Mini Mods - Welcome headers - Improve community registration rates

Exciting Announcement! vBulletin 3.7.0 now includes a built in Welcome Headers System (named "Notices") that easily allows you to add and control your own welcome messages with functionality above what can be found in the traditional welcome headers system. There are some important differences in these systems so please read this thread before upgrading.

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Important: If you are upgrading from the 3.6 or earlier versions and have modified the navbar template you will either need to revert it or add new vBulletin code as shown in https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=152.

Out of the box, your forum isn't personalized to assist or address your visitors. As a result, guests entering on a page other than the homepage (which is most often the case) have no idea what to do or why to register. Additionally, there are no visible status indicators, making it confusing for unconfirmed, unapproved or new members to know what to do or where to begin. But with a little customization, the use of the vBulletin Notices System and Welcome Headers, you can solve these issues in just a few minutes.

What is Welcome Headers?

Welcome Headers is a set of predefined messages and rules designed to help you get started in personalizing your site's notices using the vBulletin notice feature. The default templates are just that, default ? I highly encourage you to modify and add to the language and rules to meet the needs of your actual community environment.

Modifications/ Instructions:

Plugins: 1 (notices entries, rules and phrases)
This template hack should take under 5 minutes to implement and customize.

Installation/ Upgrade Instructions

1 ? Backup any existing welcome header messages (upgrading)
2 ? Remove the default welcome header from your forum home template (new installs)
3 ? Install the attached plugin file
4 ? Now Required: Customize the messages to include your site's name

For detailed instructions on each step please view the install.html file included with this addon.

Support

Please post any enhancement or technical questions you may have and I will do my best to respond in a timely manner. Please note: I can not guarantee an immediate response and am unable to assist with integrating this addon with other addons or with HTML related questions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please see the second post in the thread for a list of frequently asked questions which is updated periodically.

Older Version Support

While most users are choosing to upgrade to the notices system, there are some advantages to the "old" system mainly in that it does not rely on a rules system and can be configured as designed with code changes. Additionally, the "old" version has automatic interfacing with several other addons which the notices system does not. For this reason, the old version is still supported and remains fully compatible with 3.7.

Updates

- 5/9/2008 :: A small upgrade has been released fixing the typo in the sendmessage.php file

[snunhuck]

Thanks

[InjuryTime]

Great add-on. Installed.
Just a small note.

The link to contact us is slightly incorrect in the guest message.
It's linking to send_message.php instead of sendmessage.php

Sinply edit out the underscore in the notices manager (guest message).

[hrk]

HI.

i followed all steps and manage to set to other templates except one.
ok. i did copy the working template header into non-working but still can see, even the default vb mesaage.
what can be the problem ?

pls guide.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by hrk

HI.

i followed all steps and manage to set to other templates except one.
ok. i did copy the working template header into non-working but still can see, even the default vb mesaage.
what can be the problem ?

pls guide.

Your question is unclear. What have you done and what is happening?

[CoryHawk]

Could anyone give me a starting point or help to find how to scale down the notices box for my template?

It stretches the entire length of the table and I would like to center it with some space.

You can see what I mean at http://forums.prisonofficer.org

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CoryHawk

Could anyone give me a starting point or help to find how to scale down the notices box for my template?

It stretches the entire length of the table and I would like to center it with some space.

You can edit the boxes by changing the HTML in the template welcome_headers (you'll want to change the width to accomplish this goal). If you don't know HTML and want to more advance things head over to www.w3schools.com for the basics.

[CoryHawk]

I did a search in all templates for "welcome_headers" and it returned no results.

In Products/Plugins it is loaded however.

Welcome Headers 5.0.1 Boost registration and activity rates with more visible guest welcome and member status messages.

Am I looking in the wrong place?

[Ted S]

Are you searching by name?

[CoryHawk]

I am "Searching for Text".. I have tried checking "Search Titles Only" and still nothing.

Sigh.. I just want to change the pesky 100% to a 90

[Ted S]

Forget searching and just browse your current templates. Go to the list, click any record once then press "w" to be taken to items starting with that letter.