imported_Veronica, I have been hesitant to say anything here in this series of post. I will say this however about helping you. I saw and fell in love with the Logician's stuff and it seems really wonderful. When about to deploy it, the coder( solidsnake@GTI) helping me showed me another solution as well however for my problem. He showed me the VBadvanced free solution that worked for me and my solution flawlessly: http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.p...fo&productid=4 I am not sure it will help anyone here and no offence the the fine product logician offers for sure but this one won my heart with its professional appearance and having exactly what we needed right out of the box and all for free. He had it installed in 10 minutes or so and up and running.

Thank you Gladhatter, I already know and tried vBA. However, I would like to use this system, as it suits my needs better.

Logician,

Does this need some housekeeping to make it 3.8 compatible?

Thanks

Logician...

I'm upgrading to vb 3.8. Will I have any issues with this version of your mod?

Works with 3.8.

I haven't yet tested with 3.8 but I wouldn't expect any problems. So if you want to use it with 3.8, I'd say go on. :)

And I would say that is a rather Bill Gates attitude of allowing the users to do the beta testing all the while assuring them it is fine and if it is not then whom will clean up the mess? Not the Logician as he has a full time career with his current clients and you can see this is NOT a supported product.

A more reasonable answer from a more support oriented and caring person may be that they are not at all sure it works with a version they have not tried and advise all caution if anyone cares to proceed at their own risk.

:rolleyes:

Or maybe he believes that by design this MOD should work but he just hasn't tried - Aren't all of the Mods "at your own risk?" I see no guarantees - I suspect you could get a refund of what you paid for it should it NOT work ........... Oh, but they are free, silly me.

Silly may be a weak term to describe a person that believes anything is free or thinks it would be free to try to get a forum back up and going should it have terrible unforeseen consequences due to upgrading and finding out untested mods have had irreverable effects on it.

I clearly see this is one of those issues that may have opinions of both sides and I will restate my opinion that you should tread lightly and also approach with caution and even clone your current set up on a dev enviroment and then install this for through testing prior to using it in real time. This is the response that any competent developer would advise you to follow and not ask you to blindly trust what they have neglected to test for and assumes should work with no real knowledge to base that opinion on.

1- No, there will not be any "terrible unforeseen consequences" or "irreverable effects" of using webtemplates with vb 3.8.x. If this is something I suspected, I'd advise to hold on the upgrade until I test it. If I say "go with it" it means in the very worst scenario, it works but something minor requires a patch. (which is also unexpected)

2- In my own board I still use vb3.5.x and I don't think I'm obligated to upgrade my board for you in the 36th hour of the 3.8.x being released to support a hack I use for my own needs and share with the community for free just for the sake of sharing. If you don't trust my product or unsatisfied with it, please go with another product.

3- I thought you already found the product you need somewhere else and don't even use webtemplates so I appreciate if you don't hijack my hack's thread with irrelevant comments. Thank you. ;)

While I appreciate your comments and reassurances as well as your contributions to the community, I do not appreciate you saying I am hijacking your thread with non relevant material when all I have given is sound advise that any less than bloated and inflated self rightous coder would have given already.

Such unfounded opinions that everything should be fine are not supported by the lack of support nor excused by the non relevance of where or not you choose to or in this case choose not to support the product and it also is no favor for the community for you to suppose the product is fine for any valued purpose when it is completly untested for that purpose.

An attorney of all people should be aware of the proper language to use in such a non supported and non tested proposition.

Certainly your taking offence to sound advise and making an unfounded attack on myself and assuming that as I did not use this solution for one area means I did not use it for others is about as unfounded as your other suppositions here and all are without merit.

This thread is for direct support of the modification. If you wish to discuss other things with the author, please use the PM system. Thank you.

Thank you Paul for your kind advise and be advised that I am in contact with the author by PM discussing other things. My post on here however, I thought related to the support of this product or lack of it.

This mod works perfectly with 3.8.

And for the record - I didn't see anything at all wrong with either Logician's reply, nor his attitude, in the preceding posts.

For the record, I did not see anything wrong with anyones replies. What I do see is opinioned people here that are wishing to take sides on sideless issue. Being wrong and not being the best response are worlds apart.

