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I have had a look but needed to ask the hive mind 🙂 First off, if technical ability was measured from 0-10 (10 being good) I put myself at about a 2.5 so please go easy on me. I have some blogs which contain links to external companies. One of those companies wants to pay for a 'follow' link in one of the blogs. They noticed that any link posted in the Blog defaults to a no follow link and of course, would like it to be changed. How do I go about removing the no follow restriction on links when posted please.? Many Thanks! Simon W.
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I had not used the Our Picks feature until only recently, because I thought the content had to be promoted to social media which I don't use that. As soon as I learned that I could promote content to Our Picks on my own forum I got excited, and I've already featured two topics in Our Picks. When I went to promote my third choice it wouldn't post. It said something about the character limit being 3000, and that the topic I was trying to post ~3200 characters. Why is there a character limit for promoted content? Is it a setting I can change in the ACP? If yes, where?
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CLUBS When I asked a few people on my forum about the use of CLUBS, one friend stated how he didn't think it should be used. To him it would just be segregating content from the main forum. Why create a club about a certain topic, when a thread could just be created on the forum. I know of the following thread, and read through it, but would love to hear some fresh insight on this topic. BLOGS Do you use Blogs on your forum? Do you use it for yourself, do you let forum members create their own blogs, and if so, do they actually use it? Again, just like CLUBS, why create a blog and talk about a topic when you could just create a thread on the forum and dis…
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Hi there, I have noticed that Activity stream does not refresh "automatically" even though notifications are updated . I remember when I set up my forum 2 years ago it worked fine. Now one has to refresh the Activity stream for updated comments and posts. I run maintenance tasks with traffic and there has never been a backlog of tasks. It's no problem but it is nice to get updated activity with no refresh. Is it because I don't run crons?
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hello. i want to create a evet to allow members to create a event with a minimum of 5 minuts betwin events. so, thy cannot create 2 events in the same time. and max of 30 events every hour. is there a way to do it? i have not seen any option to set or limit events to users. only to allow or block adding a events. and i want it to be automatecly, and not with admin approvel. thank you all.
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Looking for any fellow Invision customers that are using the Marketplace app, as one of the primary apps on your website. Could you please share your ( and your customers) sites urls just so I can see a few other ideas that are out there. I have someone looking to add a grocery/breakfast/lunch/dinner menu to their set up.
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Hi everybody! I am actually running a website with Wordpress as cms in the root and Invision Power Board as forum board. After talk we decided we want to keep everything more integrated and so use just one software. At the moment my license include just the forum app and I'd like to know which app or plugin I need to make an homepage that looks exactly like a portal with news and reviews, with the ability to create custom pages and once into these articles it shouldn't be like getting into a forum post. I suppose the application Pages does that but yet I need advices to know how to move in this. Someone can help me? 🙂 Thank you! Edit: Something like that…
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Hello, I run a community where many of the users are used to getting email updates (think of an old ListServ, or Yahoo Groups). Most love the new community, but I have several asking if there is a way to set the default for following Forums, Discussions, etc. to ALL. They currently have to go in each topic and click "Follow", and if they miss one they don't receive all of the communications they are expecting. Thanks for helping out this old Noob...
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Hi, How do I include a javascript on every page in my forum? eg. <script src="file.js"></script> should be in the header of every page. Thanks!
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I cannot seem to find a way to add pagination to an article/record in Pages. Is there a way? Example of a long article that would benefit https://www.bmw2002faq.com/articles.html/technical-articles/body-and-interior/heater-box-removal-and-refurbishment-r41/ Steve K.
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I have had a Category with thousands (38 000) of topics about tents, sleeping bags and tarps. Now I like to move each and every into 3 categories. One for Tent, one for sleeping bags and one for tarps. What is the easiest way to do that?
