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.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Legend Killer1

yes im sure this is the right install cause my vbulletin forum is 3.8 and this hack is suppose to be for 3.7 and 3.8 my forum is xws-hd.com/forum

This is not about webtemplates hack, it is about your php version vs. you vb version. Please see here for more info:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...ed-in-home-car

[Shanj]

As always I LOVE Webtemplates!

Trying to set up the frontend editor for the first time.
But I cannot see an EDIT link at the bottom.

The webtemplate has no parent
- parse = TEXT
- admins (me) and my mods are NOT ticked under disallowed - and I can view it OK
- admins (me) and my mods are entered as usegroups to edit
- I also added my name as individual user to edit.

vBulletin Version 3.6.2 on this site.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Shanj

Trying to set up the frontend editor for the first time.
But I cannot see an EDIT link at the bottom.

The webtemplate has no parent

Please make sure your webtemplate content has "$WT_Editor_link" variable in it. When you use a default webtemplate theme, this theme has this variable automatically but when you create a standalone webtemplate with no theme, you need to put it a location where you want edit this page link to appear.

[Shanj]

Originally Posted by Logician

Please make sure your webtemplate content has "$WT_Editor_link" variable in it. When you use a default webtemplate theme, this theme has this variable automatically but when you create a standalone webtemplate with no theme, you need to put it a location where you want edit this page link to appear.

Thank you I did that but there must be something I don't know.
Here's the top of my page / page is set to parse TEXT

Excerpt ######################
HOMEWORK RECORD: JAN - APRIL 2011
.................................................. .........
$WT_Editor_link
.................................................. .........
############################

The link shows but if I click it I get 404.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Shanj

Thank you I did that but there must be something I don't know.
Here's the top of my page / page is set to parse TEXT

Excerpt ######################
HOMEWORK RECORD: JAN - APRIL 2011
.................................................. .........
$WT_Editor_link
.................................................. .........
############################

The link shows but if I click it I get 404.

May I see the url you have this problem please?

[Shanj]

Thank you. I will PM you because you need to login as a specific usergroup to see it.

(THis usergroup is listed as Editors)

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Shanj

Thank you. I will PM you because you need to login as a specific usergroup to see it.

(THis usergroup is listed as Editors)

I couldn't check your admincp vb options page since I don't have permissions but I believe that your "Forum URL" setting does not involve "http://" part.

Please check this out. If your forum url starts with "www.", please make sure it is changed to "http://www."

[Shanj]

Thank you Logician that worked.

Is there no possibility of having colour formatting for the fonts?
These shared edit pages for me summarise quite fine grained data so colour would help.

A TIP - if you want mods/ selected users to edit only PART of the page
I put that part in QUOTE TAGS so it shows up in a box
and added a top and bottom line of ### - my forum displays it in a box anyway.

EDIT AREA START###########################################

blah blah

###########################################EDIT AREA END

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Shanj

Is there no possibility of having colour formatting for the fonts?
These shared edit pages for me summarise quite fine grained data so colour would help.

Sorry I didn't understand the question?

You are using a TEXT parsing in that webtemplate so default color bbcode [ color ] should help, shouldn't they? Eg.

Mytextcolored

[Shanj]

Originally Posted by Logician

Sorry I didn't understand the question?

You are using a TEXT parsing in that webtemplate so default color bbcode [ color ] should help, shouldn't they? Eg.

Mytextcolored

I don't know how you did that! I can use colour with <font> tags but I'm trying to create pages my staff can add notes to. They don't do html.
Tags in brackets - bbcode? will be a barrier - they'll find it slow to apply, probably make mistakes, and find it generally unfamiliar.
I never noticed the WYSWYG editor on VB doesn't have a font colour button.