Portal Software - WebTemplates 3.7.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 3.7.x & 3.8.x ONLY. For vb 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.x and 2.x see my profile for relevant threads.)

"WebTemplates" is a vBulletin integrated Content Management System which allows you to create vb integrated "HTML" pages in your vb admin cp very easily. The pages can inherit your vbulletin skin/style, can recognize logged-in user, can be applied permissions per user or usergroup basis, can keep visit logs, hit counts and do many more.

VB4 version Update (9.9.2010): Please find 4.x version of WebTemplates4.x in its own thread.


WEBTEMPLATES 3.7.x BASIC FEATURES:

• Very Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file. It is coded as a vb product and can be imported very easily.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroups easily. So for instance you can design a webtemplate which only members can see while guests can not, or only user A can not see etc.
• Page Counter : Each webtemplate has a built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF/ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplate visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support : You can grant editing permissions for certain users or usergroups for your webtemplates individually and they will be able to update these webtemplates using their own editor interface. vB's WYSIWYG editor is supported in Editor interface.
• Page Browsers & Who is Online Display: Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while visitor is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin). Webtemplate visits can also be monitored in who is online page.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with an extensive help document.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates : Your webtemplates can include an "admin panel" displayed to only admins and by using them you can access many details and stats of your page while you are browsing them.
• SEO friendly URLs: You can make webtemplate URLs seo friendly in vb settings (Requires apache server).
• XML Import/Export : XML Import/Export feature allows you to backup your webtemplates and use other hack users webtemplates in your board.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add "last 10 threads forum X", "most active users list" etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Multi Parsing : Webtemplates can parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts). This means you can design a page just like vb posts (TEXT parsing), standart HTML (HTML parsing) or even in PHP (PHP parsing).
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Theme Support : Webtemplates support "themes" which are parent webtemplates which include child webtemplates in them. For instance if you have 20 similiar pages which uses the same visual look, you can make a single theme for all of them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates supports VB3 template conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions.
• Default variables : You can use/display certain variables in your webtemplates like username of the visitor, visitor email address, last visit time, page creation time, page last edit time, Last visitor name, last visit time etc.

Sample WebTemplates from Sites using this hack:
(Some 3.5 and some are 3.0 versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so both will give you the idea.)

http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_mission.htm
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/view.php?pg=aboutus
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_guidelines.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_info.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_books.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_spread.htm
http://www3.fertilethoughts.com/forums/view.php?pg=acronyms
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/view.php?pg=makeuptalk-newsletter
http://www.bklab.com (entire site is designed with Webtemplates only)
(Actually this hack is one of the most popular vb hacks so it is used by hundreds -if not thousands- of vbulletin sites and you can easily find them if you go to google and search "Logician's WebTemplates" WITH quotation marks)

3.5 version Admin CP screenshot attached to this post. 3.0.x screenshots (here and here) also still applies for this version.

If you use the hack, clicking here will make sure you'll know about updates&bug fixes. It will also help me understand how many people is using the hack so please click the install button if you use it. Thank you..

About this 3.7.xx Version: This 3.7.xx version is same as previous 3.6.x version. 3.6.x version was already working in vbulletin 3.7.x except a few minor bugs and these bugs are fixed in this version to make it dedicated solely to vbulletin 3.7.x. Please see "what's new" in the next post for more details.

Version Updates:
29.July.2008 - > Version 3.7.00
* Hack 3.7.00 is released.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by greggus

Excellent mod ! Very powerful !

I've got a simple question. On the page generated by this mod, the copyright notice at the bottom looks like : Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.7.2 & Logician's WebTemplates v.3.7.00
There is also a button for donation.

Is there is a branding free version ? I dont like to delete copyright but i have so many mods installed that every page got a different one ... so now i look for mod where we can get rid off copyright and just put a note on a special copyright page.

Regards
Greg

I appreciate if you keep the copyright notice. It is even linkless and I believe one line of copyright notice for a free powerful mod is a good deal. However I send copyright removal instructions to all hack donators regardless of the amount they donated. (Except one interesting guy who sent 0.01 USD and I sent him a refund instead of instructions.)

[saltedm8]

that was suppose to be $10.00, but I must have made a typo... I still intend on sending it, just need to get the money back into the account lol, sorry ( well it was late at night )

( it does say ANY amount anyway rofl *kidding* ) i think the work on it definitely deserves a donation

[Logician]

Originally Posted by saltedm8

that was suppose to be $10.00, but I must have made a typo... I still intend on sending it, just need to get the money back into the account lol, sorry ( well it was late at night )

( it does say ANY amount anyway rofl *kidding* ) i think the work on it definitely deserves a donation

ANY amount was really fine but when you get 0.01, you think somebody is making fun of you and taking your time for nothing. Thanks for explaination, I didn't think it was a mistake until your message. Let me know your email and I can send you the instructions, it is np.

[saltedm8]

tbh... I am a web designer myself and I am also the lead administrator of a top web design forum ( around 45'000 members ) ... if I wanted to remove it i could have, I just think the mod is worth a donation...

thanks anyway lol

[greggus]

Originally Posted by Logician

I appreciate if you keep the copyright notice. It is even linkless and I believe one line of copyright notice for a free powerful mod is a good deal. However I send copyright removal instructions to all hack donators regardless of the amount they donated. (Except one interesting guy who sent 0.01 USD and I sent him a refund instead of instructions.)

I understand. I just made a donation and hope you will continue to develop this wonderful mod

[BarryoBrien]

I have the files uploaded and the product imported but the side panel does not show even by following the steps any ideas?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by BarryoBrien

I have the files uploaded and the product imported but the side panel does not show even by following the steps any ideas?

Do you mean hack links in the admin cp? Please make sure you uploaded forum/includes/xml/cpnav_webtemplates.xml file to the correct folder.

[BarryoBrien]

That was it must have over looked it thanks. "nominated" Can this cms be adapted to show tutorials having a seperate 2 colum theme and having categories css, php etc.? if so have any solutions to help me set it up?

[i156]

Is it going to be possible for me to embed code like this within my pages?

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var flashvars = { active_state: "fl" };
swfobject.embedSWF("/statelaws.swf", "flashcontent", "640", "950", "8.0.0", "", flashvars);
// --></script>

Currently it isn't working but if I could get this working I can basically get rid of Joomla and go with vBulletin 100% on my site!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by i156

Is it going to be possible for me to embed code like this within my pages?



Currently it isn't working but if I could get this working I can basically get rid of Joomla and go with vBulletin 100% on my site!

It should work fine inside a html webtemplate.