I've upgraded a forum from 3.7.2 to 3.8 which uses this add-on with no noticable issues

Gladhatter - you are complaining about support for a product which is explicitly listed as 'Not Supported'.

That aside, you should have a test forum set up which mirrors your live site so that scenarios such as this can be tested on your own data without affecting your live site.

The vBulletin license agreement allows for a second installation for this purpose, provided it is password protected (ie. no members of the public can access it). It is invaluable in testing new products/addons/template changes and vBulletin upgrades.

By running through these processes on a test site first, you can remove the possibility of serious issues on your live site and by 'practising' teh upgrade process significantly reduce down time of your live site when you do take the plunge.

I am sorry that you are confused as I have no complaints of any kind what so ever in a most beautiful universe that I live in.

Wow this is indeed awesome:

Has anyone tried installing this whilst running 3.8? So far I can find only those who have used it then upgraded.

Just installed it on one of my forums running 3.8 and works fine.

Thanks fxlr, I'm going to try it on a local test version and report back.

I've run into a problem and hope someone can assist me.

I had this mod installed when I upgraded to vB 3.8.1. I've also recently added vB Blog 2.0.1.

The problem I'm having is that the blog popup link in the navbar doesn't work on any of the pages created with this mod. All of the other popup menus work, like Search and Quick Links. Only the Blogs link is the one I'm experiencing issues with.

IS there someone that may be able to help? Thanks in advance.

I don't have blogs application so there is no way for me to test this but from the source code of your pages, this could fix it:

Edit template navbar, find and at the begining put this text:

Logician...

Thanks...that did the trick, my friend.

Will this be posted in the 3.8 mods section as well since it definitely works?

And since the last update is quite a long time ago. Will there be a new one?

Getting "XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 1"

when installing as a product on 3.8...

...?

There are 2 XML files coming with the hack. You are sure, you import the correct one (product-webtemplates.xml) in product manager, right?

I was uploading the ZIP file.

I need to go in and upload an individual xml?

You should unzip the file and then read the installation instructions in it.

Hi,

Firstly fantastic mod..

I just have 2 small problems, one with SEO which I will address when I've got it up and running properly but my current problem is more important.

I have installed a custom page and have 2 styles, the vb default and a custom one.

The problem is this mod tries to add a Blogs tab to the custom theme which I do not want.

See photos with before & after any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

this has nothign to do with the mod ....webtemplates is a blessing ...

this just pulls your header and footer and other information.

Since you did not want this to be in your navigation bar then all you had to do was remove it from the navigation bar
blog_navbar_link template

you just had to comment out the line per below. This will take it out of the navigation bar at top for everything .

Brilliant thanks! :)

VBSEO problem..

Is there an easy fix?

I have added the content to my htaccess file, turned on SEO in the vboptions/webtemplates.

My site then tries to load a SEO friendly url but 404's even on the default examples that are in webtemplates.

Any ideas?

I love this addition to my boards. I am currently in the process of taking all my static pages and moving them into webtemplates.

One Question: How can I get a webquery that shows the latest 5 posts with the word X in the title.

On each page I want to show the latest 5 posts that have to do with the subject of that page. Thanks!

I tried something like this and it didn;t work

I was trying to show the 5 latest posts with the word castle in the subject line.

Could someone tell me how to put the following code into a page please. I don't understand this mod at all :|

Great Mod. Installed it fairly easily and now I'm having a play.

I have seen a minor issue between this Mod and the BBCode Table mod The bbcode table mod has a .js script which it uses to automagically have any table column sortable by clicking on it. I have found that while the script does work when I create bbcode tables in posts, it doesn't seem to work within WebTemplates.

Has anyone else tried mixing these two Mods together ?

Great add-on, externalaw.com has implemented it here http://www.externalaw.com/view.php?pg=jobsearch

Logician, are there any plans in the future to make this valid xhtml?

how do i get a site to load in a frame i guess using this? if i want www.yahoo.com to load on one of the webtemplates, what do i put in the template field and what do i set it to? php, html, text?

i cant figure out it. im trying to use a frame code and its not working. its showing the site i want to load but in a small little box and i dont have a size command in the code.