Miscellaneous Hacks - vBNewsletters

Hey all,

What is vBNewsletters?

It is a simple modification that adds a massive addition to your community! It gives you the ability to add a newsletter to your forum. It not only adds more features to your bulletin board, but can also help boost your member base as many forums find that members enjoy reading the happenings via newsletters.

Features

* Newsletter Page Added - ?do=newsletter
* Newsletter Switch Added
* Newsletter Title and Content Added
* Newsletter Release Date Function Added
* Newsletter Navbar Phrase Added
* HTML Ready
* Version Check Added (vBulletin Version 3.6)

Included in Modification...

* 1 Product
* 1 Template
* 1 Phrase
* 1 Plugin

Support

Support will be given at vBDiscussion.com and in this thread

Installation

Installation takes minutes as the product file does every thing apart from one small template modification which is to place the Newsletter link into your navbar! (This template modification is unneccesary if you have Menu Control installed!)

Thanks,

Marky

[sytaylor]

Originally Posted by utw-Mephisto

Mmm... the title is really confusing imho ... I also expected a HTML based Mail newsletter .

I think there is demand for one...

[djbaxter]

There is one. CommBull has been upgraded but is no longer free... I believe it was $10 or $12 USD... see http://www.octanedev.com/

[sunnycher]

Ok, this is probably sitting right under my nose but where do you find the Menu Control option?

TIA!

[Brew]

There was a really cool newsletter for PostNuke where you would tell it to pull certain threads from the forums (by thread and by forum), add some special paragraphs, graphics and such and the system would email to all who had the option enabled in their usercp. It came with configurable headers for each area in the newsletter like "latest posts since last newsletter", "latest private messages since you were at the site" etc etc

For the most part it was pretty automatic and a real boon for my visitor counts and is one of the major things I miss about my old site before I migrated to vB.

I know it would be a huge undertaking but I hope it's something you'd consider for vB

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Brew

There was a really cool newsletter for PostNuke where you would tell it to pull certain threads from the forums (by thread and by forum), add some special paragraphs, graphics and such and the system would email to all who had the option enabled in their usercp. It came with configurable headers for each area in the newsletter like "latest posts since last newsletter", "latest private messages since you were at the site" etc etc

For the most part it was pretty automatic and a real boon for my visitor counts and is one of the major things I miss about my old site before I migrated to vB.

I know it would be a huge undertaking but I hope it's something you'd consider for vB

It's not a huge undertaking - Combull already does all those things.

[steelerwatch]

Originally Posted by Marky

It's all HTML ready so it's just as good as emailing a HTML newsletter

No, it isn't.

It really isn't.

[Milad]

XHTML error in the template newsletter_main:

<b><font size="1">Newsletter Released: {$vboptions['newsletter_date_added']}</b></font>

must be:

<font size="1"><b>Newsletter Released: {$vboptions['newsletter_date_added']}</b></font>

and you have wrong </if> in the same template

[Milad]

also the hack isn't fully phrased

[Milad]

Uncached templates: newsletter_main (1)

[Knightmane]

When I saw the name of this thread, I thought this was going to be like Post-Nuke's pn-Tres-Mailer Mod, which I got to use for a while when I had a Post Nuke board. I would really like something like that converted over into vBulletin. And I am sure I am not alone in wanting something like that in which we wouldn't have to pay for, because pn-Tres-Mailer was and still is free. (Don't even mention Combull; it's a paid product now.)

The current Add-on of vBNewsletters seems okay, but is not quite right for what I had in mind. I would rather have pn-Tres-Mailer, except it doesn't work on vBulletin.