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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 to and find blogs. Here's a few screenshots: Tags IP.Blog was our first product to make use
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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 fill in the fields; versioning is handled automatically, if enabled, and changelogs are fully supported
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One of the most critical areas of a download manager application is, naturally, the download process. There are many things to factor in - you want to ensure the security of your files, you want to ensure the integrity of the system, and you want to ensure a nice user experience. IP.Downloads supports many features to help you control who can download what and when throughout the software. You can enable anti-leeching settings; you can configure per-group limits on number of files or transfer
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Commenting is an integral and central part of our application framework. Because we have a solid commenting system in our core framework, we can easily and consistently role out commenting to each of the addon applications, while delivering a consistent experience no matter what application the user is using. While commenting itself has been available for IP.Downloads since it's inception, we wanted to improve the functionality and implement some features that we think will make commenting mor
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Ever have a question you wanted to pose to our staff? Now is your chance for one on one Question and Answers with IPS. Post a new topic here: http://community.inv...um/474-ask-ips/ For a limited time only. Act now. On sale today. Come on down. Etc. Note: we're getting some duplicate questions so we will only answer one in that case :smile: Thank you everyone. We all enjoyed answering your questions. It was a lot of fun. We will do it again sometime.
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IP.Chat is our AJAX-powered chatting software application, available as an addon for IP.Board. IP.Chat takes a "less is more" approach and focuses on providing a simple but powerful interface for your users to chat, real-time, on your forums. We have spent some time enhancing the functionality available in IP.Chat to make it more useful and more flexible for you and your users, and we wanted to take a moment to let you know what changes you can expect to see with the release of IP.Chat 1.4.0.
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To wrap up our series of blog entries on IP.Nexus 1.4, there's just a few more new features and enhancements that warrant mentioning. HTML Emails Matt recently blogged about the new HTML email support in the IPS Community Suite. IP.Nexus 1.4 makes full use of this feature to send out clear, description and well formatted emails. It's much more than just a new wrapper around the same text - we've reviewed every email that IP.Nexus sends to make it more informative. Here's a sample before
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As part of our ongoing commitment to deliver the best community software on the market, we routinely run IP.Board through various tools designed to measure efficiency and resource usage, helping us to identify areas that could benefit from minor and major refactoring to make the software more efficient. We do this periodically with all of our software in order to ensure we have not introduced new code that will cause resource usage problems on your community. This is typically an unexciting ta
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A little while ago, I talked about the front-end store improvements for IP.Nexus 1.4. In addition to these front-end changes, we've also made a few changes to back-end order management which we wanted to talk about today. Tracking Numbers IP.Nexus has always had the functionality for viewing shipping orders and printing packing notes. In IP.Nexus 1.4 we're expanding the shipping features by adding support for tracking numbers. When you click the button to mark an order shipped, you'll now
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Following on from our first blog entry on IP.Nexus 1.4, one of the areas we wanted to focus on in this version is hosting integration. IP.Nexus integrates with CPanel and WHM to allow you to sell and manage hosting services to your customers. Monitoring Anyone who sells hosting services knows that it is important to always have a eye on your servers and you need to know as soon as one of them goes down. With version 1.4, IP.Nexus has you covered. We're including monitoring features to keep
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IP.Nexus is our hugely popular eCommerce and business management application for the IPS Community Suite. Over the past few weeks we've been working on lots of new features and enhancements for the next version of IP.Nexus (version 1.4). The first set of changes we wanted to talk about revolve around the storefront. The biggest change we've made in this area is a completely redesigned product page. This is what it looks like: The more perceptive of you will notice that a redesign isn't the
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Since the release of IP.Board 3.2 (and our addon application updates), we have been hard at work resolving issues reported to us in order to deliver the most stable and secure community software available on the net. We are very proud of our latest releases, yet we are still working hard to deal with any issues that affect you, our customers. Before we start discussing changes you can expect to see in future versions of our addon applications, we wanted to be sure that the current releases wor
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Since the release of IP.Board 3.2 a few months ago, our immediate focus has been on fixing the bugs that have been reported and making fairly frequent releases to our customers. We're thrilled that IP.Board 3.2 has been a huge success and we've received a lot of feedback which we've enjoyed reading. Now that the initial wave of bug fixes have been made, we've found the time to add in some functionality based on feedback from our customers. Here are some of the IP.Board enhancements that have g
