In this guide, we’ll show you how to setup social icons in AbanteCart. After installing AbanteCart, you may have noticed the social media buttons on the top right of your site header. By default, they are set to go to the social networks for AbanteCart. Social media is a great way to connect to your Read More >
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Using the LimeSurvey Toolbar and Home Page
LimeSurvey is a free and easy-to-use online survey application. In this article, we are going to cover the LimeSurvey toolbar and home page, as well as the features and options they include. When you log in to LimeSurvey, the first thing you will see is the homepage with the toolbar at the top of the Read More >
How to Create a Topic in SMF
Creating a topic is one of the fudamental actions in your SMF forum. Users, with the proper user privilege, will be creating topics for discussion with the click of a button. You, as the admin, can always create topics of your own as well. Create a Topic in SMF In order to create a topic Read More >
Setting Up Your LimeSurvey Site
LimeSurvey is a free and open-source tool used to create and publish online surveys, collect responses, create statistics, and export the results to other applications. Setting up your LimeSurvey site is quick and easy. In this article, we will help you set up your LimeSurvey site after you have created and activated your account. How Read More >
How to Create a Category in SMF Forum
In this article, you will learn how to craft a new category in SMF. The SMF category structure is an important part of the whole content hierarchy, and an integral part of organizing your forum properly. When crafting your forum with SMF, you need to make sure you understand the difference categories, board, and topics. Read More >
How to Create a Board in SMF Forum
Now that you know how to create categories in your SMF forum, it’s time to create some boards. Boards are where all the magic happens. A board is where your users can submit topics for discussion. This is what a forum is all about, creating discussions and discourse from the crowd. Don’t worry about a Read More >
How to Create a Free LimeSurvey Account
LimeSurvey is a free and open-source online survey application. It enables users to create and publish online surveys, collect responses, create statistics, and export the results to other applications. LimeSurvey was written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License 2. In this article, we will go over how to create a free Read More >
What is LimeSurvey?
LimeSurvey is a free and open-source online survey application used to create a wide range of high-quality online surveys and questionnaires. The web server-based software gives users the ability to develop and publish online surveys and collect responses without doing any programming. With LimeSurvey, you can learn more about people, their interests and opinions, as well Read More >
How to Create a Checksum in ownCloud
The capability to produce a checksum in ownCloud with the Checksum app is a simple but valuable feature for checking if a file has been modified since you last viewed it. A checksum is a string of alphanumeric characters that results from running the data within a file through a cryptographic hash algorithm. For example, Read More >
How to Install Simple Machines Forum (SMF)
Having a Simple Machines Forum (SMF) installed on your site can offer you with an easy and secure way to engage with your website visitors. In this article, you will learn how to install SMF with the one-click Softaculous Apps Installer, available in your cPanel. SMF works great on all hosting packages, but for custom Read More >
How to Configure the ownCloud Gallery App
ownCloud users don’t need another PHP-based content management system (CMS) or external application to easily sift through hundreds of photos and graphics. The ownCloud Gallery app allows you to easily view multiple images at once. The feature set eases the task of finding the right image as quickly as possible in galleries and slideshows. Using Read More >
How to Install a Laravel Development Environment
Laravel provides not only a complete and developer-friendly framework for creating PHP web applications, it also provides a local server for configuring your app. In this article, you’ll learn how to create a complete Laravel development environment in your local server, which you can then upload to a live production environment. In order to follow Read More >
ownCloud Music Player
The ownCloud Music player app lets you access your music collection and favorite internet radio stations anywhere with an internet connection. There are many reasons you might benefit from an ownCloud audio player: Podcast hosting Organize audio files and metadata for a website Privately share music stems with other musicians or audio professionals The music Read More >
ownCloud Brute-Force Protection
The ownCloud Brute-Force Protection app for login attempts can thwart many ownCloud security issues. The app helps protect against brute force attacks, including dictionary attacks, by banning IPv4 addresses after a set amount of incorrect unsuccessful user login attempts. Install the ownCloud Brute-Force Protection App Improve ownCloud Security Install the ownCloud Brute-Force Protection App Below Read More >
How to Log Into concrete5 via Softaculous
After installing concrete5 using the Softaculous Application Installer, you can then login to concrete5 via Softaculous. While it is possible to login to a concrete5 site directly using the login URL, logging into concrete5 via Softaculous is quicker and easier and can be done from the cPanel interface. In this article we will outline how Read More >
How to Install concrete5 via Softaculous
While it is possible to install concrete5 manually, it is also possible to install concrete5 via Softaculous, a popular application installer. Installing concrete5 via Softaculous is much easier and less time consuming than manual installation and allows you to manage the software from the Softaculous interface itself. In this guide we will outline how to Read More >
ownCloud Antivirus with ClamAV
Strong passwords protect your ownCloud server against unauthorized users. An aggressive ownCloud antivirus solution prevents authorized users from uploading malicious files. The free Anti-Virus app integrates ownCloud with ClamAV, a popular Linux antivirus application, on the same server or an external system. Install the ownCloud Antivirus App Prepare ClamAV Configure ownCloud Anti-Virus ClamAV on the Read More >
What is concrete5?
concrete5 is a popular open-source content management system (CMS) that is designed for ease of use and simplicity. Similar to WordPress, concrete5 provides a set of tools that can be used to create a variety of different types of web pages. In this article, we will explore concrete5 and discuss some of the unique features Read More >
How to Add a Password Policy in ownCloud
A strong password policy in ownCloud ensures all users do their part in thwarting password-based cyber attacks. These features aren’t included by default. However, there is a free add-on app for enforcing a strong password policy in ownCloud. It won’t resolve all ownCloud security issues, but it is a good start. Install the ownCloud Password Read More >
How to Add a Product in AbanteCart
One of the key product management tasks in AbanteCart is adding new products to your online store’s catalog. In this guide, we’ll show you how to add a product in AbanteCart. First, we’ll walk you through accessing the section for adding products, then go over all the available settings and options. If you are looking Read More >
