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| Oozing Machismo Since 1972 ![]()
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Join Date: May 2009 Location: South Florida Experience: Intermediate Forums Admin/Mod: 4 Software: vB3.8x and IPB 3.0 Forum: WaltDisneyBoards ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Just wondering what folks are using for custom fields on their sites. What are your 'must add' fields and what do you use the information for? | |
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| ThinkBigTopeka.com ![]() ![]() Experience: Master Forum: General Forums | I like the blog feed field | I've been offering Web Services since 2006, here are some past vBulletin Clients Some of our popular forums: Entertainment | General Discussions | News Nebula Create your own blog on a 10 year old domain! -> AlienSoup | | |
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| Oozing Machismo Since 1972 ![]()
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Join Date: May 2009 Location: South Florida Experience: Intermediate Forums Admin/Mod: 4 Software: vB3.8x and IPB 3.0 Forum: WaltDisneyBoards ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | I agree Brandon. That's a very useful field especially for a site like AA where admins can share their feeds. As a matter of fact, with members having their own blogs or sites nowadays, it may just be a very cool way to help your members promote their sites as well. They'd be more apt to participate on your site to have their latest thread/news item display to folks ![]() I normally add a "share your name" field as well. This makes it so that you can share their name by using the field results around the site. Any others that folks use out there? | |
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Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: USA All the Way! Experience: Advanced Forums Admin/Mod: 1 Software: vBulletin 3.8.x Forum: The Best forum Ever ![]() | Let's see what I have: What is Your Sex - Male, Female, Yes please DeviantArt account Xbox Live Gamertag Myspace all those other sites... |
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Join Date: Jul 2009 Experience: Advanced Forums Admin/Mod: 1 Software: vBulletin 3.8.x Forum: DS Ultimate ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | For me, there's stuff like gender, but wifi codes for Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony consoles are often essential as well. I do admit I like the 'admin experience' field on a few of these types of sites as well though. | |
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| I've added such fields as real name, pet's name, clothing size... it all depends on the forum and what people are interested in. | |
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| Oozing Machismo Since 1972 ![]()
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Join Date: May 2009 Location: South Florida Experience: Intermediate Forums Admin/Mod: 4 Software: vB3.8x and IPB 3.0 Forum: WaltDisneyBoards ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | For those custom fields such as "Facebook, MySpace, etc"....are you simply using the field and putting the code as facebook.com/$post[field] or something? | |
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Each forum has unique fields, but no matter what, I always try to add something other than the defaults to make it more 'fun'. ![]() Quote:
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| Oozing Machismo Since 1972 ![]()
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Join Date: May 2009 Location: South Florida Experience: Intermediate Forums Admin/Mod: 4 Software: vB3.8x and IPB 3.0 Forum: WaltDisneyBoards ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | I've added the "how did you find us?" field, but give them specific choices from the dropdown menu selection. I include each major search engine and then a few specific big name websites that are competitors or friends of ours. Also have some 'other' options as well. At least this way, I get mostly specific info ![]() | |
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![]() Join Date: Jan 2008 | Sometime's if you ask a specific question you may get a specific answer. I've found instead of using "How did you find us?" I use "Where did you come from to find this awesome community? (i.e. search, word of mouth, the other guy)". You'd be surprised about the variety of answers when you lead the way. One co-admin added a question Where you lost when you got here? | June -- Luna Procer _____________________________________ ** giving hugs to the new members ** Vos planto mihi sentio bonus. | | |
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| That's interesting! I'll have to give that a try. I also like the idea of a drop-down menu. | Best Regards, Nick Support AdminAddict // Purchase from the following reputable vendors: HostGator / Liquid Web / DriveThruOnline - Professional vBulletin Products / NameCheap Domains Compare Hosting Plans VPS • Dedicated Servers ![]() | | |
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