PhpBB WP

The footer of PhpBB could be optimized greatly specially in the case of being hosted on an Blue Host hosting which have simple scripts to manage the installation for you. But this post gives you the potential of customizing your footer for popup and popunder ads also.

Manage footer Affiliate

In the default installation of the phpbb forum through blue hosts simple scripts software, a footer credit not is being attached on every page. Well this link should be attached their to give them credit for the installation. But better way is to get it replaced by an affiliate link of bluehost. And i recommend to highlight it in bold to make it attractive to the users.

Lets proceed to the modification and the steps to be carried out to do so.

1. Login into the admin panel of the forum.
2. Select the style tab>> templates>> click edit on selected style (here i have choosen prosilver)
3. Select overall_footer.html from the dropdown file selection. In the editing frame look for the div highlighted in the image.
   
4. In that particular class you can look for the codes that you want to edit and replace them with the new one and even add new things.

   I have replaced <a href=”http://www.bluehost.com” title=”web hosting”>web hosting</a> with

<b><a href=”http://www.bluehost.com/track/colorsofnet” title=”web hosting”>web hosting</a></b>

This is the image of old footer

This is the image of new footer

Adding Pop Up and Pop Under ads

The best place to add pop up and pop under ads in an phpbb forum is its footer, since it loads in the last when the entire page is loaded. The code can be added before the following lines.

</body>
</html>

And if you have any problem with the parsing of your ad code, you could comment for help over here. We will help you get it parsed on your phpbb forum.