Major Additions - vB Ad Management

This modification allows you to add advertisements to your vBulletin software. It's very easy to use, very quick and allows almost unlimited customisation. There is no restriction regarding the content you can use. Adsense, images, flash, plain text and you can use template conditionals and phrases as well. It will put anything, anywhere. Just about.

Features:
- Timed ads.
- Self-refreshing ads.
- Ad rotations.
- Ads using conditionals, phrases and templates.
- Ad sharing.
- Default ad blocks (typical ad block screenshot attached) for all the most popular locations plus another 25 custom blocks.
- Default ad blocks for some of the most popular alternative formats; columns, full-page, sponsors.
- Ads for distributed content (emails and feeds).
- Instant previews before publishing.
- No template edits necessary.
- Compatibility with external pages and software.
- Appearance blending to make your ads look like part of your vBulletin templates.
- Alter hyperlinks to include your referral codes.
- Further details in the manual.

For software-specific management (i.e. threads on a forum, comments on a blog) and/or ad (revenue) sharing you will additionally need the appropriate module.

Additional modules:
Forum
Blog

This modification is supported with a link back to my homepage in the footer. Unbranded is per vBulletin license to be used with, see here for details.

Installation instructions:
Installation
Upgrading from an older version

[carolc]

Originally Posted by meetplanteach

is it possible to show the ads when a user is not logged in?....for example the forum home page...

I wanted to know the answer to this too. Since I see it's been posted several times in this thread, I will share the answer I just found. Go to the vB Ad Management Global Settings page and update the "Enable advertisements for usergroups" field. It was only activated for usergroup 6 by default (admins), so once I added more (e.g. 6|7|2|5|1|3), the ads showed up for everyone. Seems so simple, yet apparently threw a lot of us off. I hope this info helps someone else.

[jaderollie]

Anyone give me a little tutorual on how to add adverts???
im new to all this, so any help would be great thanks

[netcommander]

anybody can test on Vb 4.0 ?
Best regards

[dbigras]

Hi there,

I have an issue with VB Advanced.

When I enable left or right column, it works fine when I have a fixed width, but if I put my forum in 100% width, then it gives me major problems, as the 100% does not include the ad columns.

Therefore, my ads don't show up when uses have smaller resolution, because the ad column is pushed outside the viewing portion.

But if I create custom ad codes with your product and I create ad modules in VB Advanced, it works great. Everything stays in the window.

So, I wonder what to do. Can I disable the right/left ad columns in VB Advanced and only have them shown everywhere else?

Thanks for your help.

[jesus likes pie]

Originally Posted by netcommander

anybody can test on Vb 4.0 ?
Best regards

does not work on vB4.

[mykkal]

guys, he never finished the mod. i recommend you go with a different product.

it doesn't work with 3.8 or 4.0 unless you debug it yourself.

[elrafei]

Great mod

[Bansheebob]

uninstalled, major bugs, buttons wouldnt work when trying to save changes after banner changes.

[Wabuf]

Ok I can get ads to show up but any way to fix the footer link?

http://www.hostingtropolis.com

I'm using 3.8.4 and the footer link would be nice if it would just move down a line (I've tried <br /> didn't work)

EDIT: Seems I had to remove my own copyright text which isn't right and insert it manually. I'm gonna dig for his phrase and fix it myself I guess.

Alright here's a fix:

Go to Plugin & Products System -> Plugin Manager -> Edit vB_Ad_management_global_ads (global_start for hook)

Find:

$vbulletin->options['copyrighttext'] .= 'Ad Management plugin by <a href="http://redtyger.co.uk/" target="_blank">RedTyger</a>';

Replace with this:

$vbulletin->options['copyrighttext'] .= '<br />Ad Management plugin by <a href="http://redtyger.co.uk/" target="_blank">RedTyger</a>';

Volia! Much better looking IMO

Also for those who can't get it to work on 3.8, that's because you have to put the same thing within each ad spot like for instance...

I have this inserted in my header template:

$ad_location[ad_header_logo]

So I put this into the ad management settings for header (the box for header inclusion).

Volia it turns on!

Hope this helps.

[thehansen]

hi, i already install vB Ad Management in my vbulletin v3.8.2 and i have written the script
<img src="1.jpg" /> in Header adcode form. but why there is no image appear in main forum(index.php)?
however if i wrote in text format, the text will appear different if i try with image.

what should i do and which part should i check?

regards