Major Additions - vB Ad Management

This modification allows you to add advertisements to your vBulletin software. It's very easy to use, very quick and allows almost unlimited customisation. There is no restriction regarding the content you can use. Adsense, images, flash, plain text and you can use template conditionals and phrases as well. It will put anything, anywhere. Just about.

Features:
- Timed ads.
- Self-refreshing ads.
- Ad rotations.
- Ads using conditionals, phrases and templates.
- Ad sharing.
- Default ad blocks (typical ad block screenshot attached) for all the most popular locations plus another 25 custom blocks.
- Default ad blocks for some of the most popular alternative formats; columns, full-page, sponsors.
- Ads for distributed content (emails and feeds).
- Instant previews before publishing.
- No template edits necessary.
- Compatibility with external pages and software.
- Appearance blending to make your ads look like part of your vBulletin templates.
- Alter hyperlinks to include your referral codes.
- Further details in the manual.

For software-specific management (i.e. threads on a forum, comments on a blog) and/or ad (revenue) sharing you will additionally need the appropriate module.

Additional modules:
Forum
Blog

This modification is supported with a link back to my homepage in the footer. Unbranded is per vBulletin license to be used with, see here for details.

Installation instructions:
Installation
Upgrading from an older version

[redlabour]

Seems RedTyger is gone again.

[cgway.net]

really very bad support
really very bad support
really very bad support

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by colinizballin

Is there a possibility where I can place ads in some subsections of my forum and different ads in different subsections? Please help and thank you in advance.

Yes, you can do whatever you want with it more or less.

Originally Posted by Few

I am trying to make it so that different ads will appear per different usersgroups. So if someone is in a certain usergroup - they can have a specific set of ADs for them, and another usergroup has a different set of ads.
Edit/Delete Message

You do can do this with conditionals, the appropriate condition is <if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, array(1,2,3))"> where 1,2,3 are the usergroups you want it to apply to. More information here: http://redtyger.co.uk/manual.php?pro...a#conditionals

Originally Posted by kronnos

Hi RedTyger,

First of, I just upgraded to 3.8.1 from 3.6 and this is the number one mod I fist install but... I am not really good with backups and working with unstable version and lol, I really did not like the work "disaster" used in your posts. Any idea/estimate when a stable version but be out? Also, if it does take a while, is it possible to use the VB ad management for VB 3.6 on version 3.8.1?

I was just covering myself with distaster I haven't heard of any yet. Stable should be a week or two. It should work on 3.6 but I've not tried it, so no guarantees.

Originally Posted by Dead Can Dance

this is great thanks, but i only want this mod to run on 1 style not all of them, is that possible please? thx

It doesn't do that by default, but if you use a conditional in every adcode block it will have the same effect. You'll have to ask on vbulletin.com what the conditional is, I don't know it.

Originally Posted by Cybex

Hi, I installed this mod. Seemed to worked very nicely for me, but then I noticed that the width of showthread is too large. Default template has the same problem. What could be causing this problem, or better yet: how do I solve it?

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I left out a bit of the column code, it'll be fixed shortly.

Originally Posted by cgway.net

really very bad support
really very bad support
really very bad support

I don't mean to be rude but you haven't marked it as installed, you haven't searched for your problem first and you only gave a day to reply with help for a modification that is marked as unsupported.

I'm working on fixes at this very second, the issue in question has already been brought up and appears to be a conflict with vBSEO.

[LGKeiz]

RedTiger; the quick edit button breaks when this mod is installed.

[RedTyger]

Very amusing.

[RedTyger]

Would anyone like to volunteer their forum for a few minutes of bug fixing with vBSEO? I'll need full admin and FTP access and possibly vBSEO access too. I might produce a few errors while I'm working but it should be brief. PM me with the details if you'd like to help, please.

I had a helpful offer but access wasn't wide enough.

[SirSteve]

for some reason, my Right Column ad is under not correct... it's displaying in the footer.

[RedTyger]

That's already been fixed for the next release.

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Would anyone like to volunteer their forum for a few minutes of bug fixing with vBSEO? I'll need full admin and FTP access and possibly vBSEO access too. I might produce a few errors while I'm working but it should be brief. PM me with the details if you'd like to help, please.

I had a helpful offer but access wasn't wide enough.

I would do so - but i have only German-Phrases installed - so it should a little bit hard for you to use it.

PM me if you still want.

[zlos]

Sorry.

1. Unclear structure and instructions, version 2.x was waaaay easier to use. 4.x and 5.x is simply overengineered.

2. Tried to put ads on showthread only, each 15 posts. In the 2.x version it took 1 minute to configure vB Ad. Here I'd spent 2 hours on searching and... nothing found.

3. Brand free does not exist - uninstalled. Sorry, but due to "branding dream" of the coder my forum was hacked twice already. I do not wat to tell the attacker where is my weakpoint.

I thought feedback will be welcomed by the author - I see changes from 2.x to 5.x as negative.

Regards
Tom