I have no active blogs so I can't try. What is the template you are using?

HiO Back2Basic

But I should not say blog. It's the CMS home page where it fails to pickup but ads through the built in system do pickup.

I believe those are the the 'ad_blogsidebar_*' templates ... I'm not sure what the vbulletin banner system does to HTML. I'll see :)

The code does nothing special. Banners rotate also in vBulletin ad space, so when it runs in the header, it also should run in the blog sidebar:

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I don't know if the CMS sidebar is cached. If it is, maybe it is an issue. But none I could change.

The forum sidebar is cached, but if the content is HTML, the banners are still rotated. So far I can tell the banners rotate everywhere in vBulletin and the only known issue is about forums using photopost and its pages.

Unistalled, way too confusing to use.

That's unfortunate, because it's really not confusing at all once you grasp the concept of placehoilders and because it works like a charm.

better description among the installation would help everyone greatly......

In all the years I'm software developer (34), I never have found a better way to describe how to install a software than to illustrate visually. However, I believe that vBulletin owners are grown up enough to follow a common line. If you managed to install vBulletin, which has in fact simplified a lot lately, you also should be able to install a vBulletin plugin.

Without going now into the psychological detail, why installing an addition may cause more grief than installing a software, I would like to say that a free software addition with almost all commercial features one could desire, everyone could invest a little personal efford to get there.

Of course, if in the course of this plugin it will work out to rather sell, I will also be able to pay somebody who may install the plugin and make it work at each customer's forums. ;)

Is it possible for the images to flicker every few seconds? The ads only change when someone refreshes a page....

The unsupported addon (post 898 or 989 :p) can do this for you.

EDIT: Post 989, page 66 (this thread)

I am feeling really dumb because the mod said it was straight forward and I have done everything that looks like it need to be done and I still cannot get any banners to display.

I created a banner in Horizontal (0) Banner List
Here is the code I put in the text block.
I enabled he banner
I placed this code in the ?ad_global_below_navbar?
The banner will not display.
Am I missing a step of doing something wrong?

Does one of the default banners view?

Probably you will have to use the template ad_navbar_below, because this one is used on all pages. The ad_global_below_navbar template is shown only under certain circumstances.

Yes, I tried the default banner and I also tried the ad_navbar_below and it still does not display.

I don't know what I am doing wrong. Hoping for some help and advise here.

Do you have vbSEO and its HTML cleaning enabled? Are you editing the right style? Does the start and end date/time fit your server time? Have you enabled other restrictions? Does the image exist?

Please continue with ad_navbar_below and maybe with the default style first, just to be sure everything works as it should.

Then, please put the image URL into the Image field and the landing page into the URL field. Keep the Text field empty unless you want to show a banner which isn't a plain picture.

Does it now work?

Sorry all the questions but I prefer to make them now all together :)

What are you referring to when "Do you have vbSEO and its HTML cleaning enabled?".

Yes,
I am editing the correct style
The start and end dates are withing the time frame
I have not enabled any other restrictions
Yes the picture does exist.

This is on my test site. I put it there to get it working before I go to my live site.
If you would like access to the site to check it out, I can give it to you just let me know.

If you had vbSEO installed, there was a footnote in the help files regarding this addon and a relative setting ...

If I could have access to the test site, it would simplify our conversation a lot :)

I do not have vbSEO installed in this site.

I will send you a PM with access to the site.

Hi,
I do upload to Root (rbs_iframe.php) ?
It's only file ?
Tahnks :)

Let me make sure I understand this correctly.

If I have ten banners created for for "position 0" and I have them all enabled. Then those 10 banners will rotate constantly?

If that is the case it is not working because the banners all show up in "position 0" at the same time.

:confused:

I cannot even imagine how you managed to get that to happen. Can you post a screen shot?

Sure. Here is the screen shot.

Assumed you have 1 placeholder for each page, (almost) each page view will show a different one out of those 10 banners. The function shuffles the available banners and casually picks one. The casualty is pretty even. If you have more location 0 placeholders on the same page, the function picks more banners in the same way.

There is however no such "constantly in-place rotating", unless you will use the unsupported add-on. The standard behaviour is 1 banner each page view.

Please see post n. 989 for more about this file ;)

:confused: I only see one banner in that screen shot.

Me too, but I think it's your fault for asking for a screenshot and not a link. Except he's not a noob so he really should have known better.

There is another banner under the Jacks R Better banner. It looks like text but it is a banner.

Here is the code I have in the template ad_navbar_below.
If I user the following code in the ad_navbar_below template and I also have 10 banners for location 0. Then shouldn't it rotate between all 10 banners and show one at a time?

this is awesome!!!!! Installed

It shows one banner at each time. Every time you refresh or reload a page with this template, another banner out of 10 is shown. It works like any other HTML with dynamic content.

I found my problem and it is working now. Than you all for the help.

For the benefit of future searchers, you really should try to explain the problem and the solution as best you can.

Yes, you are right and I mean to do that.

My problem with having double banners existed because I had the code posted in two templates. I had it in both the "ad_navbar_below" and "ad_global_below_navbar".

I'm sorry, I must be missing something in the set-up instructions. how is it that I get this ad banner to show up? I have it uploaded and I have it appearing in my AdminCP, but there is nothing showing up on my forum. I inserted the <div @vbbanners:0@ /div> code into my ad_navbar_below template, but all it shows is @vbbanners:0@ Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

- B

Hi,

First of all - Giovanni, thank you for this mod - its really good!

I've search this thread for ab answer and couldn't find it... When i have a flash ad that its click-able with a URL inside the SWF, how can i make it work? its working only when i use the URL destination of the MOD inside the banner management area.

Thanks
Maayan:)

Has anyone else had problems with where footer ads used by is mod, actually end up at the top of the forums?

It works fine in Firefox, but Safari users are complaining that the ad ends up over top of the content at the top of vbCMS article pages.

Thanks for any feedback. :)

Regards,
Doug

I do not believe that is the proper placeholder. Why do you have "div" in there? If you want to center it you need a div: "<div align="center"><!--@vbbanners:0@--></div>". You may need to read the manual again.

Working fine on my forum with Safari. Have you tried it yourself (don't type that you don't have Safari - it will take less time to just install it and try it yourself)? Link?

You probably need also to change the Options to @vbbanners:%d@. the default placeholder is <!--@vbbanners:%d@-->, so if you have not changed the options, you will have to use <!--@vbbanners:0@--> in your templates instead of @vbbanners:0@ ;)

If your flash has already the right link, then you fill the Text field with the HTML which shows your banner and leave the other fields empty. In the case you have a Flash banner which internal URL is missing, erroneous or where you may want to track clicking, you would use the Flash wrapper, which embeds the flash file and ignores thus the internal URL, using yours instead.

I have no idea how you may make this happen ... unless a style definition with absolute position ... :confused:

In any case it's a style problem :)

Ok, here's a screen capture of vbCMS article in Safari 5.05 (latest version) using a MacBook Pro running OSX. Note advert is placed over top of screen content at the top of forum instead of the bottom. (see pic on the left below)

Same screen of same vbCMS article on same machine using Firefox 5.0 places banner from this mod at bottom in footer. (see pic on the right below)

I don't understand where to look to fix it, given in works in one browser and not the other. :confused:

Note: does not happen on forum home screens or other screens, just vbCMS ..

Any help would be appreciated ... :)

Regards,
Doug

.... Safari ....................... FireFox