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1. SparkPost is Deprecating their FREE tier in August 2019. It is the one of the default option supported in IPB. 2. I need to find ways to "lower" my Email Digest blast to "save" money. 3. Appreciate pointers to how I set default Digest frequency to "Weekly" 4. Other reliable alternatives to SparkPost recommendation is also welcomed. Thanks.
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I'm looking to create a directory/listing of artists on my Forum using Pages, just wondering how possible this would be? So users can look for artists via their specialty and leave reviews etc. I'd say something like this, https://invisioncommunity.com/third-party/providers/
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Hello, I recall seeing a feature at some point that allowed a mod / admin to restrict a member account slightly different than the usual ban. From what I remember, it had various configuration settings that allowed you to make the pages / comment submission hand, 404's and just make it an overall miserable experience. Looked through the member and moderation settings and didnt see this, so assuming it was Invision that had this feature. Anyhow, just wanted to confirm that I didn't miss it and to also check with the community to see if there was any Applications / Plugins that does anything similar? (Didn't see much come up when I searched). Thank you.
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Hi there, It seems IPS uses Pages for their blog here - https://invisioncommunity.com/news I was just wondering how I could effectively recreate the layout and looks of that page in that manner? It has pretty much everything I’m looking for to create for my site, I just am unsure as to how to design something of similar grade.
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Good morning! My community is restricted to 13+ because I'm not prepared to deal with COPPA. Is there a way forum admins (or just me, maybe through phpAdmin) can see the date of birth entered at registration? There's not often a need for it, but every now and again we need to verify. Thanks!
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hello is there a way to put forward certain sentences of a text? Or do you have interesting links for ckeditor? for example, the signature of an IPB member below. how was it done and is it possible to add an icon before the text ? an article of the site : I will also have for example wanted to know how to make such a display : and how to replace the icon (point) of the bulleted list with an another icon... thanks
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I'm missing an option but maybe I'm not looking at the right place. I want to copy a single post from a thread to another forum section. But I miss the "copy" option. When trying the "split" option, I can only split the post, so the move option is not present under there either. I don't want to use copy and past into a new post because I want the name of the original poster on the post. It should be possible to copy a post. How can I copy a post?
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Hi, so with my previous host, I was able to go into the file manager which looked like this: I was able to drop folders in public_html that contained my built webpages and it would be added to my site as www.example.com/(folder that was added name) Is there a way to do this with invisioncommunity? I currently own the cloud service and Ive been looking at the pages tab but don't really understand the layout.
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I want to do this for the template, how do I?
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hello, there is in IPB the option : it is possible to allow filters in all groups, so that each member can only see the people in his group. make invisible members who are not part of his group this will make it easier to find and see only members sharing the same interests for example or even make his profile accessible only to members of his group
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Hello, I put as my default IPB app my blog for the homepage. The homepage is all the blog but I want it's only my blog because I do not allow another blog and this page is then useless how to do it please for the homepage go to my blog thanks
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So apparently my package is suppose to come with Pages, but I can not find out how to install the Pages app so I can use it on the AdminCp. If anyone can point me to the right direction I would be very thankful.
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Hi, I'm trying to set up a member (using a my test member account to try this currently) as a moderator in a restricted range of subforums - I'm using the moderators tool under staff - and then under forums I've chosen the ones they can moderate. However when I test this they can still moderate in forums I haven't given access to - any ideas on why this is happening or what else i should change? Thanks
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Is there anyway we can capture guest email address in exchange of valuable article, freebies or downloads? Couldn't find any app in marketplace, or probably I was searching with wrong keyword. Thanks in advance
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This is very confusing. Firefox and Chrome have an easy way to fill in the date. Internet Explorer has it a bit different, but still easy because you see a calendar with date, month and the full year. Easy to choose. But when using Edge things get confusing a lot. At first Edge does not recognize I'm Dutch, so displayes mm/dd/jjjj instead of dd/mm/jjjj. Now I click on this date and suddenly, we get this kind of calender, but now in Dutch, with the day at the first position (which is confusing already because it first said month first). And then the most confusing and annoying part is presented. What you are seeing on the righ…
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Hi, I am currently building a word press sales page using an application containing presentation widgets. I know that the IPB homepage was made under Page and that IPB is a powerful tool, very stable and has nothing to envy to word press. But today it's the easiest facility I've found to build my sales page. I want to make my word press page visible as if it was done under Page. I can integrate HTML code. How to recover the IPB header of my site in HTML? thank you
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I wonder if it is possible to allow creating polls for members in blogs only and not in forum? I would like to have polls in forums only created by moderators. Is it possible?
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For a support forum it's sometimes very annoying when users are starting conversations with admins and/or mods sometmies (pm's). Isn't there some option, that you configure for example who can send you private messages (conversations)? Like for example if you are an admin, that other admins and moderators (and maybe another choosen group) can send you messages, but normal users can not, or can only reply to conversations send to them?
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Any idea how we can disable guest viewing the members profiles? Thanks in advance.
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I am currently building a wordpress sales page for the sale of an inscription to my forum. How to limit the number of pages before being registered easily and quickly? what do you advise of best? from the word press sales page send it to such a page that would be a basket page such as thrivecart by helping me with this https://www.opentype.space/superlist/ but from there it will still send back to the IPB basket and I still believe in a paypal basket page etc .. In fact, do not you think? Do you think it is essential to have a part of the site free with all its advantages and in addition that will allow to skip the registration step? …
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What’s the best way to integrate with Mailchimp? Can it be easily done with the standard IP tools or will I need to purchase a plugin, and if so what would you recommend? Would be great if I could create and automatically update lists based on member groups and purchase history etc
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I recently added the gallery feature to the site, and I am trying to get people to use it. When i link to it, i simply copy the URL that looks like this: https://allvirtualracing.com/index.php?/gallery/ But when i visit the posted link (in Facebook) it will go to this and that is not the gallery but i guess it forwards to the front page because of the % signs. https://allvirtualracing.com/index.php?%2Fgallery%2F= Am i doing something wrong?
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I'm trying to change the color of the top line that says: Create / notification icon / messages etc. What field in the theme settings should i change to edit this? I have tried a few that are light/white, but they don't seem to affect this
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Hi, I wish to force the payment to the registration of the site. What is the procedure to make paying registrations and specifically: The client has limited access (trial period) for ten days. Then the customer automatically switches to another group after ten days Thanks
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I looked everywhere for this. In the gallery, users need to be able to move only their own content between albums and/or galleries (categories). This should apply to single images and albums as well. All I could find is a moderator option, but that isn't what is needed here, since I only want it to apply to their own content items. I'm surprised this isn't a thing for gallery already. Any help would be appreciated.
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