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So, if this is simply me misunderstanding the settings, please feel free to correct me. I am new to admin-ing IPB 4.2 and it is entirely possible I'm missing something obvious. My situation: I have a large and thriving community, its going great, and users love the new forum vs the old one. This thing is great. BUT! I have a large (around 100) group of users from an earlier community that still use a listserv, which if anyone doesnt know is an ancient email communication system. We hope to retire this listserv and move everyone to the new forums. My main issue is that the listserv members want emails for EVERYTHING that occurs in their area, by default. So I was t…
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I have set popular now to 5 replies in the last month yet only two topics show as popular. Even though there are probably close to 100 with that criteria. Why is it not working properly am i missing something? Even if i set 2 replies in the last 5 hours or 1 reply in the last hour It doesn't matter what I set only two topics show!
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Hi Everybody! I'm using and loving IP Board. Just one question: How can I deactivate the ability of CURRENT members to tag FORMER members? If somebody is not a current, paying member I do NOT want them to be taggable using the @ function. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Hi guys, I'm not sure what the technical term is - I think it's to embed? Let me describe what I'm wanting and maybe someone knows of a plugin that would work or if it's built into IPS already. I want the ability to take the forum or parts of the forum say a category and have it load on another site. I was thinking iFrame, but that will bog on mobile devices I've noticed. I know in discourse I have the option to generate a script and have it embedded on a wordpress site or any location. Do we have access to anything like this?
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Someone may able to tell me in which PHP file the IP log is handled? I would like to change it so that only a localhost IP is displayed.
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I'm trying to test a Promotion Rule to take a New Member up to a Member. How Often Does The Member Promotion Rule Run? If I enable the rule now, how long should it take to move a member that meets the criteria? Well, it must be almost immediate I guess. Once you get the rule correctly written!
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I am using clubs for site sponsors and at times rather than deleting a club i need to hide it from public view. Similar to hiding topics. I still need the club and its content but for a certain time i need a way to hide a specific club. I know i can make the club private but if its already an active club surely the people who are already members will still see it. Is there such a feature as to hide a club???
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I want to be able to change the status of a current member to a validating member, ie prompt them to change their email address on next visit as if they had registered but not confirmed the validation email. How do I got about resetting this please?
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Yesterday we purchased and installed IPB and when I click on show my last attachments I get the following Error Code. Someone may able to tell me whats wrong ?
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I know there is a Max title length but is there a way to have a minimum title length? My users are always posting topics with one word titles that are no use to anyone like "help" or "why". It would be really helpful to the whole community if I could enforce a minimum topic title length so maybe members might get a bit more descriptive with there titles. I saw a plugging but seems was last updated in 2015. Any ideas anyone?
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Is there a way to set permissions for saved actions? I'd like my members to be able to access a particular saved action within some of the forums
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I have set the default view to fluid view on our forum but it seems some users are still seeing category view. How can I force fluid view for all members?
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Can I set different edit content time per forum? I see that here on IPS there are forums that allows editing up to 2hours and forums(messenger too) that allow over 24h
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Does anyone know if there is a plugin or setting that I can use to automatically send board summary to all users weekly? Example, they will get emails that state how many post there were this week, top leader on leaderboards, and 5 of the top topics on the forum?
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When i was on xenforo i had my forum setup in a way that ONLY first posts with links in would be held for moderation. This really helped with spam as generally a new user making a first post with a link was a spammer and its stopped this kind of thing even getting on the forum. New users who made their first post without a link in were not held for moderation and were publicly viewable right away. Is there any way to achieve this on IPS? I don't want to have to moderate all first posts as it puts new members off but if i could filter it so that first posts with links in were held for moderation that would be amazing.
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How can i allow guests to see my forum? Currently they only see login form, and i want them to see forums/subforums, sidebar, and widgets. I already gave guests permission to see forum, but it's still the same, as you can see on images i attached.
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Hello. How to import data from XML file (from Rakuten affiliate network) to forum as forum posts. I want to import products from xml file to my forum as forum posts.
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Hello, I want to set a standard size for uploaded emoticons. The emoticons I've uploaded are 128x128px but I want to display them in the text editor and on the forum with 30px (so that the user doesn't have to resize it by hand since 128px is quite large). Since I didn't see any options in the menu, where would I have to change the css? I know it should be something like "max-height: 30px" but I can't really figure out which style sheet I need and where I have to add this. Thanks in advance!
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Does anyone know which SQL table is used to determine if a user is validated or not?
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Hello everyone, The reactions on our forums are split across two lines. If there's 2 reactions, they're one on top of the other. If there's more than 2, all but 1 reaction are on the top, while 1 is underneath the reactions on the left side, like in the attached screenshot. Changing the number of reactions doesn't affect this unless we cut it down to 1. Is there a way to put them all on a single line? Thanks!
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It could be a really nice addition to my forum to set up file sharing, is there anything within the software that can really do that out of the box? I'd like to be able to set a "category" for people to upload to (files of a certain type too). I have a gut feel that I've seen something like it but I'm damned if I can find it right now
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Hi dears, which are your suggestions and best practices for the community logo? I'm speaking about dpi, px and file type. Pls share your secrets :-)
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I had this feature in IPB 3.4, but I can't seem to find it in IPB4. Is there a solution for this?
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SOLVED Seems you cannot use the HTML Paragraph tag (inline). So in short I wanted to create a SPOILER tag that could be used for single words or sentences inline with the current text. However, the button doesn't do what I want it to (change the color of the font with a background color of the same). HTML CODE <p class="HFSpoiler"> {content} </p> CSS /*Hide Spoiler Tag */ .hfSpoiler { color: rgb(255,255,255); background-color: #fff; padding: 1px 1px 1px 1px; } BUTTON SETTING Now pressing the button after HIGHLIGHTING your text and …
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Hello, I need a plugin that shows the last ones that accessed the forum in the last 24 hours ..
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