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@sean182011 not sure if I understand correctly. Yes you can achieve that with permissions but you'll also need to approve all registrations manually. You can select that under Settings > Login & Registration So, they won't become a member until you approve their accounts. But is it that what you want to achieve? Basically nobody becoming a member until manually approved? Or even after being approved, still not being able to see more than a guest? I still don't have that quite clear after reading your post. For the latter, the most practical solution would be giving your default member group (generally group #3) limited permissions. So, when they move from "guests" to "members" they only see what you want them to see, and only after that they begin moving to other usergroups with more permissions, either manually by you moving one by one or by promotion rules (which is generally a better way). Mind you, this solution is better applied when you are creating your site, so from the beginning the member group (which you can give any name really) serves that purpose. The way around if your forum already exists and you have members already would be, before implementing the above, to mass move all your members to a higher usergroup. You start by copying the "members" group and then moving members to the newly created group that you can call whatever you want too. Anyway, if I misunderstood, please let me know.

@Adam Chernoff, you may want to take a look at these third party apps: https://www.invisioneer.org/files/file/23-dp45-guest-view-limits/ https://www.invisioneer.org/files/file/24-dp45-groups-view-limits/ Particularly if you want to have a teaser system to allow guests or members of some usergroups to have a limited access to topics, rather than all or nothing.

These three should be fine, as I have them and had no problem with them. The Classifieds app needs to be updated though. I opened a ticket on bbcode.it and now I'm waiting, as the scanner did lock that app. Luckily I was able to perform the IPS upgrade to 4.7.15 without interruptions (it simply locked that app after the upgrade was completed), and being this on my test installation, it's not a major problem. But I'll wait for that app to be updated before upgrading my live site to the lastest version.

So, is this a case that if upgrading IPS to 4.7.15, one needs to upgrade third party apps before? (I mean to avoid being stuck half way an upgrade?)

Thanks Wicked, but I believe that in that case you should have come across the scanner before. Version 4.7.3 was the last version that worked with PHP 7.4 and it came with the scanner to help you prepare for the PHP 8-compatible versions. I asked because if you were upgrading from something older than 4.7.3, you could have simply switched back your PHP to 7.4, uninstall the files, and then change back to PHP 8 after the upgrade. Now, it worries me that it seems that the scanner on 4.7.15 seems to be detecting potential problems not detected by immediately earlier versions. I'm saying this based on this topic and others commenting about having trouble with the upgrade due to third party apps that now they cannot uninstall, etc.

@Wicked007, may I ask from what version you are upgrading from? Is this the first time you upgrade to a version with the PHP8 scanner?

As others say, it would be good to find out the reason, particularly if it happens that often. But if you have access to your database, see this other thread for a one by one case solution.

If you are looking for a replacement for this plugin in particular, Adriano has made an app that imports the existing topic descriptions you may have and that were created with Newbie LAC's plugin (and previous plugins too for that matter) The discussion topic can still be found here: And I guess now you can get it directly from his site.

Yes, that's what I've always done. The problem begins if you have a paywall (like I do), and different areas, some visible by guests, others only to members, etc. and you want to follow these Google instructions. I thought there maybe was a way of editing templates to incorporate Google's instructions. Cheers.

Thanks @Dll, that's useful to know. Does anyone know how to implement that on an IPS community?

@DawPi, maybe a silly question but do we need to use the same registration details to sign up on invisionize.pl? Or it doesn't matter for as long as we provide the correct licence key?

Also, by using Nathan's plugin linked above (which has a lot of flexibility per type of content too).

@John Michaloudis I believe that cloaking could become a problem when the content actually differs. Eg, a blog about sexual health for search engines, instead of a list of viagra and similar products for sale for whoever is logged in. Not so much when you have a paywall like many online newspapers do, where the search engine accesses the same content as a subscribed or logged in user, as opposite to what a guest would see (generally a message inviting him to subscribe). A way of achieving the same with IPS, would be to create a group that you could name, "search engines", "bots", "crawlers:, etc. and you give it reading/downloading privileges akin to what logged in members have to read the topics. Then you could install this plugin and set it up:

Thanks @Jim M and @DawPi. Yes, changing the value of the members_bitoptions column seems to work. I changed it from 1342242816 to 268500992 (which is the value almost everyone else had there) and that seems to work.

Hello, any idea how this was solved in the end. I’m having the same problem with one member. If it’s something I could do please let me know.

Okay working now, it looks it didn't like the asterisk before "forums" for some reason. Cheers.

Hi guys, I've moved my subdomain to my top domain, and internally all is fine with IPS. I've created a redirect for Google links in Cloudflare like this, to redirect the whole site to the equivalent new urls: *forums.mydomain.com/* Forwarding URL (Status Code: 301 - Permanent Redirect, Url: https://mydomain.com/$1) Now, I'm 99% sure that should do the trick and redirect any page form the subdomain to the main domain. However the redirect is only taking you to the landing page of the main domain, but not to the equivalent pages of the main domain. For example, if I type https://forums.mydomain.com/gallery it takes you to https://mydomain.com instead of taking you to https://mydomain.com/gallery. For good measure, I've added a redirect in the htaccess file in forums.mydomain.com like this: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !forums.mydomain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301] But still the same. Any clues as what can be wrong? Could the site being offline have something to do? (I doubt it). Does these redirect take many hours? (However, it is redirecting, except that only to the landing page) Any ideas? Thanks

I think the problem could also be solved if IPS was to implement an option to avoid giving points for topics/posts made in forums/subforums where the post count is not incremented; after all that option exists for forums, so it would make sense from a global pov to have it as part of the points system as well. Just my 2 cents.

Guys, I don't want to throw a spanner in the works, but the empiric evidence of my forum tells me otherwise, that is, a rule for a topic and a separate rule for a post, don't give 1 point each. If I delete the Topic rule, then creating a new Topic gives 0 point. I've done it in the last few days, and now I've gone back to having both rules active again. I see why you state that, as it would make sense from strictly technical pov, but is there a chance that IPS in all its wisdom has already foreseen that giving a point each would be redundant? Or maybe it's just my installation, and I'm fine with it for as long as I know I need both rules to give 1 point. But I suggest everyone to test this for yourselves. I suspect Canis' problem relates more to the fact that the points/reputation system is dissimilar to the post count system, upon which the ranks system was based for many years. Now it suffices to having a subforum where post count doesn't count for a difference between points and posts to gradually increase with the passing of time.

It sounds to me that the easiest thing would be to have some forum/s that are open to all members and then you post the content accordingly. I'm not really sure I'm following what you wrote correctly though.

Cool, thanks.

Looks good, but how does it handle multiple photos?

Maybe I should add this to the Suggestions Thread, but it would be good if it did for a matter of internal logic, as content count does matter for group promotion (in my case it's the only element that matters for group promotion). Just imagine a new setting in the Achievements Settings that you could toggle to make these posts not count. The way it is now is rather messy and more than one user has asked me about the discrepancy between post count and points (they cannot get their heads around what points are many times).

Thanks guys.

Hi @Adriano Faria, this app is working nicely and it imported the topic descriptions from the old plugin as expected. So, thank you very much for that. Just a question, in Newbie's plugin I used, it was possible to adjust the style a bit in my custom.css. For example: /** * Font size for topic description */ .nbTopicDescription { font-size: 14px; color: #000000 } #nbTopicDescription { color: #000000 } Is it possible to do the same with yours by any chance?