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…
