I always preferred vBulletin for my forums but after I purchased the upgrade for vBulletin 4.0 for couple of my forums I never upgraded them to vBulletin 4 because I never liked it.
I will mention few reasons why I do not prefer vBulletin 4.0 any more
Theme development were (and may be is) a headache. If [...]
Integrating AWeber with vBulletin using Email parser has many drawbacks. One of them was double email confirmation. Other is when you have more than one way for users to subscribe. For e.g. if you have an AWeber form where user can subscribe to your list ideally you need to have 2 different type of confirmation [...]
If you Integrate AWeber with vBulletin registration system you may have an issue of double email confirmation. AWeber has always been a confirmed opt-in and if you have your vBulletin settings where users need to confirm email address then when any user registers on your forum he may get double email confirmation, one from [...]
After Integrating AWeber with vBulletin I got almost hundreds of email asking me to integrate AWeber for phpBB and Joomla and so here I go.
Create the Custom Parser
We now need to create a parser in AWeber to parse data from phpBB. Setup the following Custom Parser in AWeber.
Trigger rule should be your webmasters from [...]
When it comes to Email Marketing there is nothing as close to what AWeber provides and when it comes to forums same is the case with vBulletin. I have been using both of them for quite sometime now and finally I decided to integrate both. I know AWeber forms are great but if you can [...]
Yesterday I discussed about how you can stop vBulletin spam using built in features of vBulletin. They provide very good options for preventing spam but when it comes to forums where people are not very techy, it can have many issues. I had hard time when using them on my MBA Forum which is for [...]
vBulletin spam or forum spam is simply some automated script that is able to register an account and/or post unwanted stuff on your forum. Spam these days not only confined to scripts but there are human spammers as well and you cannot prevent them from spamming but you can definitely stop them to an extent. [...]
I upgraded MBAGuys.net to latest vBulletin. vBulletin Blog is 2.0.2 is currently the latest vBBlog and I expected the bugs to be removed but I still saw the same bug which was there quite sometime back. So let’s see what it is and how you can fix it.
Bug Description
If you want to display ads before [...]
vBulletin has release one of its most awaited product vBulletin Publishing Suite with new licensing terms which is proving to be very confusing and so here I am with lots of clarification.
First whats the licensing terms and I quote from the official thread
Beginning today, we are introducing new a license structure. vBulletin is changing to [...]
I get lots of queries from many phpBB webmasters asking “why vBulletin” when we have phpBB which is free with same features as vBulletin. I will try to answer this question here for all. Remember that vBulletin has countless more features than phpBB.
The main thing I like about vBulletin is – I know it well [...]
I just created the vBulletin Red colored buttons for one of my sites and I have not used them and so thought would share here for anyone to download.
Here is the sample
And you can download the zip here