Randy Calvert

I assume your moderators are not unrestricted moderators. Have you checked their permissions? ACP > Members > Staff > Moderators Find your moderator... under the "Content" tab, do you have "Can manage deleted content?" enabled?

Mine recovered. It's more than it was last year when I first converted from Xenforo to IPB, but like anything Adsense, it's variable. Some months are better than others depending on what keywords are "hot", and how the Google Gods feel at any particular moment in time.

Some of us have been doing this for twenty years so it’s second nature. However you’re absolutely right in that it can be a huge learning curve! This post does not even touch on making the site highly available or scaling it. This is simply troubleshooting/debugging performance issues! So it actually is even more that you don’t have to learn! Times are changing where you need to know a little of everything to run a website if you do have that knowledge and skill… great! If not, no worries since there are great options available that makes it super simple to get started and even easier to maintain. I’m tagging @Charles and @Jordan Miller here since they have been working on ways of better telling this story and I know they’re always looking at use cases.

Literally this entire thread is for self hosting customers to manage their Linux based server. All of this stuff is done for you transparently by IPS. It’s the biggest selling point for using IPS to host the site. You no longer have to worry about the underlying infrastructure. Instead you just worry about running the community and leave the rest to IPS. 🙂

These commands are not applicable to IPS cloud hosting. It’s for self hosted customers with access to SSH.

Because they’re designed as one column setups instead of two columns. If this really bothers you, create a page in pages with whatever layout you want and make that section a link.

It’s nearly impossible to properly distribute native mobile apps due to needing to be signed and the release/management process. Instead IPS is using Progressive Web Apps which can provide the same sort of functionality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application If that is not enough and you want a true native app, it would be best to explore building one leveraging the API.

That is disabling the post before register. The only difference is guest posting is still allowed. Be careful as these forums may end up with spam attacks in them.

Dude… change your external code. It’s trying to call references to styles defined by IPS. IPS can’t fix/support 3rd party code you’re adding.

It’s not possible for users to add products to the store. You would need some sort of third party solution to do it currently. You can also post the ask in the feedback forum for it to be considered in a later release.

You would need to contact the plugin author for assistance with this.

In the mean time…. Review your title, the keywords, etc. This might be a good time to review descriptions and other things that can help improve SEO. At the end of the day…. Remember that content is king. We ended up with a topic that got HUUUUUGE attention last summer. It literally lead to a 20X increase in traffic for about a week and about $100 in AdSense revenue from that one page over a couple of weeks. It’s impossible to predict if/when it will happen, but when it does…. Boy it makes the day nice. 😄

It typically takes 30-45 days to recover mostly based on my own conversation. Google is super slow re-indexing and also rebuilding how it profiles users. Also are you using auto ads or manual placement? If manually placing… review that and see which ads are getting the best engagement.

It does not happen DAILY for me, but it’s not an irregular occurrence. At the end of the day, it’s not a problem with IPB itself. It’s a problem between your server and IndexNow. IPB can’t fix that however. You could setup some sort of monitoring from your server on a per minute basis to monitor the API site for IndexNow. However that’s outside of the support that can be provided here. Once you have the info, you would have it to work with your host and show them proof of the recurring issue. Literally that error means IPS sent the request and got nothing back after 10 seconds. There’s not much more they can do. You don’t want to hold requests for tremendously long times. It hurts server load and causes more problems than just some error log messages. I personally just ignore/delete them. At the end of the day, 95% of my traffic does not come from Bing/Yandex. It’s coming from Google and Google does not use it. So unless Bing or Yandex is a significant source of traffic for your site, you’re most likely better just turning it off. It has little “real world” value if Bing/Yandex is not where the lion share of your users are getting to you from.

Personally while it may be an issue, it’s not a critical one and anywhere near the top of the list of things that are important to fix. If this really is important to you, make your voice heard to the group that is actually writing it. While IPB can make a post asking for it, if tons of other people do it as well, it’s more likely to happen. Just like y’all are trying to say here. 😉 This has existed since 2020 for jQuery which has a MUUUUCH bigger user base than even all of IPS. People are obviously not clamoring to them to fix it. So it needs more attention. 🙂

There are specific forums available only to individuals with an active license, such as the official support forum (meaning IPS staff regularly monitor/respond to issues). There are other forums such as this one that are primarily lead by other IPS users/customers that everyone has access to. Think of it as peer-to-peer help. Without a valid license, there is no "official" technical support option so you're welcome to post in the community lead forums, but it's not guaranteed a response or resolution by IPS. You could renew the license to restore full access.

That’s the route I went after trying Sendgrid. (I found about 20-30 percent of mails bounced because of their IP space reputation and I did not want to spend nearly 100 a month to have access to a plan that included a dedicated IP.)

4th!!

I’m assuming you have some sort of paid content (text) you’re trying to sell and you need a way to distribute that text after someone makes a purchase? If do, if you also have Pages you could make a page with the content and make it viewable to a member group that has permissions to view it. In the purchase benefits for the product change the member’s secondary group to include that new group with access. Finally in the custom email section of the product include the link to that page! (You could also just put the content in that email instead of having a page as well optionally.) Now you have content that is limited to only those who paid and a way to tell them how to get it. 🙂

Have you run the compatibility checker to make sure the new host can run IPB? Generally 500 errors will happen either due to file ownership or permission issues. Also since you mentioned changing domains, did you update your conf_global.php and check your constants.php for any hard coded values? (Those would not cause 500 errors but more problems later.)

The ticket is in your email. It's an email correspondance. If you don't see it in your inbox, check your spam folder. 🙂

Activity Feeds are controlled in ACP > System > Content Discovery > Streams If you choose "Edit" for the "Unread Content" stream, you'll see what options are available. There is not any settings specifically related to RSS. However if the feeds are posting into specific dedicated forums you could filter those forums out by choosing "Content Types". Check everything and then in the bottom will be an option to select specific forums. Check everything EXCEPT the forums you don't want to show up.

I've seen this specifically on the IndexNow service, but I monitoring in place to monitor IndexNow and in those cases, it was not my server, but the route in between my server and IndexNow. So this is most likely not a problem on your server itself, but somewhere on the internet in between you and the destination server. The internet is like the roads/highway system. You leave your house and mid-way through your trip, it's possible you run into traffic. It's not a problem on your source or destination side that made you late, but instead something along the way. This is saying there was no response within 10 seconds of the request so it gave up waiting. It does not mean your server was blocking it, but that there was a temporary issue that typically goes away within a few minutes.

Take a look at the CleanTalk plugin. It's done wonders for me on the contact form spam. It's like $8 per year so not a heavy lift cost wise.

Are you using Mandrill as an API or as an SMTP server? Mandrill via an API has not been supported for quite awhile. It was removed in 4.1.11 which was released on April 23, 2016. (Wow... 6 years is quite a bit of time! How fast it goes!) So if it was integrated via the API, that would make sense if it's not working. If it's setup as an SMTP server however... that's a different issue.