Add-On Releases - Limited Guest Viewing -- Improve community registration rates

Note: This addon works with the 3.6.x series only. Click Here for the 3.7.0 version of this addon.

With vBulletin, forum guests are able to view endless amounts of content without being directly asked or forced to register no matter how many times they come back. The purpose of the Limited Guest Viewing System is to drive in registrations by limiting the number of threads guests are able to view without interruption.

This plugin offers two options which can be used to drive in more registrations. The first option allows you to show a reminder message or advertisement after a guest has viewed a certain number of threads. The second option puts up a roadblock stopping guests from viewing threads altogether after reaching a certain number of views. Both options work together to encourage and ultimately force anonymous visitors to either register or login but can also be used separately based on your individual needs.

Because this plugin uses cookies, few if any bots will be impacted when it comes to spidering your site.

Modifications/ Instructions:
Template edits: 1
Plugins: 1 (adds 1 template and several settings)

This template hack should take under 5 minutes to implement and customize.

Customizing the content / messages
To customize which messages appear or what they say, go to vBulletin options, select the ?Limited Guest Viewing System? group and configure the options as desired. Each phase can be modified by adding translation text.

Through the ACP you can enable or disable each option, specify the number of threads that can be viewed before the option is enabled and input any forums you wish to exclude from being blocked.

About spiders/bots
This plugin works by setting a cookie to track the number of visits from a particular user. As bots do not tend to accept cookies, they should not be blocked. To further insure there is no spider accessibility issues, there script identifies major bots (google, yahoo, msn, aol) and explicitly lets them through -- you can easily add to this list by editing the plugin code should you so desire, however, unless a bot starts taking cookies this should not be necessary.


Welcome headers compatibility
The Limited Guest Viewing is designed to work with the Welcome Headers system without any conflict. To insure that welcome header messages do not show up at the same time as the limited guest viewing message, please be sure you are running welcome headers version 4.1.3 or greater (released 11/19).

Updates
5/9/2008 - Released update to prevent installs on 3.7 boards.
2/18/2007 - Minor update to fix register link. Updates optional.
11/20/2006 - Minor update released to fix error with links in some messaging. Updates recommended.

[mariocaz]

Also I have installed the welcome headers, so if I put that when the guessts enter to see an 8 threads appears an announcement in the top, the welcome headers don´t appears also ?

Also I see that the announcement for the guesst only appears in the forum index and before I installed this mod the welcome headers appears in all the pages of my site not only in the forum index, so i there a way that the announcement of the "limit guesst viewing " also appears in all the pages(posts) instead of only in the Forum Index ??
Because if the guessts are viewinf threads mayb is possible that they don´t see the announcement before to appears the block.

Thank you so much.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mariocaz

Also I have installed the welcome headers, so if I put that when the guessts enter to see an 8 threads appears an announcement in the top, the welcome headers don?t appears also ?

Also I see that the announcement for the guesst only appears in the forum index and before I installed this mod the welcome headers appears in all the pages of my site not only in the forum index, so i there a way that the announcement of the "limit guesst viewing " also appears in all the pages(posts) instead of only in the Forum Index ??
Because if the guessts are viewinf threads mayb is possible that they don?t see the announcement before to appears the block.

Thank you so much.

Your post wasn't really clear but I'll try and answer you as best I can...

Welcome Headers will appear on every page on your site UNLESS you have Limited Guest Viewing installed as well. In this case, welcome headers does not show on thread and post pages where the limited guest viewing message might show. If you want to change this (so welcome headers show on these pages) you can do so by editing your options for the addon.

Keep in mind however that once enabled, it's possible to have both a welcome header and limited guest viewing message show up on the same thread at the same time.

[mariocaz]

Mmmm ok sorry if I didn?t explain me very well.

Ok no problem to have the welcome headears in all pages unless in the posts, but also the limited guests viewing message(announce) in the top is not showing it in the posts for the guests and I think is really important to have it there, because the guesst can see it before appears the block and do nothing in the forum.

you can check it here:

www.all-reefs.com

After 10 posts that you see in the forum like a guest the announce of limited guesst viewing is not showing it in the posts.

[Ted S]

Have you added the required variable to make it show up?

[mariocaz]

Mmmmm no. what variable ?? I don?t see it in the manual.

[mariocaz]

Oh yes I forgot to do that.

Forgive me my friend I will do it immediately.

[mariocaz]

Thank you my friend now is working.

[TorstenAdam]

Hello,
thank you for this Add-on!
Sorry for my bad english, but i have a question.
How many spiders can search? Google, yahoo, msn, aol, not more?
Or it this enough?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TorstenAdam

Hello,
How many spiders can search? Google, yahoo, msn, aol, not more?

Read the addon description and you'll find the answer.

[laurens800]

Thanks worked on 3.7