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yep that was my plan. however I do need to figure out the order by which I do the conversion from Advanced Tags to Radical Tags. Right now I'm thinking (if Radical has a version that works with 4.2) to convert now and then disable it and upgrade to 4.7. thank you!

Just trying to think through all the paths. But yeah, simplest is usually the best!

We are on PHP 7.1. Can we: 1. upgrade that to PHP 7.4 2. Upgrade from IPB 4.2.x to IPB 4.7.3 3. Upgrade from PHP 7.3 to PHP 8 4. Then upgrade to IPB 4.7.4 Is this a viable upgrade path? Could we even just use the automatic updater this way? Or is there no way to specify upgrading specific versions using the auto-updater?

My forums are on Advanced Tags and Prefixes 3.1.9. I need to upgrade to IPB 4.7, so if I were to cut over to Radical Tags what is the best migration path? Can I migrate over before upgrading to 4.7 (preferred, since Tags and Prefixes doesn't support that). I'm on IPB 4.2.9. Also is there documentation I can read about migrating my Tags and Prefixes set up over?

Worse case I can apparently convert to Radical Tags I guess. Was 4.4 or 4.5 the last on PHP 7.x?

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Yep @Adriano Faria out of the stuff we have installed i think that might be the only one that is 4.7 compatible...and we don't have a lot installed. We really use the heck of the advanced tags and prefixes...if we are dead with that one, I'm not sure what to do yet.....

Questions: For determining if they will cause a problem with upgrading I'm checking in 3 places: 1. Applications 2. Community Enhancements 3. Plugins I have questions in bold below. The really important one for our forum is Advance Tags and Prefixes. For applications, Adriano has already updated our core app. I have one other, this one: Am I out of luck with this plugin since it has not been updated for 4.7? We use it extensively on our site. For Community Enhancements, we are just using GEOIP and SPAM Defense, and then third party the Google Maps enhancement. Is there a way to tell version info on these, or do I need to worry about them for the upgrade? For the Plugins We are using this one: and this one: The former only says support for 4.4, the latter does support 4.7. Am I out of luck on the one that only supports 4.4? thank you!!!

OK...no we've got that covered pretty well. Just the one site on that server. I was just wondering if there was another just IPB specific utility!

We are doing a full backup of our server and have multiple copies of that. Do you guys do a "IPB install only backup"? What are you using for that?

Thank you all! Hope to work on this tomorrow. Need to spend a little time RTFMing.

Thank you!

Hi there, I'm working on a long neglected community forum setup and I have some questions. I'm getting up to speed on a few thing, though I have done a lot of configuration of our install, our other guy (who is out of pocket at the moment) did a lot of this work. Here are my questions: 1. Does our license include the ability to set up a test instance of our forum software so I can test an upgrade? Is there anything I need to do or configure to make that work? So basically (at least for a short while, but preferably ongoing, have a dev and a prod forum to test changes. 2. Our board is still on 4.2.9 (like I said, neglected). I already had the custom app we use updated so it will support 4.7. But my question is this: are there significant changes or road bumps you guys are aware of for making such a big immediate jump in versions? I'm also considering just backing up the whole thing and running the upgrade and restoring from backup if I run into issues, but obviously having a long term dev environment would be preferred. 3. i'm forgetting my third question! lol. So I have more questions, but the above is a good start.

If you choose to limit it, of course...it is your plugin to define as you want. This is just a suggestion coming from a customer, I would prefer that it worked that way instead. As it is, we have a large number of topics, and so it just shows this large number which is more meaningless to the users vs seeing that there are unread topics in the other forums that they could quickly access via the sidebar.

I love the plugin @Adriano Faria . How hard would it be to add an option to make it show just unread topics versus total topics in a forum as it does now....perhaps as a toggle.