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Hi guys, I was going into my default theme setting and notice they have no footer option, I think it's kind of funny we don't have that option as for their customers, has most CMS gives you a footer option. Reason I ask is that my coding knowlegde has gone poor with all the responsive coding, when I tried to make one it was breaking everywhere when changing view.
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body[data-pagemodule="forums"][data-pagecontroller="index"] .ipsPageHeader{ display: none; } To remove the "Forums" text is the "start new topic" button on the index page, add the following to custom.css if you just wan to remove strat new topic just add .ipsPageHeader{ display: none; }
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Hello! I recently purchased the IPS Community App. I am not trying to edit my user-groups a little bit, but struggling to find the answer to a few questions. 1. How can I add icons in front of a member's name that resides in a specific usergroup? (See attachment below) 2. How can I make it so that the usergroup's colored name shows up all across the forums rather than just on their profile and on the who's online list? Thank you in advance for your help, and if this is in the wrong section feel free to move it! -John
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I have several Sponsors Forums by some advertisers - i'd like to convert their forums to clubs let them manage them - is there a path to do this?
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Hi there - am quite new to IPS.. I am going to allow members in my community to post adult content in clubs (marked as Secret, invite only) which is great. But I'd also like to add a way to filter NSFW content in the main forums - does anyone knows of any of the below is possible? Allow a thread creator to mark it as NSFW so visitors need to dismiss an overlay that contains a warning before they can view it (with an option in profile settings to override all future NSFW warnings) Or a way to add a custom spoiler style tag in the editor so posters can wrap NSFW images/content, forcing visitors to expose it by clicking on it (with an option in profile…
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Currently, whenever a guest post a comment in topic "Guest" prefix is shown before the name. For example if the name of guest is "XXXX". It will be shown as "Guest XXXX". Is there any way to remove Guest prefix before the name of guest posters?
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In the general statistics box, there is a 'most users online' stat. This is common on forums I've used before, and shows the most people who have ever been online at once. However, with IPS, this number has to be entered manually. What's the point of that? How would the admin even know or keep track? I don't get it...
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As the title states, is it possible to allow users the option to change their color if they are in a specific group?
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Hello, are there applications / plugins which allow the implementation of a phone / sms verification for new customers? We faced a lot creditcard fraud which we would like to prevent this by adding an extra security obstacle (SMS / phone verification). There are a couple providers which offer an easy to use API for such stuff. Obviously sending SMS / phone verifications cost money but 0.05$ / successful verification is better than a 25$ chargeback fee for every 10th-20th customer.
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Hi there, As per title - if you dismiss a Profile Completion step reminder (which appears on every page view) does it ever return? Such as next login or visit?
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I'm not sure where to ask this, so I thought I would start here. MySQL 5.7 implements the strict features of most other DBMS's. Previously MySQL would correct a lot of errors quietly, but with 5.7, the queries or transactions will generate a hard error and will fail. Will IP.Board work with MySQL 5.7?
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I have people selling stuff on my site and I get commission. How can I tell how much total they have earned for a given time frame? ?
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I'm new to IPS and trying to figure out how to use developer mode. 1. It's a bad idea to run dev mode on production server so I have to run a copy on my dev machine. Can I use the same license to install it? Will it not be treated like double installation or something? 2. After making changes to the app and rebuilding it how do I transfer the new version to the production machine? Will simply replacing the app files be enough or maybe it also does changes to DB like storing compiled js or something?... 3. Do I understand it correctly that I do not need the "dev" folders for those apps that I do not intend to make changes to?
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I'm trying to set up FTP as storage for uploads but encounter the following error message no matter what I do "Could not move into the directory specified. Check the directory is correct and the user provided has permission to access it." I have created a folder in root called files/uploads and set it to 0777. The user login have access to the folder files and its subfolders. There's no error except for the one above so all the credentials are right. I don't know what I'm doing wrong anymore. Anyone help?
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Hi Are the clubs post and topics index bt search engines ? Also how can I edit or rename clubs to Groups ?
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i have asked several times trough support i have bought a second hand license the name they say is not right i have created that account and payed for the second hand license i can show proof for it i want it changed to my name because i dont wanna get ripped off is this possible or not ?
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Hi, We have the Commerce/store plugin for our IPS forum site, and when creating a new product there are options for generating license keys. Where can I find documentation for how to use this and how to code the actual software we're selling to only be installable if the customer enters the license key (serial number) that IPS has generated for them upon purchase? Thanks very much.
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I just renewed my second license and the only version I can download is 4.2.1. I need 3.4.9. It is for my arcade forum.
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Hello, If I activate the option "Show Records like articles" I get a short preview of each article (as plain text) listed on the page. There are a few things I would like to change and hope, you can help me. I'm missing the formatting in the listing. If I click on "Read More" I can see some the links, some bold text , but this is missing on the listing page. Basically I would like to have something like here: https://invisioncommunity.com/news -- you can see there, that the text is formatted. Similar to the question above -- I would like to have the inserted images displayed on the listing page exactly as they are displayed in the article itself (posi…
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Greetings everyone, I am looking into the possibility of users being able to add items to the commerce shop. Is this something possible for people to do? Please let me know if I am missing some crazy permission setting or plugin that offers this feature. Thank you my friends.
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I am a newbie to the community setup world so bear with me. Why can't i see the menu on the live preview?
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Hi there, is it possible to remove the URL from a category forum, effectively making only the URL's to the sub-forums clickable? (Without removing the URL's from all forums in the forum view).
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Is there a setting anywhere to control which groups can create venues please?
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Was wondering how to add a custom locations for ads so that it appears under the blocks in the side bar and not above, don't know where to put it though Any help?
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After doing everything for the twitter login handler set up, I tested it out and it says it will need these permissions This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you. Will not be able to: Access your direct messages. See your email address. See your Twitter password. Why does the login handler need any of these? This is going to deter people from logging in via Twitter? Why does it need read and write permissions and not read only?
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