3DKiwi

Good news!!

It's an improvement but if they are buying a digital download we don't need there address or country. Is there any way to remove these entries?

1. The name on the "Portal" tab is set in the General Configuration settings: Website name. Change that to whatever you want. 2. The content of the portal page is done by editing the portal skin template i.e. Loook and feel > Your skin > Portal > skeletonTemplate 3DKiwi

You can add a reply button by editing the topic view template. Find: <li><a href="{parse url="module=post&amp;section=post&amp;do=reply_post&amp;f={$this->request['f']}&amp;t={$this->request['t']}&amp;qpid={$post['post']['pid']}" base="publicWithApp"}" title="{$this->lang->words['tt_reply_to_post']}">{parse replacement="reply_post_icon"} {$this->lang->words['post_reply']}</a></li> Add below <li><a href='{$displayData['reply_button']['url']}' title='{$this->lang->words['topic_add_reply']}' accesskey='r'>{parse replacement="{$displayData['reply_button']['image']}_icon"} {$this->lang->words['topic_add_reply']}</a></li> Hope this helps. I edited the language file to make the Quote reply button actually say Quote reply. 3DKiwi

Yes. 3DKiwi

The cost was $150. Hope this helps. 3DKiwi

No my server isn't hosted with IPS. I just got in touch by email and asked them about making my server more reliable. They came back with a price. I agreed and they did it. 3DKiwi

You know for anyone wanting their server optimized, I would save all the heartache and get IPS to optimize your server for you. I had them do this for my dedicated server last week. The price was pretty reasonable and saved me tinkering with stuff I didn't have a clue with. 3DKiwi

I added a few buttons and renamed things like attached. I hardly have any quoted replies. Without doing this most members were using Quote reply as their standard means of replying. 3DKiwi

I too would like to uninstall this mod and have loaded the unlock xml file. I don't get the uninstall button next to the settings. I was able to delete the task from the system schedule. I have deleted the uploaded files. I want to install and run the site map generator by someone else but want to fully uninstall this mod first. Please help. 3DKiwi

Re Recent Posts hook. IP Content can be used to create a Recent Posts block. I've created one and so far it doesn't seem to have overloaded the system whereas the one in the Resources section did (same one as linked to above). Here's what it looks like. I also created a Recent Topic block as well. The only thing I haven't figured is how to only show the last reply from the most recent replies. With a busy topic you may get 2-3 replies from the same topic showing. 3DKiwi

Kiterman - you mean post icons? if so then they haven't been removed just tucked away. Just a matter of using the full editor and clicking on the options button. 3DKiwi

It appears to be in 3.0.5 which isn't out yet. 3DKiwi

This article here in the IPS knowledge base is how I do it. Exporting and restoring large databases is a doddle using this method. Just make sure that when you are restoring a database that you have first created a new blank database. 3DKiwi

So what's the difference between this hook and the built in "Today's Top Posters" hook? Thanks 3DKiwi

Thanks. This is at least some progress. I can probably go back to using the Lightbox for attachments now that images can be saved. 3DKiwi

Ditto using a shell. What you should be doing is setting up a test forum on thye new server then test restoring the database. 3DKiwi

Perhaps many of us don't use / don't allow remote image hosting? I agree however that using images in forums needs improvement and even with image attachments like I use at my site, version 2 was superior to version 3. In version 2 clicking on an image attachment opened the image in a new window. If you had multiple image attachments then you could open them all for comparison if you wanted to. Now it's either using Lightbox or Lightbox disabled. With Lightbox disabled image attachments open in the same window so doing image comparisons is no longer possible. Then if you do use Lightbox you can't save images and you can't do image comparisons. Then of course there's the issue of no image size restrictions either for remote hosted images or image attachments. IPS needs to tidy up the use of images in posts before adding fancy new enhancements. 3DKiwi

Whatever!! 3DKiwi

The bandwidth is very low. Not really comparable to similar prices with other hosting companies. 3DKiwi

IPS aren't in the business of general hosting. They are in the business of providing forum hosting solutions i.e. IPB forum and hosting. They can then offer hosting solutions tailored to meet IPB forums. 3DKiwi

I can see the logic in having an IPB forum hosted by IPS but can't see any logic in hosting a VB forum with them since IPS wouldn't be able to provide any assistance with the forum if things go wrong. Therefore you might as well host the VB forum somewhere else where the price is a bit lower. But why anyone would want to use VB is beyond me!! 3DKiwi

What version of IPB are you running? Think I must get 500 users per hour at peak times and I'm running a lower specced dedicated server. I don't understand your question at the end. Linux mumbo jumbo. You might want to file a support ticket with IPS and get them to have a look at your configuration. 3DKiwi

I added the "View Todays Active Content" link so that it appears next to the "View new content" link. The template to edit is Global Templates > globalTemplate Find: {$this->lang->words['view_new_posts']}</a></li> Paste after: <li><a href="{parse url="app=core&amp;module=search&amp;do=active" base="public"}" title="{$this->lang->words['today_active_cont']}">{$this->lang->words['new_active_cont']}</a></li> Hope this helps. 3DKiwi

I run a reasonably active board and I'm not experiencing any resource issues. (dedicated server) I was with the recent posts hook in the resources section here and had to uninstall it. I have mine refreshing every 60 seconds. I could probably have it updating on demand and not have any problems. 3DKiwi