Angel Costa

This add-on has been fantastic for my community. THANK YOU!

I have a few items i would really like to see included in future updates, which I think have all been discussed before:
Include "Hit Tracking" - track how many times a replace link has been clicked, i only need total count really, as I can track where it came from using Google Analytics. Include the ability to parse multiple inputs. IE one custom link entry for multiple words. I frequently create 3-4 custom links for a phrase, like "Phrase A", "PhraseA", "PhrasesA" but they all point to the same Custom URL. Exclude a certain page/url from having custom links replaced. If I can pool together with others to help pay for this development and upgrades I would be willing to do that!

 

Yes, it should. 

I also wanted to format the global "date format" to (dd.mm.yyyy), any other is just annoying/and confusing for me/customers etc.
The thing is I'd like to have the English Language pack with it, why is there not a setting for such a "simple" thing :o? or maybe I'm missing it.

I am gonna use @opentype's pages. No wonder IPS itself does not use its own blog app.

If we are honest, Pages is not very nice after installation. It looks like just forum sections on another way. Without photos, not inviting. But if you don't look after installing Pages and immediately install a template from @opentype or another developer right away, it's actually fine. 😉 
Seriously and @all: Where are the examples of good, beautiful pages made with Pages, to convince people like @Angel Costa or @403 - Forbiddeen?
Of course, opentype's pages https://typography.guru/ and https://www.typografie.info/ come to my mind, and Jimi Wikman's https://jimiwikman.se/. Or https://www.aspergerexperts.com/. Or https://www.npnparents.org/parenting/travel.
Which ones do you know?

It’s easy for you but not for your users.
We don’t make our website for ourselves or so that it is as easy as possible for us. We have to think from a user perspective. And there the separation is wrong in my eyes. It starts with the different UI and ends with the search function at the latest. No matter how great your articles in WordPress are - they won't be found in IPS. No matter how exciting your users content is in your community, the readers of your WordPress site will never get to know them.
If your community is really important to you and the contributions of your community users are just as important as your WordPress contributions, then they should also be found in a single search function.
Yes, Pages is very brittle. And yes, it takes some effort to change from the fancy WordPress editor or pagebuilder. But as I said - it can't be about what *we* like, it has to be about what makes the site the easiest for users to use.
Exactly my question. 

Absolutely agree with you.
It's been a pain to create a portal with IPS, pages is extremely difficult to use, not at all intuitive or friendly. The community here does not give you the code for what you want (like wordpress community often does) and you will not find blogs, websites or your doubts anywhere other than here.
Go with WP for your main website and IPS for the forum. That's it.

Does it work with 4.6?

With my experience of using both WordPress and IPS Community for years, I would choose and recommend WordPress for blogs.
And there is no other choice between those two, honestly, IMO.
IPS isn't bad for what it was initially created for, i.e., for forums. But not more than that.

How did it go?

Just to point that this 3 year old issue is still going on in the last version (4.5).

Our users complain about relative dates again and again. The main issue they have: they do not want to calculate how many hours ago is yesterday. They would like to differ between posts made today and yesterday. So they need clean statement today, 11:23 or yesterday, 23:43. At the moment if they see something like 19 hours ago they must work out if today is already longer as 19 hours then the post is from today. Otherwise from yesterday. A lot of our users wish to see what content has been published "TODAY". 
Can you please consider to change the logic of f_hours and f_hours_short to figure out whether the post has been made today or yesterday and print out the words instead of X hours ago?

It's done. Pending for approval.

@dayh why don't you submit the skin to the marketplace? Even if you want to keep it free with no support, i think it would be valuable for the skin to be there and you would have a notion of the people using it.

I said I wouldn't support this and not sure if anyone is using it, but we noticed a few errors on the IP search page which have been updated. Thought I would apply the fix to the theme I uploaded on here, whilst there I also noticed a couple more lines which were individual to my site and removed.
The theme is also on 4.4.3, but I will list the changes below if you're staying on 4.4.2
.ipsTable_zebra tbody tr:nth-child( even ):not(.ipsTable_highlight):not(.ipsModerated) {background: #121823;} .ipsTable th {background: #1A212D;} /** * Remove below (around line 255 in custom.css) */ .STholder {color: #6d96c0; font-size: 11px;} .cShareLink {color: #6D96C0 !important;} .cShareLink_twitter {background: transparent;}  
Dark_Theme.xml

Ok, I have received a couple of messages regarding my night theme, asking if it was available for purchase at all. I'm not a theme developer, it's was never intended to enter the marketplace so the custom.css is not the most professional or tidy one you will ever come across, but I am happy to share it for free and unsupported in this topic. 
Couple of things, my site runs on a few template modifications, I have reverted all template files for the theme download so it's running all stock 4.4.2 templates.
I have also removed CSS which is unique to my site such as the fixed width and icon replacements which you will see in the screenshot below.
If you want fixed with, just add this to the top of the custom.css file and edit the value for what suits your site.
.ipsLayout_container {max-width: 1100px;} I have also included the editor skin, simply unzip, upload to /applications/core/interface/ckeditor/ckeditor/skins and then select Night Mode under the Editor tab in your theme options.
If anyone would like to tidy this up and package it for the marketplace feel free, although it would be nice if it was kept free. 
Hopefully IPS realise that Dark Themes for mobile users are becoming more popular and include one out the box in future, come on IPS, sort it out!

 
 
NightMode.zip
Dark_Theme.xml

Sat down this morning, 9am UK time and thought I'm doing a night mode, it's happening.
It's now almost 8pm and I'm 98% there.
Although I must confess I took a 2hr afternoon nap.
It all comes down to this editor toolbar, the image sprite has all kinds of shading on the icons so it's not a simple whack a white layer on the top. 😫

Also I need to figure out how to darken the lazy loading backgrounds whilst loading in as it's bright white, and taking a few screenshots just now I'll probably change the follow button and that's it.
Possible but like I said earlier, a real ball ache.

Is it possible to leave some groups out? As an admin, it sucks to be restricted from my own board. lol

Is it possible to leave some groups out? As an admin, it sucks to be restricted from my own board. lol

Hi, is it possible to have only one keyword linked per post? Because if I have a reply like "so, to do this thing, you have to change the thing and update the thing".
In that example, all instances of the word "thing" would be linked.
I don't mind if it happens in another reply in the same topic, but to have it in the same post confuses users.

It's a good idea to restrict the link parser somehow, so it won't generate unlimited links. This should be configurable.
Why?
Google shouldn't crawl my pages and detect a linking overdose. An option would be useful to restrict links per post, links per author, and links per page.
If you have too many keywords linked, and many keywords are used by the poster, this sometimes results in in a huge amount of links per page. 
  It would be nice to see the custom link CATEGORIES come back, to better organize links if you really have a lot of them.
In my case for example, I'd like to have 20 categories (for the thematic and synonyms), and each keyword/keyphrase is linking to the same link

Hi, is it possible to have only one keyword linked per post? Because if I have a reply like "so, to do this thing, you have to change the thing and update the thing".
In that example, all instances of the word "thing" would be linked.
I don't mind if it happens in another reply in the same topic, but to have it in the same post confuses users.

@Carsen Klock
Go to ACP -> Members -> Groups -> Guests -> Links Directory. Enable the permission to access the app.

SUPER USEFULL!!!