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.

[mmoore5553]

thanks ..i went ahead and donated also..i used the support developer at the top of page. Hopefully that is the correct way. ..thanks for such great suppport ..wish i could donate more ....now i am looking for other mods by you lol

[ArnyVee]

Edited: Got it working.

This is such a great mod! What a fabulous tool for webmasters!

I've made two pages so far. One with the style of my forums and one without.

With Forum Style: http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/view.php?pg=WDBpodcast

Without Forum Style: http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/view.php?pg=wdbhub

Thanks Logician!

[JVSP]

donation sent...great hack!!!

[sparklywater]

At the bottom of the page 'priv_privatemessages.html' it says this:

"Note: As this webtemplate names starts with "priv_" it is hidden to everybody but admins in who is online."

But when I check the Who's Online display as a guest, it shows the admin viewing: "Unknown Location: priv_privatemessages.html"

Is there no way to hide this?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by sparklywater

At the bottom of the page 'priv_privatemessages.html' it says this:

"Note: As this webtemplate names starts with "priv_" it is hidden to everybody but admins in who is online."

But when I check the Who's Online display as a guest, it shows the admin viewing: "Unknown Location: priv_privatemessages.html"

Is there no way to hide this?

This is not default behaviour and you should be giving guests too much priviledges. Fix it like this:
vb admin cp/usergroup manager/Who's Online Permissions/ set these as no:
Can View Detailed Location Info for Users
Can View Detailed Location Info of Users Who Visit Bad / No Permission Locations
Can view actual location of user (filepath/url).

[Fireproof]

Originally Posted by Fireproof

Logician (or others),

Do you have a good template to use for a NEWSLETTER that I could start with and customize for my purposes?

I'm not good at creating brand-new templates from scratch, but am good with tweaking something already created.

Thanks in advance.

No one interested in helping me with a newsletter template?

[sparklywater]

Originally Posted by Logician

This is not default behaviour and you should be giving guests too much priviledges. Fix it like this:
vb admin cp/usergroup manager/Who's Online Permissions/ set these as no:
Can View Detailed Location Info for Users
Can View Detailed Location Info of Users Who Visit Bad / No Permission Locations
Can view actual location of user (filepath/url).

I want my guests to have those privileges with the exception of 'priv_privatemessages.html'.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by sparklywater

I want my guests to have those privileges with the exception of 'priv_privatemessages.html'.

I'm sorry but this is not possible. If you give guests to see everything in wol (even hidden urls), they will see that one too. Guests (actually even members) are not suppose to see such hidden urls in the first place. In your settings they will even see when an admin bans a user or doing something in the admin cp.

If you are determined to keep the setting like this, then edit your webtemplate and name it something like "donations.html" so people won't understand what it is about.

[verino]

Hello Sir,

regarding my email ........ it's fixed, I did some trial and error by editing the

- USERCP_SHELL template and USERCP_SHELL_ICONS template

other question :

does your mod only support by default to address with "www" in the address ? because I tested by logging in to, for ex http://myforum-address (without www) and try to visit one of the webtemplate (for ex : view.php?pg=test) and I got the error don't have permission.

and I still don't get about the "accesskey" in your manual installation file, because I'm not a coder

Thank's for the mod

[Logician]

Originally Posted by verino

Hello Sir,

regarding my email ........ it's fixed, I did some trial and error by editing the

- USERCP_SHELL template and USERCP_SHELL_ICONS template

other question :

does your mod only support by default to address with "www" in the address ? because I tested by logging in to, for ex http://myforum-address (without www) and try to visit one of the webtemplate (for ex : view.php?pg=test) and I got the error don't have permission.

and I still don't get about the "accesskey" in your manual installation file, because I'm not a coder

Thank's for the mod

having www. in the url or not is not about this mod. If you login to your forum without www, your forum does not recognize you when you visit it with www (or vice versa).