by Shabbir on July 31, 2010
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 [...]
by Shabbir on April 5, 2010
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 [...]
by Shabbir on March 22, 2010
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 AWeber [...]
by Shabbir on March 8, 2010
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 [...]
by Shabbir on March 1, 2010
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 [...]
by Shabbir on December 4, 2009
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 [...]
by Shabbir on December 3, 2009
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. [...]
by Shabbir on November 13, 2009
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 [...]
by Shabbir on October 14, 2009
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 [...]
by Shabbir on September 11, 2009
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 [...]