I have a question.

I have registered members and premium members (paid members)
How can I set it to let registered members see the first posts only and it would encourage them to join our premium side? Is this possible?

You would have to modify the hack code to treat members of the registered group like guests.

oh, ok, that's not going to happen LOL I'm not a coder!

TY!!!

Is this plugin confirmed to work with 3.6.8?

Threads Version # (1.05) needs updating to 1.06. ;)

yes.

Great Mod. It does improve your member list.

With Firefox it's possible to block the cookies from a list of Website. It's easy to read the forums which use this plugin.

Again, the intent of this hack is not to truly block people from reading the forums, if you want to do that, you should disable their privileges. LGV is designed to encourage people to register, nothing more.

When you think about it, if they really want to continue to read on it would be just as easy for them to register than it would be to hassle with getting around cookies. I like the idea behind this mod, installing.

Installed - quite easy. :)

Will monitor improvements in sign-up rate and report back.

Thanks :cool::up:

I installed the mod on vBulletin 3.6.8. But no messages appear ... (yes, the mod is activated ...)

What could the problem be?

Thanks
MISC

It sounds like you have not added the necessary variable to your templates as explained in the instructions.

I'm getting the same problem as MISCMORE, nothing showing up in 3.6.8, I double checked the instructions and everything is exactly as they said it. I'll give it one more go.

Have you added the $lgvmessage variable to your navbar template for each style?

Well the instalation guide says put this in $lgvmessage and at the bottom of the navbar template, so here? </table>
</div>

<!-- / PAGENAV POPUP -->
</if>$lgvmessage

Sorry, I was referring to the wrong hack.

You now need to (a) turn the system on (b) view your board as a guest (c) view as many threads as you allow the block system to display. If you don't get blocked, check your domain's cookies for one named lgv.

Sweet, I got it to work, thanks!
It was the Welcome header I couldn't get to work. Also wrong hack.

Thanks for making this great hack... been looking for a way to restrict view, but didn't interfere with google. thanks!

I have installed the system and it is a great system. I am using the Register Block Page feature, however it seems to be interfering with the Welcome Header MOD...

For example, the Welcome Header displays properly in a forum view:
http://www.genxglow.com/f37/

However, in a thread view - the Welcome Header is not displayed:
http://www.genxglow.com/f37/gxg-taki...on-strom-1440/

I would still like the Welcome Header MOD displayed on thread pages as well. How do I acheive this?

Thanks in advance!

You can change how the two systems work by modifying the options.

Disable welcome headers if limited guest viewing system is on?
Set to no

I don't see how any of my settings would be conflicting. Can you provide any more input? Thanks for your support thus far!

Be sure you're using the latest versions and that setting should work.

Welcome Headers 4.2.2
Limited Guest Viewing 1.0.6

I presume this affects search engine spiders from indexing pages to search engines as it will prevent SEO bots aswell?

No, it doesn't. Search engines and spiders can still access and crawl your site just as they did before. It's only guests who are restricted.

Rebecca

Review the first post and/or instructions for an explanation of how this works with robots.

Hi.How and where do we change the codes to edit instead of unregistered users,to registered users?

Edit the plugin file to change the conditions from guests to !guests.

Hi Ted... :)

Right thread this time ... ;)

If I change the user title (it's currently blank) of the Usergroup #3 "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" to "Guest", just like it currently is for Usergroup #1 "Unregistered / Not Logged In", will that cause these two groups to be treated by your code below cumulatively, and keep the "read" block in place until they become Usergroup #2 "Registered"?

Faling that, what do I add to the line below as an AND statement to cause that same effect?

Sorry, I'm an old Fortran programmer out of the 60's and this new stuff is a little bit of a reach for me.... :D

Thanks for your help.... :)

Regards,
Badger

Changing the title of the groups won't do anything... they're referanced by ID numbers.

You would need to change the line of code you referanced to add an appropriate OR statement for the usergroup you want to check against.

Can anyone tell me how to restructure this line within Ted's mod with an "OR" statement, so that it will include Usergroup #3 "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" as well as guests which is Usergroup #1 "Unregistered / Not Logged In"?

In this way, it will extend the use of this fine mod and visitors to our community will end up being blocked until they fully complete the registration process.

Thanks for any help offered .... :)

Regards,
Badger

I'm not in a place where I can test but try

Where X,Y,Z are groups you want to treat like guests (it can be just one group).

If that doesn't work then I'm calling the usergroupid variable incorrectly. In that case, try $vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'] instead.

Thanks Ted.... :)

I tried both approaches....

if ( ($show['guest'] OR in_array($vbulletin->GPC['usergroupid'],'3') AND !$lvgbot AND $vbulletin->options['lgvon'])

if ( ($show['guest'] OR in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'],'3') AND !$lvgbot AND $vbulletin->options['lgvon'])

..... but I get an error as follows:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /forums/mysite/showthread.php(345) : eval()'d code(133) : eval()'d code on line 7

Thanks...

Regards,
Badger

Missing a closing )

My only problem is that when the "Register Take-Over Message" is enabled, my welcome headers only show up on the main page. If I go into a thread no header shows up.

Go into your Limited Guest Viewing settings and disable Welcome Header Message Suppression.

That's not one of the options.

Installed on 3.6.8 and working great. Thanks!
(Clicks Installed)

Installed on 3.6.8 and it seems to be working great