While administering your site, you and your moderators may have to make textual changes in topics and replies. Administrator and moderator roles have the ability to edit the content of a post directly. For example, a user may have posted personal information and you want to remove it to protect the user from any malicious Read More >
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Approving a post in phpBB 3.0
By default, new users in phpBB 3.0 must have their topics and replies approved until they reach five posts. As an administrator, you can certainly set that to be a longer, or shorter period of time. You may also have a specific group that needs to have its posts approved or even decide that you Read More >
Moderating reported posts in phpBB 3.0
Your members have the ability to report inappropriate posts when they come across them on your site. Moderating these reported posts in phpBB is a common task for admins and moderators. Posts can be reported for a number of things but the most common are off-topic or offensive postings. Below you will find instructions on Read More >
How to move a reply to another topic in phpBB
Even though you may set site rules for your forums specifying the rules of conduct about posting, there will always be instances where you will need to move posts. It may be that someone replied to the wrong topic, or their reply may simply fit another topic better than the one it currently in. As Read More >
How to delete a topic or reply in phpBB
As your community begins to form, visitors will sign up and begin to create topics and replies. You or your moderators will now spend time going through the forums and keeping things in order. There will be times when you run across a post or topic that you want to remove from your site. Below Read More >
An overview of an SMF forum community
Before deciding if the SMF forum software is for you, let us take a quick overview of how SMF, and community forum software in general, works. This will allow you to make a decision on whether this type of software is right for your website. Install The first thing you will need to do is Read More >
How to reply to a topic in phpBB 3.0
After learning to create a new topic in your phpBB 3.0 site, you will want to know how to reply to a topic. It is fairly simple and much like creating a new topic, but it is important to understand this task specifically so you can help your new members who may have questions. Creating Read More >
How to create a new forum topic in phpBB 3.0
After members create an account (we will cover this soon), they will want to jump right in and start contributing to the site. As an administrator, you will need to know how to create topics and replies so you can help create the foundation of your community. Topics are the individual conversations, or threads, that Read More >
Changing MX records to point to InMotion servers from third party DNS
MX records help move email to the right place by specifying which server handles the email. If you have an account with us here, but have a domain hosted somewhere else that does not offer email services, you may want to host your email with us here on your InMotion account. This is most certainly Read More >
How to Set Up Email on a Galaxy S Phone
You can use your Samsung Galaxy phone to check the email account for your domain hosted with InMotion Hosting. You can add multiple email accounts to your phone so you can be sure to stay connected for work or personal purposes. The steps below were taken on a Samsung Galaxy S Blaze device from T-Mobile. Read More >
Setting SMTP settings in SMF 2.0
SMF has the ability to send emails out to its users. You can send them out via the default php mail or you can use SMTP protocol. To set up SMTP for SMF , simply follow the instructions below. How to set SMTP settings Log into your SMF admin dashboard. From the entry page, click Read More >
How to edit group permissions in SMF 2.0
Editing user permissions is a simple, but important task for administrators. When you have a large group of users or members, you may want to divide them up into groups. These groups may have different permissions allowing the members different access to specific areas, or allowing them to do specific things. However, you may want Read More >
How phpBB Community Software Works
phpBB is a very popular online bulletin board. Before you install phpBB and jump into it, you may want to first go over how forum software works. Forum software is designed to help you build an interactive community with users, or members. Visitors will come and sign up so they can participate in discussions with Read More >
How to censor words in phpBB 3.0
Whenever you deal with a community of users, there is always a risk of one person offending another with specific words. While you can moderate every post or require all posts to be approved before being allowed to display, this can become very time consuming and tedious, even if you share the work with other Read More >
Editing permission roles in phpBB 3.0
When dealing with administrators, moderator, and users, you notice there are many levels of each. Editing the permission roles in phpBB allows you to customize the default roles provided or even create new roles within the existing categories. This way you can further customize the behavior of different users within your community. How to edit Read More >
How to assign moderators to forums in phpBB 3.0
In the beginning, you may be able to administer your forums by yourself. As your community grows, however, you may want to begin assigning individual moderators or moderation groups to your forums. You can assign moderator privilges to either indivirual users or groups, and you can assign moderators either globally, or to individual forums. Below Read More >
Copying forum permissions in phpBB 3.0
As you manage your community and help it grow, you will likely add forums and categories to your site. You may want to use the same permission setup on a new forum that you already have on an existing one. PhpBB allows you the ability to copy forum permissions from one forum to another to Read More >
How to change forum level permissions in phpBB 3.0
When creating your community you may end up working with many forums and categories. You may want to change permissions on the forum level to allow specific users and groups to have certain abilities and access. Below we describe how to change your phpBB forum permissions for your chosen forums in your community website. Editing Read More >
Managing spambot countermeasures in phpBB 3.0
Automated spam is very prominent across the web. Spammers employ bots, or automated programs, to crawl the web and inject forums and blogs with comments pointing back to their desired links. Employing anti-spam processes, known as spambot countermeasures, in your phpBB site can help reduce the amount of automated spam junk you get in your Read More >
How to Configure User Registration Settings in phpBB 3.0
When customizing your site and its behavior, you do not want to forget the user registration settings. From within the administrative dashboard in phpBB, you can tailor the settings for such features as password width, username width, the number of posts a user must hit before no longer being considered ‘new’, etc. This article discusses Read More >
