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Hi, Is there a way to either turn off feature photos and cover photos for blogs -- or otherwise to either set a file size limit, or have them post an url to an image rather than upload the image? Thanks for your help
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Hello, I help administer an ~300 person discussion group. We were previously using Yahoo Groups and are now migrating to Invision. Invision promises to be a much better experience. However, most of our members interacted with the Yahoo Group via daily digest emails. I know it is possible for each Invision user to set up daily digests for each individual forum they are interested in, but if at all possible, I would like to be able to override the default notification settings for all users so they are subscribed to all forums (daily digest) by default. That would mimic the behavior of the Yahoo group, and make sure our members are comfortable as we move to the ne…
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I successfully migrated a vB forum to IPB about a month ago and after a few server tweaks, it is running really well. Members are happy and, in general, everything is pretty fast. However, one action remains painfully slow. When a moderator/admin approves a post in the approval queue, it can take up to 30 seconds for the action to complete and the page to refresh. Considering everything else is pretty quick, this seems very odd. Any idea why this is happening?
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Newsletter?
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When I view online users on our forum - it has a box to the side for Newsletter with a button to sign up How do I remove this? i couldn't find it anywhere in the admin cp to turn off Thanks
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I am trying to set up the PayPal Gateway and the developer page it takes me to only gives me Live Account, Access Token, and Expiry Date info, but the IPB Payment area is asking for the Client ID & Secret. None of this is provided on the PayPal developer page the IPB link refers me to. Please help? Thanks This is the developer link IPB refers me to in order to get Client ID & Secret (but the page doesn't provide that info) https://remoteservices.invisionpower.com/docs/paypal_developer/?version=103032 Where's the CLIENT ID & SECRET info?
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Can I change the cloud hosted theme? Can I change fonts, colors, etc. Is there a guide for this?
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How can I get a weather widget into my sidebar? (please see Note: at bottom) I'd like to get weather shown in a block on my sidebars. Does anyone have a tutorial or similar? It doesn't have to be a purpose built Weather Widget. It could be using a simple customizable "widget" addon and injecting some weather code into it? etc? Appreciate any guidance. Note: This addon is noted as outdated & broken. You're directed to this follow-up addon, not labeled as broken, so I bought it. After I bought it, well, you can read my feedback. So $10 out of my pocket and zero functionality to show for it.
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How do you place a banner script/app in the forum header? I use the cloud hosting theme. I am new to this and not smart at all. Thanks.
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Is there a way to download an entire gallery zipped within the gallery app?
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I want to capture leads into a database and created one and embed that db on the page. Instead of showing the main database record display area, I just like to show record form. How do I do it? INSTEAD OF THIS I WANT TO SHOW THIS
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Hi. Is there a plugin or a section where I can add a tutorials/faq/wiki page somewhere on my website?
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The default for syntax highlighting when adding a code block with the editor is HTML. I would like to change the default to "No Syntax Highlighting" but there doesn't seem to be an editor setting for this. How can I make this change?
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I see there is a friendly way to download an XML version of any "database", but is there an easy way to upload one? Thanks for your time.
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If the page is loading content there is an animated round rotating circle. Where can I find this file? Thanks. circle.mp4
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Does anyone know of any good tutorials on how to create a plugin? The link to plugin tutorials in the Help Guide is blank.
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How do I keep replies from bumping up topics when I want to keep the topic order assigned by date the topic was created regardless of comments?
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Club owners are asking, how do you market us? Any ideas on the best way to market members clubs? One idea I have is to have a forum where club owners can create posts for marketing. We then manually add their marketing to our newsletter. I would have to manually do it because I would want only club owners/leaders to have access to that forum (how do I do that by the way?). I could just have the forum accessible to all members but I would not want it gunked up with a bunch of random stuff. I wish there was a way to automatically "promote" to our picks, new clubs. Is there?
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I blocked some spammer yet all their posts are still in activity feed in pink - is there a way to remove them from view?
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The privacy policy? We have quite a few old accounts that have not been on for a long time and I wondered if there was a way to find all members that have not yet agreed to our privacy policy we updated in may to cover the GDPR.
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I was wondering if it was possible to adjust the messenger to operate in the following way? Automatically poll for new replies using AJAX when the message screen is open Show a display on the message screen if a user is typing in the message If not, would it be much work to complete the following as a modification?
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Recently explored the hidden option of grid view, loved it completely but now I wish to hide all the subforums as they extend the page length substantially.
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We just (finally!) upgraded from IPB 3x to 4.2.8, and now I can't find the menu to Prune/Move topics in our forums. Where do I find this now? Our forum aggregates a wide range of news articles into general categories, serving a relatively small local audience. We purge any topics that don't receive any comments every few days (or sooner), so that our members can quickly and easily find active discussion topics, so pruning is VERY important to us. Help?
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Hi, I'm trying to set up our forum and feeling confused with some of our settings, and this is after looking at the various guides. Currently we have the smallest plan that only gives 5GB space which doesn't sound like much - so how do people work out what to put for settings that use up this space like attachments, albums, galleries, profile pictures etc I've turned off some of these features but want members to be able to at least have the profile pictures and cover photos - is anyone able to give some input on how to work out what to put for these? Thanks for any help - it's much appreciated (and needed)
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When I visit a members page, I can see all their activity. the posts/topics they make, etc. Can I make it so when you visit a members page, you can ONLY see their status updates and comments that users made to their page? If so, how do I go about doing that?
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Hi I want to run a simple contest where winners over a 1 month time frame receive account credit. 1st = $50 2nd = $25 3rd = $10 Winners are ranked based on reputation over time frame (not overall reputation.) What is the best way to do this? Better yet, HOW can I do this? Thank you 🙂
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