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Hi, I will developing my site on localhost using MAMP then transfer to live site. I know how to transfer the Db and IPS install folder to live site. Eg. when developing wordpress site on localhost, then move it to live site I have to use a wordpress plugins to search and replace web links then reset permalink and so fort. Will I need to do similar process when transferring from localhost to live site? Can someone point me to info regarding moving IPS from localhost to live site? Thanks
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Hi everyone, Quick question. I have this option set for a member group: It is working correctly and I notice emails are automatically sent out to me (I have added myself as an "Unrestricted" Moderator) My question is, who actually gets these emails? Do they get sent to ALL moderators based on their email adddresses in their accounts? I thought it was from this setting: But it does not appear to be the case, the email is being addressed to my account profile email address. Any help and clarification would greatly be appreciated.
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Hi all, basically what I am trying to do is putting a simple form (input field) on a page (example: https://www.mydomain.com/community/index.php?/my-page/) After submitting the form a php script (that I put in a block and place it on the same page) should check the submitted fields and put them into a database. My only issue now is that I don't know HOW to submit the form because after submitting I get a white page. Can you tell me how to use forms on pages the right way? What is the correct URL for the action="" parameter?
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I have some new requirement where we need to add a section in our community with tons of data and we wish to keep that data on a separate DB than the core DB. If it's possible, appreciate if someone can explain how?
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New to IPS.. What's the best way to get parent_id when landing on a specific forum (+ sub-forums and it's topics) using global_template? Basically, I'm hard coding a menu item and I want to set it active when browsing within it's pages. I know I can hardcode the forumids but some categories just have too many sub-forums. Thanks.
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Banner settings: "Show until 10.9". Question, does it stop showing when 10.9 starts or when it ends?
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Hi there, I was wondering if its possible to show the sidebar everywhere, not only in the index page. Regards
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Is there a unsubscribe tag for the bulk emailer or is there a unsubscribe link?
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Wondering if IPB has a permission-based restriction for Guest users to not to download any attached files especially like PDF's, KMZ, GPX kind of files meant for members only.
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I didn’t find anything related in Guides; only subscriptions. Does it require the file to be tied to a Commerce package or something?
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Hi I used to use invision on an old domain Fanalyse.net and that company and site is no longer with us but I have built a site on wix and would like to use invision for the community aspect. I have just renewed my subscription for 6 months, but cant remember how to do much on here. So I am currenlty stuck. I would like to know can i intergrate with wix, if not what do I have to do to get my domain linked to invision so I can start to build out the boards etc. I hope I am making sense as I am very confused.
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I am having a hard time figuring out what happened. How could I have such a decrease in online guests? Did it stop counting bots? That seems like a lot less guests and new potential members. Any guess?
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I use Pages and Advertisements -feature. How do i stop ads/top banner showing in one page?
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How to change the "type" attribute of scripts loaded into a template? By default, all scripts loaded as described in documentation has "text/javascript" type. There is no way to load other types, for example "text/babel" to use REACT.
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I’m joining the others who don’t understand how Pages works. I’m very used to working with Joomla as a CMS (since the days it was Mambo), which seems way simpler to understand and set up than Pages... I’ve read the Pages guides and read several topics here, but I’m still no wiser. I find the name “Pages” to be confusing, as it infers a single item, eg: a web “page” as we know it. In topics here to do with Pages, people refer to a “page” (lowercase) and I don’t know if they mean a Pages page or site page. When I go to the default installation of Pages, I see: Pages - articles.html Database - Articles Categories - Articles and the URL is /articles.html/art…
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I don't know if I'm just not seeing it, but in the documentation regarding the referral system, it states this: Regarding the bolded part, where would that show up? We've had the system turned on for a few weeks now and we cannot find any indication of members joining after being referred. A test account was created after following a referral link and there's nothing on that account that shows it was referred by the owner of the link.
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Where can I enable Club forums showing on main forum list? Thanks.
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Hi, I was attempting to noindex in robots.txt certain categories or forums on my site. However, I noticed that the urls do not follow a consistent pattern. For example: https://www.christforums.org/forum/34-conservative-news/ This is the main Conservative News category. However, threads created in this category look like this: https://www.christforums.org/topic/11829-man-who-led-protests-against-cleveland039s-chief-wahoo-jailed-on-charges-he-stole-money-from-native-americans/ Notice how the url doesn't contain /34-conservative-news/ Therefore, I do not see how to noindex this category and all threads contained in it. I can't noindex /topic/ b…
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Anyone else notice little issues with mobile view locking up? For example click the menu and it won’t pop open. Or click the reply box but the text composer won’t start. this happens a lot to me on iPhone. I have to close all open tabs, close out safari, then start over and it works again. (Even if I only have 2 or 3 open tabs to begin with)
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Hi, I would like to create a new group with admincp access. Basically, I'm trying to distinguish an Administrator and Webmaster group. The Webmaster group will also need admincp access, but I'd like them to be listed differently in the Staff directory and on the board (title and badges etc). Can anyone provide suggestions on how to do this? CF
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I am getting an email not sending error because I am out of monthly emails. I won't have more until Sept 4th Does anyone have any short term solutions so I can get emails flowing again until my next round of sparkpost comes in? Thank you ?
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I have dozens of authors who have written articles and would like to create an "Authors" page that would be a simple listing of each author in alphabetical order, where you could then click on a link to the author's bio page. Does anyone know how I could set this up?
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I'm creating a guides system for Turkey, where each category of guides, and also certain page themselves, will have their own custom blocks. I am assuming I will have to use hard folders and different page templates for this, but I am not sure. Let me explain with a proposed folder structure. turkeycentral.com/guides: This category (and associated database) has all guides about Turkey. Including guides about places and also provinces and cities and towns. So there would be subcategories like: /guides/residence permits/ /guides/transportation/ /guides/places/ The last one, places, is about the provinces and cities. Antalya is a province in Turkey. And A…
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The Online Users page is great but, having recently moved to IPB from vB, lots of our community members are confused that all they get to see is lots and lots of guests because the main reason for visiting this page is to see who else is online. Of course, there is a filter, which once pointed out, they can use but it would be much better and less confusing if the default filter was "Logged In" and not "All". How can I change the default filter for the Online Users page?
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Hopefully I will explain this well enough to understand. Ok so I have ads on my site and want to have it set so that the amount of ads users see decrease the more posts they make. I was thinking I could probably achieve this with group promotion. Users with 200+ posts see less ads Users 1000+ plus ads see even less. Could I achieve this with group promotions? One thing I want to do though is not show these different groups in profiles etc so they all just show in the member group. Would I then set these as secondary groups? If anyone could provide some guidance that would be great.
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