In vBulletin you could put the board into debug mode add a Product then add a Setting Group to vBulletin options and put settings in there.

 

For example I made a plugin for my theme called Social Media, then put options for people to enter their username for popular social media sites.

 

Then I put links to their profiles in the footer using something like $vbulletin->options['bsmediasocial'] or whatever.

 

So how can I do something similar with IPB?

Okay I got how to add the group and tab but how can I attach it to a hook? so users can import it when the import the skin

 

I also figured out how to add it to the templates

 

{$this->settings['twittername']}

Now I'm going to have to work on finding the conditon for if a setting = yes to display.

Thanks for posting these as you figure them out. I am going to be adding a tutorial section and when it's done I have some things I found and then I'll move these types of threads into the tutorials section.

 

It really is a different way of doing things and from what I've seen so far it is a little easier in my eyes.

Adding templates and having them parse was infintely easier than it is in vBulletin 4 sure. Not having to go into debug mode to create options is also easier.

 

Now I just need to find out how to get them all in one .xml file or whatever for download :D