Miscellaneous Hacks - Title Rotater

Title Rotater
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Created By: Null Parameter

This mod is tested with 3.7.3, but may work with earlier versions.

Please leave any comments, suggestions or bugs.

Description
This mod takes a list of admin defined possible titles and chooses one randomly to be displayed as the page title for FORUMHOME. Both a prefix and postfix can be defined to encapsulate the random title.

You may also use the keyword {username} to specify the current user's name.

See the attached image for the ACP options panel.

Demo
You can see my site use this on FORUMHOME, here:
http://www.xforgery.com/forum/index.php
Refresh it a few times to see different titles.

Although, it doesn't use the postfix option.


Limitations

• This mod will not work if you have altered the default title in the FORUMHOME or FORUMDISPLAY template, or if a style doesn't use the same format.
  
  The Title code in FORUMHOME should appear like this:
  

  <title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>

  
  The Title code in FORUMDISPLAY should appear like this:
  

  <title>$foruminfo[title_clean]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if> - $vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

Fixes

* Version 1.2

• Changed {username} occurences for unregistered users to $vbphrase[guest]
• Added FORUMDISPLAY capabilities
• Added Options to enable/disable individually on FORUMHOME & FORUMDISPLAY
• Reworded a few things

This is the first mod that I decided to make into a releasable form, so I hope you like it.

[Null Parameter]

Originally Posted by M-Tuning

Doesn't this work?:

<if condition="$show['member']"> {username} 
<else />
$vbphrase[guest]
</if>

I guess something like that would do the job
I'll upload a version with that change later today.

[iogames]

how can this be used for FORUMDISPLAY?
and how affects SEO?

[Null Parameter]

Originally Posted by iogames

how can this be used for FORUMDISPLAY?
and how affects SEO?

I just added into the latest version the ability to apply this to FORUMDISPLAY, it is now an additional option, along with the ability to enable/disable either of the two locations.

And I am not too familiar with how SEO works, so I am unable to comment on this.

[iogames]

Check this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=156894

It supposes to be more friendly to search engines, boosting your indexing capabilities

[Null Parameter]

Originally Posted by iogames

Check this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=156894

It supposes to be more friendly to search engines, boosting your indexing capabilities

I still couldn't tell you as I am not really familiar with SEO. I'm not sure how much the title of a page plays into optimization for search engines. Although, I know that there are main stream sites that do something similar to this.

[jonbaker]

okay, does the "demo" still work? maybe i am jsut not knowledgeable in this.

does this mod randomly rotate "forums/images/misc/header.gif"

if not, can someone link me to a mod that does?

[Null Parameter]

Yes, the demo is still running.

No, this mod doesn't rotate a header image, only the webpage title (found at the top of the browser).

[Canadians360]

Well looky here I didnt know you actually put products up null. I gotta this is great if you have a fun community and like to hang some of your better moments above your board.