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Tab and Link Manager Overview

Currently Supports: vBulletin 4.0.0 - 4.0.5

The Tab And Link Manager engine is a total replacement for the default vBulletin NavBar, and unlike any similar products out there (free or otherwise), this product totally replaces the NavBar, there bypassing the limitations inherent in the default vBulletin NavBar. You may well have already used the free lite version of this product; Tab and Link Manager Lite that we released at vBulletin.org that gives you a limited subset of features which are present in this product.

Tab and Link Manager is designed to be used by forum administrators with absolutely no programming knowledge at all (although it can be pretty handy for administrators that have programming knowledge too).

The AdminCP utility is very easy to use, and in a few minutes can have your site's NavBar using custom tabs with links and submenu links setup how you want, in the order you want them in, and each tab, link and submenu link is individually controlled by usergroup permissions and script conditionals for more flexibility.

Although the initial installation of the product can be a little daunting for vBulletin novices, we do provide fully documented step-by-step instructions for you to follow, but you can request the Professional Installation option if you need it.

For multi-language forums, all tab, link and submenu link titles can be phrased, so different text will appear depending on which language you select.

All links and submenu links can be individually targeted to open in same web browser window/tab or another web browser window/tab.

All tabs can be positioned individually in three different locations on the NavBar.

Tabs can be one of three different types.

However, please note that this product in no way has any control over your existing tabs, links or submenu links, it will only control the ones that have been created using this product. But fear not, you can totally replace the existing NavBar with the Tab and Link Manager engine for total control of your tabs, links and submenu links.

For a demonstration of the front-end, you can view it in action here at Wolfshead Solutions. Just use any of the tabs on our NavBar, all of which were created and are currently being rendered by this product.

To demonstate the versitility of this product, you may notice on the Products tab, the tab itself and all associated links being rendered are "SEO Friendly URLs".

To view what the back-end looks like, please refer to the screenshots tab for this product.

This product works with vBulletin's Publishing Suite (we use the Publishing Suite here, but we have disabled the CMS and Blog, as there is no need for it at the moment) as well as Forum Classic, and now works with vBulletin's Project Tools.

IMPORTANT: Just a note of caution, as this product totally replaces the default vBulletin NavBar, any third-party products that add tabs, links or sub-menu links to the NavBar will no longer add them automatically and they will need to be re-created in Tab and Link Manager, as we only provide xml definition files for vanilla vBulletin products (Forum Classic, Publishing Suite & Project Tools Open Source). Help with re-creating tabs, links or sub-menu links for third-party products can be asked for in the support forum for this product.

Tab and Link Manager Licenses Offered

Title Description Download Access Price
Tab and Link Manager 4 A lifetime copyright branded license allowing for a single installation of the product on a single vBulletin forum. 1 Year $39.95
Renewal Price $24.95

Tab and Link Manager Optional Services

Title Description Price
T&LM Branding Free A lifetime license that allows you to legally remove the visible copyright notices from both the front-end and back-end of a single installation of the product on a single vBulletin forum. $19.95
T&LM Professional Installation A one-off professional installation service to install your new product (or upgrade your existing product) on a single vBulletin forum. $29.95

Tab and Link Manager Features

All of these features are shown in the screenshots as well.

Features common to both Tab and Link Manager 4 and the lite version Tab and Link Manager Lite:
  • Add/Edit/Delete a tab.
  • Add/Edit/Delete a link.
  • Add/Edit/Delete a submenu link.
  • Tabs, links and submenu links can be individually controlled by usergroup permissions.
  • Tabs, links or submenu links will not be viewable to users not in an authorised usergroup.
  • You can change the display order for individual tabs, links and submenu links.
Features only available in Tab and Link Manager 4:
  • Total NavBar replacement - looks and feels like the original.
  • Ability to toggle on/off the Home & Blog default vBulletin tabs
  • Ability to toggle on/off the Forum & What's New default vBulletin tabs (via a template edit & importing a definition file into the T&LM database via impex)
  • Ability to toggle on/off the Projects tab
  • Ability to toggle on/off the Global Search Box
  • Two new Tab types: Dropdown and URL Matching (to allow for more than one tab to point to the same file, bypassing the THIS_SCRIPT limitations caused by the default NavBar).
  • Tab images.
  • Tabs can be positioned in three different locations on the NavBar.
  • Links and submenu links can be targeted on how it is to be opened in a web browser.
  • Tabs, links and submenu links can be either text or they can be a phrase (allowing for different text when another language is selected).
  • Tabs, links and submenu links can be local or external urls.
  • The tab highlights correctly when you select it.
  • Script conditionals; allows for more control over each Tab, Link and SubMenu link, using conditional statements such as $show['searchbuttons'] && $show['member']
  • Multiple THIS_SCRIPT names: allows multiple locations to highlight a single tab (Normal tabs).
  • Multiple relative/full urls: allows different content from a single file (such as vBCMS) to highlight several tabs correctly (URL_Matching tabs).
  • For viewers that have cookies disabled, all Tabs, Links and SubMenu links have the session hash correctly added to it
  • For W3C standards purists the (x)html link target attribute has been replaced for Links and SubMenu links with the standards compliant rel attribute (via custom javascript) which emulates the target attribute and allows all xhtml generated by T&LM itself to 100% validate with W3C.
  • You can export your T&LM database to an xml definition file (all tabs, links and submenu links).
  • You can import your saved T&LM xml definition file into this product (all tabs, links and submenu links).
  • You can do a Version Check to keep this product up to date, just like they do at vBulletin.org.
  • And more!

Tab and Link Manager Requirements

vBulletin Classic or Publishing Suite forum software - This product can be used with vBulletin 4.0.0 and later versions.

This product has been tested on and works with Firefox 3.5/3.6, Chrome 4/5, Opera 10.x, Safari 4/5, Internet Explorer 7/8. This product will probably not work correctly with Internet Explorer 6 (as vBulletin v4.0.x still does not work correctly with Internet Explorer 6).

This product will NOT work with vBulletin v3.8.x and earlier as the new NavBar was not introduced until vBulletin v4.0.0.

Tab and Link Manager Screenshots


AdminCP Menu
Tab and Link Manager Settings
Tab Management

Add New Tab
Edit Tab
Link Management

Add New Link
Edit Link
SubMenu Link Management

Add SubMenu Link
Edit SubMenu Link
Import/Export Menu

Tab and Link Manager in action (vanilla)
Tab and Link Manager in action (jazzed up)
Version Checker
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