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Redirect Unregistered Users to Register page in X seconds
v.2.00

What does this template mod do?
Basically, this will increase registration rates by letting your guests view the forum posts, threads, etc for X amount of seconds until they get redirected to the registration page. I use this on my forum is works great! It has increased the registrations by a long shot. The key to this is that most users who join vBulletin forums cannot find the register link sometimes and often are confused. With this, they immediately get sent there and register!

How do I install this modification?
Installing is the simple part. Here we go:

simple steps into installing!

Go to admin cp>style manager>all style options>place in your header.......

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1" AND "THIS_SCRIPT != 'register'">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="X; url=http://www.yourforum.com/register.php">
</if>

Replace X with how many seconds you want the unregistered to view your board.
Replace "yourforum" with your site name.

Press Save.

Next, go into your FTPs and replace your register.php with the one below.

You are all finished .

I will not be giving support to people who do not mark as installed and I do not accept help pms.

Thanks!


History:

March 1st - Initial Release
Introduction to experiment

April 19th - Register.php Addition
- Fixed Refreshing While in Registration
Thanks AllOutVB

[DanTHEGREAT]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

It's because the script uses the Userid of 1 rather than the Usergroup of 1...

Change the script to:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="X; url=http://www.yourforumurl.com/register.php">
</if>

Thanks wrote my code wrong.

Originally Posted by Stubbed

No.

Pretty poorly coded IMHO, if it wasn't for the input of the other people in this thread it wouldn't even work.

This will just annoy guest users more than anything.

I respect your opinion.

guys, if you give your guests enough time, you can implement this real easy. I made it wait every five minutes. It works great.

I will update a newer version soon with better coding.

[TheInsaneManiac]

Originally Posted by DanTHEGREAT

Thanks wrote my code wrong.


I respect your opinion.

guys, if you give your guests enough time, you can implement this real easy. I made it wait every five minutes. It works great.

I will update a newer version soon with better coding.

The problem with that is who remains on a page for five minutes? The counter will refresh after the page changes.

[dreads]

Google does follow meta tags -_-
they dont follow javascript lol

I am going to release my own hold up

[thea1masta]

thank you. i was able to install this very quickly with no problems. Very good idea.

[medusa1]

a other good solution without automatic redirect is disable the search for guests and add the follow code to your header where your navbar is located

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1">


			<td id="navbar_search" width="50" height="55"><a href="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/nav_search.gif" width="50" height="55" border="0" alt=""/></a> 

</if>

now they can see the searchbutton but he open the registerpage early or later they will register to be able use the searchfunktion

[ckusmez]

Affects Google Bots ?

[Phaedrus]

One thing to keep in mind. If you don't allow enough time, they will be unable to register as they will be redirected back to the start of the register page every X seconds (whatever you select).

[luan7749]

How about SpiderBot ( google, yahoo ) ? Will They redirect ? I don't want so !

[ForumsMods]

Yes, they will be redirected.

[luan7749]

Originally Posted by Gasper

Yes, they will be redirected.

This's bad