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.

[BlueBulletRL]

<a href="http://www.iwsti.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74299" target="_blank">http://www.iwsti.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74299</a> theres an example of what I mean

[domregchief]

Excellent Mod. Works very well and as expected. Expect my donation soon after 30 days of successful usage.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by BlueBulletRL

Hey I have a question, I like how it puts the advertisements after the first post however is it possible to not have it in a postbit box or no?

Sorry, it is not unless you edit the plugin.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by sim10

didn't work if i were to pm u login details would u give it a go?

Try this one instead.

<if condition=!in_array($foruminfo[forumid], 1,2,3) OR !$foruminfo[forumid]">
$header/footer_adcode
</if>

That means if it's not in the forbidden forums or there's no forum information (i.e. index pages and the like) show the advertisements.

Or failing that you can just wait, I've changed it so that forum exclusion/inclusion includes the header & footer in the next update.

[theinvisibleman]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Add usergroup 1 to the list of usergroups you want to display the banners to.

I have usergroup 1 included but guests and not logged in users still do not see the ads

[theinvisibleman]

also how do i set a minimum post count of say 10 so anyone with a post count less than that will see post adverts but other users wont? setting it to 10 does not work!

[sim10]

Still didn't work redtyger ..any chance of you checking it out..if not whens the next update

[rnmcd]

I apologize if this has been asked and replied to before but I couldn't seem to find the answer in the 8 or 9 pages I read.

Are we able to have different ads for each forum/sub-forum?

Thank you redtyger.

[Fawlty Adder]

Hi ,

I just installed this hack.. just to clarify , under 'instructions' above, am I supposed to ignore any instructions starting with V2.0 (i.e. since I installed v2.1) or should I follow the V2.0 instructions as well?

thanks

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by sim10

Still didn't work redtyger ..any chance of you checking it out..if not whens the next update

Couple of days at the most, I hope.

Originally Posted by rnmcd

I apologize if this has been asked and replied to before but I couldn't seem to find the answer in the 8 or 9 pages I read.

Are we able to have different ads for each forum/sub-forum?

Thank you redtyger.

Yes, but you have to add all but one set of ad code to the (whatever)_advertisement template.

<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]" == '1'>
Ad code for forum ID 1
</if>
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]" == '2'>
$header(or whatever)_adcode
</if>
<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]" == '3'>
Ad code for forum ID 3
</if>

And so on.

Originally Posted by Fawlty Adder

Hi ,

I just installed this hack.. just to clarify , under 'instructions' above, am I supposed to ignore any instructions starting with V2.0 (i.e. since I installed v2.1) or should I follow the V2.0 instructions as well?

thanks

Follow them all. The only optional instructions are ones where you have to add (whatever)_advertisement to your default templates, if you don't intend to use that area for advertisements you don't have to add it to your template.