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    Lucas James got a reaction from sobrenome in Tasks.php bogging down the server?   
    Please show the result of following:
    crontab -l and what does the cron log show:
    grep CRON /var/log/syslog BTW, I run multiple IPS forums and WP sites with lot of crons simultaneously (slow, average and high traffic) on different servers but never encountered such issue.
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    Lucas James got a reaction from sobrenome in Amazon SES API For Sending Mail   
    Web API is faster than SMTP: https://sendgrid.com/blog/web-api-or-smtp-relay-how-should-you-send-your-mail/
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    Lucas James got a reaction from netonet in Disable Ads on login page   
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    Lucas James got a reaction from Gauravk in How to add whatsapp floating chat icon?   
    See:
    https://github.com/rafaelbotazini/floating-whatsapp and http://www.iamrohit.in/add-floating-whatsapp-message-button-on-your-website/  
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    Lucas James reacted to GTServices in Highlight : SEO Plugin > avoid Google Panda penalty   
    Be cautious when NOINDEXing topics in masses. 
    If you made a mistake NOINDEXing a topic that has been indexed for years, it may take a while for Google to reindex (1 to several months). What's worse is that you may end up with a lower rank. You are forcing Google to recrawl/reindex the page. Older topics will get hit the hardest.
    With that said, there are some pages you can safely NOINDEX. I would start with Profile pages. They suck up your crawl rate. NOINDEX inactive accounts and maybe accounts that have 10 or less posts. You can already do this with IPS.
    If you have RSS generated pages, you may want to consider removing them as well. These are just copied content from external sites. Not useful in terms of Organic Search unless they have lots of comments. Manually review any that have lots of comments.
    A great way to do this is to review your Analytics > Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels > Organic Search > Landing Page data. Check how much traffic a page has been bringing in the past 7, 30, and 180 days. You may be surprised to find out that some "thin content" pages are actually bringing in traffic. Compare the numbers with other pages on your site.
    IMPORTANT: Make sure you are comparing the right numbers. Organic Search is all about USERS not Pageviews.
    NOTE: Most sites really don't have an issue with crawl rate.
    For sites that migrated to IPS (ie. vbulletin to IPS) the biggest issue occurs with change in URLs. This affects topics, images, and profiles. 
    The bigger your site the longer it will take to climb back up.
    Many site owners don't realize how much traffic Image Search brings in until it's too late. If I remember correctly, IPS doesn't offer any redirects for attachments/images with migration. They only offer redirects for topics/forums. However, if forum URLs lack forum ids* (which some vbulletin SEO tools offered) than this is something that IPS doesn't offer out of the box. You will need custom code for this.
    * domain.com/forum-name/
    Before you mass NOINDEXing, I recommend the following...
    Check URLs in Analytics that may be affected. DO NOT NOINDEX BLINDLY.
    If you NOINDEX 5,000 topics that generated an avg 10 USERS per week. Than you are looking at 50,000 USERS lost for the week.
    Let's say your site has an avg 1.5 Pages/Session. That's equivalent to 75,000 pageviews lost for the week.
    Have ads on the site? The avg is 3 ad slots per page. That's 225,000 impressions lost for the week. 1 million impressions lost for the month
     
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    Lucas James got a reaction from Sheffielder in How do I add padding above and below advertisements?   
    Try this:
    <div style="padding-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px;"> AdSense Code... </div>  
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    Lucas James got a reaction from sobrenome in Manifest and cookie-free domain   
    @Adlago
    So, a cookie-free domain is NOT an option for sites running via Cloudflare. Your comments?
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    Lucas James got a reaction from Losha1989 in Amazon SES API For Sending Mail   
    Web API is faster than SMTP: https://sendgrid.com/blog/web-api-or-smtp-relay-how-should-you-send-your-mail/
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    Lucas James got a reaction from PrettyPixels in Forum Sidebar   
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    Lucas James reacted to Adriano Faria in Raffles System   
    Handled via PM. All fine in your board.
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    Lucas James reacted to Adriano Faria in Member Away   
    Handled via PM. All fine in your board.
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    Lucas James reacted to TheJackal84 in (DF42) Enhanced Profile Blocks (Support topic)   
    Will check it out with-in the next day or 2
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    Lucas James got a reaction from sobrenome in WhatsApp Share Service - Supporttopic   
    Add this to your custom.css file:
    @media screen and (min-width: 979px) { .cShareLink_whatsapp { display: none; } }  
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    Lucas James got a reaction from NiallC in Comment out Template code   
    for HTML:
    <!-- Your code goes here --> for CSS:
    /* Your code goes here */  
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    Lucas James got a reaction from TAMAN in Magnum Theme [ support topic ]   
    @TAMAN
    Please update the Swiper Slider in Magnum theme to the latest release v4.4.1
    https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
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    Lucas James got a reaction from TAMAN in Dreadnought Theme [ support topic ]   
    @TAMAN
    You're using an outdated version of Swiper Slider 4.2.2 in the Dreadnought 2.1.8 theme (for IPS 4.3), whereas the latest version of Swiper Slider 4.2.6 (after v4.2.2) is out since 1st May 2018.
    https://github.com/nolimits4web/swiper/commit/03afbf00068f8f9f974cdc126c53a4d18b528a45
    Please update the Swiper Slider in the theme, please.
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    Lucas James got a reaction from InsideEdge in (NB40) Recent Topics/Posts   
    I think a really good idea would be to add down the bottom of the widget a second or third page to view more recent posts. I love how this combines recent posts and topics into the same widget saving heaps of space. I also don't want to have to extend recent posts to 20 as it would take up my whole forum. The "advanced status updates"  plugin does this multi page widget really nicely.

    Adding a second or third page would be amazing and would somehow make this awesome plugin even better 
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    Lucas James reacted to newbie LAC in (NB40) Recent Topics/Posts   
    Hello,
    40?
    The setting means truncate on X lines. Not 40 chars/words.
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    Lucas James got a reaction from Adriano Faria in Pokes - IP.Board 4.x   
    I just want to do right by my member who are dedicated to the community. I'm aware of how it works but impossible is nothing.
     
     
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