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Hi there I can only get the promotion buttons for Facebook, Twitter etc. to show in my non-password section of the forum it seems. I have set permissions in every forum, but latest try was to copy settings from the forum it works in and pasted it to all forums. As it works in parts of the forum I must have done something right, but would like to be able to share post to FB from all threads if possible. Any help appreciated
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My community uses a lot of 3 letter abbreviations in posts. If I do a search, for example "ECM", there are no results for my search even though I know the ECM has been used in dozens of posts. Is there a setting I need to change to allow searches 3 characters in length? Thanks for your help.
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How do I get attached images to display larger than 1,200px? Nothing I have tried seems to work. I have displayed images set at 2,000px but when I add and image to a blog or forum post they only display at 1,200px.
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I've been trying to get images to appear larger than 1,200px in forum and blog posts but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it, even if you change the dimensions in the ACP Post Settings. If you double click on an image while composing a post and change the dimensions it reverts to the default size of 1,200px when you save the post. I have tried doing this with both Safari and Chrome, the results are the same.
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I sold an ad on my forum, and the ad has ended. It was set to automatically renew every month, and to stop it I had them cancel it on the PayPal side. I know it won't go through but I would like to be able to stop it from my side, and prevent an invoice from even going out and stopping it from trying to take a payment before the ad expires.
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I'm planning to update in a short while. I thought I remembered that update notices on the forum itself would be disabled when being closed, was fixed in version 4.4.4: However, maybe I misunderstood the kind of fix here. I thought once dismissed it won't reappear, but maybe I'm wrong? I can close them, but either tomorrow or the day after, it appears again which is really annoying. I don't mind this happening in the admin panel, maybe a good thing there. But not on the forums themselfs. It this working as designed? If yes, I'll lookup the topic describing how to prevent this, I've seen that somewhere. ==== Edit: Ah never mind. I ju…
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Hello, I'm migrating my website to the IPS suite and was wondering if there were any scripts that could assist with the title inquiry. I'm aware that there's a markup and infoboxes plugin, but a fully-fledged importer would really be a lifesaver. Any direction would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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I searched and couldn't find anywhere to explain how I might customize my login page to include instructions for logging in. Where would I customize what appears on that page? In particular, when the login page is loaded inside an embedded mobile browser (like inside an email app's browser), the login hamburger menu (three lines in upper right corner) doesn't always appear, so I'd like to include instructions for less tech-savvy folks. For reference, right now the login screen looks like the attached screenshot. Thank you in advance for your help! Kelly
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I just discovered my moderator has created a topic and soft-deleted it. Is there a way to see this in the thread list? I thought this was visible as being a thread in another background colour. But I don't see it in the threadlist from that forum. However, the thread contains a link with a name. If I'm in that forum and do a search in that forum for that name, I can view the thread and it has another background colour. But it would be nice if soft-deleted threads are visible (at least for admins) in the threadlist. I don't see anything, not even some mark that there is a deleted toic. Deleted post was created 8 hours ago, nothing to be seen here…
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I was in the process of running the upgrade script from the latest forum (my version was a number of versions behind) and after the script was ran, I now get this message. Can anyone point in the direction/give guidance. Thanks in advance. Undefined constant 'IPS\HTMLENTITIES'
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I ask this for a friend of mine who can not write English very well. He would like to release some things he made himself, via the download section of his forums, or via another way, but users have to pay a little amount for his work. Now he could buy Commerce, but he does not have a lot of money and Commerce has lots of options he doesn't even need. So he's looking for a cheaper alternative than Commerce, so he can sell his files the way it's done in the Marketplace here, or via his downloadsection. It would be nice if payments could be done via Paypal. Is there an exising addon or extension here on Invision or maybe on a trustworthy other site?
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I want to mass delete accounts that meet a few criteria: 1) haven't logged in for X number of days, 2) have uploaded no content, and 3) have no profile picture uploaded (this last one is not required but would be a useful option). I'm trying to clean up my members list of empty accounts. Is there a way to do this in the admincp? Or is there an application or plugin available that can do it?
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Elasticsearch is offering a 14 day trial. How do I configure my IPS4 site? I tried inputting the elasticsearch server url but it says cannot connect. Would be nice for some detailed instructions on how to take advantage of this trial period. https://www.elastic.co/cloud/elasticsearch-service/signup
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Hello, With IPS Download app, is it possible to: Display automatically the hash of the file to download (sha1, md5...) ? Or define a custom field to set the hash on the file download page? Set an external url (like mediafire) to download the file when clicking on Download button? Or the file have to be available only in local? Thanks.
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As the title, how can I make the site automatically close posts that are inactive for more than x days? 👀
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Hey, we use bitly for some campaigns and we noticed that the forum links we share using that service have a lower view count on the forum system than the data we are getting from bitly, so, my question is how does that view count work? We thought that maybe cloudflare was caching some content but we have that set as standard caching and all urls with query strings are not cached, another thing could be that anonymous users are not being counted but that is a little crazy. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hi everyone, Just wondering how I go about setting up using my webhost's built in mail system to send system emails, and leave bulk emails to be sent via send grid? I can't see any way to do this, as it will not allow me to select multiple sending formats. Suggestions please.
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This appears to be an exploit that allows a user to upload zip files to a post despite zip files not allowed. I found one on my site. Making the extension as myfile.zip.jpg If you change the extension back to .zip and extract it contains 2 webp files and an mp4 file. Also file types I don’t allow. I've tried to recreate this but usually I get the message 'There was a problem uploading the file' when uploading a zip disguised as a jpg, which is how it should work. However using his original zip I managed to add an exe file and upload it without problems... It could be to do with webm files, I managed to create a 94mb zip file full of webm files and upload it…
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Greetings. I would like to add an additional font to the default theme. Right now, the deafult theme includes 6 fonts: Lato, Open Sans, Roboto, Robot Slap, Montserrat & Merriwheather. I'd like to know if I can manually add another google font in the selection: more precisely Rajdhani Font for H1, H2 and H3. Help appreciated. Thank you.
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How can I change the name of a menu link? For instance, I would like to change the "Forum" menu link to say "Community".
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Hi, I'm looking to open the clubs feature to the audience and I'm having my last minute thoughts, perhaps I should call them groups instead of clubs. Perhaps that term would be more familiar with members who are familiar to Facebook and that's everyone and facebook's concept of what is a group. perhaps the term group would require less explaining what is it father than clubs? What's your take on that?
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Add Gallery Image from URL Is this possible either natively or via plugin? Many thanks, Chris
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How do I suppress Adsense ads from appearing on site login screens? This is violation of the Adsense Program Policy and I got a warning about it. Didn't see anything in the Admin center that looked applicable.
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Hi I am wondering if there is any way 1 member could give some of their account credit to another member without ACP access? Thank you 🙂
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Hi, is there any way to add comments to replies in topics which are in "Q&A" category type?
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