Welcome

• Invision Community
• Install and Upgrade
• Getting Support

Global Settings

• First Login
• Setting up your menu

Promotion

• Email Options
• Internal Advertising
• Social Media
• Notifications
• SEO
• Social Media Promotion

Getting Started

• Community in the Cloud

  • Using your own Domain/Sub Domain
  • How to convert from other software

• Migrating From Another Platform

  • Installing the converters
  • Before you start
  • Running the conversion

How to use IPS Community Suite

• First Steps

  • Terms, privacy policy, and guidelines
  • Community Enhancements
  • Setting your default application
  • Community Enhancements: Google Maps
  • Using The Block Manager
  • Community Enhancements: Facebook Pixel
  • Community Enhancements: Mapbox
  • Community Enhancements: Giphy
  • Community Enhancements: EasyPost

• Managing Members

  • Registration Options
  • Spam Prevention
  • Adding / Editing a member
  • Member groups
  • Member Permissions
  • Promoting Members
  • Two Factor Authentication
  • Post Before Registering

• Managing Your Community

  • General Posting Control
  • Adding 3rd Party Content
  • Previewing post content
  • Purchasing and adding a new IPS product
  • Using Clubs
  • Audits & Logs

• Content Discovery

  • Activity Streams
  • Searching your community
  • Content tags and prefixes
  • RSS feeds

• File Management

  • Introduction
  • Managing Attachments
  • Storage Configurations
  • Storage Settings

• Moderating Members and Content

  • Creating administrators and moderators
  • Moderating content
  • Moderator and Admin logs
  • Adding a staff directory
  • The Moderator CP
  • Warnings & Restrictions

• Member Preferences and Features

  • Editing your profile
  • Account settings
  • Sending/Receiving messages
  • Managing followed content
  • Viewing Attachments
  • Reputation & Reactions
  • Custom Profile Fields
  • User Ranks
  • Post color highlighting
  • Profile Completion

• Social Sign In

  • 4.2 and below

    • Facebook
    • Linked In
    • Google+
    • Twitter
    • Microsoft

  • 4.3 and above

    • External Database
    • Connect Two Invision Communities
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Microsoft
    • Twitter
    • Wordpress
  • Google (4.4 or above)

Suite Applications

• Forums

  • Categories and Forums
  • Settings
  • Archiving
  • Feed Imports
  • Saved Actions
  • Widget Options

• Gallery

  • Category Setup
  • Gallery Settings
  • Group Settings
  • Adding Albums & Images

• Downloads

  • Introduction to Downloads
  • Creating Your Categories
  • Adding Extra Fields
  • Paid Files & Other Settings
  • Files from URLs and the file system

• Blog

  • Introduction to Blogs
  • Setting up and permissions
  • Types of Blogs

• Calendar

  • Introduction to Calendar
  • Creating Calendars
  • Events from Calendar feeds
  • Calendar Settings
  • Creating Events
  • Venues

• Pages

  • Core Concepts

    • Introduction to Pages
    • Pages
    • Blocks
    • Databases part I
    • Templates, CSS & JS
    • Databases part II
    • Other Resources

  • Basic Tutorial: Building a recipe section

    • Introduction
    • Creating a page
    • Creating the database
    • Adding the database to the page
    • Setting up categories
    • Adding custom fields
    • Finishing up

  • Advanced Tutorial: Recreating the "Release Notes" section

    • Introduction
    • Setting up the database
    • Creating custom fields
    • Field formatting
    • Adding sample data & adjusting sorting
    • Using custom CSS & JS
    • Creating basic templates
    • Customizing our listing templates
    • Customizing our display templates
    • Making it interactive with Javascript

  • Tips & Tricks

    • (Advanced) Building dynamic blocks based on the page being viewed
    • Using Blocks Externally
    • How to create a homepage
    • Creating a robots.txt file

  • Advanced Options

    • Custom Fields in Templates

• Commerce

  • Getting The Basics

    • What is Commerce?
    • Choosing Payment Methods
    • Adjusting Payment Settings
    • Setting up Shipment Rates
    • Viewing/Editing Customer Information
    • Customer Referrals
    • Terminology
    • Understanding Recurring Payments

