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Hello, I currently have a WordPress blog with over 400 articles. I also use the forums, blogs and downloads from IPS. WordPress and IPS each have their own domain name. I created a plugin that automatically syncs WordPress users with IPS members. For convenience, I wonder if it would be a good idea to switch from WordPress to IPS Pages for the blog part and only use IPS. I have advanced use of WordPress. I am using blade as a template engine, webpack to compile the assets, use composer to manage plugins and I create a script that deploys my site from local to remote using my git repo when it's OK. I hate GUI to design a website, I don't want to deplo…
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Can users get notifications through the normal native popup notification on the forum rather than by email only? If not is there a plugin for it? Thanks!
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Is there a way to have the PM inbox have its conversations be unique to the participants? In other words, I don't want the same user to be able to start 45 different conversations with me. It should always be the same conversation between the two of us. This is historically how all forum software I've interacted with operates and I find it preferable to the many conversations between the same users. Thanks in advance!
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I see in the databases -> field section of the admin panel a note that indicates you can use something like the following: {$row->customFieldDisplayByKey('my-key', 'listing')|raw} I have no idea where these methods are documented? Can someone point me in the right direction? The developer docs are like "how to" guides... I'm looking for the actual API documentation and I have never had such a hard time finding API references. Thanks in advance!
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Hello, as a paid licensed user or IP I would personally thank you for this great software, help and time. I´m looking for an add-on which makes topics content only available via spending points. People (users of the forum) buy those points from "Store" and spend on topics they want to see the content of. To explain better I attached a few of screenshots. Which plug in or add on is this "points" system could you tell me please? I looked up in the market area and couldn´t find it.. Thank you! Damien
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The forum said that I have dangerous PHP functions enabled. I opened the message and thought they would be listed there. But NO! Then why the message? It carries no information in this form. I have banned, but what is missing? disable_functions = escapeshellarg, escapeshellcmd, exec, ini_alter, parse_ini_file, passthru, pcntl_exec, popen, proc_close, proc_get_status, proc_nice, proc_open, proc_terminate, show_source, shell_exec, symlink,system;
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Is there a guest welcome notice or a way that I can do one for encouraging guests to register?
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I've been developing a splash-page slideshow (all CSS) as a first encounter for people who visit my base URL. From that page, they can then click through to the main Invision site. So, first visitors who enter/click the base URL go to, say, www.mysite.com/splash, and they can then click through to www.mysite.com/welcome (the main Invision site). My problem is this: since my splash page is configured in Pages and set to be the default page for the main folder, whenever I click my site logo or the Home button I'm sent back to the intro slideshow, which is tedious to say the least. Can I/How do I redirect the Home button/logo to point not to www.mysite.com/splash, bu…
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On 4.5.4, I've an established, reputable member who posted a reply to a topic and it needs approval, simple enough, but I have no idea why! I've never had this happen before. The member reported their post wondering why it wasn't appearing as normal. There are no links in the post, no bad language. I must be visually impaired, there must be a reason stated somewhere, surely, but I can't see it in the post area or in the moderator CP., aside from it being listed for approval. Any idea where the reason is mentioned? Thank you.
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Essentially what I want to do is utilize the Blogs application as our content management system (guides, resources, documentation etc...). Is it possible to rename "Blogs" to something else like "Resources"? I understand that Blogs are DB entities and that this could intentionally not be feasible but if there is a way to just change the display name of the app I would love to know how. Thanks!
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hello I change new domain . and get new Licensed URLs. change the 'base_url' => in "conf_global.php" the homepage and admincp'page work fine but I click any link on the homepage show me Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. please help thanks
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Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is a plugin or an easy way to create custom blocks in pages. I would like to create a grid of several rows/columns with icons/text and a button. Is there a plugin that will allow me to easily create a page with as many blocks the way I want? See attachment. Thanks a lot
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I see in this forum and a few other ipb forums that they show the latest posts on the right. How do I have that on mine? Matt
Last reply by Adriano Faria, -
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Hello everyone, I am struggling with searches on IPS. It seems that there is a three charts limit (which is fine, I read it can be changed in MSQL). The problem I am having is that I'm using special charts like # in the posts names and whenever there is a # the characters behind it are ignored so I can't find post names like #VAL. The post name is Valero Energy #VLO, and most members will use #VLO since it's the symbol for that stock. Other examples are Facebook #FB, Netflix #NFLX... If I type in NFLX, the topic will be found. If I type #NFLX it won't be found. Is there a way to include # in the searches or is it being used as a wildcard for something in IPS s…
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Should abandoned registrations clear automatically? I have some that go back to February of this year, and one in the list from 2013. It's a small list, just curious why it's not clearing. Thanks
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I don't know if this is possible... but we are wanting to create two sections of the website that both have downloads. However one section of the site will exclusively be free downloads, and the other section of the site will paid downloads. Is this possible?
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Been away from the community here for a while 🙂 Anyway cut to the chase, has anything in particular changed with a legacy upgrade ? I am talking about 3x (specifically 349) to 4.5 , I do realise no 4x version -ever- supported directly a 2x upgrade (going via 3x was needed) Upon attempting to use the upgrader you are given a "Unknown column 'conf_app' in 'field list' " error , this with a UTF8 349 database. Had it been a 2x database -or- an early pre 3.3 database I would of expected an error but not with "the last" 34x series. I half wondered if I'd missed something out, but nothing immediately springs to mind. The conf file is fine unless some entries in it…
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I just uploaded an RSS feed to the forum and it works nice. Problem is, that on mobile devices, headlines get cut in the middle. On desktop, it has enough room for the entire thing. Is there a way to make it contain the entire headline?
Last reply by Guy Shimon, -
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Hi there, I was wondering if we can move a content from one Database to another such as there is a way to "Copy to Database" when you are trying to move a Thread to a Database. In addition, is a way to "move" content? So I don't loose the link pointer and don't break the SEO? Cheers, Ibai
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Recently, Facebook and Instagram started pushing their own store where users can buy directly there. I would love to tap into this, but am having trouble! Was hoping to open the idea up to the IPS community for feedback. I want to set up my shop somehow on Facebook and Instagram's newly launched shop feature. Ideally, before Black Friday hits. I am using the Printful Commerce Integration application. I am having a little trouble figuring it out. Wondering... is it possible to use this API to integrate with Facebook and IG? Facebook referred me to these links: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/commerce-platform/order-management/fulfillme…
Last reply by CoffeeCake, -
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Please forgive my TOTAL ignorance. It seems every time I start to understand this they change it all. When I create a new member for my site the site sends them an email. It says something like this. How do I change this? I went to the section where it has the emails that are sent out for different things. Customization>Appearance>emails. There are two pages of them! I do not know which one is the one the system sends out when an administrator creates a new member. So I clicked on the one that says. And I get this. I do not know what this code means. I think it has something to do with the appeara…
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Is that number unique per visitor or cumulative views regardless of repeat?
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I am sure this exists, but I cannot find it. Is there a way to force the user in entering a minimum length string let say over 10 characters in the about me profile field? Thanks,
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By which criteria are the posted images chosen in the "Topic Summary" in 4.5?
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Or every second subject column is a slightly darker shade, (this was Photoshopped, they are currently all the same shade). I have tried in vain to find this, but maybe l have missed it.
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