Sorry i didnt know there was any sorry im kinda New...

No problem! Just trying to point you in the right direction.

I have made some text with Dreamweaver ,now hod do I insert this ,I dont think its as simple as copy and paste,an aany one offer some help please.

Thanks

If you have the HTML code, it is just that simple. Please see www.w3schools.org for an HTML tutorial.

I have installed it as I was told, but when I go to my admincp I can't find Welcome Heads as an option on the left hand column. Please advise

Thanks for waiting to PM me. :D

You can find the options by going to your vBulletin Options section. Each system is named and in the drop down.

Great, Thank you..

excellent mod, thanks for sharing. I think this will help a lot, its installed, so we will see. I get around 200 u/v per day to my forum, only 1-2 of that registers, and 0-1 of them post anything. I would love for this to help out~!

No matter how I install welcome headers AND limited guest viewing, the orginial vb guest welcome message appears in showthreads.

I do have google adsense as well as vbseo install, I'm not sure if that has anything to do with these two hacks.

Thanks in advance!

There is no original vb welcome message in showthreads... the vbulletin message appears only on the FORUMHOME page hence the needs for welcome headers. What message are you trying to remove?

thanks man great hack.;)

Testimonial

Proof is in the pudding. After having this install for 2 months. New registrations have gone through the roof. We are currently in our off season and the 2 months shown are usually very quiet.

A massive increase.

Thanks Ted S. :up::up:

Glad to hear it's working for you!

Hi guys

I have decided that with my lack of html experiance ect that I want to uninstall this mod.

I have uninstalled it but there still seems to be something left behind ,I will upload an attachment so u can see the welcome headers still there in my template ,how can I remove this without stuffing up my forums ,thanks in advance.

I will try the mod when I gain a little more experiance.

Do i have a chance for showing messages for only specified usergroups? I have a user group that users needs to post 10 message for being a real member and their first 10 posts must approved by admins.

Probably some members aren't going to understand it and complain, so do i have a chance to only showing specified message for specified usergroups?

Welcome Headers is a framework which is meant to be extended... Just pop open the template welcome_headers, look at the examples and change or edit the messages to fit your needs.

I have updated some of the welcome message phrases, and the parameter {3} that inserts sendmessage.php isn't working properly.
How do I know what {1}, {2}, {3} etc refer to?
Where do I find these to update them?

You can find the variable calls in the template welcome_headers. As far as changing them, you really don't need to use these variable calls... they're included to allow welcome headers to function well out of the box. If you go to your ACP and select the Welcome Headers System you will be able to edit the phrase (which includes the links) for each message. Feel free to include any links, lists or other formatting that suits your site's needs.

Thank, Ted.
I have changed the templates, via the links in vboptions(admicp), and included the link names, that I wanted. But I've always wondered where the {1} parms get there info from.

You said it worked with the limited guest viewing system and that if we have it we need to enable the option for it in the welcome headers mod. My question is if we don't enable "Register Take-Over Message", but we do enable "Enable Register Block Page" do we have to enable the option in your welcome headers mod?

sweet thx.

I am a noob! And an old one at that!
This is what I have in the forum home template...HOW DO I FIX THIS??

<if condition="$show['guest']">
<table width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" style="background-image:url(prfantasia/fantasia/ort.gif)" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"><img src="prfantasia/fantasia/sol.gif" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
<td align="center" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" style="background-image:url(prfantasia/fantasia/ort.gif)" valign="middle"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</font></phrase></td>
<td align="right" valign="top"><img src="prfantasia/fantasia/sag.gif" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
<phrase 1="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" 2="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
</td>

</tr>
</table>
</if>

Many thanks

Just as the instructions state, you delete it.

Hello, I'm a newbie and this is my first hack installation. I trie to install with no success. I think I'm not doing something right with the instruction #4. I believe that's the install plug in part. Can I get a little more detail on how to do this? TIA.

Installing a plugin is a very basic process that involves uploading the xml file attached to this addon. For more information see http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/plugin_system

Step 3 is the plugin, and you do exactly as it says, it does all the updates then.
Step 4 is the configuration step, where you change the product to suit your needs.

What exactly is your problem?

Absolutely installed!!! :)

Thanks alot for providing it Teds! :)

Hey, can anyone point me to have the message "following" when unregistered guest scrolling the page down? I've seen it on many forums around. I guess it involves some hack / additional plugin / some script / template mods (?)

Thanks in advance! :up:

;)
Jaymz

No problem. While I don't have a link, you're looking for a little snippit of DHTML code that floats a div/table on the page as the user scrolls. This can be integrated with welcome headers, just find your javascript code and edit the template welcome_headers appropriately.

That's not quiet what I've seen but it's certainly along the same lines. I would suggest stepping outside of the vB world and looking at dhtml scripts that can be customized.

Yes, something like that! :) I wish I can wrap Ted's mod to show like oninuva's one :)

BTW Ted, I noticed something you may want to fix. Not a bug, just a link adjustment to make it consistent.

I installed ver 4.2.2 in vB 3.6.8.

When I go to AdminCP --> AdminCP --> Plugin and products --> Manage product
and click the plugin name, it still linked to the old version (4.12) which is for vB ver 3.5.x

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=807808

CMIIW, but I think it should link to this thread instead

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119572

It's in the xml file :)

In version 1.00 for vB 3.7.0 there is no link in the mentioned spot. Iguess you may want to point it to https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165519

Anyway, thanks for great plugin!

;)
Jaymz

FANTASTIC!!!
INSTALLED!!!

Thank you!!! :up:

An awesome idea, fingers crossed it helps with new members, thanks for this.

*installed*

Great hack. Installed.

any help on this appreciated..

Well, I believe the mod doesn't add any template to your curent style / skin. Just revert back the steps as the instruction manual, and you should be fine.

Remove any $welcomeheaders code from your templates' header, paste back the old "welcome message" code in the FORUMHOME template, uninstall the product... that's it.

What's exactly your problem you need to uninstall it? Maybe we can help :)

;)
Jaymz

I am trying to edit 'welcome_headers' so I can have a different colored background in the table. I cant seem to figure out why its not working for me. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

I added the following to 'welcome_headers':

<!-- guest welcome message -->
<br />
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" bgcolor="#FFFF80" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>

Thanks, Kevin

<font color="black">BGColor shouldn't be used like that. Try adding style="background-color:#FFFF80" to the <td> tag instead or changing the css classes.</font>

Step #4:

Log into your AdminCP - On the control panel click on 'vBulletin options' - Scroll down the list and highlight 'welcome headers messages' then click on the 'edit settings' button. The 'welcome headers' setting then appear. To turn on the headers set 'enable welcome headers' to YES. The next few options are self explanitory.

If you have the 'Limited Guest Viewing' add-on installed then set "Limited Guest Viewing Surpression" to yes. Otherwise leave it set at NO.

Hope this helps.
Kevin

Thank you sir! I've got it now.

Kevin