Welcome headers - Improve community registration rates

[shadyninja]

Installed!~

[zero5854]

quick question. How can you get rid of the default guest message that comes with vb? It looks overbearing having 2 guest messages...urs and Vb's. Thanks and GREAT MOD!

[Ted S]

quick question. How can you get rid of the default guest message that comes with vb? It looks overbearing having 2 guest messages...urs and Vb's. Thanks and GREAT MOD!

This is explained in the instruction file.

[pierguy]

Are there advantages this plugin has over the existing notices system in 3.7?

[DPtheGod]

I will have to install this later tonight - thanks man!

[Ted S]

Are there advantages this plugin has over the existing notices system in 3.7?

As explained in the main post, this isn't an external system but rather a series of pre-set conditions and phrases for the notices system.

[dmknights]

*Installed*
Super Mod

[enginethatcan't]

I installed this and I'm not getting any options in the admincp. Tried searching and you said to uninstall and re-install, trued several times and spent a while looking in my admincp

Any help would be great. Installed for now, can't wait to use. :)

[Ted S]

I installed this and I'm not getting any options in the admincp. Tried searching and you said to uninstall and re-install, trued several times and spent a while looking in my admincp

Any help would be great. Installed for now, can't wait to use. :)

Are you looking in the notices manager?

[burntire]

Ok, after a few hours of playing with conditions, I found a fix:

In navbar template:

Change:



Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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To:



Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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This will keep notices from showing on any cmps pages which is what I needed. Just in case anyone else may need it :)

If some wants to exclude the notices from just the index cmps page use this



Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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[psychobike]

Great mod!

But I have vbportal installed and I get a 404 error page when selecting "join our community" and "contact us" from the Guest Message Notice. All notices seem to work ok in the forums, just not the portal. I think it is because that the address that gets pulled up when selecting either of those two options. The /modules/Jig/ may have something to do with it. How can I fix this?

join our community today
http://www.mysite.com/modules/Jig/forums/register.php

contact us
http://www.mysite.com/modules/Jig/sendmessage.php

[Tauhid]

lovely mod! using it.

[Ted S]

Great mod!

But I have vbportal installed and I get a 404 error page when selecting "join our community" and "contact us" from the Guest Message Notice. All notices seem to work ok in the forums, just not the portal. I think it is because that the address that gets pulled up when selecting either of those two options. The /modules/Jig/ may have something to do with it. How can I fix this?

join our community today
http://www.mysite.com/modules/Jig/forums/register.php

contact us
http://www.mysite.com/modules/Jig/sendmessage.php

Just edit the notices replacing the URLs with whatever ones work for your site.

[intospain]

Wicked mod, thanks, uploaded and installed :D

[diouxsie]

Great mod. Thanks!:up:

[rnmcd]

Ted S,

Are you anticipating updating this for vB ver. 3.8?

[Ted S]

Ted S,

Are you anticipating updating this for vB ver. 3.8?

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=201564

[logicSix]

i just installed a 3.8.1 vbulletin forum and i cannot get these to work properly.

i added and removed a number of times...no luck. any suggestions?

[Ted S]

i just installed a 3.8.1 vbulletin forum and i cannot get these to work properly.

i added and removed a number of times...no luck. any suggestions?

Are you showing the notices when you go to the notices manager?

[logicSix]

Are you showing the notices when you go to the notices manager?

yep....none of them work. the first installed - they worked (sort of)...i uninstalled, then reinstalled...now none work.

they work fine on my 3.7 forum (which i just upgraded to 3.8)

[Ted S]

If you see the notices and they appear correct (i.e. the logic in them doesn't say to only show this when you click 5,000,000 pages) then either your notices settings are off or your templates are no longer calling the correct notices variable causing the messages not to show.

The best way to check is to manually create your own test notice; if it shows something is up with the logic, if not, it's the settings/ template in vbulletin.

[enginethatcan't]

So what's the difference between this and just using notices?

[Gladhatter]

These are more akin to the lil enigine that could.

[Ted S]

These are more akin to the lil enigine that could.

Nice analogy.

This addon is notices. The idea being that while the notices system helps you do all sorts of things it doesn't give you anything to start with. Coming up with basic logic and messages can be a pain and this addon provides 4 time proven messages to get you started.

From there the sky's the limit but you can edit everything with the notices manager.

[andrewtr89]

Hey, love your mod. Only problem our site is having is it seems to be showing more threads and posts in your header than on the forum itself. Some things we have thought may be a cause of this:

- It is counting forums that are set to not share post count
- We have recently done a fresh install with impex and some things may be acting up posts side.


