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.

[DieselTruck]

Originally Posted by NJharley

Ok.,, I have this installed cant figure out if this is the right thing for me.. I don't plan on using adsense, I want to post ad banners for local business that will rotate 5-6 different banners with links to each site. Im lost with the Adcode part......I wanted to just ad an html code for the banner with a link to the site on various forum pages and on different parts of the pages as well...

Thanks in advance

In the Admip CP under the Admanagement setting in the Header and Navbar setting:

This is my Code:

<a href="http://www.URLOFSPONSER.com"target="_blank"><img src="images/*******/*******" border="0" /></a>

Simply create a code for each of your sponsors, then divide each code by a " | ". That is the default divideing mark for the code in Admanagement.

For Example:

<a href="http://www.upstatedieselperformance.com"target="_blank"><img src="images/banners/upstate1.gif" border="0" /></a> |  <a href="http://www.championtransmission.net"target="_blank"><img src="images/banners/champtrans1.gif" border="0" /></a> | <a href="http://www.dieselhaulin.com/forums/cartplog.php"target="_blank"><img src="images/banners/gearad.gif" border="0" /></a> | <a href="http://www.ironbullbumpers.com/"target="_blank"><img src="images/banners/ironbullad.gif" border="0" /></a> | <a href="http://www.dmaxwrenchkit.com"target="_blank"><img src="images/banners/wrenchkit2.gif" border="0" /></a>

Hope this helps you!

[Pinocchi]

Hi,

I must admit that I haven't read all of the 160+ pages yet, but couldn't find an answer with the search function. If anybody would be helpful in pointing me to the right direction within these threads or with a new answer I would be very happy.

Thing is that I would like to make some advertisement sections of the forum available to the super moderators (in this case there's only one super moderator). I would like to have two sections available where she can put the banners in where she wants and the rest of the sections can only be handled from within the administrative control panel.

attachment should explain it a bit more.

Maybe it's best to just hack in the modcp/index.php file at the section $_REQUEST['do'] == "nav" and add the options manually, but I was just wondering if that would be the best way to do it or if somebody would have another option I haven't thought of.

Thanks in advance for your tips

Erik

[kevbentz]

Looking for a little help with using a conditional in the postbit advertising.

I have <if condition="!is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 16)">adcode</if> in my adcode box but for users of that usergroup it displays a blank ad (has a post that contains no ad).

[Hornstar]

Will a 3.7 update be available of this which might include some updates and new features, and the ability to remove copyright notice for a fee etc.?

[manutdvn]

Originally Posted by Bukusami

sorry ox was box
auto insertion is so you dont have to edit templates/styles in the gernal ad options just turn it on.

HI mate,

I am able to add at forumbit, but it does not show like the pictures I posted. You can see this picture.



Can you tell me where I should put the code? I want to make like this:



The same box and show the same posts.

Thank you.

[smith2007]

Hi, has anyone come accross this?

I have a problem where my adverts are disappearing when the refresh time is called.

Header section adverts are separated by a delimiter of | in the header section of VB ad management.
Ajax is enabled in VB General settings
Ajax refresh is enabled in VB Ad Management 4 - Global
Ajax refresh is configured in header section (VB Ad Management) and set to 40 seconds.

Initially an advert (taken randomley from my delimited list) appears fine, then after the set period of 40 seconds, the adverts disapear. They do not re-apear until I manually refresh the page. If I continue to manually refresh the page, the ads rotate as expected. However if I do not and the auto refresh is called, they dissapear and do not reapear.

I have tried with latest versions of Explorer and Firefox. (and refreshing browser cache)

I have hard coded into the header template rather than use the auto insert feature of VB admanagement.

Can anyone help with a suggestion?

[Bukusami]

smith2007 i am using auto insert and have the same issue, my ad code is set to refresh every 30seconds..

@ manutdvn - try putting it in threadbit not forumbit.

[Madmark]

I am implementing this mod following the instruction on the installation guide. I am able to create the advertisement (Adsense) but unable to get the Template Edit part to work. Can someone please show me how to do that? I am trying to have Adsense ad's displayed right under the first post of every thread(so I guess it is the Postbit template). I am running 3.69 in the legacy style display if that helps.

P.S. does anyone have problems running this mod with the NuWiki mod?


Much Appreciated,
Mark

[Madmark]

Figured it out! With auto-insertion it works like a charm now. Thanks for this mod!:up::up::up:

[manutdvn]

Originally Posted by Bukusami

@ manutdvn - try putting it in threadbit not forumbit.

Hi mate,

I did but it does not show like the demo picture