Portal Software - WebTemplates 3.7.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 3.7.x & 3.8.x ONLY. For vb 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.x and 2.x see my profile for relevant threads.)

"WebTemplates" is a vBulletin integrated Content Management System which allows you to create vb integrated "HTML" pages in your vb admin cp very easily. The pages can inherit your vbulletin skin/style, can recognize logged-in user, can be applied permissions per user or usergroup basis, can keep visit logs, hit counts and do many more.

VB4 version Update (9.9.2010): Please find 4.x version of WebTemplates4.x in its own thread.


WEBTEMPLATES 3.7.x BASIC FEATURES:

• Very Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file. It is coded as a vb product and can be imported very easily.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroups easily. So for instance you can design a webtemplate which only members can see while guests can not, or only user A can not see etc.
• Page Counter : Each webtemplate has a built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF/ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplate visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support : You can grant editing permissions for certain users or usergroups for your webtemplates individually and they will be able to update these webtemplates using their own editor interface. vB's WYSIWYG editor is supported in Editor interface.
• Page Browsers & Who is Online Display: Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while visitor is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin). Webtemplate visits can also be monitored in who is online page.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with an extensive help document.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates : Your webtemplates can include an "admin panel" displayed to only admins and by using them you can access many details and stats of your page while you are browsing them.
• SEO friendly URLs: You can make webtemplate URLs seo friendly in vb settings (Requires apache server).
• XML Import/Export : XML Import/Export feature allows you to backup your webtemplates and use other hack users webtemplates in your board.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add "last 10 threads forum X", "most active users list" etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Multi Parsing : Webtemplates can parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts). This means you can design a page just like vb posts (TEXT parsing), standart HTML (HTML parsing) or even in PHP (PHP parsing).
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Theme Support : Webtemplates support "themes" which are parent webtemplates which include child webtemplates in them. For instance if you have 20 similiar pages which uses the same visual look, you can make a single theme for all of them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates supports VB3 template conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions.
• Default variables : You can use/display certain variables in your webtemplates like username of the visitor, visitor email address, last visit time, page creation time, page last edit time, Last visitor name, last visit time etc.

Sample WebTemplates from Sites using this hack:
(Some 3.5 and some are 3.0 versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so both will give you the idea.)

http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_mission.htm
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/view.php?pg=aboutus
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_guidelines.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_info.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_books.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_spread.htm
http://www3.fertilethoughts.com/forums/view.php?pg=acronyms
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/view.php?pg=makeuptalk-newsletter
http://www.bklab.com (entire site is designed with Webtemplates only)
(Actually this hack is one of the most popular vb hacks so it is used by hundreds -if not thousands- of vbulletin sites and you can easily find them if you go to google and search "Logician's WebTemplates" WITH quotation marks)

3.5 version Admin CP screenshot attached to this post. 3.0.x screenshots (here and here) also still applies for this version.

If you use the hack, clicking here will make sure you'll know about updates&bug fixes. It will also help me understand how many people is using the hack so please click the install button if you use it. Thank you..

About this 3.7.xx Version: This 3.7.xx version is same as previous 3.6.x version. 3.6.x version was already working in vbulletin 3.7.x except a few minor bugs and these bugs are fixed in this version to make it dedicated solely to vbulletin 3.7.x. Please see "what's new" in the next post for more details.

Version Updates:
29.July.2008 - > Version 3.7.00
* Hack 3.7.00 is released.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by birdie

I love this mod and use it on several forums...

BUT, have a unique problem on a new forum. Its not possible for me to import .xml files the usual way through the AdminCP>Import Product as I get this errorNo one has been able to fix it for me, so to import .xml, I load to the file to server and use the option to 'OR import the XML file from your server" and works fine to install products.

However, step 3 of installing this mod, requires the webtemplate_export.xml to be imported - the mod does not give me the option to import it from the server and I get the above error if try importing the required way.

Anyone got a work around or advice?

It is a tight security restriction in server end. I suggest removing it as it will interfere with many other applications anyway. But if it is not possible. One idea to bypass it in WT installation would be installing WT to a different board in a different server and then move its db tables to this server.

[Kihon Kata]

Hey mine too (BKlab and MakeupTalk)

Originally Posted by Logician

Nearly all Hyster Sisters external pages are powered by Webtemplates. They have over 100 webtemplate pages. But their home page is not WT, it is a custom script.

[ishare]

As i understand, it's maybe not possible to list a big amount of threads in same list as i asked in this message.

So below option may solve my problem. When we create a template which use "$WQ_last10threadfromforum2" querry, it lists the threads from newest to oldest by default.

Is it possible to list them in alphabetical order ? (A-->Z)

Regards

Edit : Sorry to bother you Logician and this thread with my question. Changing the querry as below, solved my problem.

ORDER BY t.title ASC

Thanks again...

[rolandogomez]

Does anyone know if this compatible with VB 3.8 RC? I use it greatly on another forum I have that is 3.7xx Thanks, rg sends!

[dartho]

Seems to be working on my test 3.8RC1 site :up:

[wacnstac]

What happens when you convert static html pages with existing addresses to WebTemplate pages? Can the URL be preserved or will search engines have to relearn the new addresses?

[wacnstac]

Another question, has anyone ever done a three column template that can be made available?

[i156]

Is there any way this will be updated so that the vbulletin search can pick up its pages? If not I will be changing these pages into closed threads to get around the problem. I really like the module but I really need the ability to search.

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by TheFocusElf

A question on these templates, the following call to $WQ_siteinformationitems, where can these menuitems be modified?

If I've inadvertently referenced the wrong call, I am talking about the "SITE HELP ITEMS" which appear in the templated 2-columnar pages.

And now this :

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@nafa151a.nafaexpo.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.6 Server at www.nafa151a.com Port 80

I am starting to think there are some serious corruptions in my install for whatever reason...

Originally Posted by Logician

When you create a webtemplate whose theme is "siteinfo" pages, the $WQ_siteinformationitems webquery will add its link to all siteinfo pages automatically.

If you don't want a page there, just disable that webtemplate or change its theme, it will disappear automatically.

I can't say much about internal server error as it is related to your server but if you check your error log, you can get a hint about the culprit.

OK I have read through the thread and I don't think I saw the answer. The closest thing I saw to it is this...but what I would like to do is actually edit those links. I know if I want to add like adsense to it I edit the template. Thats not a problem..

What if I don't want to add/remove links to it or change the styling of it?

Thank you

[KevinL]

Sorry to post again..how can I completely disable the invalid page? I have a custom 404 page set up. Since installing this it will always redirect to this invalid no page message.

The only thing I did different was setup rewrites through vbseo like: '^view\.php\?pg=(.+?)$' => '$1/'

**figured this one out**

the post above not yet though #309