Private Messages Enhancements - New PM to unregistered Users

I've had this little trick installed on my forum and its bought me a few decent registrations as a result.

As so many people where asking how its done, i thought i'd post it here for ease, giving credit to the guys below.

Credit to this edit, goes to KW802 and FRDS who made it so

What does it do??

When an unregistered person views your forum, they will see what appears to be an unread PM notification, with flashing gif, When the user clicks to read the message he's taken to the register page, Once registered he will recieve a welcome PM which has previously been set by yourself in your ACP, to send a PM to new registrations.

Thats it, so simple and it takes, practically minutes to install.

Where to edit??

Simply add the code below to your forums style header template, at the end and save, It really is that simple.

<if condition="$show['registerbutton']"><div align="right">You have a new PM! Click here <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">here</a> to read it! <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="http://yourforum/newpm.gif" border="0"></a></div></if>

Edits to the Code

All you need to do is just upload the flashing newpm.gif to your images folder or any other folder you wish and provide the url in the code, if you view the code you'll see where it goes.

This will only show to unregistered viewers, registered members will not see this.

Hope it brings new registrations to your site also


Take care

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by Bill from Cleve

Installed. Took about 4 seconds and it worked right off the bat. Neat Idea, hope it works for me too. Thnx

Thanks Bill, Hope it brings you some sign ups :up:

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

erm thanks for that, but in fact i've seen the opposite, It may be a trick but the "New" Member benefits, by being able to view a more larger site, Join the arcade and be able to benefit from the downloads, all of which are open to full members. It opens up a whole new veiwing and taking part experiance and all because we hinted their curiousity by saying theres a PM waiting.

Sometimes members need a little push to sign up, this is it

Increasing registration numbers, of users who don't post, is a waste of database space

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Modifications that trick users into registering are useless.

On my board.... personally I would not use this as we want to reflect actual active members who WANT to be on the forums and participate i.e. Gaming Tournament HOWEVER I'm sure some people would want more to join i.e. social sites etc so like UK said, it's not useless... and your on the Support Staff making posts like that?? Where's your manners or positive attitude eh? I found a way to do something else w/ this info so basically it's informative to say the least no matter what your opinion/comment.

2 cents, you can have a refund

S-MAN

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Increasing registration numbers, of users who don't post, is a waste of database space

If you would have posted that to begin with

Geesh you guys and your reasons without explanations....You come off ALL wrong..

[Zachery]

I've expressed the same stance on other modifications in the past. I hate it when administrators try to trick their users into registering. Its a low dirty handed tactic. Just like that stupid IE bar modification that does a similiar thing. Nothing makes me navigate away from a site faster.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If you don't want to use a modification, then don't. But there is no need to turn the release thread of a modification into such a discussion.

[UKBusinessLive]

Thanks

[soundbarrierpro]

the trick works great. 3 new members right off the bat. Thanks for a great mod.

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

the trick works great. 3 new members right off the bat. Thanks for a great mod.

Wow, great result, last week i had a member sign up this way, and then thanked me for it when they saw, all the extra benefits to be had by registering.

[nascartr]

I modified mine a bit to add "1" new message text link. http://diecastcrazy.com/community/forums.php Thanks for providing this code! Really neat!