Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

Check the FAQ before requesting support!

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.

[Silviu]

Hello RedTyger, great hack, install went without a hitch and the plugin is working as advertised

There is one question that I have, and even though I'm sure other users might have asked it before me, I did a search on this thread and came up empty: how can we change the username of the "user" that posts the advertisments in the threads?

As you can see from the attached screenshot, right now it's the name of the forum (the default option I assume), which unfortunately is too long and ruins our postbit_legacy layout.

We managed to remove the "Remove advertisments" link by editing the phrase, but came up short when we searched for the username.

True, we can disable the ad template integration, but we kinda' wish to keep that option as a last resort.

Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated

[Lombardo]

How do you remove the "remove advertisement" button under the ads?

[Lombardo]

anyone know?

[Jetranger206]

Originally Posted by Lombardo

How do you remove the "remove advertisement" button under the ads?

I had the same problem. Heres the reply I was given:

Originally Posted by Zeppelin_62

I needed the same thing. Here is what I did. Go to the language and phrase manager. Find the adintegrate_remove_ads. Mine was on the second page of choices. Click the 'edit' button next to it. Then simply put a blank space in the text box with your space bar, and save. That simple. I just did it and it worked for me. Removed it completely. Hope that helps.

This worked perfectly for me.

[TruthElixirX]

For some reason, the archive advertisements are not displaying. Ideas as to why?

[Lombardo]

Originally Posted by Jetranger206

I had the same problem. Heres the reply I was given:



This worked perfectly for me.

perfect,thanks very much.

[flyaddict]

How do I change the look of the left column box and maybe remove the Sponsored Link header.

I'm sorry Im not very good at the search funtion of threads.

Thank you for helping or pointing me to a thread post.

[GotVtec]

Does this mod allow for you to run both Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher on your site at the same time?

[tweakmonkey]

I installed this mod last night and it works great. Thanks, this is something I've really wanted for a long time and never looked for until now. It is well done and almost exactly what I needed.

However, I have a problem. I created a custom ad block and it works fine. However, when I put anything in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. custom ad block positions and click save, it reloads the page in the CP and they are blank. The first one stays there, but no matter what I put in the others, it simply does not save anything when I try to update the ad block, even though it says "Settings saved successfully" or whatever.

Also, a feature that would be really cool by the way (if you want any suggestions) would be to specify a different ad code for specific themes -- like the header ad uses a different Google Adsense code in one theme than the other, allowing you to better match your ads to the templates without creating tons of custom modules. Thanks.

[Skorzen]

I'm having trouble getting my ads to show on the forum.

I go into VB Ad Management | Header & NavBar and put in my code in the NavBar adcode section. The ads even preview fine underneath this. But they are still not showing in the forum.

As for the NavBar template...currently, I put in the following:

I went into "Navigation/BreadCrumb Templates | navbar " and coded 1 line at the very top of the navbar screen above the breadcrumb:

$navbar_advertisement
<!-- breadcrumb -->

This is the only line I inserted in that navbar area. Did I do this wrong?