Major Additions - vB Ad Management

This modification allows you to add advertisements to your vBulletin software. It's very easy to use, very quick and allows almost unlimited customisation. There is no restriction regarding the content you can use. Adsense, images, flash, plain text and you can use template conditionals and phrases as well. It will put anything, anywhere. Just about.

Features:
- Timed ads.
- Self-refreshing ads.
- Ad rotations.
- Ads using conditionals, phrases and templates.
- Ad sharing.
- Default ad blocks (typical ad block screenshot attached) for all the most popular locations plus another 25 custom blocks.
- Default ad blocks for some of the most popular alternative formats; columns, full-page, sponsors.
- Ads for distributed content (emails and feeds).
- Instant previews before publishing.
- No template edits necessary.
- Compatibility with external pages and software.
- Appearance blending to make your ads look like part of your vBulletin templates.
- Alter hyperlinks to include your referral codes.
- Further details in the manual.

For software-specific management (i.e. threads on a forum, comments on a blog) and/or ad (revenue) sharing you will additionally need the appropriate module.

Additional modules:
Forum
Blog

This modification is supported with a link back to my homepage in the footer. Unbranded is per vBulletin license to be used with, see here for details.

Installation instructions:
Installation
Upgrading from an older version

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by snotek

Cannot use this product -- vB 3.8.1, vBSEO, and a few other plugins/products.

When product is installed most AJAX functions cease to work. Inline editing of posts is probably the most annoying of the loses. Simply uninstalling the product fixes the issue. I have repeated this modification several times each time beginning and ending with the same results.

Same for me - Editbutton ist broken (but works if you click him twice) and Button in Editor.

But there is no need to uninstall - deactivating does the same till there is a Fix.



Opened a Thread at vBSEO Support - in most Cases they can help.

[RaceJunkie]

IS it possible to add an advertisement on the first post like attached image?

[angeldevil]

Great Mod This is a Must mod nominated for MOTM .Thank you for ur good work Redtyger

[Battle_Ring]

please be back add after last post

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Same for me - Editbutton ist broken (but works if you click him twice) and Button in Editor.

But there is no need to uninstall - deactivating does the same till there is a Fix.



Opened a Thread at vBSEO Support - in most Cases they can help.

It's good of them to take a look, but it's almost certainly something for me to deal with. Let me know how you get on.

Originally Posted by RaceJunkie

IS it possible to add an advertisement on the first post like attached image?

Of course!

Search for $ad_location[ad_showthread_firstpost_start] in the postbit template and after it add $vbam_location[post_message] (note at the end). Set your ads to display every 1 post, choose the post_message template hook from the menu and for your adcode use this:

<if condition="$GLOBALS[post][postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 1">
<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-bottom:1em;">
YOUR ADVERTISEMENT
</div>
</if>

The conditional is what restricts it from really appearing every 1 posts so if you're using other postbit adcode you'll have to work conditionals around it.

While I'm on the subject, if anyone wants to include an advertisement with the last post before/if the option is added back in, just use this conditional:

<if condition="$GLOBALS[post][islastshown]">
Everything here will be shown with the last post only.
</if>

* Unfortunately, vBulletin's use of ad_location hooks prevents anyone else using them unless I've included a specific workaround, which I haven't for that one. So unfortunately you have to make your own. I'll probably just remove ad_location hooks entirely.

Originally Posted by angeldevil

Great Mod This is a Must mod nominated for MOTM .Thank you for ur good work Redtyger

Very kind, glad it's helpful.

[Vinyljunky]

Glad to see you back RedTyger :up:

Will install this as soon as it works with VBSEO

[morrow]

I've installed this and am using it in my header. As said, gotta hit edit twice... Not a show stopper for me but would be nice to have fixed.

My other question... I believe it was this modification that previously allowed me to include an ad after every X post and after X threads, etc... Very flexible. I see all of that was removed (unless I'm thinking of another mod). Any way to put these back, I thought they were great.

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by morrow

My other question... I believe it was this modification that previously allowed me to include an ad after every X post and after X threads, etc... Very flexible. I see all of that was removed (unless I'm thinking of another mod). Any way to put these back, I thought they were great.

Before it had "with X posts" and "every X posts". With this version it was added to thread and forum lists as well.

[sojobo]

The auto-refresh feature doesn't seem to be working for me, is that a known bug or is something else the cause?

[morrow]

Originally Posted by sojobo

The auto-refresh feature doesn't seem to be working for me, is that a known bug or is something else the cause?

Doesn't work for me either.

Also, left/right columns don't show up on the right or left, but rather on the bottom.

Where can I have the ads displayed between ever X thread/post/etc...?