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Simplifying Registration

If You don't need to ask all the questions that are shown when people sign up, then here is HOWTODOIT

goto Admin panel - Styles Admin - Edit Templates/Logos then open up the template you have made then goto profile_add_body.tpl


Now look for something like this

Code:
<tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_ICQ_NUMBER}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" name="icq" class="post"style="width: 100px"  size="10" maxlength="15" value="{ICQ}" />
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_AIM}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" class="post"style="width: 150px"  name="aim" size="20" maxlength="255" value="{AIM}" />
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_MESSENGER}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" class="post"style="width: 150px"  name="msn" size="20" maxlength="255" value="{MSN}" />
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_YAHOO}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" class="post"style="width: 150px"  name="yim" size="20" maxlength="255" value="{YIM}" />
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_WEBSITE}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" class="post"style="width: 200px"  name="website" size="25" maxlength="255" value="{WEBSITE}" />
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_LOCATION}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" class="post"style="width: 200px"  name="location" size="25" maxlength="100" value="{LOCATION}" />
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_OCCUPATION}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" class="post"style="width: 200px"  name="occupation" size="25" maxlength="100" value="{OCCUPATION}" />
     </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_INTERESTS}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" class="post"style="width: 200px"  name="interests" size="35" maxlength="150" value="{INTERESTS}" />
     </td>
   </tr>


Now surround the questions you do not want asked with:

<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->

<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->



So for an example if we want to get rid of ICQ then this is HOWTODOIT

Code:
<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
   <tr>
     <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_ICQ_NUMBER}:</span></td>
     <td class="row2">
      <input type="text" name="icq" class="post"style="width: 100px"  size="10" maxlength="15" value="{ICQ}" />
     </td>
   </tr>
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->


Now ICQ will not appear

You can do individual questions or whole blocks.

WARNING

The avatar block is not there for registrations anyway! Plus don't lose things like username, email, passwords and visual confirmation.

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