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.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by pxd

Struggling to get it fully working for Google AdSense. I mean I managed to successfully install everything and get the Client ID inserted properly using the #shared# feature an the field5 value taken from the user profile.

But I also need to be using the Channel ID which is different for each user, can anyone give me some clue on achieving this, please?

Only one field may shared. What you could do is instead of asking people to input their adsense account is ask them to input the entire two rows of the adsense code and replace both rows with #shared#, but I'm not sure how many people would do that properly. You can share any amount of code so there's nothing to stop you simply sharing the entire adsense code if you wanted, which might work better than just the two rows but would be harder to restrict what people could input.

Originally Posted by 4newbies

Thank you for your response. This has corrected my blank page problem. I had no clue what to do with those files until you said to upload them to my server. Perhaps it might be common knowledge to upload modification files to an "includes" folder on the server. However, newbies like me to this would have never known to do this unless it was in the instructions. You should consider listing this step in your instructions, unless I messed it somehow.

Thanks again for your hard work and quick response.

PS: Please check the Pm I sent you RedTyger

Looks like I only released the instructions in the update notifications and not the thread, that was silly. Sorry 'bout that, added the step. Speaking of which...

Originally Posted by Goodman_2020

Hi,

I installed vb mangment, i follow all the instructions, like says the first post... everything is ok, except that when i turn on the ads. in vb managment global settings, if i click to see my forum (to see how it looks like) my forum disapear...when i turn it off, it comes back...weird or normal?? maybe i need to set something special? maybe i need at least one advertisment code to make it work?

Please help; thx

sorry for my english, i'm french

p.s: i have google adsense installed in my postbit too (maybe a conflict?)

edit: i uninstalled it, and it didn't change anything

You must upload the contents of the includes folder in the zip file to the includes folder of your vBulletin installation.

In response to the PMs, there is no longer a brand-free option. Sorry.

[pxd]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Only one field may shared. What you could do is instead of asking people to input their adsense account is ask them to input the entire two rows of the adsense code and replace both rows with #shared#, but I'm not sure how many people would do that properly. You can share any amount of code so there's nothing to stop you simply sharing the entire adsense code if you wanted, which might work better than just the two rows but would be harder to restrict what people could input.

Thanks, RedTyger

I managed to tweak the code to allow entering Client ID and Channel ID in separate fields like I wanted them to work.

[RedTyger]

Ah, good good.

[w1naga1n]

RedTyger, I installed your mod and is working great for my ads.

I want to enable the adsharing option for my users, but I am lost here.

What should I put in Primary Ad Sharing Admin code and Primary Ad Sharing Admin code (Columns)? (I am using adsense code)

Also, I would like the user to add this:
Google AdSense Client ID
Google AdSense Channel ID

Do you offer pay support to set up all this?
thanks

[d1414]

Originally Posted by pxd

Thanks, RedTyger

I managed to tweak the code to allow entering Client ID and Channel ID in separate fields like I wanted them to work.

Can you share what you did please?

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by w1naga1n

RedTyger, I installed your mod and is working great for my ads.

I want to enable the adsharing option for my users, but I am lost here.

What should I put in Primary Ad Sharing Admin code and Primary Ad Sharing Admin code (Columns)? (I am using adsense code)

Also, I would like the user to add this:
Google AdSense Client ID
Google AdSense Channel ID

Do you offer pay support to set up all this?
thanks

I would wait and see if pxd posts instructions first.

[titodj]

First of all, THANKS !!! great product... but I still have a small problem

I cant have the Threadbit, advert to work, All the others are working fine.

this is the code on my threadbit template:

<td class="alt1" align="center"><if condition="$show['threadmoved']">-<else /><a href="#" onclick="who($thread[threadid]); return false;">$thread[replycount]</a></if></td>
		<td class="alt2" align="center">$thread[views]</td>
			
		<if condition="$show['forumlink']">
			<td class="alt1"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$thread[forumid]">$thread[forumtitle]</a></td>
		</if>
	</if>
	
	<if condition="$show['inlinemod']">
		<td class="alt1">
			<input type="checkbox" name="tlist[$thread[realthreadid]]" id="tlist_$thread[realthreadid]" value="$thread[checkbox_value]" <if condition="$show['disabled']">disabled="disabled"</if> />
		</td>
	</if>
</tr>
$threadbit_advertisement

[RedTyger]

What adcode are you trying to use for the threadbit? Is it the same as for the other areas?

[titodj]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

What adcode are you trying to use for the threadbit? Is it the same as for the other areas?

I have tried different ones.
Even plain Text like:

Test Test test

[RedTyger]

You have chosen to enable the threadbit advertisements as well as pasting in some adcode, yes?