Message For Your Guests

[borbole]

This is a small template edit that will show a message to your guests. At PAGE_CONTAINER template find the following code:

<xen:if is="{$showBoardClosedNoticed}">
                            <p class="importantMessage">
                                {xen:phrase forum_is_currently_closed_only_admins_may_access}<br />
                                <a href="admin.php">{xen:phrase reopen_via_admin_control_panel}</a>
                            </p>
                        </xen:if>

And above it add this code:

<xen:if is="!{$visitor.user_id}">
                                                <p class="importantMessage">Hello there guest and welcome to our forum!<br />
                                                To gain full access you must <a href="{xen:link 'register/'}">Register.</a> Registration is free and it takes only a few moments to complete.<br />
                                                Already a member? <a href="{xen:link 'login/'}">Login here</a> then!</p>
                                                </xen:if>

The message is hard coded but you can add a phrase if you want. At the screenshot below you can see how the message it will be
displayed to the guests. You can change the message to your likings, of course.

If such a mod already exists (I searched but could not see one) then please feel free to delete it.

 

[Sir nick]

Gonna add this for sure.

 

[Dismal Shadow]

We already have signups... The Login or Sign up and the orange "Sign up now!"

 

[CyberAP]

Template editing is cool but I'll wait for a plugin Nice work, though!

 

[borbole]

We already have signups... The Login or Sign up and the orange "Sign up now!"

You can change the message to whatever you want

Template editing is cool but I'll wait for a plugin Nice work, though!

Thanks

This can''t be done with a plugin at the moment due to the template system.

 

[ArnyVee]

Definitely something that I'm keeping my eyes on

Thanks for sharing!

 

[yoghurtfarmer]

One of your tags isn't closed properly <a/>.

Thanks for the tip, I put it BELOW the board closed notice, and made it as a separate template.

 

[borbole]

One of your tags aren't closed properly <a/>.

Thanks for the tip, I put it BELOW the board closed notice, and made it as a separate template.

Thank you for bringing that to my attention. It was more a typo. I fixed it now

 

[ArnyVee]

Added this one until a built-in feature comes about

 

[steven s]

Well that was easy enough, thanks.
Now how do I change the background color? Say, primaryLightest?

I was thinking of making it a separate template as cheeseshredder.
Does template inclusions effect page loading?

 

[borbole]

Well that was easy enough, thanks.
Now how do I change the background color? Say, primaryLightest?

I was thinking of making it a separate template as cheeseshredder.
Does template inclusions effect page loading?

I used the importantMessage class because I liked the look of it. But you can create another class/id and define it to your likings. Or make it as a separate template as well, like cheeseshredder. I wouldn''t know if it will affect page loading as I haven''t tested it but I don''t think that it will it in a big/negative way.

 

[Diablotic]

Is this feature planned for an official release?

 

[Grover]

Is this feature planned for an official release?

Well... XenForo will benefit greatly if this suggestion is implemented: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-vb-alike-notices-system-for-xenforo.446/

Please 'Like' it (if you haven't done so already), so we can have Guests messages like these as default functionality.

 

[borbole]

Well... XenForo will benefit greatly if this suggestion is implemented: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-vb-alike-notices-system-for-xenforo.446/

Please 'Like' it (if you haven't done so already), so we can have Guests messages like these as default functionality.

Agreed. That is a must have built in option.

 

[Grover]

Agreed. That is a must have built in option.

How come the link in your quote of my posting is not correct?

 

[Paul B]

How come the link in your quote of my posting is not correct?

It's a known bug: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/wysiwyg-copy-paste-hyperlinks-problem.6894/

 

[Nolik]

How made visible guest message only on homepage forum?

 

[fattony69]

Isn't this bad for SEO unless it is an image?

 

[Fred Sherman]

Isn't this bad for SEO unless it is an image?

Its top of page text content, which should be important and relevent, but it isn't and it appears on every page. I think I'd wait until webcrawler identification is added and I can be sure it is displayed only to human viewers.

 

[Puntocom]

I get more users for my forum with this template modification.