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

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by freewilley

it shows the notice like this after the user has registered



how can I get rid of that? it does not show up to admin but for registered users it shows up at the top and its kinda annoying.. I cant even get rid of it even after uninstalling the product.

please help

regards

Go to your notices manager and look to see if there are any notices with broad rules you don't need.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by MOF

What do you mean?

I mean you can search your phrases to find the one you want to edit.

[MOF]

Originally Posted by Ted S

I mean you can search your phrases to find the one you want to edit.

Where do I conduct this search? I am totally lost.

[MOF]

OK, so I "think" I found the phrases...however, it is only letting me edit the ctual phrase in the admin...

This phrase:

Do you wish to display a message to users who have never posted?

To edit the phrase for this message click here (enter your custom text in the translation box).

I do not want to edit that...I want to edit the part that the "click here" is supposed to take me...am I making sense??

[Ted S]

My link should take you right to the phrase but for a variety of reasons it may not always do so.

What I'm saying is you can go to your phraes manager in the admin cp and simply find the phrase by searching for it. Once you edit the phrase it will be... changed.

[snoopy5]

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

Hi

I tried this modification, but can not see any differenece to the original code. Can someone explain me why this does not hide the welcome header in vb forum on all other pages except index page although I use this code?


Another question:

I want to have to different language setting in one forum. Some sections will be in English, some in other language. There is no problem to offer the drop-down for each language, this works fine alos with the icons etc.

But how can I adapt the code of this welcome header mod to chnage the language?

It shall show also all the message of this hack in the appropriate language depending on teh language setting of the user. In ACP, there is just one box to translate for one language. Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by snoopy5

Hi

I tried this modification, but can not see any differenece to the original code. Can someone explain me why this does not hide the welcome header in vb forum on all other pages except index page although I use this code?

That code would hide it from the vB Advanced homepage.

[FeatheredFriend]

I have this installed on my forum and it doesn't seem to show up at all any ideas? I followed the instructions. Thanks.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by FeatheredFriend

I have this installed on my forum and it doesn't seem to show up at all any ideas? I followed the instructions. Thanks.

First step, try going to your notices manager and resaving or reordering each notice.

If this does not fix the issue check that your templates are updated to use the notices code from vbulletin.

[commoncents]

Sorry if this has been asked, I haven't read everything , but does this PM or Email users or only notifies them when they come to the site?