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.

[BrettMo]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

Thanks, I'll check into that. Would I be right in guessing that the error appears when you view a post individually and not as part of a thread? I could do with the details of when it happens please.

I really wish that I could give you more information, but I keep receiving these errors via email ever since I installed the AD Management add-on. Sometimes when I receive the email and I click on the link, I also get the error and other times not. I have clicked around on my site like a maniac trying to duplicate it independently, but have been unable. It only happened one time today versus about 40 yesterday so maybe it was a fluke...

Also, I just noticed that my ads are not showing up under firefox even if I am not logged in. I tried deleting out the cache and the google cookies and came back into Firefox and still there were no ads. Any ideas on this?

Thanks again.

[brihan]

Hi,

Just installed 3.1 but had one problem in the directions (Everything else worked great).

Find &nbsp; in your header template and replace it with $header_advertisement

What is it we are to find in the header template?

Thank you,

Brian

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

nope gave me the same uncached template and I know his mod is working fine cause when I use the 304 of this mod its cached fine but when I install the new one then it gives me the uncached template.

Not necessarily. I could equally say I know my mod is working fine because you're the only person having problems, according to vBulletin itself you're not having problems at all, and according to his modification installed on my test forum both of our modifications are working perfectly.

So...well, I don't know what else to say. I can find no problems in either of our software and regardless of that it's vBulletin's reporting that I would listen to and it also says there's no problems. Wherever the reason lies, it simply sounds like an incorrect report on your forum. I can find nothing to fix.

Originally Posted by BrettMo

I really wish that I could give you more information, but I keep receiving these errors via email ever since I installed the AD Management add-on. Sometimes when I receive the email and I click on the link, I also get the error and other times not. I have clicked around on my site like a maniac trying to duplicate it independently, but have been unable. It only happened one time today versus about 40 yesterday so maybe it was a fluke...

Also, I just noticed that my ads are not showing up under firefox even if I am not logged in. I tried deleting out the cache and the google cookies and came back into Firefox and still there were no ads. Any ideas on this?

Thanks again.

No problem it makes it a little trickier but not impossible. You are viewing the correct theme in Firefox aren't you?

Originally Posted by brihan

Hi,

Just installed 3.1 but had one problem in the directions (Everything else worked great).



What is it we are to find in the header template?

Thank you,

Brian

Exactly what it says &nbsp;. It replaces an empty space in a table cell to the right of the vBulletin logo, though a lot of people seem to have it removed for some reason. It can go anywhere.

[rknight111]

What do I type in the Advertisment coding to make it show a add and then when the user clicks on the ad it opens anouther window with the add.

Thanks.. Ron

[RedTyger]

Add target="_blank" to the hyperlink like this.

<a href="xxx.htm" target="_blank">

[rknight111]

I have a folder called addbanners. What would I code into the box to have it show the graphic of the advertiser, then when someone clicks on the advertisment it opens it in a new window. The addbanners is under my forum

What would be the coding for that?

Thanks
RON

[RedTyger]

<a href="http://placetolinkto.com" target="_blank"><img src="addbanners/addbanner1.jpg" /></a>

[andmcgr]

I own: http://www.forumadminforum.com/

As soon as I enable the product my website wont load but I am still able to use the admincp. As soon as I disable the product my website will load. This is what I have done so far:

Downloaded file and unzipped
Uploaded product
Done these:
* Go to Style Manager > Edit Templates and...
* 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.

When I unzipped the file there was an includes folder. Am I meant to do anything with that? Please help me. I do not know how or where in the admin panel to paste my code. I do not know what I have done wrong.

Thanks, I would appreciate your help ASAP.

[BrettMo]

Originally Posted by RedTyger

You are viewing the correct theme in Firefox aren't you?

I only have one theme on my site, so I don't think that I could be viewing the wrong one...

[RedTyger]

Originally Posted by andmcgr

When I unzipped the file there was an includes folder. Am I meant to do anything with that? Please help me. I do not know how or where in the admin panel to paste my code. I do not know what I have done wrong.

Thanks, I would appreciate your help ASAP.

There is an includes folder among all the files you uploaded to your server to install vBulletin. You must place the contents of the zipped includes folder into the vBulletin includes folder so the path reads includes/vb_ad_management/files on your server.

Originally Posted by BrettMo

I only have one theme on my site, so I don't think that I could be viewing the wrong one...

What is the adcode you are trying to use? It works in other browsers, is that correct?