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.

[admin0]

Hi,

This is not working at all for me.
Any suggestions on how to debug?

The ads simply does not show up in the forumbit and postbit.
Shows fine in header and footer.

Thanks

[RedTyger]

Double-check you've done the template edits again and go over the settings and instructions very carefully. If they're working in one place there's no reason they shouldn't be working in another.

[admin0]

Fixed.

Is it possible to have specific control over advertisements shown in the PM part ?

Thanks,

[RedTyger]

Possibly...what do you want to be done?

[lazydesis]

thanx

[admin0]

I have implemented advertisements on header, footer and postbit .

The header will be shown to those who are NOT registered, but after login, the header ads will not be shown. The header ad will show exciting things like "JOIN AND WIN FREE GIFTS" etc. The footer ad will not display ad, but I plan to put some howtos and help as shown in this new vb.org skin down below -- table that says "new to this site? need help? etc. The ads below posts, those will be used to display weekly lotteries, quizzes and gifts.

I want to have a specific section for ads in the PM part, because the PM will be only opened from inside the control panel, and there I want to put something like "Have you set your gender? do this this.. or Add yourself to the google map .. click to the right etc"


I am going to put phpadsnew codes into the ads box. Hope that works fine


Thanks,

[RedTyger]

You can add a specific message to PMs by adding this to your postbit_advertisment template:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'private'">
What you want to say
</if>

And that will only show in PMs. That will allow for one static message only, if you want rotation or something like that then it's a custom job.

[butty]

i have a question. i have a few different styles and different coloured google ad's to match the particular style. does this plugin allow me to add different google ad code for each style?

many thanks for you time

[RedTyger]

I'm afraid not, sorry. Might be something for me to look at in the future though.

[admin0]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

You can add a specific message to PMs by adding this to your postbit_advertisment template:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'private'">
What you want to say
</if>

And that will only show in PMs. That will allow for one static message only, if you want rotation or something like that then it's a custom job.

This is perfect. I can just make a zone called PrivateMessage in phpAdsNew, and target this area.


Thanks,