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.

[RedTyger]

Are other users reporting that they never see their own shared stuff, or is it just you? Shared code is never displayed to the person who owns it, to avoid accidentally clicking on it yourself and getting into trouble with your ad provider.

[iogames]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Are other users reporting that they never see their own shared stuff, or is it just you? Shared code is never displayed to the person who owns it, to avoid accidentally clicking on it yourself and getting into trouble with your ad provider.

I rather wait for the next version :P
any ETA?

[Hendrizius]

Only guests are seing advertisments on my forum.

I logged out and checked another users thread (he entered is pub-xxxxx) and refreshed several times and then looked up the source code. Out of 6 times there were never his ads displayed.

Thanks for the quick reply by the way. Are my settings correct?

I just noticed:

If you only want to exclude usergroups instead of including them, leave this blank to display the advertisement to everyone except those listed below.

Could this be the mistake? I disabled showing advertisments globally for the Usergroups: 5|6|29|39|28. I do not want advertisments to be shown for them, however I would like to allow them pariticipating iat the sharing program.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by Hendrizius

Could this be the mistake? I disabled showing advertisments globally for the Usergroups: 5|6|29|39|28. I do not want advertisments to be shown for them, however I would like to allow them pariticipating iat the sharing program.

That probably is it. Technically its correct behaviour, but I'm not sure it should be. I'll mull that one over.

[class101]

an useful option would be to be able to configure differents ads skins for people using several skins, because yet I'm forced to use my dark colors adsense ads on a white and clear skins, not really good we cant setup specific ads for each of our skins.

[illz-]

thanks man this is a great mod...

it has been installed on my forum...

[class101]

Originally Posted by class101

an useful option would be to be able to configure differents ads skins for people using several skins, because yet I'm forced to use my dark colors adsense ads on a white and clear skins, not really good we cant setup specific ads for each of our skins.

Have found a workaround for peoples with several styles, if you wanna change your ad colors , setup custom replacement variables within the style section in admincp that way:

you setup to replace the var google_color_bg = "2C2C2C"; by google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; for example and it's working fine without modding any code

[Hendrizius]

Originally Posted by class101

Have found a workaround for peoples with several styles, if you wanna change your ad colors , setup custom replacement variables within the style section in admincp that way:

you setup to replace the var google_color_bg = "2C2C2C"; by google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; for example and it's working fine without modding any code

Wow, thanks. That helped my other prior problems as well!

I wondered if anyone could share acceptable-banner locations for members. I do not want to start them disliking my board because of the banners. Are there good/acceptable locations? Currently only guests see ADs on my board, but it seems to cause problems with the sharing-option.

[class101]

yeah that's an awesome feature replacement variable. I use a lot to change images from style to style without modding the original style, that's really awesome feature.
If you want to make your google ad color code unique , put "//header1" "//header2" that way in the google adsense code located in the vvb ads options

google_ad_channel = "";//thread1
google_color_border = "2C2C2C";//thread1
google_color_bg = "2C2C2C";//thread1
google_color_link = "0B0B0B";//thread1
google_color_text = "000000";//thread1
google_color_url = "008000";//thread1


then it adds a better check on the replacement variable if you replace

google_color_text = "000000";//thread1
to
google_color_text = "FFFFFF";//thread1

that way you sure the replacement variable won't affect another google ads than the one for the threadbit1 you have setup. hope you see what I mean

I wondered if anyone could share acceptable-banner locations for members. I do not want to start them disliking my board because of the banners. Are there good/acceptable locations? Currently only guests see ADs on my board, but it seems to cause problems with the sharing-option.

me I use all the one available in vbad without on forum sides, all members , guest , also activated it in the newpost section, they are really cool locations and so far enough

[Effendy Hakim]

Dear All

Left / Right margin not balance, anyone can help ??