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Originally Posted by Videx

Join the club. If the author's earlier answer to me is any indication, don't expect him to tell you (it's beyond the scope of this mod).

My last banner rotator does have insertion instructions, so I figure I can dig those out and use them. But if you're thinking of using the same trick, be warned - that author too wrote like we're already supposed to be familiar with template editing.

What I really can't figure out - doesn't 3.7 have hooks in all the common places already? If so, why do we have to manually edit any templates? I mean, as you follow the instructions I just mentioned, you'll be inserting right smack next to existing hooks. Unless I'm missing something.

Hint: In navbar, look for $ad_location. And, presumably, anywhere you want to put an ad in any template you could do the same.?

vBulletin attempts to give a hand placing ads, but currently you can fill only a handful of places (style hooks), and by no mean everywhere. Also you need to know how those places are called, and your code needs to be extended each time Jelsoft decides to add a hook somewhere.

Furthermore, you can't use a specifically coded plugin for style hooks in older vbulletin versions. This one (along with other banner systems) runs on 3.6.5 to 3.7.x boards, and does not require a specific style layout.