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

[Gladhatter]

Thank you for posting the link and me being able to see what this does. We need a bit more powerful version of this type mod but this is nice.

Charlie

[ProAzn]

We installed this mod and adjusted all 4 notices then save settings. Doesn't work. Any ideas why? It should appear in guest mode but nothing appears and everything appears to be set right.


forum index page.
http://proazn.com/ProAzn_forum/

[0ptima]

Originally Posted by ph03nIX

For some reason I had to uninstall and reinstall this mod to get it to work but it would seem that it is working just fine now. This is still one of the best mods out there. :up:

I upgraded from 4.11 by installing the new xml and selected overwrite. I got no errors, however there were not notices. I installed it again... same thing. I then unistalled the product and re-installed it and the notices finally showed up!

[pigpog]

Quite simply an amazing add-on and one nobody should be without. I'm proud to say that my forum looks loads more professional after using this mod. Thank you very much! :up:

[ProAzn]

Ok we have 2 usergroups that have notices - girl talk and guy talk. We created the guy talk and edited the original default notice for girl talk. BOTH have same conditions, just the difference is one is for males and other is for females. Why does one usergroup work (female) and the other (male) doesnt show?? They have identical conditions except usergroup??

I don't get it..

-using 3.7.3
-first time fresh install for mod
-notices show up in notice manager
-notices are the same for said usergroups as are conditions except the usergroup condition.

Anyone know why it's showing for one usergroup and not the other??

[Ted S]

Well if the conditions are identical than either the logic is wrong (i.e. you incorrectly changed the usergroup) or your test is wrong (i.e. you weren't logged in as a member of the second usergroup to test with it). There's really not a whole lot more direction I can give you than to double check your changes and the group IDs.

[ProAzn]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Well if the conditions are identical than either the logic is wrong (i.e. you incorrectly changed the usergroup) or your test is wrong (i.e. you weren't logged in as a member of the second usergroup to test with it). There's really not a whole lot more direction I can give you than to double check your changes and the group IDs.

Nope. The mod lists the same usergroup conditions and it's perfectly identical except the usergroup itself. I will delete completely the male usergroup notices and re-add them and see if that makes a difference. Will report back..

[Ted S]

To be clear, are you using the 3.7 version of this addon which uses notices or the 3.6 series which uses conditionals?

[darkie79]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Very strange. Can you double check that version 5.0.1 is showing up in your product manager?

If so, run the query:

SELECT * FROM notice; If nothing appears, uninstall and reinsall.

This is the error that I get:

An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.
error number: 1146
error desc: Table 'xxxx_xxxx_xxx.notice' doesn't exist

I replaced the sensitive data above

I have already removed/reinstalled the mod a couple of times.

EDIT:

The query works when using bb_notice instead of just .notice

The problem with everything that I have going on is that the notices don't show up, at all.

[ProAzn]

Originally Posted by Ted S

To be clear, are you using the 3.7 version of this addon which uses notices or the 3.6 series which uses conditionals?

3.7 version, fresh install. I deleted the notices that weren't working then re-did them. Now it works! Don't know what happened but seems ok now.