Forum Home Enhancements - Welcome Panel Template Rewrite

Introduction:

When I first installed Zero Tolerence's Welcome Panel, I found that it had a lot of mistakes on my computer. I set out to make a new template for the hack - and I succeeded. This template is my rewrite of Zero Tolerence's hack.

This Hack Made Possible By Zero Tolerance

Please Remove Zero Tolerance's Plugins When Upgrading from a Previous Version!

Hack Requirements:
This hack has one requirement:

1. vBulletin v3.6.0 or higher. (Confirmed working with vB 3.7.0 RC1)

Installation

Installation is a breeze! Follow these simple steps:

1. Upload Files into folders.
2. Install Welcome Panel Product
3. Customize!

Yes, it's that simple.

Feature Lists:
Support for v1.x has been dropped.

v2.2.0

• Displays the number of new posts.
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• The welcome panel is fully phrased.
• Displays a link for new posts.
• There is a link to edit your profile.
• It shows the forum your most active in.
• It displays the percent of your posts compared to the total forum posts.
• It displays the users posts per day count.
• It displays the users number of posts.
• The welcome panel is collapsable if the user doesn't want it there.
• Completely customizable through a setting group with 13 settings.
• Displays users current time (in their time zone)!
• Image or Textual links for New Posts, Daily Posts, and Edit Your Profile.
• Displays the number of new Private Messages.
• Displays the number of new Threads.
• Customizable link for forum rules.
• Customizable to the latest forum announcement (thread only).
• Latest Announcment name is customizable through a setting.
• There is an admin editable section for "useful links", HTML required.
• Link to forum leaders. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to Mark Forums Read. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to the announcement forum.
• The colors now alternate correctly on your welcome panel.
• Show Version
• Welcome Panel Style (Second Style by Da Pro)
• FAQ Entries

v3.0.0

• Displays the number of new posts, threads, and unread private messages.
• Displays the current time (using the user?s time settings)
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• Top Poster Statistics
  • Username
  • Profile
  • Amount of Posts
• Fully Phrased
  • Re-Phrased from v2.2.0
• New Posts Link (Image or Text)
• Edit Profile Link (Image or Text)
• Daily Posts (Image or Text)
• The forum the user is most active in.
• How much percentage of the forums total posts does the user own.
• How many ?Posts Per Day? the user has.
• The Panel is Collapsible
• Customizable through 13 settings
  • Revamp Settings from v2.2.0
• Forum Rules link.
• Forums Latest Announcement
  • Pulled Dynamically from specified forum.
• Admin Set ?useful? links ? BBCode allowed!
• Links to Forum Leaders (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Mark Forums Read system (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Announcement Forum (optional)
• Alternating Colors
• Welcome Panel Version (optional)
• Welcome Panel Style Improved!
• BBCode Parsing
• Link to vBulletin.org in ACP?s Product Manager
• Version Checking enabled.
• Retrieve Latest Version from database, and display in template.
• Improved Code: With Zero Tolerance's Permission, code rerelease made this a possibility! Improved!
• Optional Plural Checking (New Posts, New Threads) New!
• No Avatar Image: Uses the Image Path setting New!
• Multiple Templates! New!

Conflicts:
Users have reported that there is a conflict with this modification:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122995

Change Log:
v3.0.5: May 16, 2007 - New Features & Improved Code
v3.0.4: March 23, 2007 - Bug Fix - new auto version update.
v3.0.3: Immediately released to replace 3.0.2 to add the correct template.
v3.0.2: Bug Fix, immediately removed from download
v3.0.1: Bug Fix
v3.0.0: Initial Release of 3.0.0

[bitbender]

King, I been looking.. whar in tarnation does the .DS_file upload go?

I got the same 0.0 crud as well as it's saying I have 300K posts tto read since It thinks I haven't been online since 1969

Yea, I probably missed removing the older plugins during my upgrade, as I was looking for a product and it appears it was a plug in...

So, uninstall and reinstall?

THx

Originally Posted by GuaRRand

i've seen a very nifty one on another site.

http://www.crapforum.nl/index.php?s=

It also shows top posters of the day, the avatar of the top poster, top threads etc..
I asked the admin how he did that but he wouldnt tell....any chance you could fit this in your mod??

ACtually, this mod is cool since they broke it into multiple templates. I have modded the heck outa mine to show site life stats, newest member, etc..

It's a fine piece of work, working on 3.7.1 for me, minus the stat errors, but I think I made that happen cause I can't find whar to put the .DS_Store in da thread... The search here doesnt find any hits on .DS_Store

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by bitbender

King, I been looking.. whar in tarnation does the .DS_file upload go?

I got the same 0.0 crud as well as it's saying I have 300K posts tto read since It thinks I haven't been online since 1969

Yea, I probably missed removing the older plugins during my upgrade, as I was looking for a product and it appears it was a plug in...

So, uninstall and reinstall?

THx

ACtually, this mod is cool since they broke it into multiple templates. I have modded the heck outa mine to show site life stats, newest member, etc..

It's a fine piece of work, working on 3.7.1 for me, minus the stat errors, but I think I made that happen cause I can't find whar to put the .DS_Store in da thread... The search here doesnt find any hits on .DS_Store

Yeah, that doesn't actually go any where. That is how Mac OS X stores folder information.

And multiple templates will be gone in 4.0.0... Based on how the hack will handle things. But you will still be able to include things.

[bitbender]

KingK - I am an such an ID10T sometimes - *jeesh*

You SAID delete the old welcome panel plugins.. It just DAWNED on me where they were! They were up under the Vbulletin Plugin section(in my world any way), thas why I didn't see them b4.

Once I 'whacked" them, all is good.

Cheers - I will await the new release

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by bitbender

KingK - I am an such an ID10T sometimes - *jeesh*

You SAID delete the old welcome panel plugins.. It just DAWNED on me where they were! They were up under the Vbulletin Plugin section(in my world any way), thas why I didn't see them b4.

Once I 'whacked" them, all is good.

Cheers - I will await the new release

That's cool. But the next release is a good time away. I have a few projects that come before this one.

[Aligator21]

I'm not sure if i understand well.
What will i have to do?

Do i have to install both Welcome Panel Template & Welcome Panel Template Rewrite? or i must install only your hack?

[edit]
I have uninstall Zero Tolerance's plugin and install only your product.
See the screenshot to see how it displayed

[King Kovifor]

It appears that your hack isn't correctly reading / installing the phrases. Can you try uninstalling and reinstalling?

[Aligator21]

I've allready done that more than one times, with the same results
Can you please tell me witch phrases are so i will delete them?

[King Kovifor]

Any phrases I install are listed as wp_ I believe.

[Aligator21]

If i delete all these phrases and re-install the product, will i have any problem?

[Aligator21]

OK i've delete all the phrases and re-installed the hack. It works just fine now, except one problem.

It shows me the "0,00 posts per day."

Any ideas to solve this error?