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.