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IP.SEO is a free extra from IPS which provides tools to enhance the Search Engine Optimization of your community. It includes features like sitemap generation, the ability to set meta tags on any page, search engine statistics and SEO-related advice on your configuration. The IPS Community Suite itself has many built-in SEO features that are suitable for nearly all communities however IP.SEO expands upon them with more advanced SEO features. We've been busy working on an update to IP.SEO which
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IP.Nexus 1.3 will soon be released alongside the upcoming IP.Board 3.2. Dozens of our clients specifically requested 2Checkout as a payment gateway and we are happy to say that IP.Nexus 1.3 adds 2Checkout as a payment option. Special Promotion from 2Checkout We are happy to say that 2Checkout has agreed to waive their normal $49 setup fee for all IPS clients for the next 60 days. While IP.Nexus 1.3 is not out just yet you may want to take advantage of this great offer now to prepare for its r
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Around this time last year, we unveiled the IP.Board Communities app for iPhones. Since then, many community owners have told us that they would like to be able to offer this application customized for their forum, with their own branding. To meet this need, we introduced the White Label Mobile Applications service, and the response has been overwhelming! So you can see what the white label applications can do for you, we'll take you through two of our customers' apps. eFestivals Forum
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Since the very first release of IP.Board, those with a working knowledge of HTML and CSS have been able to alter the look and feel of the board to better match their site. Over the years, we've made many improvements to the skinning system. For 3.2 alone we've added remote skin editing and more modular CSS to make editing much quicker. Last year, we introduced the skin generator for customers with an active license. This has been a very popular service and quickly allows customers to produce
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IP.Gallery 4 introduced a fresh look and lots of new features to our popular gallery application. We've had substantial feedback since 4 and so with Gallery 4.1 (which will be released alongside IP.Board 3.2) we've taken this feedback on board to refine some areas and add frequently requested features. My Media IP.Board 3.2 introduces a feature called "My Media". This allows you to quickly drop content from other areas of your community (attachments, blog entries, etc.) into posts in the fo
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IP.Board was one of the first boards to recognise the importance of attracting visitors via popular social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook. We have matured this integration over the past few years and IP.Board 3.2.0 offers several new enhancements. Firstly, the pop-up dialogs have undergone a facelift to make them easier to use and easier to recognise which social networking account you are posting from. We've used the modal functionality to display these pop-ups to give som
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We've had specific support for mobile touch devices in the IP.Board suite for a number of versions - these devices see a specially designed skin which is stripped down and touch friendly, rather than the usual skin. We've taken the opportunity to update this skin for IP.Board 3.2, refreshing some aspects of the style and adding support for new features. Launcher Gone is the linear menu of community links, replaced instead with a new launcher screen that shows the various areas that can be acc
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Just a bit over a week ago we opened the first public preview of IP.Board 3.2.0 and the response was more than we could have ever expected. Most everyone reported they loved IP.Board 3.2 and could not wait to use it on their own community. We received a lot of great feedback and have spent the last week reading and organizing that feedback. While we cannot apply every bit of feedback received, we were able to go through all the feedback topics and make many changes based on what we saw were recu
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Long before we threw the doors open to our IP.Board 3.2.0 preview board, we blogged about our new text editor. We reasoned that maintaining our own in-house post editor was becoming more time intensive due to the speed at which new versions of all the popular browsers are released. We chose CKEditor in the end because it's a very popular and capable editor that allows one to extend the core code. We had a lot of compliments on the new functionality of our editor but most were put off by its lo
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Following our IP.Nexus 1.3 updates, here are the changes made to customer and purchase management: Screenshots shown are subject to design change. Refunds Occasionally, it may be necessary to refund a customer's payment. Authorize.Net provides an API for refunding transactions and as of IP.Nexus 1.3, transactions can now be refunded right from the Admin CP. When you refund a payment, the transaction will automatically be refused and any purchases cancelled. Redesigned "Transactions On
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Following our IP.Nexus 1.3 updates, here are the changes to hosting integration: Screenshots shown are subject to design change. Improved Error Log If a server experiences temporary issues, Nexus is unable to make calls to the server to create, suspend, terminate accounts, etc. When this happens, a log is made so that you can review and resend the failed commands. In IP.Nexus 1.3, we've improved the interface for dealing with errors so that you can quickly locate the account it relates to
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