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 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?

Yes you can do that. Just remember to change $WT_SEO_url_prefix variable in the wt_include.php file too though

[jbeam]

I am using the WebTemplates to make How-To pages. I would like to give the users a printer friendly page option.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? I would really like to use CSS to do it, but my attempts have been unsuccessful.

[MagicThemeParks]

This seems to be a way to do the printer-friendly option: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...9&postcount=10

Please let us know if it works for you, good luck :up:

[Logician]

Originally Posted by jbeam

I am using the WebTemplates to make How-To pages. I would like to give the users a printer friendly page option.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? I would really like to use CSS to do it, but my attempts have been unsuccessful.

You can create a webtemplate theme for printer friendly pages. Then create clones of your webtemplates and make them use this theme. Finally link these clones from original webtemplates with printer friendly links.

If you need an sample html code for printer friendly page, you can check vbulletin template named "printthread".

[biggeorge]

I've been using Logician's WebTemplates for around 3-years to manage my raffle pages. It has always made the pages seem as though they are 100% a part of the forum.

I updated VB to 4.0x last night and dumped my pants when I realized that LWT wasn't working. Thank God I found the LWT update in this thread. The update was simple and all my templates remained fully functional.

Thank you for an outstanding product!

[dartho]

Originally Posted by biggeorge

I found the LWT update in this thread. The update was simple and all my templates remained fully functional.

Thank you for an outstanding product!

+1

Thanks for your efforts!

[Logician]

I've released 4.x version in its own thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=250202

[Shanj]

I'm following the development of the XenForo forums - which the best VB developers are bringing out, with great interest. It's a lovely system with very attentive support frokm Kier and Mike - due out by end of this month I think.

XenForo has a Pages feature which does some of what your templates do. They provide a page with forum header and footer, user permissions integration and integration in forum hierarchy. I bet they were inspired by Logician.

What XF Pages doesn't do though is provide for bbcode editing. It's html.
While I can do that it's slower and my moderators c an't do it. So I do hope you're going to polish up XF Pages dear Logician to give us a bbcode editor on them with a nice mod.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Shanj

I bet they were inspired by Logician.

What XF Pages doesn't do though is provide for bbcode editing. It's html.

Considering they are already making it a built-in feature, why don't they provide bbcode editing too? I bet their forum system would have WYSIWYG editor, so it shouldn't be too difficult for its devs to bring it into their pages. Do they tell why not?

[joselaholla]

Thank you..