Simon Woods

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I'm looking into buying this plugin.  (Thanks for developing it!).  Some questions / feature requests:
Disable on mobile view Set height Allow per-topic setting to "collapse" topic cover by each user / allow per-user setting in Account Settings to "collapse" all topic covers   Default topic cover per category 

Okay, it was working fine for me but it's always good to get the most stable version.

I noticed a few issues & fixed, working with the latest version.

About This File
This plugin will give to users from specific user groups the ability to put topics under special surveillance, by adding a badge (risk of closure) and message in specific places to users get advised that won't be tolerated flaming/discussions on those topics.
Users from selected groups will have access to a new area on ModeratorCP (Topics Under Special Surveillance) to get a list of all topics under special surveillance. From that new area, those users will be able to remove the special surveillance status from topics (same can be done in topic view). Those users has also the abilitiy to receive a notification everytime another user put a topic under special surveillance.
Every action (add or remove special surveillance status) is added on Moderator Log for further check.
 
 
 

I work a full-time job. I have other responsibilities. I am not ignoring you, I just have not had time to investigate yet following your PM. Please be patient.

Noted, thank you.

About This File
A full-featured Tutorials/Article system for your IPS Community.
Here's a quick rundown of some of the features for this application:
Unlimited categories of articles, plus unlimited depth of parent-child relationships Ability to use comments system or support topics, or both Per-category permissions to show category, read articles, submit articles, add comments, and avoid approval queues Extra Fields that can be used per-category Group permissions on specifc actions Integration with the Bulk Mail system Integration with ACP Live Seach (Tutorials categories) Integration with Tag system Integration with Report system Integration with Search systemsystem Integration with Share Links to share, download, or print articles Integration with Sitemap system to include tutorials in your sitemap Moderator actions on articles and comments Ability to create RSS feeds of all tutorials Ability to attach files to tutorials and comments Ability to quickly convert a forum post into a new tutorial Ability to copy a tutorial from one category to another or to the same category Friendly URLs for tutorials and categories Ability to give reputation points for tutorials Ability to rate tutorials Ability to follow categories and tutorials to receive notifications on updatesupdates Tools to create topics to existing tutorials, make tutorials of topics and rebuild support topics text if you have changed the template on Tutorials settings. And much, much more! Missing in this version:
Multi-page tutorials. It will be back in a future version.   For IP.Board 3.X: https://community.invisionpower.com/files/file/5386-tutorials/

Yep. Sounds good. 

This plugin allows you to highlight linked posts that have the #comment-XXX tag within the url. Settings included to change the color used for highlight background and border.
Download here.

After jumping in to DangerDick's site a moment ago I realised I didn't alter the plugin description to alert people to this.
So, FYI for everyone, be sure after installation, on the list of plugins in the acp, grab KS and drag it all the way to the top.
The order of plugins does matter - it is the order in which they are built out, and KS does a lot of things. If you have KS on the bottom it may or may not break something enough to bork the site, not through any fault of it's own, but becasue a plugin above it is expecting x, y, or z and now it is not there, so the theme/site throws an error. The other reason is that KS may just over-write any changes a plugin above it has made, making it appear that that plugin doesn't work at all. 

Worked with @ehren. tonight to track down some ipsfocus themes vs. KS problems.
Short version: KS works fine with ipsfocus themes. There are occasionally some theme blips that pop up - if you run with ipsfocus stuff and have a problem just yell, the fix is almost certainly a tiny bit of css code in your custom.css to fix the problem (duplicate avatar in userbar is the one I encountered). Granted, as with any theme, once core elements have been moved or duplicated, plugins may no longer be able to hook in correctly to do what they need to do so you will need to expect some loss of functionality the more the theme has been altered away from the IPS default.
However, as is the case with all IPS 4x stuff, you MUST keep your themes up to date. If you somehow are running 7 or 8 or more point versions behind since you updated your theme and your theme provider has provided updated themes - what's your excuse? 
The problem site this evening was running a number of ipsfocus themes, two of which crashed when KS was active in the plugin list. With KS disabled those two themes resumed working. How and why? No idea. Hell, I have no idea how they functioned at all those themes hadn't been updated in months which is an eternity in IPS time. More power to you if those out-of-date themes still function on the latest versions of IPS but once you start adding on plugins on top of those ancient themes who knows when something is going to tip the theme system over the edge and crash out.
KS 10 soonish. 
 

As I share this post:
Can be a must share Q/A form FAQ System to a post.

A must have feature for my community is definitely the ability to share in a post a single question / answer.

I sent a private message to Mike about this, but I thought I should leave this here for others to discuss.
I suggested that instead of having this as a global option for all the forums, it would be nice of we could enable the option on a per topic basis, so we can control which topics use this feature.
He's planning to add that on a per forum basis, and then per topic.

This plugin automatically adds new posts by other members into the topic while viewing the topic. Overriding the default flash message with options for how often and how long new posts should be checked for.
v1 Features:
Enable/disable override of force showing of new posts. Set how many seconds between each check for new posts. Set how long before new posts stopped being checked. Set how many seconds extra each new attempt for new topics will increase

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News application has been updated and includes a few more bug fixes and compatibility with IPB 4.1.12.

This looks so.very.good! On my to-buy list.

Custom Fields anywhere and everywhere.
This application is an update to the v3 versions of the Topic Template System and the Calendar Template System.
The Template System allows you to customize anything in the suite - forums, calendars, gallery categories, blogs, etc - and to create forms for the user to populate when posting new content.
Create custom fields Group custom fields into Sets for individual containers (e.g. forums) Customize the layout of the field values when viewing content Allow multiple Sets per container to give users a choice of which form to populate Mark individual fields as required - preventing users from creating content without populating the additional fields  
 

Take Lindy's advice.

I can nearly guarantee a plugin that simply selects from the user table to determine who has been active in the past X hours to manipulate the list is going to be more reliable than hacking code, changing server configs, etc.  I'm not sure you understand what you're actually doing here - you're not setting a display cutoff, you're altering the PHP garbage collection config. 
We've had issues with people tinkering with this and I feel compelled to note, you're "voiding your warranty" so-to-speak and we will not provide tech support should you end up with "people aren't staying logged in" etc. Proceed at your own risk. 

Because IPS4 uses PHP sessions and the default garbage collection is 30 minutes. Editing PHP configurations is beyond most users and and it's really not necessary - if you want to make your site look more busy than it actually is, there's plugins in the marketplace to replace the online user block. You should ideally leave the stock settings alone.