Favourite Vbulletin Plugins

[blacknight]

Following up on an earlier post I thought I'd start this off with my personal favourites.

To make things simpler I'll only list FREE addons:

Archive Adsense - puts adsense in your archives. You could easily use it for other types of banners etc.,

CFM: Google AdSense for Search Integration - vBulletin.org Forum - does what it says on the tin. I'm not sure if people make any money from this, but the tight integration is really nice

Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics - vBulletin.org Forum - down the bottom of this site's main page. I'm not sure how many people use it and it might be more suited to admins only, but it is interesting

Check Proxy RBL on New User Registration. - vBulletin.org Forum - stop spammers from registering based on DNS blacklist checks.

Members who have visited Today (or in the last 24 hours). - vBulletin.org Forum - handy

Spam Decimator - probably the most useful plugin in any vbulletin admin's arsenal. Removing spam is time consuming. This reduces it to one click

Welcome Headers - very handy at reminding / encouraging people to join and post more frequently. The upcoming release of VB has this built in

vbBOL - displays spiders / bots in the who's online list. More for admins than users. This functionality is now included in VB as of the upcoming 3.7 release

iTrader - very handy if you've got any trading / sale / swap system so you can leave feedback alla ebay

Ultimate Side Columns - control the side columns easily

phpAdsNew Integration - if you're using phpadsnew this makes sense

[paintballer.ie]

My Installed List:

Auto Tagger (very hand)
Blogs
Advanced Pm System System
vbadvanced
vbadvanced links
front page slide show
attention zero posters
banned members log
moder action log
vbseo
spiders on home page - not doing much
cyb chatbox - forum members love it
cyb advanged reg
ame automatic media embed - the best for youtube embedding
change posts owner - handy
forum auto reply - only in intro forum, reminds people of rules and welcomes them
sub forum manager - clean up forums
flash chat 4 integration
usercp icons
staff list
cyb banner rototar
advanced reputation system
auto database back up
search for your threads
usergroup colour
usercp Navbar


On my to try out list:
ipbroacrade
downloads II
video directory
micro business


Tried but uninstalled:
Advanced forum stats - no need for it yet
Guest registration lite - bit ott and annoying to guest I thought
tag cloud on forum home - removed, clutter
Facebook Connect - not being used
vbexperience - clutter
itrader - not being used, I have a forum for it instead
add ignore user to postpit - not needed, my community dont ignore peeps
Vb album - use vbpic instead



Hacks looking for vb3.8:
Google map intergration
News letter or Digest function

[blacknight]

I'll update it if I go on another vb plugin spree - feel free to post your own discoveries

[paintballer.ie]

Will Do. I have a few taged on vbulletin.org and I will update my first post above as I install and give a quick feedback.

[paul]

just installed this Automatic Thread Tagger - vBulletin.org Forum and it looks nice

[blacknight]

just installed this Automatic Thread Tagger - vBulletin.org Forum and it looks nice

There's a couple of ones that go with that as well if I recall

I'm using it on a few sites and I *think* it helps a small bit with seo, as it pulls the spiders deepers - course I couldn't be talking out of my ear !

[paintballer.ie]

Updated my first post with my installed hacks and general hacks wish list

Site is still not live yet, about another month and the change over will be complete.

[paintballer.ie]

updated my first post again with current hacks installed

[paintballer.ie]

I have another update on what hacks I am using. I put reasons for why I uninstalled some.

[bugzy]

I love the auto tagger it's very useful!