Welcome headers - Improve community registration rates
 

Out of the box, your forum isn't personalized to assist or address your visitors. As a result, guests entering on a page other than the homepage (which is most often the case) have no idea what to do or why to register. Additionally, there are no visible status indicators, making it confusing for unconfirmed, unapproved or new members to know what to do or where to begin. But with a little customization, the use of the vBulletin Notices System and Welcome Headers, you can solve these issues in just a few minutes.

What is Welcome Headers?

Welcome Headers is a set of predefined messages and rules designed to help you get started in personalizing your site's notices using the vBulletin notice feature. The default templates are just that, default ? I highly encourage you to modify and add to the language and rules to meet the needs of your actual community environment.

Modifications/ Instructions:

Plugins: 1 (notices entries, rules and phrases)
This template hack should take under 5 minutes to implement and customize.

Installation/ Upgrade Instructions

1 ? Backup any existing welcome header messages (upgrading)
2 ? Remove the default welcome header from your forum home template (new installs)
3 ? Install the attached plugin file
4 ? Now Required: Customize the messages to include your site's name

For detailed instructions on each step please view the install.html file included with this addon.

Support

Please post any enhancement or technical questions you may have and I will do my best to respond in a timely manner. Please note: I can not guarantee an immediate response and am unable to assist with integrating this addon with other addons or with HTML related questions.

Why use this when the notices system exists?

Welcome Headers have been around since before vBulletin 3.0 but as of 3.7 the functionality of the system was no longer needed as vBulletin added its own native feature to handle notices. However while the notices feature lets you show welcome header style messages it doesn't give you any to start with. This addon no longer adds functionality but instead provides a set of 4 notices that have been time-tested and help your forum grow and function better for guests and members.

Please be sure to customize and add to the messages from this addon to match the individual needs of your forum!

Older Version Support

While most users are choosing to upgrade to the notices system, there are some advantages to the "old" system mainly in that it does not rely on a rules system and can be configured as designed with code changes. Additionally, the "old" version has automatic interfacing with several other addons which the notices system does not. For this reason, the old version is still supported and remains fully compatible with 3.8.

Updates from 3.7

No changes have been made; the code needed for both is the same so upgrading is not necessary.

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I thought we can do it now with notices system ?
Thanks for the update Ted

[high]* projectego clicks install. Thanks! :D[/high]

in your post you said "the old version is still supported" but then you have this mod as being marked "not supported" just wondering which it is :)

The old version is still supported. I support this version as well but don't like reading checkboxes apparently. :D

If you read the explanation of the hack you'll see that the current (3.7+) version of the addon is actually just a set of notice conditions and text to help people get started. Some people prefer not to use notices which is why the addon mentions the old version but for anyone using the current version the notices system is exactly where everything ends up.

Thanks for this Mod. Can I safely delete this phrase - [B][I]"Hello Unregistered,
Our records indicate that you have never posted to our site before! Why not make your first post today by saying hello to our community in our Introductions forum........ as it comes on as default notice even when I enabled another notice.

Thanks for your kind help

I wouldn't suggest deleting a phrase that you may later use if you revert settings.

Thanks once again. Much appreciated.

I have installed this mod but the pre-defined templates aren't showing up under the Notices menu?

Some users have found reinsalling (uninstall then install again) gets them to show.

This thread is in the vb 3.8 forum so yes, that's where the 3.8 version is.

version38_NOTICES is the current version.

version36_TEMPLATES-OLD is the old version as explained in the main hack thread (the old indicating old).

If you prefer to run version37_NOTICES that will work as well. There are no changes between the 3.7 and 3.8 versions.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, that worked.

Superb! Simple but oh so effective. Nice one thanks.

I appreciate as much as everyone the work that developers put in to modifications (I know, I am a developer myself), but honestly ...

The original version of this feature was a great addition to any board as there simply was no way to accomplish this in native vB. I even used the original version myself back in vB3.0(???).

But this is now a standard 'OUT OF THE BOX' feature and so installing an addon that does the same thing does not seem logical. I think that if you can't utilize the vB feature to do what you need, then you probably shouldn't be installing new addons.

Just my 2cents (or is that now 1cent in light of the recession?)

Great!

It's always great to get feedback but I don't think you read through the addon description... As of 3.7 (and 3.8 now) this addon is simply a set of notice rules and phrases which get inserted into that OUT OF THE BOX feature you mentioned. So yes, the feature is out of the box. But simply because people can build messages out of the box doesn't mean they want to start with nothing... This addon gets them jump started using the same phrases welcome headers has always provided.

Make sense?

I am getting bad zip file for latest,tried downloading a few times?

What zip program do you have?

Isn't that a core feature since 2.7? Why should I use a mod, when it's already implemented in the core?

Thanks for taking the time to read the main thread and the most recent responses.

Please see: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....7&postcount=20

The guest message and Never posted message both show up to guests on mine? How can I solve this, I use 3.8.0

Doublecheck the notices manager and look to see if the criteria is logically setup to each message.

The requested URL /forums/forums/register.php does not exist.

I get this from the forums

from the vbad page it works fine

What do I have to edit to fix this

Edit the notices message where the error is showing up to contain the proper url to your forums.

Thanks

Sorry I am not naturally english speaking. So, if It get it right, this addon is a set of ready to run texts for the core feature?

Then it would only make sense to use it if the addon comes in german. Does it inlcude german phrases?

Yes, this addon is a set of conditions and phrases that work with the built in notices feature in vBulletin.

This is an english written addon that you would have to translate.

saved,bookmarked, INSTALLED!

i'm going to give this a try :D thanks!

Installed! Thanks for the baseline, it really made my life easier!

where is the 3.8 download? the zip file is a 3.7.

Hi I installed the plugin and removed the forum header, but now the forum is does not have a header despite me picking one of the notices. Am i doing something wrong?

It's the same code. 3.7 and 3.8 are very similar and require no changes for most addons.

Are you using an older style from before 3.7?

Great Mod thanks

Thanks Alot
I Was Looking For This.

Hi
First thank U this Gr8 mod

I have a problem :
There is something wrong with Notices Place in my Forum home , Plz take a look at this Screen shot , I attached my Forum Home template. (I have a 3.6 Skin version and Vbulletin 3.8.1 and I installed Your v3.6 mod)