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Ignore this...I feel stupid.
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I wish the quote was limited (i.e. to the first 140 characters) and that they were eliminated movies and photos to have a more elegant appearance of the threads. How do you accomplish this? If it is necessary to make a plugin I'm willing to be a sponsor. Many thanks to those who will respond to me.
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Hi, As a topic title, How can i see which files has downloaded each member on my ip.download system? Thanks!
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Hello, how to show html ads in specific forums only ? i guess we should use expressions ?
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I've just had an SSL certificate applied to my site (thanks Rhett and co!) and have since been scrambling to at least improve the front page of the site to show as fully secure. One of the things I've come across are schema.org links being served over http and was wondering if that's to do with the core or something else? I assume it is to do with the core, since when testing on the default theme they are still there and would assume that something used for breadcrumbs does not come from a third-party source. If I'm correct, is there any way I can use the ACP to serve these links over https or should they already be doing this (and thus I need to open a ticket)? …
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Hello, I have a problem with a group of 10 members who are probably co-workers or known to each other who are trying (for the past 1 1/2 year ! ) to deliberately cause trouble (and doing it for fun) our forum is a parents forum so its really absurd why, or who, or how they find the time.(!) Anyhow, i would like to create a usergroup to put them in where they will have absolute minimum ability to either rate, like, post , comment, etc. Do you perhaps have experience with how to handle (technically with the features of ips 4.1 i mean) this kind of members? i have first of all closed all new member comments for approv…
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Hi i have been testing converting over from xenforo to IPS and i have notices that although my account content has converted the joined date is the day of conversion rather than the actually join date which was something like 2010.
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Is there a way to duplicate this grey box with the welcome text?
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For example, i want to show a few in the sidebar but It only seems to show one image and change at random on page load. I would like to show a few ads under one another. Oh and for the default theme are there optimal image sizes? I can see that people could upload different images to display on different screens but is there a optimal size for each of these?
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I just upgraded from version 3, and my files with the JWPlayer are no longer working. I had a script under "custom media tags" on the old version (3) but I can't seem to find any place to put them. Anybody have any ideas? The old code worked like this (and was put in "custom media tags"): <div id="$1"></div> <script> jwplayer("$1").setup({ file: "http://xxxxxfilepathxxxxxx/gwhutton.mindpersuasion/MP3/$1.mp3", width: 640, height: 30 }); </script>
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Hi. We are running IPS 4.1.19.1 and we have a forum subsection where we want only moderators, administrators and staff to be able to see the content besides the original poster of a topic. Under permissions we have disabled the setting that allows users to see topics posted by other users. This is allowing our normal members to submit and see their thread posts, however ONLY administrators can see the threads. We have the same settings and permissions for the subsection for administrators, moderators, and staff and have cross referenced those groups permissions as well (reviewing group permissions vs forum section permissions). What are we missing to get this operati…
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Hi, guys, since 4.2 looks very promising I'm starting to think about improvements I could make on my community forum and I thought of such a thing. Since I run a gaming community there are dedicated topics to each upcoming new game, where people post their thoughts and sometimes post copies of new articles regarding a certain game. And all of that is just crammed into one topic. Its kind of good but not entirely. So I wonder is such a thing possible. To take IP.Pages app, and lets say I set up a Games News article category where news articles are posted by those with permission to do so AND when somebody is posting a game-news article - he can enter the forum to…
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We sell advertising to businesses on our IPB-based community. Depending on the level of advertising purchased, the cost to the business (customer) can add up to a fairly significant amount over the course of a year. We would like to make available to our customers the option to buy a subscription via Nexus that has both: A recurring monthly payment (Let's just say it is $100 for easy math) An end date or expiration at which time the subscription will terminate (say... December 31st of 2016). I know that we can set up recurring payments via the payment gateways. I have already done that in the past for Stripe and PayPal. And I know that I can set u…
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i seem to be having a few odd issues with the converter. It wont copy any ignored users. it also says it has copied over all members but searching in members for my admin account from xenforo does not show. there are also differences in status updates and replies. seems to have converted less according to the convert numbers. it also wont copy the moderator group even when i tell it to
Last reply by gavpedz, -
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i am converting xenforo to ips. i converted attachments but it crashes part way through. can only get to 8866 of 9697 clicking continue conversion just crashes again any ideas?
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Once I have completed my migration to my site/forum I then want to remove my xenforo install at root and move IPS to root. What do I need to do to ensure this works. Obviously move files and folders but what else to I need to change and where?
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Hi all I am looking to migrate from xenforo to IPS. I have been doing a test migration and notice an option for rewrite URLs to ensure old URLs go to the right address. Essentially ensureing I don't loose all my traffic from search. Firstly is this correct? Secondly it rased some questions. I have my xenforo install at root and IPS at root/forums No when I do my actual migration I want to ensure URL rewrite properly but if I enable it does this them mean old URLs will rewrite to /forum? I ask this because what I plan to do is migrate the move IPS to the root so then would my URL re writes update or would they still try to go to /forum? I…
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how I can make a forum Statistics in the footer? with the total posts, total users and who's online please I break my head for this...
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Currently we have a newly converted site, with old SMF topic urls not 301'ing to the new IPB urls. Is there a step somewhere, or something we've missed? Any guidance on this would be great. Thanks
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So recently I have moved from a managed server host who squashed loads of websites onto one machine to a VPS. I've installed all of the essentials etc.. I transferred the database over, linked everything up in the conf_global.php file. I had to change the MySQL socket so it works and the database. My forum - www.nova-gaming.uk/forums/ When I go to my site it says this: I can tell that it is indeed connecting to the MySQL database as if I purposely enter the incorrect details it takes it to an Error 520 Cloudflare page. I tested this multiple times to confirm. When I uploaded my server files I downloaded them from the old server and just reuploade…
Last reply by Crenox, -
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Hello, The templating system for IP.Pages is really, really bad for complex websites that make use of PHP. I can't even preform a while statement in PHP, and it looks really messy. Is there a way I can write an entire page using raw HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP without using the templating engine? Someone mentioned using blocks, but including external scripts, styles, etc seemed to generate errors. I just want a functional way to write traditional pages using IP.Pages. I prefer to not rely on the Marketplace as I want native functionality.
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That field just under Search. I guess I must have set something wrong in the ACP, but cannot find back to it.
Last reply by Canis, -
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Can I safely move existing emoticons to a new group without risk to loose the references in current posts?
Last reply by Canis, -
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We are trying to add just simple javascript affiliate adverts for amazon products. But when we try to add them in the invision inbuilt advertisements system we get this error message - Javascript disabled for security How can we monetize our sites using affiliate marketing when the invision software is blocking our affiliate codes from running? There must be a workaround to allow javascript? Please help and thanks in advance
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About this database conversion that IPB is suggesting me... Are there any risks? Is it possible that something won't work after the conversion? And how long would it take for a ~8 GB database?
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