  • Products & Purchases

    • Adding a Normal Product
    • Gift Cards
    • Invoicing Customers
    • Selling Advertisements
    • Client Areas
    • Coupons
    • Selling Subscriptions
    • Donations

  • Providing Support

    • Introduction to Support
    • Setting up your departments
    • Setting up your email
    • Using Stock Actions
    • Adding Custom Fields
    • Severities & Statuses
    • Customer Feedback
    • Working Through Tickets

Themes and Customizations

• Getting Started with Themes

  • Introduction to themes
  • Installing a new theme
  • Setting the default theme
  • Resetting user theme choices
  • Creating a theme with the Easy Editor
  • Changing the logo, favicon and sharer image
  • Exporting a theme you have created

• Advanced Theming

  • What does a theme comprise?
  • Using the template editor
  • Using designer's mode
  • Best practices for your themes
  • Managing theme settings
  • Managing resources
  • Handling right-to-left languages
  • Upgrading themes
  • Email Templates

• Languages and Localization

  • Introduction to languages
  • Installing a ready-made language pack
  • Setting the default language
  • Creating a new language pack
  • Translating using the visual language editor
  • Translating using the standard editor
  • Plural phrases
  • Replacements in phrases
  • Exporting a language pack you have created
  • Changing date formats

• Editor and Emoticons

  • Introduction to the IPS4 editor
  • Customizing editor toolbars
  • Adding editor buttons with plugins
  • Adding custom editor buttons
  • Adjusting editor settings
  • Managing emoticons

• Tips & Tricks

  • Changing FontAwesome icons per-forum
  • Making the community fluid-width
  • Styling CKEditor
  • Targeting elements on specific pages with CSS
  • Creating custom Staff Directory layouts
  • Common logic checks using HTML Logic

• Template syntax

  • Introduction to template syntax
  • if/elseif/else logic
  • Using expressions in logic
  • Loops
  • Variables
  • Using arbitrary PHP in templates
  • Template plugins

• Javascript Framework

  • Introduction to the framework

    • Overview of module types
    • Code standards
    • File structure
    • Controllers
    • UI widgets
    • Mixins

  • Using UI widgets

    • Introduction
    • ips.ui.alert
    • ips.ui.autoCheck
    • ips.ui.autoComplete
    • ips.ui.captcha
    • ips.ui.chart
    • ips.ui.dialog
    • ips.ui.flashMsg
    • ips.ui.hovercard
    • ips.ui.infinitescroll
    • ips.ui.lightbox
    • ips.ui.menu
    • ips.ui.pageAction
    • ips.ui.pagination
    • ips.ui.rating
    • ips.ui.grid
    • ips.ui.sideMenu
    • ips.ui.spoiler
    • ips.ui.stack
    • ips.ui.selectTree

  • Using utility modules

    • ips.utils.cookie
    • ips.utils.db
    • ips.utils.position
    • ips.utils.time
    • ips.utils.url

• CSS Framework

  • Introduction to the CSS framework
  • Layout: Columns
  • Layout: Grids
  • Data Lists
  • Forms
  • Icons
  • Dropdown Menus
  • Messages
  • Buttons
  • Typography
  • Miscellaneous
  • Badges
  • Responsiveness

• Sidebar and Widgets

• Upgrading themes to 4.2
• Upgrading themes to 4.4

Advanced Options

• Configuration Options

  • Using constants.php
  • IP Address Checking
  • Overriding Default Cookie Options
  • Custom error and maintenance pages
  • Changing where logs are stored
  • Using SSL (HTTPS)
  • Utilizing caching methods
  • Controlling file and folder permissions

• Server Management

  • Security Center
  • Configuring Amazon S3
  • Moving to another server / server transfer

• IPS Connect

Developing Plugins and Applications

• Introduction to the IPS Framework

  • Common Cookies set by the Suite

• Creating Plugins

• Creating Applications

• REST API

  • Creating an API Key
  • Sending your first request
  • Understanding Errors
  • Exploring the API Reference