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.
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.
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* 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 in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.
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Adsense ads in thread causes the screen to be too wide, making users scroll right to see the whole page.
Also noticed that with first and last post ads activated, the first and last poster's user profile link (their user name) no longer works. It will not click nor give a drop-down menu.
No problem @ your PM.
There's nothing I can do about the Adsense size. The forum will expand to fit whatever sized banners you use. If you want a smaller forum, use smaller banners.
Someone else mentioned the drop-down menu problem earlier and I said it didn't exist, but I checked again out of suspicion and it's only happening in Internet Explorer. So this is either yet another bug to add to Internet Explorer's impressive collection, or there's something in the advertisement code causing the problem. I can think of nothing in the Ad Management code that would cause it, the Ad code is included after the drop-down menu code.
Does the drop-down issue still occur if you use non-Adsense banner code? Just an image or something.
this looks pretty cool. is it possible to only display this type of ad? that one seems the least intrusive, and i would like to limit the ads to only that one...
Yes. That's the postbit setting/location. You can turn any ad location on/off independantly and the postbit location has three further on/off settings (Private Messages, Announcements, Posts).
Also noticed that with first and last post ads activated, the first and last poster's user profile link (their user name) no longer works. It will not click nor give a drop-down menu.
Confirmed this and found a fix that works for me, hope it works for you too. I'll update the instructions for the next update as everyone should do this.
The drop-down menu is an Internet Explorer bug, version 6 is all I've tested. To fix it, instead of pasting $postbit_advertisement at the bottom of the template:
FIND: <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu -->
ABOVE, ADD $postbit_advertisement
This just moves the ad code so that the drop-down code comes after it instead of before. Why this would make a difference I can't imagine, but there you go.
Just put it in and see if it's where you want it? I can't take wild guesses for custom templates. Worst thing that can happen is you have to move it or delete it.
The default location places it on the right opposite the vBulletin logo.
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11-30-2006, 09:37 AM
(different ads per usergroup)
