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I use elastic mail for the site emails, so people get notifications through that and can opt out. I've recently just gone through and deleted the contacts with bouncing emails or those who have unsubscribed in elastic email so that the future notifications only go to those who are still active in elastic email. My question is that I want to send out a bulk email from the IPS ACP, if I select every member, will that get filtered by elastic email to only send to those who are active in elastic email or will it send to everyone regardless of the elastic email settings? Thanks
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Hi there! Several of my members have asked if I can link widget titles to the corresponding forum. For example, I have a Music News Topics widget on the homepage. Would be cool if you clicked the title of the widget and it linked you to the Music News Forum. I tried using html in the widget title spot, but it actually shows the HTML and doesn't link. Any idea how this can be done? Is this a good/bad idea? 🙂
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I've just started getting this message, as have my members. Members can edit their own content and the time limit in the ACP is set to unlimited. I just tried to edit one of my posts, immediately after posting it, and I got the message. Before today, this wasn't a problem. Not sure what's changed. Looking through the Admin logs, nothing was done in there to cause this. "This comment can no longer be edited. It may have been moved or deleted, or too much time may have passed since it was posted for it to be edited." Anyone else have this happen?
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Has anyone created a spoiler for rules? I found this: But it's showing "Reveal hidden contents" I'd like for it to show the rule on the label and then allow people to expand the rule to read the description. See https://www.elimperiolatino.com/guidelines/ in English (US). Any suggestions?
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My forum is starting to get over run by spammers who are real people registering, they bypass the recaptcha and a knowledge required security question, then post a few vague things to topics, like "that's cool" etc before eventually posting an advert with a link in. They seem like real people doing this and I don't know how to counter it, any suggestions?
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Hello, I wish to know how to change IPS completely from http to https including all the attached files, images, each and every element of the site. Edit: I have changed board url using conf_global.php to https But the user profile images is still loading http file and hence showing broken images
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Good afternoon, I saw a notification in my admin panel yesterday saying my server does not meet requirements. There were a few php extensions mentioned, and something about not being able to run auto updates (?), but when I logged back in today to review things, the notification was gone. Can someone please tell me why I got this message, and I need to do to rectify this situation.
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I want to create a "$1 donation" subscription, which is set as a non-renew, would this act similar to the donation feature? Or will there be some implications using the subscription system this way? The reason I want to use this is so it keeps the donations stuff with the other subscriptions (which are annual) that I have, to try and upsell users.
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I need to add "og:image" to all posts. How can I do it?
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When upgrading from 4.1.7 to 4.4.10, I'm getting this error and cannot continue. Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes /[...]/system/Application/Application.php::1636 Currently running PHP 7.4.3 and MySQL 8.0.20 running on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache
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Hi everyone, One of my forums doesn't get a lot of activity consistently, so I'm getting a message that I need to set up a cron job for tasks. The dire warnings of what will happen if I don't do this correctly has me spooked. Please tell me if this is what I need to do: Go to Cron jobs in cPanel. Click on Common Settings , then Once per minute. Paste in the code exactly as it's given to me by my IPS software. Click add Cron job. Then go to Advanced Configuration in my ACP and change task setting to Use Cron job. Is that right? Am I missing anything? Thank you in advance for your help.
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I need to know if its possible to dump or delete the entire contents of the "core_output_cache" table? Could I just got to phpmyadmin and tap the "empty" option and wipe out 2.3 GB of "core_output_cache"?
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How to add a small link near contact us at bottom of the page
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Hi, I wanted to set up a mirror copy of one of my boards for testing some new style elements. I have done this several times before with this one and other of my IP boards, but this time it's not working as usually and I don't know why. I hope anyone can help me. The original board: www.dasylab-forum.de Mirror copy: www.tschepe.biz Error message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?', expecting variable (T_VARIABLE) in /www/htdocs/rhatios/forum/init.php on line 1367 What I have done: I have duplicated the database and the html files. After that I edited the index.php in the root directory changing the IPB_URL: define( 'IPB_URL', 'http://…
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Hi, I just had a spammer who used private messages sent to a lot of users. I marked him as spammer but it does not delete the users private messages, and I don't see an option anywhere to do so. Did I miss something ? I think we should have a way to delete a user's PMs and that marking as spammer should be able to do it automatically. Thanks.
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Hey IPB fam, I am super excited for the 4.5 update. Everything I've read (and seen in Alpha) looks and sounds awesome. However, I've also noticed I feel a little apprehensive surrounding the release. I realized what it was. I'm nervous to upgrade because of the third-party plugins, applications and themes my forum depends on. I would hate to experience any major bugs or temporarily take the forum offline to fix things in the event something breaks. Anyone else feel the same? Everything I have enabled in my forum (in my opinion) are features and functions that serve a purpose. Anything I don't use on a daily basis is disabled or has been deleted. That l…
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Hello, anyone have Rumbletalk Chat integrated?
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Hi, today i had a spammer as a guest who reply to more then 40 topics. After checking the guest permission i see that guests doesn't have any permissions to post or reply in all forums. How could he reply to so many topics? I am a little bit confused.
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Hi, I liked around and another link for this topic was broken. I'm looking to add another programming lagnague to the code post option in IPB. Any directions on how to go about this?
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Hi everyone, After recently discovering that nearly a 1/5 of my membership base are fake accounts, is it possible to run the spam defence stuff on existing members accounts? Would certainly make it easier than having to go through each account and unsub them from bulk email, or check bounced emails and delete accounts accordingly.
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Is there any way to show the serial number in every post in the forum?
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Hi Guys, About 10 days ago my server crashed, I'm not sure of the reason but she's been up and running fine since. But, I've been having issues with my forums ever since. I have contacted support but they refused to help me over ssh and require sftp access which sounds straight forward but that would result in some major file changes on my server to make sftp write permissions work. So, I'm now on my own. This is a really strange issue... I use 2 themes, my 'default' theme and a 'dark' theme. Both just lightly modified from the default theme. 99% of my registered users (130k or so) use default and i have a few hundred only on the dark theme. …
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Nvm got it
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Hello! For some strange reason the word "Status" is being translated to "Enable?" on several places throughout our community. Any idea what could be causing this? I checked our "Translate" options and nothing is being translated and I have tried using the "Quick Translating" feature and it does not save after I change it from "Enable?" to "Status". Any help from this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Support Ticket Status: https://prnt.sc/shth79 Report Center Status: https://prnt.sc/shthq6
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I'm basically trying to set up Group Promotions to where when someone joins the forum, they are placed in a group with limited capabilities until they reach 10 posts. Then they will be moved to my 'Members' group. In Group Promotions I've set up the group, followed this guide: Just like the Guide, under Filters, for Groups I left it set to 'All Groups'. Everything else I left settings to 'All', for Content Count I set it to 'More than' - 9. Under Actions I set 'Move to group' to Member. In this group at the top, I do have 'Enabled' turned on. in Groups, I have this groups setting, 'Enable Group Promotions' turned on. Now, people are registering, but they a…
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