Mini Mods - Welcome headers - Improve community registration rates

Exciting Announcement! vBulletin 3.7.0 now includes a built in Welcome Headers System (named "Notices") that easily allows you to add and control your own welcome messages with functionality above what can be found in the traditional welcome headers system. There are some important differences in these systems so please read this thread before upgrading.

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Important: If you are upgrading from the 3.6 or earlier versions and have modified the navbar template you will either need to revert it or add new vBulletin code as shown in https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=152.

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:

Plugins: 1 (notices entries, rules and phrases)
This template hack should take under 5 minutes to implement and customize.

Installation/ Upgrade Instructions

1 ? Backup any existing welcome header messages (upgrading)
2 ? Remove the default welcome header from your forum home template (new installs)
3 ? Install the attached plugin file
4 ? Now Required: Customize the messages to include your site's name

For detailed instructions on each step please view the install.html 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please see the second post in the thread for a list of frequently asked questions which is updated periodically.

Older Version Support

While most users are choosing to upgrade to the notices system, there are some advantages to the "old" system mainly in that it does not rely on a rules system and can be configured as designed with code changes. Additionally, the "old" version has automatic interfacing with several other addons which the notices system does not. For this reason, the old version is still supported and remains fully compatible with 3.7.

Updates

- 5/9/2008 :: A small upgrade has been released fixing the typo in the sendmessage.php file

[Ted S]

If you see the notices and they appear correct (i.e. the logic in them doesn't say to only show this when you click 5,000,000 pages) then either your notices settings are off or your templates are no longer calling the correct notices variable causing the messages not to show.

The best way to check is to manually create your own test notice; if it shows something is up with the logic, if not, it's the settings/ template in vbulletin.

[enginethatcan't]

So what's the difference between this and just using notices?

[Gladhatter]

These are more akin to the lil enigine that could.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Gladhatter

These are more akin to the lil enigine that could.

Nice analogy.

This addon is notices. The idea being that while the notices system helps you do all sorts of things it doesn't give you anything to start with. Coming up with basic logic and messages can be a pain and this addon provides 4 time proven messages to get you started.

From there the sky's the limit but you can edit everything with the notices manager.

[andrewtr89]

Hey, love your mod. Only problem our site is having is it seems to be showing more threads and posts in your header than on the forum itself. Some things we have thought may be a cause of this:

- It is counting forums that are set to not share post count
- We have recently done a fresh install with impex and some things may be acting up posts side.


Our website:
http://evercube.net/forum/

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Header Stats:
Threads: 20,906, Posts: 206,469

Footer Stats:
Threads: 20,162, Posts: 198,702

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Looking forward to your reply,
Andrew

[andrewtr89]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1750248#post1750248" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...48#post1750248</a>

Looking for that if possible.

[Javierogo]

On the latest version of vBulletin is included this mode for diferent users and is very useful. When i installed this mode in my previous vBulletin, I had to uninstall it immediately.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Javierogo

On the latest version of vBulletin is included this mode for diferent users and is very useful. When i installed this mode in my previous vBulletin, I had to uninstall it immediately.

did you bother to read the hack description? This mod is not functionality, it's preset notices for the built in feature that you mentioned. So not only does this work with 3.7 and 3.8 it is meant specifically for the notices system.

[Gladhatter]

Thank you for the clarification for the community Ted and also for the fine hack you have created.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Gladhatter

Thank you for the clarification for the community Ted and also for the fine hack you have created.

Thanks for the comments.