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

[Wifey]

I have uninstalled this, however I'm still getting a random table that says notices on my forumhome. Any help?

[Ted S]

Turn off the notices system. It's part of vBulletin's core code.

[Wifey]

Okay, then this is still adding a secondary welcome, you must ned to register section. and I don't know how to get rid of that. I'm sorry, I really did like the hack but now I've redone my welcome box and it's messy. I don't mean to be a PITA, I swear.

[Ted S]

This addon uses the Notices system. If the notices system is off it won't show up. If something is showing up it is not a result of the welcome headers 3.8 addon.

Have you searched your templates for the welcome message you're seeing?

[Wifey]

I tried searching but got nothing. I've asked over at vb.com, as I guess it's not an issue with the hack. I'm so frustrated.

How do you turn off the notices system? Thanks for your help.

[Ted S]

The notices system is an option in the vbulletion options area.

We can track this down... post a screenshot of the message so I can see exactly what it is.

[Wifey]

Thanks. I think it's my navbar, but I'm not sure.

Attached are the screenshots. It is ONLY when it's a guest.

[Ted S]

Have you tried searching your phrases for any of the text shown in those messages?

[Wifey]

Yep, and I get nothing. I'm thinking maybe I just need to reinstall and not worry about it anymore, LOL.

[Ohiosweetheart]

When I attempted to install the product and save, I got the following error -

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 5

Any ideas what's up with that?