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.

[mclark2112]

Should I just overwrite everything, or uninstall first?

[RedTyger]

There's no need to uninstall, you will keep all your settings if you just overwrite although I have a feeling usergroup settings are lost from that version so make a note of them.

[RedGTiVR6]

FYI - the version number at the top of the post is different than the downloaded version.

3.12 v. 3.13

just something minor.

Thanks for the update btw!

[RedTyger]

So it is fixed!

[vjw757]

just want to make sure im doing this right... my forum is in a folder called forums... so i will upload this to forums/includes/vb_ad_management right?

[RedGTiVR6]

You will upload the includes folder. Basically, you will be overwriting the old files. Go into your FTP and find the includes folder and upload the contents of the Includes folder from your desktop.

Then go into your plugins manager and upload the XML, being sure to select yes to allow overwrite.

[mclark2112]

One last Question.

In the post bit, can I show both ads, after the first post, and after the last post, at the same time?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by mclark2112

One last Question.

In the post bit, can I show both ads, after the first post, and after the last post, at the same time?

You can, there are specific options for that in the Postbit Settings section.

Please click install (Menu in the top right of the post)

[nanaimobar]

Originally Posted by echamberlain

You have to use javascript or the phpadsnew plugin that adds an ad's tag to the code.

Do I create the phpadsnew plug manually? If not, please indicate where plugin may be downloaded as I looked in openads and here and couldn't find it.

Thanks.

[slipondajimmy]

IM having an issue with the block not displaying correctly if I use left and right blocks. IT seems to throw off the main forum page. but looks ok in a topic

Any ideas what could be causing this? It also does it with the default theme as well.