Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

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What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[RedTyger]

Oh, now I recognise you. Hah. Ok, insert this following in front of your adsense adcode.

<img src="$vboptions[cleargifurl]" height="90" width="1" alt="" />

Replace forumbit_advertisement with this:

<tr align="center">
	<td class="alt2">
		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_link.gif" border="0" alt="" />
	</td>
	<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" colspan="2">
		<div<if condition="is_browser('ie') AND !is_browser('ie', '7')"> class="adsense"</if>>
			$forumbit_adcode
		</div>
	</td>
	<td class="alt2">
		$vboptions[adintegrate_adtitle]
	</td>
	<td class="alt2">
		-
	</td>
	<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
		<td class="alt1Active">
			-
		</td>
	</if>
</tr>

Add this to your style's Main CSS AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Your style's dropdown box > Textarea at the very bottom of the CSS page.:

.adsense iframe {
position:absolute;
left:85px;
}

You may need to adjust the left:85px; value to suit your style. I've tested it and it works fine on my forum. It lifts the adsense out of the page and places it back on top where it should go, the invisible image pads out the height of the row to match the space needed. If the browser window is less than 1024 px wide then the ad will cover everything to the right of it on that row, but that's probably an improvement on stretching the page which is what it would normally do anyway.

[RedTyger]

If everyone would cast their eyes to the very top of the first post of the thread, I'm now using vBulletin's Project Tools product to deal with bugs in the future and likewise am actively seeking feature and change suggestions for the next major version of vB Ad Management. If you feel the need to contribute to either of those, please feel free. I'm afraid you must register to be able to post for which I apologise, but it's one of those necessary evils.

So in the future it's bugs and feature requests there, everything else here. Ok? Good good.

[dssart]

Thanks! it works great...any chance of you working the same magic to the threadbit ??

[RedTyger]

Same principle, use this as your threadbit_advertisement template.

<tr align="center">
	<td class="alt1Active">
		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/thread_moved.gif" border="0" alt="" />
	</td>
	<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" colspan="<if condition="$show['threadicons']">3<else />2</if>">
		<div<if condition="is_browser('ie') AND !is_browser('ie', '7')"> class="adsense"</if>>
			$threadbit_adcode
		</div>
	</td>
	<td class="alt2" colspan="<if condition="$show['inlinemod']">3<else />2</if>">
		$vboptions[adintegrate_adtitle]
	</td>
</tr>

1000+ installs, thanks everybody.

[grahamsmythe]

I have installed as per the instructions - uploaded the folder into the 'includes' folder, then changed all the templates etc, but when I go into my admincp - vBulletin Options - then go to the bottom, the control panel that I expected to see there isn't showing.

Have I forgotten to do something in order to activate it?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Graham

[pbmansion]

Is it possible to get rid of the branding at the bottom? If so can you pm me?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by grahamsmythe

I have installed as per the instructions - uploaded the folder into the 'includes' folder, then changed all the templates etc, but when I go into my admincp - vBulletin Options - then go to the bottom, the control panel that I expected to see there isn't showing.

Have I forgotten to do something in order to activate it?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Graham

Sounds like you forgot to upload the .xml file. AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Product Manager.

Originally Posted by pbmansion

Is it possible to get rid of the branding at the bottom? If so can you pm me?

Sorry, there is no brand-free option currently.

[grahamsmythe]

You're right - I hadn't installed the xml file - what an idiot!

On the installation instructions, it says to find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement

In my header template &nbsp; appears 3 times - so, is that right that I replace it three times?

Cheers

[RedTyger]

If you want it to appear 3 times, sure. It's just a guide for the default template, you can put it where you want.

[grahamsmythe]

Hi RedTyger

Thanks for the incredibly fast reply to my last post.

I'm not a tekkie wizard by any stretch of the imagination, but we've managed to get our forum up and running without too many problems. What we'd love to introduce now is some advertising - hence once I saw your modification I thought it would fit the bill exactly.

I've installed everything as per the instructions and we can see the options in the control panel, but that's where we're sort of stuck.

Have you got any real idiot-proof instructions on how to get any further? If you haven't got such a thing, if it's possible for you to help me, I could write you some in my 'idiot language' that you could post here, or e-mail when other 'idiots' get intouch with the same problem!

Regards

Graham