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

[shadyninja]

Installed!~

[zero5854]

quick question. How can you get rid of the default guest message that comes with vb? It looks overbearing having 2 guest messages...urs and Vb's. Thanks and GREAT MOD!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zero5854

quick question. How can you get rid of the default guest message that comes with vb? It looks overbearing having 2 guest messages...urs and Vb's. Thanks and GREAT MOD!

This is explained in the instruction file.

[pierguy]

Are there advantages this plugin has over the existing notices system in 3.7?

[DPtheGod]

I will have to install this later tonight - thanks man!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by pierguy

Are there advantages this plugin has over the existing notices system in 3.7?

As explained in the main post, this isn't an external system but rather a series of pre-set conditions and phrases for the notices system.

[dmknights]

*Installed*
Super Mod

[enginethatcan't]

I installed this and I'm not getting any options in the admincp. Tried searching and you said to uninstall and re-install, trued several times and spent a while looking in my admincp

Any help would be great. Installed for now, can't wait to use.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by enginethatcan't

I installed this and I'm not getting any options in the admincp. Tried searching and you said to uninstall and re-install, trued several times and spent a while looking in my admincp

Any help would be great. Installed for now, can't wait to use.

Are you looking in the notices manager?

[burntire]

Originally Posted by kalypsoweb

Ok, after a few hours of playing with conditions, I found a fix:

In navbar template:

Change:

<if condition="$show['notices']">

To:

<if condition="$show['notices'] AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'adv_index'">

This will keep notices from showing on any cmps pages which is what I needed. Just in case anyone else may need it

If some wants to exclude the notices from just the index cmps page use this

<!--exclued notices cmps index -->
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'adv_index'">
<if condition="$show['notices']">


	<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
	<tr>
		<td class="thead">$vbphrase[notices]</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1">$notices</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	<br />
</if>
</if>
<!--end notices hack -->