Our website:
http://evercube.net/forum/

_________________________

Header Stats:
Threads: 20,906, Posts: 206,469

Footer Stats:
Threads: 20,162, Posts: 198,702

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Looking forward to your reply,
Andrew

[andrewtr89]

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1750248#post1750248

Looking for that if possible.

[Javierogo]

On the latest version of vBulletin is included this mode for diferent users and is very useful. When i installed this mode in my previous vBulletin, I had to uninstall it immediately.

[Ted S]

On the latest version of vBulletin is included this mode for diferent users and is very useful. When i installed this mode in my previous vBulletin, I had to uninstall it immediately.


did you bother to read the hack description? This mod is not functionality, it's preset notices for the built in feature that you mentioned. So not only does this work with 3.7 and 3.8 it is meant specifically for the notices system.

[Gladhatter]

Thank you for the clarification for the community Ted and also for the fine hack you have created.

[Ted S]

Thank you for the clarification for the community Ted and also for the fine hack you have created.

Thanks for the comments.

[hoopsta]

thank you all for being so thankful!

[vitrag24]

no updates since a long?

[Smitty]

I'm still using it on 3.8.2 without a problem.

[Ted S]

no updates since a long?

Not a whole lot to update... You can extend these notices or create your own... this is to get you started.

[MOF]

When I try to change the welcome header messages, I get the following message "No Phrases Matched Your Query"

I go to the admin ->Welcome Header System-> and I click on the click here links to change...but I get above message. :( How can I fix?

[Ted S]

Try searching your phrases. Just a few words will do.

[freewilley]

can u update this for 3.8.x version?

thanks

[freewilley]

it shows the notice like this after the user has registered

http://i43.tinypic.com/scfck4.jpg

how can I get rid of that? it does not show up to admin but for registered users it shows up at the top and its kinda annoying.. I cant even get rid of it even after uninstalling the product.

please help

regards

[MOF]

Try searching your phrases. Just a few words will do.

What do you mean?

[Ted S]

can u update this for 3.8.x version?

thanks

There is a 3.8 version in the 3.8 forum. The code however is the same... there's no changes necesary between 3.7 and 3.8

[Ted S]

it shows the notice like this after the user has registered

http://i43.tinypic.com/scfck4.jpg

how can I get rid of that? it does not show up to admin but for registered users it shows up at the top and its kinda annoying.. I cant even get rid of it even after uninstalling the product.

please help

regards

Go to your notices manager and look to see if there are any notices with broad rules you don't need.

[Ted S]

What do you mean?

I mean you can search your phrases to find the one you want to edit.

[MOF]

I mean you can search your phrases to find the one you want to edit.

Where do I conduct this search? I am totally lost.

[MOF]

OK, so I "think" I found the phrases...however, it is only letting me edit the ctual phrase in the admin...

This phrase:

Do you wish to display a message to users who have never posted?

To edit the phrase for this message click here (enter your custom text in the translation box).

I do not want to edit that...I want to edit the part that the "click here" is supposed to take me...am I making sense??

[Ted S]

My link should take you right to the phrase but for a variety of reasons it may not always do so.

What I'm saying is you can go to your phraes manager in the admin cp and simply find the phrase by searching for it. Once you edit the phrase it will be... changed.

[snoopy5]

Ok, after a few hours of playing with conditions, I found a fix:

In navbar template:

Change:



Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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To:



Code:
---------------
Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
---------------



This will keep notices from showing on any cmps pages which is what I needed. Just in case anyone else may need it :)

Hi

I tried this modification, but can not see any differenece to the original code. Can someone explain me why this does not hide the welcome header in vb forum on all other pages except index page although I use this code?


Another question:

I want to have to different language setting in one forum. Some sections will be in English, some in other language. There is no problem to offer the drop-down for each language, this works fine alos with the icons etc.

But how can I adapt the code of this welcome header mod to chnage the language?

It shall show also all the message of this hack in the appropriate language depending on teh language setting of the user. In ACP, there is just one box to translate for one language. Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance

[Ted S]

Hi

I tried this modification, but can not see any differenece to the original code. Can someone explain me why this does not hide the welcome header in vb forum on all other pages except index page although I use this code?


That code would hide it from the vB Advanced homepage.

[FeatheredFriend]

I have this installed on my forum and it doesn't seem to show up at all any ideas? I followed the instructions. Thanks.

[Ted S]

I have this installed on my forum and it doesn't seem to show up at all any ideas? I followed the instructions. Thanks.

First step, try going to your notices manager and resaving or reordering each notice.

If this does not fix the issue check that your templates are updated to use the notices code from vbulletin.

