Major Additions - [OzzModz] Advanced Footer

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This is a pretty cool mod that completely redesigns your forums footer. It adds everything into a block, and has four columns to display different info in them.
Inspiration came from Advanced Footer Rework coded by The Rocketeer and Awesome footer with Social Icons coded by socialteenz. Problem with those two mods that I had is it was all template editing, and I really don't like template edit mods on sites, I prefer it is all done automatically.

Another feature of this mod, is there is settings for the mod, that you can enter any custom code that any other mods have told you to add to the beginning or end of your footer. Again, this is designed so you do not have to do template editing.

It is a simple installation, upload the contents of the UPLOAD folder then import the product XML, ozzmodz_advanced_footer

You can edit the options under the settings, [OzzModz] Advanced Footer Settings
There is three ACP interface pages to add/edit the recommended links, quick links and the social media links.

Below is what the mod looks like running on the site.



Major Features

No Additional Queries: The awesome part of this mod is it uses the datastore, so it adds no additional queries to the site.

Disable On Styles: You can disable this mod on any style, in case it breaks the style.

Interactive Main ACP Pages: When viewing the links you added, you can set the display order, toggle the active status, toggle the _nofollow and toggle if the site opens in a new tab or same tab, all without editing each entry individually.

Unlimited Links: You can have as many links in each column as you want, there is no limits..

Usergroup Permissions: When adding or editing a link, you can select which usergroups can see the link.

Complete Feature List

General Settings

• Option to disable the mod completely.
• Option to disable the mod on certain styles, in case it breaks the style.
• Option set which way you want the About column to show the text from.
• Setting to enter the text for the About column, if you don't want to use the meta description.
• Setting to enter any code another mod may have told you to add in the beginning of your footer.
• Setting to enter any code another mod may have told you to add in the end of your footer.
• Setting to enter any additional links you want displayed in the footer links area ( where the contact us admin mod etc. links are ).
• Setting to set the image width of the social media images.
• Setting to set the image height of the social media images.
• Option to enable/disable the About column.
• Option to enable/disable the Recommended Links column.
• Option to enable/disable the Quick Access Links column.
• Option to enable/disable the Social Media Links column.
• Option to enable/disable the Archive Links.
• Option to set which usergroups can view the Archive Links.
• Option to enable/disable the RSS Links.
• Option to set which usergroups can view the RSS Links.
  
  Adding/Editing Recommended Links
• Setting to enter the links title.
• Setting to enter the link URL.
• Setting to enter the link description.
• Setting to enter the display order for the link in the column.
• Option to set if the link is active or not.
• Option to set if the link is a _nofollow link.
• Option to choose if the link should open in a new tab or not.
• Setting to choose which usergroups can see the link in the column.
  
  Adding/Editing Quick Links
• Setting to enter the links title.
• Setting to enter the link URL.
• Setting to enter the link description.
• Setting to enter the display order for the link in the column.
• Option to set if the link is active or not.
• Option to set if the link is a _nofollow link.
• Option to choose if the link should open in a new tab or not.
• Setting to choose which usergroups can see the link in the column.
  
  Adding/Editing Social Media Links Settings
• Setting to enter the links title.
• Setting to enter the link URL.
• Setting to enter the social media's image name.
• Setting to enter the link description.
• Setting to enter the display order for the link in the column.
• Option to set if the link is active or not.
• Option to set if the link is a _nofollow link.
• Option to choose if the link should open in a new tab or not.
• Setting to choose which usergroups can see the link in the column.

There is 31 social media icons in the images folder for you to use, or you can upload your own.

Frequently Asked Questions.

Q. Why do I need such a thing, you ask?

A. Maybe you are like me and are tired of the same old footer layout.

Q. I want the text aligned to the left, not centered, how do I change it?

A. Edit the stylevar, ozzmodz_advanced_footer_alignment, found under the group OzzModz.


I would like to thank, kh99, nerbert and Scandal, for giving me some help solving some issues I was having while developing this mod.

Members that donated towards this mod.
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* History (Changelog) *
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v1.0.0 (November 24, 2014)
- Initial public release.

[LLent]

Ozzy just a quick question now i am in 4.1.11 when i put mod in i lost the ability to change my skins when i disabled the mod it was back to normal how might i fix this to have the ability to choose

[ozzy47]

Well first off I would upgrade to 4.2.2 pl2, as the version you are running has many unpatched security issues.

But it should be using the correct style changer, if you really insist on staying with a unsecured version of vBulletin, PM me a admin account and I can take a look on your site tomorrow.

[LLent]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Well first off I would upgrade to 4.2.2 pl2, as the version you are running has many unpatched security issues.

But it should be using the correct style changer, if you really insist on staying with a unsecured version of vBulletin, PM me a admin account and I can take a look on your site tomorrow.

i will upgrade soon just going to be a lot of work with the other mods i have lol

will do that and report back if i need further assistance thanks

[ozzy47]

Yeah, but it is far less work, updating mods, than trying to recover from a hack.

[gnrx]

Hello
Recently, I installed this mod, all ok, but I have two doubts:

In the footer appears this test/link:
Click for more copyright info.

This link, if I click, not have any link and I don't view how configure this.

The other doubt, I have configurate for Show RSS Links In Footer, and I configure for show to all usergroups, but not show any RSS Link.

Regards!

[ozzy47]

Well the first thing with the click for more copyright will be changed in the next version, there will be a setting to disable it.

As for the RSS, I am not sure why they would not be showing up. Perhaps set the Archive and RSS settings to NO, save, then set the RSS to YES and save, and see if they show up then.

[gnrx]

Hello.
For the click for more copyright, ok.

About for the RSS, I made this, set to no, save, and then, set to Yes and save, but con tinue with not show RSS.

I think, about RSS, I need config some field in admincp?

Like always, thank you very much!

[ozzy47]

No it should show no matter what. If you want me to take a look on your site, PM me a full admin account and I can see if I can figure out what the issue is.

[gnrx]

Thank you very much for your attention and help

I view now that, now, yes, appears this:

Our RSS Feeds
RSS RSS 2.0 XML MAP HTML

XML and MAP not work and I don't want appears this 2, only rss, rss 2.0 and html.

After a some minutes, and I dont made any change, appears RSS.

If you want, PM to you with full admin account.

For this, I don't know how thank to yo, sincery, thanks!

[ozzy47]

Well if they are appearing now, then that is good.

To remove the XML and MAP open the template, ozzmodz_advanced_footer_rss and change it to this.

<div class="footer_archives_title">
    {vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_rss_title}
</div>
<div class="footer_rss" align="center">
    <span class="footer_rss_links">
        <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_rss_rss}" href="external.php?type=rss">{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_rss_rss}</a>
    </span>
    <span class="footer_rss_links">
        <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_rss_rss2}" href="external.php?type=rss2">{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_rss_rss2}</a>
    </span>
    <vb:comment><span class="footer_rss_links">
        <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_xml}" href="external.php?type=xml">{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_xml}</a>
    </span>
    <span class="footer_rss_links">
        <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_map}" href="archive/index.php/">{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_map}</a>
    </span></vb:comment>
    <span class="footer_rss_links">
        <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_html}" href="external.php?type=html">{vb:rawphrase ozzmodz_advanced_footer_html}</a>
    </span>
</div>