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Any way to achieve as per title? Would be great to see at a glance question threads that are deemed not yet resolved (i.e. no best answer yet) from the topic list.
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Arrgh...can someone remind me where one sets the minimum number of chars. required in a Search term? Thanks!
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Firstly: How would one set up promotions to move someone based on their inactivity to a new group that designates them as inactive, and then also a promotion rule that returns them to their regular group once they were active again? I tried figuring this out and ended up causing a bunch of errors so had to turn off promotions for the groups I created. The goal is: Person is in group 'regulars', hasn't posted for a month but still browses, so I want him to be automatically moved to a 'lurkers' group. Then, if the 'lurker' hasn't posted or browsed for a month, move him to an 'inactive for a month' group, and then if the 'inactive for a month' hasn't posted or …
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Hi, Currently I just have the forum software. I plan on adding pages and blog at least at some point in the future. Is it best that I install my forum software on my website as X.co.uk or as X.co.uk/forum so that when I do add pages I can have the pages being the main page. How will this affect the SEO now if I set it to go to /forum when someone just types in X.co.uk? Thanks Matt
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I have a member who started following an entire forum. She wants to get notification for every topic and reply there, regardless if it is a new topic, reply to old topic, etc. But it doesn't seem to work and on top of that she says she even stopped getting notifications for the old topics she was following. How can this be set up, to me it is a bit confusing the way the notification settings and system is structured?
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At one point I noticed that imgur embedding hasn't worked for a while. Is it broken on Imgur's end? Thanks.
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This is my first time doing an upgrade and I didn't know it would change the layout so much, we were totally blindsided by the cosmetic changes and now it looks weird with a lot of our themes.
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hi, I want to know how IPB 4.1/4.2 now handle non-latin charaters in urls? does it make them turn to latin characters like ę/ė -> e as in 3.4.x days or leaves them as they are?
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As the title states, is there anyway to create a break line between text editor areas? I ask because I am trying to create an award page. Here is an image: Any advice? THANK YOU!
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Hello, I would like to have add a button which should search for all topics of an author in specific forums. I think I could use the search URL to do this. Is there a documentation for this? I couldn't find anything yet... So, if I use the search, it always requires a term or a tag and the URL looks like this: *DOMAIN*/search/?&q=test&type=forums_topic&author=Admin&nodes=23,18,50 So I think "q=" is the term, "author=" is the user, "&nodes=" are the forum IDs. Is it possible not to use anything in the "q=", if I don't want to use any specific term, but just would like to find the topics using all other attributes? Is it possibl…
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The title is not very self explanatory so I'll try here. In download settings there is an option to "Post a topic when a file is submitted". Unfortunately I had a category where that setting was not ticked and now I have 20 files with no support forums. Is there a way to add this after a file was created or do I have to go the long hard way and re upload everything?
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Can guests be given access to buy things from the store, and check out with information without registered on the forum? When I've tried on mine they just can't even access the store. The menu item for the store is set to available to all users and so are the products.
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I want all my store items to be sorted by name and set to grid view by default. How can I do this please? I can't find a setting in ACP.
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I want to make the secondary nav bar (the menu bar that is under the main menu) the same width as the body of the page. How? Thank you
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Sorry, I am not technical savvy (to say the least) and in the Admin panel there is no much to find with keywords (is this possibly related to the cloud version?). In any case, I am very happy with the software, and as I did not find the procedure to add a logo in other threads (I am sure there is somewhere, but there are 100s results with keywords that contain the word logo). Three questions please! 1. What size should I ask the image of the logo and in what format from my graphic designer? 2. Where I should make the update in the Admin panel? 3. Where is the best place to add an eight word tagline? Under the logo or there is another place to try it too? …
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Hello, I would like to delete one language version on my site. However, I can not do that because in Language section of the Administratve panel it has a sign that it has been "Locked". I do not know how it has been lock and I can not find a place where to unlock it. Any suggestions?
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I have twitter and facebook logins but would like them to appear here on pages where guests don't have access to view. How can I do this?
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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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