Limited Guest Viewing Pro - Boost Registrations v1.9.20

XF 2.3 Compliant: Backwards Compatible

• XF 2.3
  • Resolved controller issues and forwards for guest views and registration redirects
  • Fixed homepage view for XF >= 2.3.0 (previously being ignored on Forum Home)
  • Fixed Search, Member, and XFRM:ResourceItem
    • System wasn't previously loading on these homepages if selected
• XF 2.x+
  • Removed [Account] page option selections
    • System only loads on guest pages so it had no benefit
  • Removed error pages from selection (they're ignored global anyways)
  • Updated warning for "Allow viewing of excluded forums"

As a result of this update the resource has been marked XF 2.3 compatible on the Overview page.

• Registration link now loads the registration overlay on click
• Added wutime_lgv_views count to registration referral
• Added Entity structure for GuestConversions
• Added database table to track registrations prompted from notices/warnings
• Registration will be tracked in future releases to provide admins with statistics on conversions
• System saves the number of notices seen before registering
• System saves whether the user was forced to register (conversion)
• Made default force value 8 (previously 10)

Tested Limited Guest Viewing with Xenforo 2.3 RC4.

Will require small update, but seems to work without major issues.

Notes

• I didn't test with RC3 or earlier
• RC4 is now out, which should make <=RC3 obsolete

If you find an bug/issue please post in the Discussion.

• ErrorException: [E_WARNING] Attempt to read property "node_id" on null
• Warning occurred on deleted threads
  • 404 page of a thread that never existed
  • 404 page of perm deleted thread
  • Return to XF to handle 404 or "Oops, error page"
• PHP 8.x deprecation warning resolutions

• New option added (on by default) (shown below)
  • "Allow viewing of excluded forums after guest view count reached"
• Limited Guest Viewing will allow continued viewing of "excluded" forums even when the maximum number of views has been triggered
  • Note, if enabled, you must not "view track" for page types such as: Homepage and Thread List Pages, otherwise the visitor will be pigeon holed to the registration page when trying to navigate to "excluded" forums
  • The default installation does not "view track" on the aforementioned pages by default

• Move guest counting variable to phrase for multi-language improvement on RTL

Recommend upgrading with "Overwrite existing files for add-on rebuilds / upgrades" checked

• removed custom extra.less styles (no longer needed)
• add-on now works well with custom themes (light or dark)
• eliminated all custom CSS (uses all default XF styling for notices (error and warning))
• tiny page rendering improvement
• smaller footprint

• Allow warning level to be set to zero views
• Allow force registration to be set to zero views

• Enable warning message was not able to be unchecked
• Changed "Positive Integer" to "String"
• Enable warning message is now able to be checked or unchecked

• Added the Xenforo Resource Manager pages
  • Can now include these in your "limited guest viewing" options