Show Thread Enhancements - Digital Point Ad Positioning

About
This allows you to insert an ad into a random location within the post currently being viewed and/or insert an ad after the currently viewed post.

I made this a couple years ago for internal use and decided to release it because a few people have been requesting it.

Installation

• Install the product-dp_positionads.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
• Go to AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> Digital Point Position Ads for all your settings/options.

Notes

• You can control which usergroups see ads.
• You can control which forums the ads are inserted for.
• This addon works just fine with vBulletin 3 as well as vBulletin 4.
• The ads are inserted relative to the currently viewed post, not necessarily the first/last, etc. post in a thread.
• Requires no template edits.
• Our ad revenue more than doubled when we implemented this (and we opted to only use it for non-registered members).

[Valerio]

Shawn

is not possible to make it to reconize the

#post1234

instead of the p parameter? at the end is the same value!

[digitalpoint]

Nope, the hash portion of the URL isn't seen by the server/PHP.

[Valerio]

thank you

[valdet]

Hi Shawn,
Is there a way to include a simple plugin code $second[$banners] inside your plugin

I have this plugin which pulls random image banners and places them on "bottom of second" and "second from bottom" posts.

My plugin uses the mt_rand function. Inside your plugin, I tried replacing $vbulletin->options[ 'dppa_insidepost_html' ] with my code $second[$banners], but nothing showed up.Is vBSEO a cause for this as well.

Thank you.

[digitalpoint]

No, sorry... it's designed to output literally what you enter. It's HTML, not PHP code, so... you could of course make a random banner disable based on JavaScript you put into the ad HTML, but you would still need to write the JS code of course.

[Mycologist]

Is there a way to stop "Ad After Post" in private messages?

[digitalpoint]

No... it's intentional. Although, I suppose you could add some logic to the plug-in that doesn't do it if THIS_SCRIPT == 'private'...

[IndigoSociety]

Is there a way to create a condition so it only shows a leaderboard if it's a guest (after the post) otherwise show a link unit (after the post).

This is how Digitalpoint does it...

[digitalpoint]

Yeah, just set the setting that controls which usergroups see it.

[IndigoSociety]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Yeah, just set the setting that controls which usergroups see it.

No my point is show something different for one usergroup vs another. Leaderboard for unregistered, link ads for registered. All i see in plugin is just show to x,y,z usergroup...