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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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And I wait 15 minutes to complete the process. How to fix it?
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This last week I have been involved in designing a new community framework. Most websites involving that "niche" use dark-white, dark-blue/white - black-orange webpages. So I thought "ok, in Rome do like romans do". No big deal. It took some time but eventually I managed to design a pretty nice dark blue theme, so far so good. Ok, now the problem. My users or potential customers are not very smart, let's say they'd be in trouble if they had to draw a circle with a glass and pencil. This has been one of the main drawbacks for me and my actual community. Not to mention that many of them feel too comfortable using competitors vbulletin and they are not geeks, nor e…
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So I'm moving my site to another host that has SSL already in the billing. So how should I prepare IPB for the move and SSL set up. Links to any tutorials are fine.
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Hello I am trying to add emoticons through the ACP. I can get as far as typing in a new category name, and actually uploading the files, but when it gets to saving the changes the system appears to accept what I want, but does nothing. Any ideas whats going on?
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Is there a way to remove the Status box from the Index page or to determine who can see it? At the moment, it is wide open to public view and I'm not sure I want to keep it that way, but I'm not finding options to change that. Would appreciate knowing if I can do that without editing the templates, because I know I can do that.
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I might be getting dumb, but I cannot find the option to send the same PM to multiple people, but without them being part of a conversation. I want to send the same message to 10 members, but the conversation needs to be 1 on 1 between me and each member. There was definitely such an option back in 3.x days, but I cannot find it now...
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