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.

[zeus_r6]

Originally Posted by MnTom

zeus_r6, I saw that! Go to where you put in the ad info and near the top of the page there will be a place that says "XXXXXX advertisement refresh" (XXXXXX) being the place that you have the ad. It is disabled by default, just click on it and pick the timing you want. Hope that helps.
Tom

I've got it set for 10 seconds already, to no avail....

[zeus_r6]

Even tried upping it to 15 seconds, no luck...

[zeus_r6]

Anybody know how to get these things auto refreshing correctly?

[MnTom]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Anybody know how to get these things auto refreshing correctly?

Here is the next thing I saw: Got to ADMINCP> vbAD MANAGEMENT> GLOBAL SETTINGS>. Near the bottom of the page there is a place that says "Enable AJAX refreshing of advertisements?" and click "yes".
Tom

[Leo Brazil]

Zeus, don't forget to enable AJAX on Vbulletin Options as well.

[zeus_r6]

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

Zeus, don't forget to enable AJAX on Vbulletin Options as well.

That was already enabled...still not working either in IE or FF...

[RedGTiVR6]

any word on if this is good to go for 3.7?

[zeus_r6]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

That was already enabled...still not working either in IE or FF...

any ideas??

[zeus_r6]

How are you guys inserting your banners via the header adcode section?

Mine looks like this:

<a href="http://www.website.com" target="_blank" ><img src="http://www.website.com/Banner%201.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="60" alt="a website"></a> | <a href="http://www.website.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.website.com/forums/images/misc/HighQual_blueHue.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="60" alt="another website"></a> | <a href="http://www.website.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.website.com/images/banner1.gif" alt="third website" width="468" height="60" border="0"></a>

[zeus_r6]

I thought it was because I used the $header_advertisement variable twice in the header that was causing it, but I changed it so the variable is only used once....no effect