Portal Software - WebTemplates 3.7.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 3.7.x & 3.8.x ONLY. For vb 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.x and 2.x 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.

VB4 version Update (9.9.2010): Please find 4.x version of WebTemplates4.x in its own thread.


WEBTEMPLATES 3.7.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:
(Some 3.5 and some are 3.0 versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so both 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://www3.fertilethoughts.com/forums/view.php?pg=acronyms
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)

3.5 version Admin CP screenshot attached to this post. 3.0.x screenshots (here and here) also still applies for this version.

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..

About this 3.7.xx Version: This 3.7.xx version is same as previous 3.6.x version. 3.6.x version was already working in vbulletin 3.7.x except a few minor bugs and these bugs are fixed in this version to make it dedicated solely to vbulletin 3.7.x. Please see "what's new" in the next post for more details.

Version Updates:
29.July.2008 - > Version 3.7.00
* Hack 3.7.00 is released.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by kether1

I just figured out that this only happens in the Two Column Theme. It appears that

<h2>{vb:rawphrase WT_Page_Visit_Log} : {vb:raw WT.title}</h2>

might be the cause, but will wait to see what you say. Thanks so much.

Yes, you are correct. Please edit this section as:

<h2>vb:raw WT.title}</h2>

[rinkrat]

With the recent vBulletin flaw, I've had hackers bombarding my site through Google search that finds my version being annunced on every webtemplate. How do I remove the vb version number at the bottom?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by rinkrat

With the recent vBulletin flaw, I've had hackers bombarding my site through Google search that finds my version being annunced on every webtemplate. How do I remove the vb version number at the bottom?

edit /includes/wt_include.php, find:

PHP Code:

$WT_DB_VisitorLogsTable = 'wt35_visitlog'; 


after that add:

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->options['templateversion'] = ''; 


[MagicThemeParks]

After creating the custom pages and visiting them, my "who's online" is displaying as "unknown location /x.png" ... any idea what I'm doing incorrectly to have it display this way?

FYI: I am also using a custom redirect for vBSEO which may or may not have anything to do with it. Just figured I'd throw that out there in case it could be part of the issue.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

After creating the custom pages and visiting them, my "who's online" is displaying as "unknown location /x.png" ... any idea what I'm doing incorrectly to have it display this way?

FYI: I am also using a custom redirect for vBSEO which may or may not have anything to do with it. Just figured I'd throw that out there in case it could be part of the issue.

WebTemplates has a built-in pluggin to show correct locations in WOL. Your problem is vbseo. Since it is changing URL of the webtemplates forcefully, webtemplates pluggin is not recognizing them anymore.

I suggest to disable vbseo for webtemplates urls (view.php)

[MagicThemeParks]

Thank you for the suggestion Logician.

By disabling vBSEO for webtemplate urls, does that mean that I cannot rewrite the custom page urls and have the Who's Online display correctly?

In other words, do I have to choose one or the other?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

Thank you for the suggestion Logician.

By disabling vBSEO for webtemplate urls, does that mean that I cannot rewrite the custom page urls and have the Who's Online display correctly?

In other words, do I have to choose one or the other?

You don't have to disable vbseo. You can use vbseo in your forum urls but disable it just for webtemplates pages which will fix your problem for who is online issue. vbseo has a "exclusion" list in which you can add "view.php" script of webtemplates so vbseo will go on working but just exclude webtemplate pages in rewriting.

[MagicThemeParks]

I know that I don't have to disable vBSEO completely, I was just clarifying if I could rewrite the URLs and have the ability to view my "Who's Online" correctly. If not, then I won't worry too much about the "Who's Online" piece.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

I know that I don't have to disable vBSEO completely, I was just clarifying if I could rewrite the URLs and have the ability to view my "Who's Online" correctly. If not, then I won't worry too much about the "Who's Online" piece.

webtemplates has a built-in seo which you can enable in the options. After you except view.php from vbseo, you can turn it on and who is online will display these urls fine as it is builtin.

[MagicThemeParks]

Logician, I had not seen these options and completely forgot about it (since I installed your mod a long time ago and just now started to use it more) .... thanks for the info!

So, could I change the "view_" to "info_" in the .htaccess data or would that mess things up with the mod?

FYI: I sent a donation to you for your great support of your mod (and removal of tagline). Thanks! :up: