It adds to navbar automatically. To add it to header, put:
after:

For those with vbAdvanced having trouble with this appearing correctly in your homepage navbar, here is the edit I found to fix it. Replacing the relative url with an absolute (full) url corrects this linking error.

Open the cyb_advancednewposts template found under Cybernetic Templates.
Find instances of:
Replace with
I replaced all 3 instances of the relative url with an absolute. Not sure all 3 were necessary but it worked for me.

v2.2 - Jan 14. 2009.
-New: New post check is now done via AJAX - no page refresh ;-)
-New: Auto-check for new posts every x seconds
-Ability to set order of items in Smart Search Menu
-Minor bugs fixed

To upgrade:
-Import XML, allow overwrite
-Check settings, update if needed
-Translate new phrases if needed

man thought i would try this again and the number still doesnt decrease. ..i am willing to donate money to cyber to get this corrected.

Installed (on a 3.8 version forum), and seems to work fine.

Thanks for your work on this.

vB 3.8 version/support:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201308

vB 3.7.3 patch 1 and last upgrade change not reliable numbers with 0 (after upgrade). It is verifying and still founding 0 posts. No exceptions.
I have logged with another account and is the same. FF and IE7 same thing.
I take this post/chance to thank you allot for this mod. Great stuff. :)

Installed and it's great, except it does not decrease new post count.

It counts new posts from your last visit. Mark forums as read (update 'last visit' time) to mark these post as read.

I am having the same problem...so you are saying that in only tracks from last visit so until we leave and then come back, it will not "zero" out?...unless you click on mark all read...

Thanks