Right now, if you have no news available for the random news box in the header, you'll see the space for it and the News: text without any news showing. To turn that off, you have to go to another settings area and disable the random news item altogether. A quick and easy fix for this is to simply hide it if no news is available.
Open the index.template.php and find this:
// Show a random news item? (or you could pick one from news_lines...)
if (!empty($settings['enable_news']))
echo '
<td width="90%" class="titlebg2">
<span class="smalltext"><b>', $txt[102], '</b>: ', $context['random_news_line'], '</span>
</td>';
See the if statement? This is what you want (notice the if again):
// Show a random news item? (or you could pick one from news_lines...)
if ((!empty($settings['enable_news'])) && (!empty($context['random_news_line'])))
echo '
<td width="90%" class="titlebg2">
<span class="smalltext"><b>', $txt[102], '</b>: ', $context['random_news_line'], '</span>
</td>';
Hey thanks for the tip!
I had actually been looking for something like this for awhile. Thanks!