The other day Joe from BlackBerry Os left a comment on another post about adding ads to the mobile style and wanted to know how to ad an advertisement above the logo in the vBulletin Mobile Style.

So I thought I would so a post on how to do it:

In your admincp got to your mobile style and find Header, Open the header template and find:

<div id="header"> 

(should be the second line)

And add your ad code above

My current code looks like this

<div align="center"><a href="URL">
<img src="IMAGE AD" alt="Your Ad Text Here"/></a> </div>

This will display adds on every page of your site in the header. For the best results, I would suggest using a 320×50 ad spot.

Please let me know if you have any questions or post in the comments if you need any help.

This is pretty interesting…

LOS ANGELES, CA, Mar 07, 2012 – Internet Brands today announced the acquisition of Forum Runner ( www.forumrunner.net ), a mobile application that allows forum users to interact with online communities
from mobile devices. Forum Runner will operate as part of Internet Brands’ vBulletin software division.

You can read the rest of the story here

A couple weeks ago I showed you how to add Goolge Adsense to your vBulletin Mobile Sytle. I got an email from someone looking to add Adsense between the first and last post in a thread.

So I’m happy to share how to do it here.

First open up you mobile suite under your style manager in your admincp

Open your postpit_legacy and add this to the very bottom:

<vb:if condition="$post[postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 1 OR $post['islastshown']">

<center>

YOUR AD CODE HERE

<br />
<br />
</center>
</vb:if>

There are lots of different variables that you can use like showing ads just to certain users or non members or show only in certain forums, etc. This code will also work in the regular vBulletin style.

One thing that bothers me and some of my members when using the vBulletin mobile style is that you have to do 2 taps (clicks) to see if any new posts have been made; you have to click on the grid button and then the “what’s new” button. My members hated that and so did I, so I decided to implement it myself! Here is how I did it:

First save the What’s New image below and upload it to your /images/mobile/ folder on your server.

Then go to your AdminCp and go to your Styles and Templates, Style Manager, choose your mobile style and use the dropdown menu and click on the Edit Template, then go to the header template and find:

<a href="mobile.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=notifications" data-role="button" data-inline="true" data-theme="e" class="notifications_total hidden"><span class="notifications_total_count"></span></a>
			</vb:if>
		<vb:else />

Add the following below:

<a href="search.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=getnew" rel="external" class="headericon"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_mobile}/whats_new.png" /></a>

Save and you have now added the What’s New image to your mobile style header.

Notes:
Make sure you backup before doing any modifications as I am no responsible for any crashes or errors.

Remember this is for the vBulletin Mobile Style, not the Mobile App.

I have named the image to whats_new.png so as not to override the current What’s New image on the grid menu which is a larger image.

Also if you to rename the image make sure you also change the code to reflect your renamed image.

Hope this helped! As always, please let me know if you have any questions in the comments or you can contact me.

This year it will be once again in San Francisco, this time at the Hotel Kabuki on June 12th.

I was wanting to go to Chicago last year, but my schedule just wouldn’t allow for it. This year I’m really thinking about going. Since it’s on the West Coast and it’s just a short flight for me.

Early bird tickets are only $69.00 until February 29th, you can’t beat that.

You can get all the details at their website ForumCon

So are you going? If so I hope to see you there!

In the past couple of days I’ve been playing around with vBulletin’s Premium Mobile Style and adding ads here and there. Currently I am testing it out Adsense for Mobile Content.

Adding the ads is pretty easy, In your admincp got to your mobile style and find FORUMDISPLAY, Open the FORUMDISPLAY template and find

<vb:if condition="$show['threadslist']">
			<div id="threadlist">

			{vb:raw pagenav}

add your ad code below. You will also want to align it to the center.

Like I said I am using Adsense for Mobile Content and using a 320X50 size ad. Starting in March I will start selling private ads on the mobile style. I just launched the mobile style this week and want to get a overview of it being used on a daily and monthly basis.

*This is not for the mobile suite app, this is for the premium mobile style

I love vBadvanced and use it on a couple of my forums. But there is one thing that bothers me, it doesn’t look good on a mobile phone when using the vBulletin premium mobile style.

On one of my forums I wanted to skip the vBadvanced homepage and go directly to the forum itself. Here is how I did it:

Go into your AdminCP and click on the Styles & Templates section and click on your Mobile Style (don’t do this on your main site), click on edit templates and find the adv_portal, this should be located under the vBadvanced CMPS Templates.

Remove all the code and replace with:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
</head>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=forum.php">

</html>

This will redirect all mobile users to your forum itself when using the vBulletin Mobile Style.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Make sure you always back up your forum before doing any changes to your site.!

Sorry Guys I scheduled this post for the wrong day, DOH!

As you saw in my post the other day about vBulletin and AOL emails fiasco. How do I uncheck all the “Receive Emails from Administrators” without searching the entire AOL and removing them one by one?

First I did a search in my AdminCp, just to see how many would be affected and this forum it was 225 users with AOL email addresses.

So how do you “bulk” uncheck the “Receive Emails from Administrators”, you can run a SQL query in the vBulletin AdminCp.

****FIRST Back-up your data, always do this! (Also I’m not responsible for data loss)

UPDATE user SET options=options - 16 WHERE options & 16 AND email LIKE "%@aol.%";

And this will uncheck all AOL emails. In less than 15 seconds I was done and hopefully no more issues.

On this week’s Forum Advice Friday, I’m going to post a question to you about the “Receive Emails from Administrators” and looking forward to hearing from you and your thoughts

For years I know that vBulletin and most other forum software programs have had issues with sending emails to AOL, whether it is registration emails, PM emails, newsletters, etc.

So let me tell you about my issues that happen to me on Friday morning right before the long Labor Day Weekend, which I already planned to head out of town.

I had just woken up and was doing my daily routine before getting the kids ready for school checking emails answering a few when I got the an email that no one ever wants to see:

Your web hosting account for XXXXXXXX has been deactivated, as of 09/02/2011. (reason: terms of service violation – spam)

WTF? Spam?

I called immediately to find out what was going on. Besides waiting on hold forever, I was finally able to get someone on the line.

One of the reasons was that they said it was because I was using a cron job to send out my emails, which is true and I explained to them I use a cron job because they limit how many emails I can send out per hour. Okay, done and they were satisfied.

But there was more…