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I use the "Minimum age required to register" setting on my site. I sometimes get the following support ticket: And because of that they cannot continue to register. I only recently enabled this feature so I'm not sure how it works. What should I tell the user to do so that they can try again? I'm assuming once they enter the incorrect age below the minimum the system blocks them. Should they clear cookies, try from a different browser, or does it lock their IP?
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Somehow the user changed a setting and got rid of it. I didn't even know this was an option, how do I bring it back? Thank you
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Hi, People have been using multiple font/text colors in posts. I would like to not allow other font colors. The problem is if I remove the option from Ckeditor it is still available when people paste colored font in as rich formatting. Is there a way for all font colors not black to be turned black and to disable the future use of font/text colors in the future? I also do not want raw font code to display if it is posted as rich formatting in the editor. Thanks, William
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When someone uploads a new version of a file in downloads it doesn't show up in the activity feed, is there a way to make this happen?
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My community allows users to download live performances of Regina Spektor. Her setlists can reach up to 30 songs. Is there any extension that enables users to "download all" instead of clicking download for every song?
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Is there an easy way to control the YouTube auto-embed size? Right now it embeds at 100% which makes it far too large.
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IPS4 introduced image proxying for user-generated content, which avoids potentially-insecure hotlinking, and also mixed content issues on HTTPS sites. I've noticed though that, on boards upgraded from 3.x, legacy content (pre-IPS4 posts, signatures etc) is unchanged and still hotlinks from other sites. Is there a good method of getting the old content to use the proxy?
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Instead of having to view every single profile to find who has been warned?
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How can I enable a group to view hidden content?
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I have an urgent issue that had a support ticket submitted May 30th. I paid for "priority" support. I have seen the status of my request marked as "in progress" for quite some time now. I am wondering, is it really being worked on or did it fall through the cracks? I am afraid to bump the support thread as I think it might place me in the back of the line. Anyone have a similar experience? What is a normal wait time? Thank you ?
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I've recently upgraded a board from 3.4.8 to 4.3.3 and there are obviously significant changes, more so in the ACP than in the user area. Under 3.4.8, I had customised the way deleted members were displayed, but only using built-in ACP functionality. I didn't buy any external plug-ins or hack any files. I just cannot seem to find those settings in 4.3.3, and the settings appear to have been reset, prefixing Guest in front of the username instead of bracketing it as I had.
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How does Our Picks work with emails? I know that they are added to the bottom of standard emails that go out but I would like to allow my members to choose from the following subscriptions: Daily Weekly Monthly Those "newsletters" would show the Our Picks that have been added for the day, week, or month. How do I do this? I receive newsletters from IPS that are just like the formatting I am looking for.
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How to switch on comments and Pages? Thank you!
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Hey I don't mean to blow up your forums with a few threads, and I'm trying to genuinely solve these problems before I come here, but this one has be stumped a bit. I'm creating a rest api for the site to use, and I can't seem to get the /core/hello to work let alone anything else. I've setup the key as such. I then used the example snippet, modified of course. $communityUrl = 'http://test.accursedfarms.com/'; $apiKey = '00a75c3993dc5a20fade6f9150f14645'; $endpoint = '/core/hello'; $curl = curl_init( $communityUrl . 'api' . $endpoint . '?key=' . $apiKey ); curl_setopt_array( $curl, array( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE, ) ); $response = curl_exec(…
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I understand that you could make a copy of the theme, make it admins only, change to that theme and refresh the page every time you add something. That's beyond tedious though? Is there a way to have a live preview when editing themes?
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So the latest update added this bad boy. Any idea where I should start looking to remove that overlay?
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Being in UAE, we are left with very limited payment processor who deals in AED. One of the Payment processor is Paytabs and wondering how I can add them in the IPB backend Payment Method apart from Strpe, 2checkout, Paypal etc. Please help in setting this up. Thanks in advance. https://www.paytabs.com/en/
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Don't want to bother technical support with this question, so I'm posting it here... So I purchased the IPS community, let's say Forums + Blogs + Gallery... It's all installed and works great. Then I purchased the Pages application. How do I add it to my community? It must be something really simple, but I can't find an answer. In my client area I can download the entire community only, but not a separate application. I assume that it must include the Pages application at this point, but that still doesn't answer the question how exactly do I upload just that application...
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When I was opening the discussion forum for ads, the ads from advertisers came quickly. I ended up with 6 advertisers wanting to place ads on the discussion board. To accomdate the advertisers, I added a table with 2 rows and 3 columns. It works great on a desktop view but it doesn't work on mobile. Some of my advertisers have been with me for years so I want to keep them happy. My discussion forum is here: http://www.wifcon.com/discussion/index.php The ads are all 335 pixels x 100 pixels. When the board is opened in mobile (samsung 8 plus) the ads in the first column appear and the others do not. I'm stuck with the placement and the size of the ads. S…
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Hi, Checking SEO I see that I have one H1 tag but its name is the app name "Forums" as shown in the screen shot. I would like to change Forums to Christian Forums. Could someone please assist me in doing so? Thanks in advance, William
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I deleted a test forum and the content (topics and posts) are still visible and can't get deleted. Any idea?
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Finally I have migrated my vBulletin to IPS. Now I am in the process of giving forum permissions. I see some topics with username Guest xxx where it should be only xxx and some topics give an error when clicking on it We could not locate the item you are trying to view. Error code: 2S136/V And some images were not right embedded, also URL's are not embedded right. That's because all is index processed now in the background? Or went something wrong? Thanks.
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Is it possible to change the location where the author displays on records/articles in Pages? I am setting up Pages as a wiki. I would like for the author pane to either not display at all within the record or at the bottom of it. Screenshot shows how it currently displays....
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I want to use my Forum Login System to allow my Desktop App to login with Forum Logins. This way users Register on my Forum, Download my App, Login to my App with their Forum Username/Email and Password and they automatically get logged in. I looked and looked for a current up to date method but I cant find any code to do what I need, anyone provide resources or details so I can do this.
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Hello. How and where do I control the length of the activitystream? By that - I mean the number of lines before the "Load more" button comes up at the bottom of the page.
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