Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

Check the FAQ before requesting support!

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]

It's not difficult, just not necessary enough people to make it worthwhile. You can do it by editing the plugin.

[MariaWilkes]

I have spent the better part of the last 24 hours trying to get this mod to work.

I have it where it will rotate banners and ads, so long as they are added in the admin area, but it will not add users shared content.

I have even used the illustrated codes in the second post, and those work well but they will not add the information in the users fields.

I have the field setup properly in the configuration, and have my admin default code as http://www.test.com for testing,

this shows fine along with redtygers link when rotating. I also have another computer I use for testing, with a regular forum ID (not admin) yet when I place http://www.usertest.com in the edit profile for that user, the usertest.com never appears in the rotations.

The mod is a fantastic mod, but I do not completely understand how members can share ads, because this function is not working for me. I am using VB 3.6.3 and
vb_ad_management_303

[MariaWilkes]

I wanted to say that I got it working.

[RedTyger]

What was the problem? Click install please, don't miss updates.

[MariaWilkes]

Where do I click install? I'm sorry, I don't use mods often and am not very familiar with using them.

The problem was my own error, I was unaware that you would not see your own ads and I was also unaware that if a user had not made any posts then their ads wouldn't show anyways.

I was testing with a user account that I use for testing purposes only, no posts with that ID, so naturally the shared banners did not appear.

I re-read post 2 several times before it clicked what was wrong, then I had one of my moderators post a link with her ID and it worked just as it is supposed to.

I now have it running fine on my forum, and it's already generated 6 sign-ups to a beauty course I just launched this past monday and forum members are loving it. So it's already producing very positive results not only for me, but for forum members as well who want to advertise affiliate links but couldn't because they are not allowed. They are all very excited to finally have a feature they can use their affiliate links with.

Expect a donation within the next month, after I give it a good run.

So there was no problem with the mod, it was a problem with me not getting much sleep and not paying attention to what I was supposed to be doing and due to me not being very familiar with how the mod works.

I just read the thread here from start to last, saw people say it could do what I needed it to do and has features that I like, and so I just installed it. I don't know what the heck I am doing lol.

I do apologize for the trouble, the mod works fine (wonderful in fact) with no flaws other than my own user errors.

I'll go do a search here for that install now, and see if I can now figure that out.

Thank you for the wonderful mod!

[Vinyljunky]

Firstly thank you for this MOD, I can tell that you put a lot of hours in it!

My query is about interaction with the Links and Download Manager

Sadly the Ads dont apear within the Links & Downloads listings. See here to see what I mean.

Is there anyway I can display adverts within the DL listings?

Thanks

VJ

[RedTyger]

Hm. I see an advertisement at the bottom of the page just like any of your other forum sections. What exactly do you want to be different with the downloads?

[Vinyljunky]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Hm. I see an advertisement at the bottom of the page just like any of your other forum sections. What exactly do you want to be different with the downloads?

An advert inbetween every X item in the DownLoad list would be cool

Prominent Ads within ibProArcade would be good as well (Here is mine)

Thanks

VinylJunky

[RedTyger]

You could use header advertisements for this, since they can be placed anywhere on a page, but beyond that I don't know. If you ask the author of the mod, telling him you want to place a single variable with rows then maybe he can tell you where to put them. Then when you know, just insert $header_advertisement in the right place and set it up in the normal way using the vB Ad Management settings.

[Vinyljunky]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

You could use header advertisements for this, since they can be placed anywhere on a page, but beyond that I don't know. If you ask the author of the mod, telling him you want to place a single variable with rows then maybe he can tell you where to put them. Then when you know, just insert $header_advertisement in the right place and set it up in the normal way using the vB Ad Management settings.

Thanks for the advice

VinylJunky