styles & Templates' and then click "Style Manager"
5: Here you will see a list of the skins you have installed, goto Stylevars by clicking the "Go" button to the right of the skin name.
6: In the search box search for 'titleimage' then in the box to the left change the image path to your logo.

Detailed Instructions based on BP-Black
Step 1) The file structure of our skin packages.


Step 2) Importing the skin XML files


Step 3) Importing Blog and CMS XML files
Since vBulletin 4.1.7 the suite is now 3 xml files instead of 1 merged one. So you will need to upload the skin XML, and then merge the Blog and CMS file into the skin.


Step 3) Changing the logo.


This tutorial was based on using the theme BP-Black. As installation of all skins are the same, simply substitute the name for BP-Black with the relevant skin name.

If you have any problems please post here or send us a support ticket

[Sean James]

Updated:

Since vBulletin 4.1.7 the suite is now 3 xml files instead of 1 merged one. So you will need to upload the skin XML, and then merge the Blog and CMS file into the skin.