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Hi, We previously set up a Wiki for our site using MediaWiki. Unfortunately due to lack of integration with IPS it never really came to life. However the idea itself is still a good one for our community. As such, I was just wondering if it would be possible to use IPS Pages as a type of Wiki? Ideally we'd have a user group set up to restrict access to chosen contributors (who may not be tech savvy) rather than it being possible for everyone to edit it. Cheers Rich
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I love the ease of the pages databases and want to purchase another license for another site but want to know if its has the capability of adding (numerically) fields from entries? For example, if I am creating a database of football players and want a separate entry for each year of their statistics, will pages allow for a "totaling" of the statistics? If a quarterback passes for 3000 yards in the year 1998 and 2000 yards in 1999 and 1500 yards in the year 2000, is there a way to have the total of 6500 yards appear on the records listing page via pages functionality? I hope this makes sense. Thank you for any assistance.
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Is there any way to import a groups.io into IPS? Thx.
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http://prntscr.com/rvhxkc How do i change the name to be the same color as the rank.?
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Full disclosure I am newer to the IPS platform, still trying to get some kinks worked out. I have a concern as I have a forum category limited by only allowing topic creators to see the contents of each post. The purpose of this area is to allow each member to introduce themselves and share personal details. My concern is any attachments upload go into the default upload directory without any more then a randomized 32 char filename encryption. Whats mores-so daunting anyone can have access to "sniff" folder without being logged in (via entering the file URL in a new browser with no cookies / not logged in). I checked SYSTEM -> FILES to see if there was a…
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So I am making a pages database that will handle ban appeals from my game severs. I want to be able to have the user input their player name and have the title of the record generated so it appears in the database as "Ban Appeal by player name", so they dont have to type a separate title with each report. How can i do this? I suspect it has something to do with the topic format option but not really sure what to put into that as i have tried several variations now.
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Is there a way to stop guests viewing profiles of members?? Nothing is jumping out to me in the admin panel, nor in the support. Cheers in advance.
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hello. i wish to disable the "REQUIRED" text field in the difualt support ticket. so only the custum fields that i select eill be REQUIRED and not the text field in the bottom of the form. thank you.
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Does anyone have experience on this topic here. I have quite a number of subscribers in my forum which payed with PayPal on a monthly basis. Some of them have choosen the automatic renewal by PayPal. Now if I change the price of the monthly subscription will that have an effect on those automatic payments ? Thanks for your help in forward HP
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We have a rather silly system here in the UK for our shipping rates. As you might expect, they're banded by weight. As the package weighs more, the price you pay to ship it increases. That side of things is fine. However, we have a complicating factor: if your product exceeds certain physical dimensions, then you have to start from a different band. Large Letter in this diagram applies only to packages which don't exceed a certain physical size. If they do, then they're not Large Letters but Small Parcels, even if they don't weigh very much. In my example, I have a book which weighs 184g. Ordinarily, you would think that the cost would be £1.40 for 2nd clas…
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hello. i wish to change the timeout of my admin panel to about 12 hours. i have change the session.gc-maxlifetime to 43200 in the php.ini. but when i open a new tab to open a new session of the admin panel, i need to log in again. i have also disabeld the ip chack so when i go from wifi to 4G it will not disconect me. just left with the open a new window of the admin pannel, and if im currect the only way is to save the log in in the cookies. thank you.
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I need to make a virtual event. 1- how do I add a charge button? 2- how do I have it send emails and day of email send the link to the online virtual meeting? I'm using ringcentral VIP/ meetup.com / facebook.
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When someone pays for subscription through PayPal and forget to return back to your community, there is a problem left for admin. That system doesn't recognize the payment unless admin go to back-end and mark invoice as paid. It is indeed very irritating and inconvenient that why can't IPB automatically redirect from PayPal page to recognize the payment. Many sellers are doing that just fine (etoro). Due to this Mark as paid now few of our users getting the unwanted invoices generated. This guy renewed his monthly Active membership on Feb 23. Then he upgrade from monthly (Full Access) to Annual (Off-road) and that's where he forgot to return back …
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Hey there, I have 2 questions for SEO which I can not anwser myself. Maybe some of you know the anwser ? 🙂 1. Keywords - do they have to be separated with a comma ? 2. Is it possible to add Json data to a single post ? Thanks for your help in forward. HP
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