Major Additions - vB Ad Management 4

vB Ad Management 4

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What does it do?

Features include global settings, advertisements allowing template conditionals, ad sharing and ad revenue sharing, timed advertisements, preset popular ad locations and functions such as sponsors, additional custom ad locations, random and static advertisements and its all very easy to use. You can use it for ordinary ads like adsense, banner rotations, or any content at all as well as using it to manage ads outside your forum too.

You can read in more detail about these and other features in the manual, which also contains some helpful notes and instructions, as well as the installation and upgrade instructions



If you are using autoinsertion and were using vB Ad Management before version 4.00, you will need to remove your old template edits or advertisements will appear multiple times. Just reverse the old instructions below.

* Find <!-- post $post[postid] popup menu --> and paste $postbit_advertisement above it in your postbit & postbit_legacy templates.
* Paste $forumbit_advertisement at the bottom of your forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post templates.
* Paste $threadbit_advertisement at the bottom of your threadbit template.
* Paste $footer_advertisement at the top of your footer template.
* Find $spacer_close in your footer template and below it paste $rightcolumn_advertisement.
* Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement.
* Find $spacer_open in your header template and below it paste $leftcolumn_advertisement.

[dxguru]

I'm really stumped here

I've installed ... simple
I've set up the ads and they display fine
Then I went to the ad-sharing ...

I have my new profile field with data in it.
I turned on ad-sharing, altered the ad code to include #shared#, set the thread-starter to 100 and expected to see the ad code for the thread starter all the time.

Nope

It always displays the Primary Ad Sharing Admin Code

Can anybody please suggest something I may have missed (while I still have some hair left)

Thanks.

[jackstraw01]

Is it possible to add more than one box to either the left or right hand column?

Thanks

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by dxguru

I'm really stumped here

I've installed ... simple
I've set up the ads and they display fine
Then I went to the ad-sharing ...

I have my new profile field with data in it.
I turned on ad-sharing, altered the ad code to include #shared#, set the thread-starter to 100 and expected to see the ad code for the thread starter all the time.

Nope

It always displays the Primary Ad Sharing Admin Code

Can anybody please suggest something I may have missed (while I still have some hair left)

Thanks.

You can't see your own adcode...so if you're testing it on yourself, that's your problem.

Originally Posted by jackstraw01

Is it possible to add more than one box to either the left or right hand column?

Thanks

You cannot.

[milsirhc]

2 things to check:

1) In adsharing, have you assigned the appropriate usergroup for this to happen?
2) If the thread-starter is urself, you won't be able to see your own adsense

Originally Posted by dxguru

I'm really stumped here

I've installed ... simple
I've set up the ads and they display fine
Then I went to the ad-sharing ...

I have my new profile field with data in it.
I turned on ad-sharing, altered the ad code to include #shared#, set the thread-starter to 100 and expected to see the ad code for the thread starter all the time.

Nope

It always displays the Primary Ad Sharing Admin Code

Can anybody please suggest something I may have missed (while I still have some hair left)

Thanks.

[dxguru]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

You can't see your own adcode...so if you're testing it on yourself, that's your problem.

Thanks Red. I must have missed this part of the documentation
Is it only the Post, PM & Announcement advertisement code that is sharable?

[RedTyger]

Er, possibly my fault. It's listed in the updates but not the documention.

You can share anything you like at any advertisement location. It doesn't really get much more flexible than this. There is a new version coming out shortly so if it annoys you to have to upgrade immediately I'd suggest waiting. Although all you have to do is overwrite.

[dxguru]

Upgrades are no probs (especially the easy import/overwrite ones )

Can I suggest, if its not to late, could you split the Post, PM and Announcement adcodes in to 3 seperate sections? I know this is more work (for both you and the admin) but especially with the PM ad ... because it's a different size (width) to the other areas.

BTW, I haven't said it yet so 'Thanks for a great Mod'

[RedTyger]

You are very welcome. I will hopefully soon be writing a small guide on how to add your own adcode sections. The modification was built with this in mind and it's actually just a very simple copy-and-paste process. I think you could do it in 5 minutes quite easily.

[milsirhc]

Thanks RedTyger for your effort and drive in maintaining this plugin!

Don't forget the adsense sharing prob still! I'm coming in everyday to see if you have an update or not.. i'm so excited. hahahah

[RedTyger]

Hm? You don't need to come back and check, I'll send an update notice when it's done.