Forum Home Enhancements - Welcome Panel Template Rewrite

Introduction:

When I first installed Zero Tolerence's Welcome Panel, I found that it had a lot of mistakes on my computer. I set out to make a new template for the hack - and I succeeded. This template is my rewrite of Zero Tolerence's hack.

This Hack Made Possible By Zero Tolerance

Please Remove Zero Tolerance's Plugins When Upgrading from a Previous Version!

Hack Requirements:
This hack has one requirement:

1. vBulletin v3.6.0 or higher. (Confirmed working with vB 3.7.0 RC1)

Installation

Installation is a breeze! Follow these simple steps:

1. Upload Files into folders.
2. Install Welcome Panel Product
3. Customize!

Yes, it's that simple.

Feature Lists:
Support for v1.x has been dropped.

v2.2.0

• Displays the number of new posts.
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• The welcome panel is fully phrased.
• Displays a link for new posts.
• There is a link to edit your profile.
• It shows the forum your most active in.
• It displays the percent of your posts compared to the total forum posts.
• It displays the users posts per day count.
• It displays the users number of posts.
• The welcome panel is collapsable if the user doesn't want it there.
• Completely customizable through a setting group with 13 settings.
• Displays users current time (in their time zone)!
• Image or Textual links for New Posts, Daily Posts, and Edit Your Profile.
• Displays the number of new Private Messages.
• Displays the number of new Threads.
• Customizable link for forum rules.
• Customizable to the latest forum announcement (thread only).
• Latest Announcment name is customizable through a setting.
• There is an admin editable section for "useful links", HTML required.
• Link to forum leaders. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to Mark Forums Read. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to the announcement forum.
• The colors now alternate correctly on your welcome panel.
• Show Version
• Welcome Panel Style (Second Style by Da Pro)
• FAQ Entries

v3.0.0

• Displays the number of new posts, threads, and unread private messages.
• Displays the current time (using the user?s time settings)
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• Top Poster Statistics
  • Username
  • Profile
  • Amount of Posts
• Fully Phrased
  • Re-Phrased from v2.2.0
• New Posts Link (Image or Text)
• Edit Profile Link (Image or Text)
• Daily Posts (Image or Text)
• The forum the user is most active in.
• How much percentage of the forums total posts does the user own.
• How many ?Posts Per Day? the user has.
• The Panel is Collapsible
• Customizable through 13 settings
  • Revamp Settings from v2.2.0
• Forum Rules link.
• Forums Latest Announcement
  • Pulled Dynamically from specified forum.
• Admin Set ?useful? links ? BBCode allowed!
• Links to Forum Leaders (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Mark Forums Read system (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Announcement Forum (optional)
• Alternating Colors
• Welcome Panel Version (optional)
• Welcome Panel Style Improved!
• BBCode Parsing
• Link to vBulletin.org in ACP?s Product Manager
• Version Checking enabled.
• Retrieve Latest Version from database, and display in template.
• Improved Code: With Zero Tolerance's Permission, code rerelease made this a possibility! Improved!
• Optional Plural Checking (New Posts, New Threads) New!
• No Avatar Image: Uses the Image Path setting New!
• Multiple Templates! New!

Conflicts:
Users have reported that there is a conflict with this modification:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122995

Change Log:
v3.0.5: May 16, 2007 - New Features & Improved Code
v3.0.4: March 23, 2007 - Bug Fix - new auto version update.
v3.0.3: Immediately released to replace 3.0.2 to add the correct template.
v3.0.2: Bug Fix, immediately removed from download
v3.0.1: Bug Fix
v3.0.0: Initial Release of 3.0.0

[King Kovifor]

Did you translate this yourself? I can't figure out what it's not doing that except something in the templates / plugins.

[Silvio]

yep! i did translate myself.

lol an interesting thing is that the issue is with my admin account only. i have 3 more personal testing accounts on the board and they are working perfectly. i should ask my users too (no one complained yet)

it is really strange! what could be related to admin account?

ty

take care

ciao

[King Kovifor]

HM... May I have ACP access? It seems extremely isolated to your account, and probably is something to do with plugins. Me looking would be faster (unless you want to try this way and don't trust me. )

[Silvio]

for sure i prepare for u an admin account with all privileges. 2 mins and i'll pm u details

[Silvio]

PMed u details.

by the way would be great to have some more of those little squared images (icons) :P for some internal link like radio or gallery :P) did u made them?

[ericgray]

i think it's aworthy hack, but i'd like to see it shown once, upon login, and then have it disappear --

-- it's too much to be always up there, each time you hit forum-home --

[fusiongoddess]

Thanks so much for this mod. It rocks! My users love it so far.

[Silvio]

Just an hint.
You should add some more phrases to avoid your templates be hand modified.

Infact when and if enabling images (text/images selection) this 3 sentences are hardcoded.

1) New Posts
2) Get daily posts
3) Edit Profile.

I do know that they are onmouseover/popping-up sentences but will be nice

I do confirm that your test Adm Account is still there and I PMed u yesterday all details.

Have a nice weekend

take care

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Silvio

Just an hint.
You should add some more phrases to avoid your templates be hand modified.

Infact when and if enabling images (text/images selection) this 3 sentences are hardcoded.

1) New Posts
2) Get daily posts
3) Edit Profile.

I do know that they are onmouseover/popping-up sentences but will be nice

I do confirm that your test Adm Account is still there and I PMed u yesterday all details.

Have a nice weekend

take care

Thanks. I should fix that in the next release.

Originally Posted by ericgray

i think it's aworthy hack, but i'd like to see it shown once, upon login, and then have it disappear --

-- it's too much to be always up there, each time you hit forum-home --

I'm working on that.

Originally Posted by Silvio

PMed u details.

by the way would be great to have some more of those little squared images (icons) :P for some internal link like radio or gallery :P) did u made them?

Nope I didn't.

[steadicamop]

--edit--

Ignore me ... having a bad day - resolved my issues (for future reference, if it appears twice, the two plugins are under the "vbulletin" set)