Portal Software - WebTemplates 4.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 4.x and above. For vb 3.x, version 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.


WEBTEMPLATES 4.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:
(Most are from 3.x versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so all 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://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)

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..

From FAQ 13: Vbulletin already has a CMS now , why would I need this hack?

If you have CMS license, you might not need Webtemplates. On the other hand, CMS license is paid, webtemplates is free and many forum owners don't have CMS licenses.

Also please note that vb has CMS since 2010. Webtemplates was first released for vb2.x in 2002 and it was around in vb3.x, 3.5.x and above for thousands of vbulletin users who have developed their sites around webtemplates CMS. So regardless of new vb CMS owners might or might not need it, Webtemplates 4.x is still realased and supported as a courtesy to its old users and fans. I personally prefer and use Webtemplates over vb CMS and this hack lives for people who agrees with me.

Version Updates:
12.October.2013 - > Version 4.0.2
* Minor fixes for PHP 5.4.x (Fixes "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated" errors in new PHP versions.
14.July.2012 - > Version 4.0.1
* Vbulletin changed WYSIWYG editor parsing in vb4.2.x so hack's editor.php is updated accordingly.
9.September.2010 - > Version 4.0.00
* Hack 4.00.00 is released.

[JenniferK]

I am using the Header 2 location in ad management. I am running 4.2.2, using the default style. Based on advice I was given to correct a display issue (header 2 ad was just right of the header image instead of all the way to the right), this has been corrected on all forum pages, but it is still displaying incorrectly on the pages using webtemplates (see attachment). The attachement image is not a webtemplate page, but that is how it is still displaying there. To fix it on the forum pages, I entered this into additional.css:

.ad_global_header {
	float:{vb:stylevar right};
	margin-right:0px !important;
}
#ad_global_header1 {
	float:{vb:stylevar left};
	padding:0px !important;
	margin:0px !important;
}
#ad_global_header2 {
	float:{vb:stylevar right};
	padding:0px !important;
	margin-top:50px !important;
}

What can I do to fix it on the pages that use webtemplates?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by JenniferK

I am using the Header 2 location in ad management. I am running 4.2.2, using the default style. Based on advice I was given to correct a display issue (header 2 ad was just right of the header image instead of all the way to the right), this has been corrected on all forum pages, but it is still displaying incorrectly on the pages using webtemplates (see attachment). The attachement image is not a webtemplate page, but that is how it is still displaying there. To fix it on the forum pages, I entered this into additional.css:

.ad_global_header {
    float:{vb:stylevar right};
    margin-right:0px !important;
}
#ad_global_header1 {
    float:{vb:stylevar left};
    padding:0px !important;
    margin:0px !important;
}
#ad_global_header2 {
    float:{vb:stylevar right};
    padding:0px !important;
    margin-top:50px !important;
}

What can I do to fix it on the pages that use webtemplates?

Depends on the webtemplate. If its using a theme like "Default Basic Theme", then you can edit that theme's webtemplate "default_basic_theme1" and insert it after "{vb:raw headinclude}" part.

[JenniferK]

Yes, they are all Default Basic Theme that I am concerned with. I am not great at all of this, can you give me some more direction? I know what template to edit now, but what am I inserting exactly? Does it go immediately after "{vb:raw headinclude}"?

Sorry to be dense, my know-how with all of this is minimal.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by JenniferK

Yes, they are all Default Basic Theme that I am concerned with. I am not great at all of this, can you give me some more direction? I know what template to edit now, but what am I inserting exactly? Does it go immediately after "{vb:raw headinclude}"?

Sorry to be dense, my know-how with all of this is minimal.

Yes according to what you described it seems that you need to edit webtemplate theme named "Default Basic Theme" and after the section {vb:raw headinclude} copy paste your code.

[JenniferK]

You mean the same code (as above) that I put into addition.css? If so, I did try that and the image was still in the same place but the code was listed out at the top of the page. If it is something else I am supposed to put after, then I'm not sure it that code would be.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by JenniferK

You mean the same code (as above) that I put into addition.css? If so, I did try that and the image was still in the same place but the code was listed out at the top of the page. If it is something else I am supposed to put after, then I'm not sure it that code would be.

PM me admin cp access to your forum and also url to the problematic webtemplate and let me check.

[Bluefin221]

I installed this, worked absolutely perfectly on the default VB theme however when I try to use my theme which I set as default TF_Ideal the background is missing and the template a bit messy.

The footer is also having some serious alignment problems, I searched through the threads and only one other user mentioned this but he/she received no answer, here is an image of whats happening.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Bluefin221

I installed this, worked absolutely perfectly on the default VB theme however when I try to use my theme which I set as default TF_Ideal the background is missing and the template a bit messy.

The footer is also having some serious alignment problems, I searched through the threads and only one other user mentioned this but he/she received no answer, here is an image of whats happening.

Unfortunately my assistence with custom styles can be pretty limited (close to none) because:
1- I'm a coder and I have very limited designing skills.
2- There are way too many custom skins users have.

So I wish I could help but I can't. Hopefully you get help from another hack user or the designer of that custom skin.

[Bluefin221]

Originally Posted by Logician

Unfortunately my assistence with custom styles can be pretty limited (close to none) because:
1- I'm a coder and I have very limited designing skills.
2- There are way too many custom skins users have.

So I wish I could help but I can't. Hopefully you get help from another hack user or the designer of that custom skin.

Thank you for at least responding, hopefully someone can help.

[JenniferK]

I have to throw in my thanks for prompt assistance to fix the issue I was having!