Tagging is a powerful feature made available through the IP.Board framework that allows you to collect "tags" for submitted data, either through an ad-hoc system whereby the members provide tags at will, or through a closed system where the available tags are pre-defined. Tag support in IP.Content is, arguably, the number one requested feature, and since we try to listen to our customers and deli…
Development of IP.Content 2.3 continues, and while we have many more great things in store for this release, we wanted to take a moment to tell you about two new features you can expect to see in this release. Many of the recent blog entries have described consistency improvements, SEO improvements, and other integration changes, but we wanted to make sure you knew that this release would have a …
Commenting is a powerful and important feature available with all of your IP.Content databases, 'Articles' included. Not only can you allow your users to comment on the database records, you can require approval of comments before they become public, you can moderate the comments as needed, and your users can get notified of new comments made on database records that they follow. Still, commenti…
Since the very start of our company IPS has offered free scripts you can download to assist in converting from other forum or community software to our platform. Thousands of you have taken advantage of this over the years and we are happy you have chosen to be part of the IPS family.
We have put great effort into modernizing our community suite and that, combined with clients able to make clear…
IPS is making some changes to our pricing to streamline our offerings and recognize changing business needs. That Pesky One Cent
It gets pretty old saying "it's nine ninety nine" so we are going to round up all prices to their nearest dollar. So, for example, our community hosting Basic 10 service will now be $10 rather than $9.99 or IP.Blog will become $50 instead of $49.99.
Yes, we realize …
Development of IP.Content 2.3 continues, and as mentioned in the introductory "What To Expect" blog entry, one area of the software we wanted to place a focus on was search engine optimization. While this particular subject can bring about heated debates regarding what is "good" and what is "bad", there are a few areas of IP.Content that we felt could use some specific improvements. Today we're …
IPS is looking for a mobile app developer to assist us in greatly enhancing our presence in the mobile application space. Key Requirements Experience in iOS and Android development (Windows phone a plus)
Working knowledge of IPS community suite software
Examples of previous application development Other RequirementsWorking knowledge of SVN or similar revision control systems
Self-starter who…
We made changes today to the way we meter and track data and media storage on our hosted communities. Previously our main limiter for a package was online users. This normally works fine as it's a simple formula of the more people you have online the more server resources your community consumes. However, there are some long-established communities that have been lucky enough to accumulate thousa…
In our last IP.Content blog entry, we discussed some of the major interface changes you can expect to see coming with IP.Content 2.3. These interface changes represent improvements to your work flow and enhancements to the usability of IP.Content in the ACP. As mentioned in that blog entry, thousands of changes have been made, and while we obviously cannot detail every single one of these change…
Parts of this entry may only apply to those who create hooks for IP.Board. Feel free to skip the sections that may not interest you.
For IP.Board 3.2 I made several changes for both applications and hooks and now with this new major version I went ahead and made some more changes that I hope will simplify things for everyone. Applications Ordering
Very often customers asked us for a simple w…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry discussing our efforts towards moderation features, and specifically the new warning system.
Today I wanted to talk about another area of moderation, perhaps the most important area - managing content - and how we've improved that in IP.Board 3.3. Unapproved, Soft Deleted, Deleted
IP.Board has some great functionality when it comes to managing cont…
IP.Content, by it's nature, is largely managed via the admin control panel. While there are front-end capabilities available to allow you to distribute some of the work load to your moderators (and, in some cases, members), the majority of the setup and management is performed via the admin control panel. Additionally, because IP.Content is a framework tool designed to allow you to build your we…
Over the past few years, we've invested a good amount of time into ensuring that your forum content is spidered well by various search engines. We've created a crisp clean skin with good semantic mark-up, introduced a friendly URL system and made numerous enhancements to ensure that search engines read your content and spider it effectively.
Search engine optimisation is an organic process and i…
One of the many pleasures of running your own forum is watching it grow as the years roll by. Sometimes it's fun to go back and look at old topics but they just get pushed further and further away from the first page until you end up with a large database full of posts that rarely get seen.
Perhaps you run a massive forum with 10 million posts or more and you're starting to reach MySQL database …
Any community administrator knows how important moderation features are to a successful community, and the IPS Community Suite offers some great features in this area. The Spam Monitoring Service, for example, a unique feature that is completely unmatched anywhere else, keeps your community safe from spam content. Also in IP.Board 3.2, we introduced the Moderator Control Panel feature, giving your…
IP.Content, our popular content management and creation tool, allows administrators to manage content throughout their site. You can create templates, pages, blocks that can be embedded anywhere (even outside of IP.Board!), and databases of custom data with many easy to use yet comprehensive tools built into the software. Development is underway on the next major version of IP.Content, version 2…
IP.Board 3.2 was a major new version boasting a new sleek skin with a major overhaul to the user interface. We also added in long requested features such as tagging, the shared media panel, and a brand new moderators control panel along with many more improvements.
We have been thrilled with the overwhelmingly good feedback since 3.2's release and we are ready to take IP.Board to the next step b…
IP.Gallery is our popular photo and movie sharing platform for IP.Board. We've been working on updates and I wanted to take you through several today.
You've already read about the bigger features for IP.Gallery 4.2.0 such as tagging, quick navigation, moderators' control panel, album selector and the Admin CP updates.
This entry covers a few of the smaller updates - most of which have been re…
IP.Gallery is our popular photo and movie sharing platform for IP.Board. We've been working on updates and I wanted to take you through one today.
The IP.Gallery 4 Admin CP Album Manager streamlined down the various Admin CP functionality for managing albums but it was hard to locate specific albums and to drill down through the global album structure.
I've completely rewritten the Album Manag…
IP.Gallery is our popular photo and movie sharing platform for IP.Board.
Today, I wanted to take you through an important part of the IP.Gallery 4.2 update; the album selector.
At various places within IP.Gallery, there is a need to select an album. This may be because you're creating a new album; choosing an album to upload into; moving images or moving albums. In the current version, this is…
We've already blogged about some miscellaneous changes you can expect to see coming in IP.Downloads 2.5, and hope you are excited about these enhancements and improvements to the software. We have just a few more changes we wanted to let you know about, so without further ado, and in no particular order, read on to see what else you can expect to see coming in IP.Downloads 2.5. Ability to re-ra…
IP.Gallery is our popular photo and movie sharing platform for IP.Board. We've been working on updates and I wanted to take you through a few of them today.
IP.Board 3.2 introduced many new core features such as tagging and a Moderators' Control Panel. These features were written to allow other applications to take advantage of them easily to unify the various apps.
We've introduced these new …
IP.Blog is our popular blogging platform for the IPS Community Suite. We've been working on updates and improvements to this platform for the upcoming 2.5 release which we wanted to talk about today. Interface Improvements
We've spent a lot of time cleaning up the interface and making use of the new styles available in 3.2. The aim was to make it simple and intuitive to create, manage, post t…
IP.Downloads features a robust and powerful file submission process, allowing your users to quickly and easily upload files to your site and configure them to the specifications your site has set. Users can upload multiple files and multiple screenshots, using either the traditional uploader or the flash uploader; you can configure custom fields for users to populate, and even require them to fil…
