How to embed the code to change the notorious "Welcome Message"?

rsaepuloh

People here keep saying just search in the forum. But I have not got any "step-by-step" help from anybody on changing the welcome message "Howdy, Stranger"!

I got this link : http://blog.vanillaforums.com/developers/howdy-stranger/

The problem is, nobody explain where to embed the code, as if everybody in the world born to know this stuff!

Can anybody please help me, I am really desperate to change this.
This is the last thing I have to do in order to launch my forum for the school I work for. I cannot launch this forum before changing the welcome message. Everybody hates the welcome message.

Is there anybody who is kind enough to give a step-by-step guidance on how to do this.
I believed this will help a lot of people who are brand new in using Vanilla.

Pleassssseeeeeee . . . .

R_J

Here's a tutorial: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26597/tutorial-how-to-change-wording-how-to-change-text-how-to-change-language-how-to-change-locale

And here's a F.A.Q.: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/218972/#Comment_218972

Now do yourself a favor and stop complaining.

rsaepuloh

@R_J Solved! Thank you and sorry for all the complain. I am just trying to help other new user who knows nothing about programming

Click here for the steps I took. It worked for me : http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/28500/how-to-change-the-welcome-message-howdy-stranger#latest

peregrine

@rsaepuloh said:
R_J Solved! Thank you and sorry for all the complain. I am just trying to help other new user who knows nothing about programming

yes reading the tutorials helps new people

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26597/tutorial-how-to-change-wording-how-to-change-text-how-to-change-language-how-to-change-locale

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/218972/#Comment_218972

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/219610/#Comment_219610

R_J

You can lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make it read the F.A.Q.

peregrine

I can almost understand - new people not knowing where the documentation is or how to search properly or asking oft-repeated questions. I can't really understand why people get a suggestion from tutorial how to do things properly, and then choose to do things exactly the wrong way by changing core code.

as an aside not related directly to this discussion:

What i can't fathom is various people who have asked questions over the years, have had a forum for years, and still can't figure out how to resolve bonk and "something has gone messages"

one would think they would read the readme's , release notes and documentation by now, after all they have been running a forum for years. I guess they still haven't found time yet!