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I'm curious if anyone knows what I'm referring to with the original post.

You can change them in Admin > Style Manager > Customize Images
Find the images on that page -  replace the image urls with your own.

Replace Image URLS from where though? From another hosting site? This is all new to me so I'm still learning as I go.

Okay. I saved an On Button (Red) and an Off Button (Grey). I swapped out the default Icon with the On Button, so now everything is "On" and remains "On" even if the post have been read.


So, obviously there is code involved for the forum to know when it should toggle between On and Off regarding new post. So, where do I go from here?

Quote from: CB on June 25, 2011, 06:28:17 pm

Okay. I saved an On Button (Red) and an Off Button (Grey). I swapped out the default Icon with the On Button, so now everything is "On" and remains "On" even if the post have been read.


So, obviously there is code involved for the forum to know when it should toggle between On and Off regarding new post. So, where do I go from here?

The images:
You need two images for "on"     on.png and on2.png.   The on2.png is for Child Boards.   You can use the same image for both if you wish.    The on images will show when there are unread posts in a Board.   Off images when there arent.
You should also have smaller versions of the images to use for new_some.png and new_none.,png
If they arent displaying correctly for you doublecheck that you put the urls in the correct place in Customize Images  (common mistake)     Once you are positive they are the correct images if you still see only the ON images then try marking all posts as read and see how that goes.   

I added the On and Off URL's for the other places as you mentioned. But it's still not working. I'm lost.

Should always post your forum url when asking for help so we can see what you are referring to.

You didnt replace them correctly.   The two at the top are the new_none, new_redirect and new_some images.   Those are the tiny images that show on the Board Index under the last Board; lined up horizontally.  They are there as a reference so you know what the images are on each Board.

Then there are 3 larger images.   Those are the ones that at the left of each Board.
   The first of those is the OFF image.   
   The second is ON and the third is ON2 (for child boards)

I can see in your attachment that you did not change the images for ON or ON2 and since I cannot read the entire Photobucket urls for the ones you did replace I can only guess you put an ON.png image on the one that should have been OFF.    The easy way to tell which ones are which is look at the file names for the existing ones.  (on.png, off.png etc)     

Ive done a little screenshot here and labled each so you know what they are  ..

That strange as I just checked it and can see it and enlarge it just fine.   Will do it again though.

weird.. it still works on my end but so you can see it ive put it on photobucket so here:



(remember to put the entire direct link to the images there - not just the file names)