How can I get this meesage to also display on my home page using vbadavanced

as of now you have to go to the forums to see if if they make it that far.

Quick question:

My unconfirmed members are getting the header that confirmed users are getting. Why is this happening? Thanks!

(running 3.6.5)

Standard HTML will work in the phrases so <a href="url">text</a> should do the trick!

Never a problem...

When it comes to frontend output, HTML is what displays and holds content for every webpage. CSS changes the formating/ style while JS lends a hand with client-side interaction. VB Code is just an internal regexp system for replacing simple tags with html. And php is what runs everything behind the scenes.

Check the group for your unconfirmed users versus the group set in the welcome_headers template for that message.

Fantastic Mod - Love it!

Thanks a lot.

Ted,

I'm not quite sure what you mean (I'm sorry. I'm new to vbulletin!).

My id for Users Awaiting Email Confirmation is 3 and for COPPA users is 4. How do I match these numbers with the welcome_header for unconfirmed/coppa users? Thanks again.

3 is the same group used by the welcome headers so it must be something else. What's the url to your forum?

Argh, I just updated my style to use div instead of a table for the main page, and now my welcome headers won't show. They are still in the header, the ONLY difference is they are within <div> tags now and not <td> tags.... does anyone have an idea what I did wrong?

ETA ~ If I witch back to the previous template it works. On the template with the div tags that does not work, all i have is this in the HTML source:

So it's trying to show up, but it's just not working.

ETA #2 ~ Weird, when I made the new style the default, it worked fine. Just didn't seem to work when it was a user-selected style.

Interesting. Shoot me over your url and the style to select.

I just upgraded this hack from the 3.5.x version since my forum is now running vBulletin 3.6.x.

Since it appears that the older "first_visit_message" phrase is no longer used, should this phrase be deleted? If so, how do I delete a phrase?

No. That phrase is used by the default vbulletin message which is why this hack no longer uses it. This way if you uninstall the welcome headers and revert your forumhome template, your site still works properly.

Hi Ted, thank you for the useful mod.

I have a question: how can I let the serch egine bots bypass the welcome message? I don't want to let all of the serch results of my sites display the same message from "welcom headers". Can you do me a favour?

ps: I also don't want to set the welcome headers only display once per visit.

Thank you in advance.

This system is not designed to show up any differently for bots versus general guests.

I have quite a few mods in my site. Would this interfere with any of the mods in my site?, or would the mods that I have installed interfere with this mod?

It shouldn't interfere with any..

That depends on what mods you have and what they do. I'm not aware of conflicts and my advice is always to try but I can't promise someone else didn't write code that would conflict with my code -- or vise versa.

Thanks alot, installl.......

Great mod, INSTALLED!!

I'd be interested in a way that I could either have the Limited Guest Viewing or the Welcome Header in a thread. As I understand it, with LGV installed the welcome header will never show up in a thread. Could there be a condition in that template that displays the welcome header if the LGV message is not yet appearing? I'd like to hit the visitor coming in directly to a thread with the welcome message on the first visit, since they may leave before the LGV message kicks in. Once the take over count is reached then the welcome header could be replaced by the LGV.

Has anyone played with this idea before?

It could certainly be done -- that may be something I add in a future release.

Great hack, thanks :)

It runs fine for everyone except for the very people I decided to install it for...
users awaiting moderation do not see a thing. No box no text. I get the usual "you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: blurb" but no message header above. I cant' believe that it is working with anyone including guests and not for the "users who are awaiting approval?", even if it is the only message I ticked :(
What could I do wrong ?

OmniBuzz,

It doesn't sound like there's an issue with the mod but rather with how you want the mod to work. If a user is seeing an access denied page, they won't see the welcome header. What happens if a user awaiting confirmation goes to a page they arent restricted from seeing? What usergroup are using for these members?

Thanks Ted for your quick answer.
The forum I am building right now is a family forum. Meaning it is fully restricted to anyone outside the family. Members of the family we don't know apply for the forum by registering but we don't give them any access until their registration is moderated by a family elder.
The thing is that a few them are not very familiar with the concept of a forum, and once they fill the profile fields we request, do not understand why the system let them access a page where they can see their name (profile.php?do=dst "john smith, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:") and not the forum. A few of them do not even check their mailbox and keep coming back trying to enter the forum with the login/password they just entered.
What I wanted was to be able to display to these users awaiting moderation a specific header message. I mean if vbulletin is able to know that these people are "awaiting moderation" and display their name in a page, Welcome Header should be able to display to them a welcome header ?
Are I am not thinking right ?

You're completely correct with your thoughts -- if you PM me with your URL I can take a quick look and see if I can't tell the problem from the outside.

done, thanks again for your help !

It works now, I have no idea why !!!
Did I have to wait for some sort of cron job before it started to work ?

Weird. No cronjobs here.

Question...

If I was to make some sort of random "tip of the day" type script, and then insert a string to call it with into the header for say the people who are both registred and subscribed (for example), would it work? Or would the string not function correctly by just inserting it in the appropriate place in the admin cp??

Sorry if that's confusing...

If you setup the variable to be accessible globally it would certainly work.

Ted S, I followed your advice, edited the template, and added the coppa group that was missing, it works flawlessly now. It is a VERY good hack, and you answer very quickly to the questions we may have. Merci beaucoup.

Hmm. I am also having trouble getting the 'Enable Unconfirmed/ COPPA message' to work.

Everything was working okay at one time. I discovered today that the unconfirmed message was not appearing when investigating a user's question.

So, I upgraded to vBulletin 3.6.5 and upgraded welcome headers. That did not help.

I confirmed that the options settings were activated in the 'Welcome Header Messages' section of the config. I checked that the welcome_unconfirmed phrase was in place.

The guest message shows. But with the new, unconfirmed user I just created, they neither get the "unconfirmed" message, nor the "never posted" message.

Any suggestions on what I can check next? Any help would be appreciated.

My forum is at: http://forums.finalchallenge.net

Thanks!

paulh,

Often times the COPPA/ Unconfirmed group people use is not the same as the default group the hack checks for (due to upgrades and changes to the script). Open up the welcome_headers template and you can modify the group it checks for if necessary.

Thank you very much for the response, Ted.

I looked at the welcome_headers template. I'm guessing this is the important line:

My unconfirmed group is group id 3, which appears to also be the group number the condition looks for.

Any other ideas...?

Polish phrases for vB 3.5 and 3.6

Any way users could hide a welcome header?

I would like to add a welcome header once a month and allow members to hide it.

It's to try get members to signup to a premium membership but I would like to give users the option to hide it, then I can add it at the start of each month as a reminder.

Thanks :)

There are two options:
Enable Global Announcement
Enable One-View Welcome Headers

Maybe that's enough?

That feature is not available at this time and would take some custom work but it shouldn't be difficult to add yourself using the user data system.

When i clicked register...it gave me an error code. LIke not found on server. Any idea?

its good work nice job