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.

[vorphalack]

I like this hack so far. Been testing it with the site owner and she wants to do something new - allow our premium (paid subscription) members advertise their favorite charity site. It looks like everyone that can SEE ads could also POST them and we don't want that, we want only paying subscribers to post ads. Is this possible the way the code is currently written, or do we need custom coding?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by vorphalack

I like this hack so far. Been testing it with the site owner and she wants to do something new - allow our premium (paid subscription) members advertise their favorite charity site. It looks like everyone that can SEE ads could also POST them and we don't want that, we want only paying subscribers to post ads. Is this possible the way the code is currently written, or do we need custom coding?

Are you talking about the Ad-Sharing version allowing people to post ads?

Originally Posted by sandrodz

is it possible to make it random? in postbit I mean, after random number of posts?

Sorry, it is not.

[vorphalack]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Are you talking about the Ad-Sharing version allowing people to post ads?

Yes, we'd like to only allow certain usergroups to post them, but all to view them.

[Jako]

My "Remove Advertisements" link text isn't showing up. Any idea why?

[DementedMindz]

RedTyger do you only answer certain questions?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by Jako

My "Remove Advertisements" link text isn't showing up. Any idea why?

Make sure you have set the link AND link text. Otherwise it will not show up. There's no other reason I know of why it would not.

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

RedTyger do you only answer certain questions?

No, but I get a fair few questions and I do lose track occasionally. I read all posts even if I don't necessarily reply to them.

Originally Posted by vorphalack

Yes, we'd like to only allow certain usergroups to post them, but all to view them.

That sounds like a reasonable request, to be honest I thought that was already possible but I guess not. I'll have a look and see if it's do-able.

[DementedMindz]

nice feature would to be able to change the banner ad per forum kinda like this does https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132716. I like this one alot more cause of the many features but throwing that into the mix would make this be amazing cause right now you can limit it to forums per forum id but having different ones based on the thread content would make this nice

one other thing would be to group the templates this way there easy to edit if anyone wants to.

reposting it so you can see it again.

[RedTyger]

Like I said, I read all the posts. I saw it first time.

[Thechipleaders]

This is a GREAT MOD

However, I am having one problem I use CMPS portal system and don't want the banners to appear on my portal page. Right now if I activate the header banner I end up with a banner on my index page. I don't want it to appear there but I do want it to appear on all my other pages. Suggestions?

I'm still searching through all 29 pages of information but I thought I'd post this question since it maybe someone else would ask as well.

[RedTyger]

Try adding adv_index to the list of THIS_SCRIPT exclusions in the global settings. I think that's what you have to add anyway.