This doesn't do anything to the number of DB queries, but if it's bandwidth not database usage, you can add the following to your .htaccess ...

Were you storing the story texts in the database or files?  Does the setting in your admin panel match what is was previously?  If the texts...

If they really want to steal it you can't stop them.  They can do it like AnarchicQ said.  Even if you found a way to disable that (and...

What Kali said.  However, if you're still certain you want it, it's more javascript.  Do a search on google/bing.

You need to add a javascript to switch between 2 different .css files for the same theme.  I don't have an example for you using the current...

Add an index named "inorder" to that table using phpmyadmin.  There may be other things that are missing though so you may have other e...

The current version of eFiction does not provide caching.  The next major release v4 will have caching.

$tpl->assign("completedIMG"  , "<img src="'$skindir/images/".($stories['completed'"] ? "complete.j...

You could edit includes/storyblock.php to use images instead of text. To be able use both images and text in different skins, add a new variable for t...

The user panel for the contact panel looks like it's probably missing.

If you could log in, the accounts are NOT locked.  Locked accounts won't even be allowed to log in.  They'll get an error message ...

You should do an additional query.  Don't edit _STORYQUERY.  That is used everywhere in the site.  Adding the chapter information ...

How are they describing these "locked" accounts.  They may be calling it locked, but it may actually be something else.  I'd...

It's the authorprefs table.  The level wll be -1 for users with locked accounts. 

Doing a quick search of the upgrade script.  It seems like something may be wrong with your reviews table.  Use phpmyadmin.  Go to the ...