End-User Options - Welcome Headers: Template System Messages & Settings to Drive Participation

Out of the box, your forum isn't personalized to assist or address your visitors. As a result, guests entering on a page other than the homepage (which is most often the case) have no idea what to do or why to register. Additionally, there are no visible status indicators, making it confusing for unconfirmed, unapproved or new members to know what to do or where to begin. But with a little customization, the use of the vBulletin Notices System and Welcome Headers, you can solve these issues in just a few minutes.

What is Welcome Headers?

Welcome Headers is a set of predefined messages and rules designed to help you get started in personalizing your site's notices using the vBulletin notice feature. The default templates are just that, default ? I highly encourage you to modify and add to the language and rules to meet the needs of your actual community environment.

Modifications/ Instructions:

Template edits: 2
Plugins: 1 (adds 1 template and several settings)

This template hack should take under 5 minutes to implement and customize.

Installation/ Upgrade Instructions

1 ? Install the attached plugin file
2 ? Add the variable {vb:raw welcome_headers} to the end of your navbar template
3 - Customize the phrases to match your forum

For detailed instructions on each step please view the install file included with this addon.

Support

Please post any enhancement or technical questions you may have and I will do my best to respond in a timely manner. Please note: I can not guarantee an immediate response and am unable to assist with integrating this addon with other addons or with HTML related questions.

Should I use this version or the notices version?

Welcome Headers have been around since vBulletin 2.0 and for many people the template conditionals give more flexibility than the notices manager. If you're looking to click and go I suggest the notices version but if you want more control over what messages show and how, this version is right for you.

Please be sure to customize and add to the messages from this addon to match the individual needs of your forum!

Upgrading from 3.7/3.8

Significant changes were made to work with the new vb4 code structure. Please be sure to backup any template changes before updating as the new version will override your existing phrase and templates.

[frogster]

Originally Posted by frogster
Is there anyway to only show the non-registered notice on the forum and not the cms?

Originally Posted by Ted S

Absolutely. At the top of the welcome_headers template you will see a condition with THIS_SCRIPT mentioned, you can use this to change what scripts are not shown the welcome headers.

Ted or any other helpful person,

Not sure if you can help with this but would you be able to tell me what coding I would have to input there in order for the message not to show on the CMS section? Sorry I know nothing about coding and thanks in advance.

Maria

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by frogster

Not sure if you can help with this but would you be able to tell me what coding I would have to input there in order for the message not to show on the CMS section? Sorry I know nothing about coding and thanks in advance.

Sure, in the template welcome_headers change:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions[wlhon] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'register' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login'">

To:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions[wlhon] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'register' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'login' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'blog' ">

[Trek]

Tagged.

This looks cool, I was unaware of anything other than announcements and notices, so I'll have to look into this more. =)

[halkum]

Will update my installation tomorrow, but can you start adding a version change log to the main description. I hate when I upgrade only to find it changed something that wasn't a drastic need for me at the time.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by halkum

Will update my installation tomorrow, but can you start adding a version change log to the main description. I hate when I upgrade only to find it changed something that wasn't a drastic need for me at the time.

Yup. After I get all the other mods upgraded and stop people complaining about that...

[jGas]

thanks ted! i really need it

[ged]

A little question, how can I remove this?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by ged

A little question, how can I remove this?

Turn off that message in the Welcome Headers options.

[ged]

I deleted the default guest notification from Notifications menu and problem solved.

[nci]

Nice work.