New Posting Features - Advanced Guest Posting & Registration - Get more members!

Advanced Guest Posting & Registration allows guests to post a reply or a new thread in the forums, then register to publish their reply. This system encourages participation by calling on the user to write something before the option of registering even enters their mind.

Similar modifications have been made previously, but none as feature packed as this that are sure to bring new registrations to your forum. With the modification installed on cellphoneforums.net there was a 9% increase of new registrations (Results will vary depending on your traffic and subject matter).

Features:

• Compatible with vBulletin 4.1.4 +
• Works with quickreply & advanced reply
• Settings to change which editor is displayed, including a basic text box (without loading large CKEditor files) to cut down on page load time for guests
• E-mail verification compatibility
• When guest post is published (before or after e-mail verification)
• Human Verification on/off for quick/advanced reply & post
• User is only asked to enter one Human Verification/CAPTCHA - they will not have to enter another one on the register page
• Default subscription options for quick reply, or the option they pick on the new thread/reply is saved automatically
• Works with Facebook registration
• Compatible with the default vbulletin mobile style
• Message after user registration to tell them their post has been posted with a link, or that it has been put in the moderation queue if determined to be spam by a spam system (akismet)
• If a user posts, creating new posts is disabled until they register - notification of this is in the header
• Guest posts are saved in the moderation queue under 'unregistered' until the system automatically removes (admin setting) the post or the user registers. This allows admins/moderators to see what is being posted.
• Header message to users that they have a 'saved post', even if they come back later (cookie based)
• (Pro Only) Reporting feature that tracks total posts / replies, abandonment (guest creates a post but never registers), posts marked as spam, and successful posts / replies (register)

Some sites that have this installed:

• cellphoneforums.net
• nikonites.com

Installation

• Unzip the package
• Upload all files in the upload directory to your forum root
• Install the product.xml
• You'll see a new admincp menu item for the modification - click it to choose your options

Notes:

• New threads or replies posted by guests will be seen by admins and moderators as moderated posts - they should not approve these posts if you do not want them to potentially be removed by the system if the user does not register.
• A message is added above the message editor "If you are already a member, please login above." - If you find that your logged out members are getting confused you may want to edit the phrases "vbpagr_if_member_logic_above" & "vbpagr_if_you_are_a_member" to stand out more in order to prevent confusion.

Release Log

• 1.2.1 - 6/21/14 - initial release
• 1.2.2 - 6/24/14 - fixed "Post Pending Post/Thread..." not saving - only a reimport of product xml required

This modification adds a link to ForumSetup.net in the footer of thread pages only. If you wish to remove this link and get the reporting feature, please see this page for details.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Morrus

I changed all the references to register.php as you said earlier.

Ah, never mind. I'm not planning on turning this into additional work. Nothing to see here.

Dumb question, do you have a user with the name 'Unregistered' ?

Originally Posted by cric2k

Yes, I do.

It seems like something is modifying vB_Types. It should be available by default.

[Marv]

Another one to test. You?re a sedulous man, John

:up:

[Marv]

I was running in the same problem Morrus did. In the meantime I?ve found out, that this error occurs when the max. length of usernames is set. Mine was set to 25 and resulted in the error message, that the username would be to long.

Somehow AGP&R seems to check the textbody in the replybox against the max. username length.

But to make it more complicated: I?ve changed the max. username length to 35 characters and you know what?! The bug is vanished. At least for the moment.
May be anyone can confirm this for his sites?

My ole man always told me "If you can?t understand it, behave like you would love it." Okay, he was talking about women in general. Guess until John comes up with a bugfix I?ll keep it that way

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Marv

I was running in the same problem Morrus did. In the meantime I?ve found out, that this error occurs when the max. length of usernames is set. Mine was set to 25 and resulted in the error message, that the username would be to long.

Somehow AGP&R seems to check the textbody in the replybox against the max. username length.

But to make it more complicated: I?ve changed the max. username length to 35 characters and you know what?! The bug is vanished. At least for the moment.
May be anyone can confirm this for his sites?

My ole man always told me "If you can?t understand it, behave like you would love it." Okay, he was talking about women in general. Guess until John comes up with a bugfix I?ll keep it that way

Ah, that makes sense. I'll have to put in a fix for this. Didn't you start getting this error when you put in the translation? "Unregistered" is 12 characters and "Schwebende Registrierung" is 24 though.

[Marv]

That makes total sense, John, because my max. username length was set to 20, not 25 as I wrote first. And yes, it first occured after I?d translated the phrases :up:

[Marv]

(Mods, please delete this. Problem was caused by own modification - not related to this mod)

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Marv

(Mods, please delete this. Problem was caused by own modification - not related to this mod)

I haven't noticed that Marv, but it's possible it's happening. Does the user count correct when someone registers via the normal method?

[Marv]

As said, this problem was caused by an own mod, which had a little conflict with the WGO on forumhome.

But unfortunal, I have found another issue. I´ve set up AGP&R to post replies after e-mail is confirmed. That feature doesn´t work for me and the former guests have to post the reply again when they have become a member. The guest postings are visible in the moderation queue, but they don´t make it to auto-approved posts through AGP&R once the guest becomes a member.

Have you noticed that already?

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Marv

As said, this problem was caused by an own mod, which had a little conflict with the WGO on forumhome.

But unfortunal, I have found another issue. I?ve set up AGP&R to post replies after e-mail is confirmed. That feature doesn?t work for me and the former guests have to post the reply again when they have become a member. The guest postings are visible in the moderation queue, but they don?t make it to auto-approved posts through AGP&R once the guest becomes a member.

Have you noticed that already?

does the thread/post still stay in the queue as 'unregistered'? Are you sure this isn't from members that accidentally posted when logged out? I have this happen from time to time and see that the member just forgot to log in.

[Morrus]

That can't be it for me. Username length is set to 20, and as noted, Unregistered is only 12.