XF 2.2 Starting With Advertising

[Steve Freides]

We have been XF users since 2015. I am effectively the forum admin but actually a super-moderator - I deal primarily with forum content on a daily basis, approve (or not) users, posts, etc. I also manage the user groups, all of which I created.

We have never used advertising, and in poking around the ACP, I cannot find simple things like when, by default, ads would appear to a user - every time they login, or every time they visit a new thread, or every time they post - or what?

I did try searching the manual, and search my ACP, and see where I can create an ad, but would like a primer on the subject.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

-S-

 

[TPerry]

XF has, as you found, built in ad ability. To show only to certain users/groups/etc, much of that is done by template variables.
Some templating conditionals you can use

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Identifying and using variables in templates, advertising positions, navigation entries, and widgets

What are variables? In simple terms, variables are names which hold values. These values are stored in the database and are used in templates to evaluate and present the content and data. Using variables in templates opens up a lot of...

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Many successfully use this add-on for ads to get around many of those templating headaches.

 

[Steve Freides]

Much appreciated, @Tracy Perry.

-S-