[commoncents]

Sorry if this has been asked, I haven't read everything :o, but does this PM or Email users or only notifies them when they come to the site?

[Ted S]

Only on pages.

[NThomas]

Is there any way to set up the text and google adsense like its done here (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/)?

[Ted S]

Use the old version of this mod and edit the templates to add whatever HTML you want.

[NThomas]

Use the old version of this mod and edit the templates to add whatever HTML you want.

Like the 3.6 version?

[NThomas]

How can I change the background and text colors without changing the rest of the colors on vBulletin?

[Ted S]

Edit the phrase with whatever html you want. If you want to change the background use the 3.6 version of this mod and just edit the templates.

[^SuiCyde^]

hi, great mod, very clean, i was just wondering if there was a way to over-ride it but only in one forum, i use one of the forums on my site as a Mixtape Vault, so on this one, i don't want the unregistered users to have to see the welcome headers....

is there a way to modify the code so "forumid = 111" appears to be logged in no matter what?

[Ted S]

If you use the old (3.6) version of this addon you can limit it with template conditions which you will find right in the source code.

In the new version you have to use the options found in the notifications system.

[^SuiCyde^]

thank you, works great with the older version!

great support

[NThomas]

I just had vBa CMPS installed and now my "Welcome headers add-on (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=165519)" links don't work. Instead of linking to http://forum.austinurbanforum.com/register.php (http://forum.austinurbanforum.com/register.php?) they go to http: //www.austinurbanforum.com/register.php?

Any help on how to fix this? It works on every other page except the vBa CMPS "homepage."

[Wifey]

I have uninstalled this, however I'm still getting a random table that says notices on my forumhome. Any help?

[Ted S]

Turn off the notices system. It's part of vBulletin's core code.

[Wifey]

Okay, then this is still adding a secondary welcome, you must ned to register section. and I don't know how to get rid of that. I'm sorry, I really did like the hack but now I've redone my welcome box and it's messy. I don't mean to be a PITA, I swear.

[Ted S]

This addon uses the Notices system. If the notices system is off it won't show up. If something is showing up it is not a result of the welcome headers 3.8 addon.

Have you searched your templates for the welcome message you're seeing?

[Wifey]

I tried searching but got nothing. I've asked over at vb.com, as I guess it's not an issue with the hack. I'm so frustrated.

How do you turn off the notices system? Thanks for your help.

[Ted S]

The notices system is an option in the vbulletion options area.

We can track this down... post a screenshot of the message so I can see exactly what it is.

[Wifey]

Thanks. I think it's my navbar, but I'm not sure.

Attached are the screenshots. It is ONLY when it's a guest.

[Ted S]

Have you tried searching your phrases for any of the text shown in those messages?

[Wifey]

Yep, and I get nothing. I'm thinking maybe I just need to reinstall and not worry about it anymore, LOL.

[Ohiosweetheart]

When I attempted to install the product and save, I got the following error -
XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 5

Any ideas what's up with that?

[Ted S]

Are you uploading the XML file?

[Thulasi]

Hello Ted

Thanks for this hack.

[Ted S]

It sounds like one of your notices templates has been customized, please revert these and check the settings for each of the items in the notices manager.

[Thulasi]

Thanks for help.

After installation, it displayed customized welcome message with header "messages" (I have customized Notices template to Messages).

Now, I uninstalled the mod.
Please tell me how to get the welcome header as in your screenshot.

Thanks.

[Ted S]

Thanks for help.

After installation, it displayed customized welcome message with header "messages" (I have customized Notices template to Messages).

Now, I uninstalled the mod.
Please tell me how to get the welcome header as in your screenshot.

Thanks.

Install the mod. Insure your templates are not modified. Insure the settings for your notices are appropriate.

The screenshot is from the exact mod.

[kNeeLy]

whats the code i put in to use this with vba?

[bigbrother999]

For some reason i am unable to get this working on one on my styles. This works on my current style but will not work on my other one that i downloaded. Any help?

[Bansheebob]

Went step for step with this and now I have no welcome message at all.

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[Bansheebob]

Well it took me an hour but I figured it out. Even got some adsense in there (: See here...

http://www.hillclimbersforum.com/index.php

[rnmcd]

Ted S., I just upgraded from vb 3.6.8 to 3.8.6.

I still have Welcome Headers version 4.1.3 installed. I'm not sure how to check if all the messages are displaying properly.

Are there any changes or updates that you would recommend that I make to Welcome Headers?

Unless you recommend, I don't intend to change to using the notices system.

Thank you.

[rnmcd]

Is this working for folks using 3.8.6?

[Ted S]

Is this working for folks using 3.8.6?

There's a 3.8 version :D