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Almost ten years ago we launched the Marketplace; a place to connect Invision Community owners with talented developers creating new functionality. Over the decade, the Marketplace has grown to hold thousands of applications, large and small. For many Invision Community owners, the Marketplace has become an essential resource. Our aim was always to have the Marketplace available inside your Admin Control Panel to make it even easier to purchase and install extra functionality. I'm pleased to say that as of Invision Community 4.5, this is now a reality. You can browse the Marketplace and install new add-ons without leaving the Admin Control Panel. Obtaining Resources Paid resources can be purchased directly from the Marketplace and are available to install immediately after the payment is complete. You no longer need to download and install the files yourself. You may also notice some additional information with the resource listing, we'll be introducing a new 'tab' to marketplace resources to allow the authors to provide more useful information such as answers to frequently asked questions, or configuration instructions etc. The video below takes you through the purchase and installation of a Marketplace application. marketplace-install.mp4 Installing an Application Updates Some of the eagle-eyed among you may have noticed in the first screenshot that there are more 'bubbles' showing in the menu on the left. These are supported for Applications, Plugins, Themes and Languages. In Invision Community 4.5 every resource available via the AdminCP is automatically versioned, you will see update notifications for everything you have installed (previously, you would only see update notices if the resource author supports them). Installing an update is as simple as clicking on the update notice, then clicking 'update' on the Marketplace listing. Installing Updates Downloads Changes Our Marketplace is built on our Downloads application, during development of this feature we needed to add new functionality. We have included as many of these improvements as possible in our software for the benefit of our customers, some of these are: Custom Fields can now be set to only show to members that have purchased a file. Files can now be set to accept a single file upload instead of multiple. New file versions can now be moderated without hiding the current version from view. Downloads REST API Performance Improvements New /download endpoint that counts the download Added more data to the /downloads/file/{id} response Ability to sort file results by last updated date We hope you're as excited about this feature as we are. View the full article

This is the German Language Pack for Movies by Adriano Faria. It contains full translation of AdminCP and Frontend. Support for the language pack is on View the full article

This resource uses The Movie Database API to grab data from Movies/TV Shows to your site. All you have to do is type word from the movie/tv show title and then a list of matches will show up. From now on. With just a click, you will have in the submission form: Title Subtitle, if available Description Poster Status Release Date (for Movies) Genres Language Hompeage IMDB link Budget Revenue Running Time for movies or Episode Time for TV shows Season (for TV Show) Number of episodes (for TV Show) Tabs: You will also have tabs to display: Cast (with a link to a popup listing all their data) Crew (with a link to a popup listing all their data) Trailers (with videos from Youtube) Latest Reviews on TMDB Similar Movies or Similar TV Shows (will list all similar movies/tv shows and again with a click, you can have them in yuour database) All the tabs, except Information (the main one with the movie/tv show description), can be disabled via setting. TMDB API Key: You can get your free API Key on TMDB site: https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api Multi Language: TMDB supports 62 languages. You just have to choose the one in the ACP setting. Other features: Fully integrated to the framework: Rest API, categories, extra fields, notifications, search, tags, follow, reactions, promote, etc. Settings: Settings to control the app behaviour in several places/situations. View the full article

This is the German Language Pack for IPS Community Suite 4.4.X. It contains full translation of AdminCP and Frontend for the following Apps: System Forums Downloads Pages Converter Blogs Gallery Commerce Calendar Support for the language pack is on invisionfocus.de View the full article

This plugin will allow admins to test bulk mail (by sending to a single email address) before mass sending. View the full article

As the deadline slowly comes down, two last feature additions race towards the descending door and slide in underneath with seconds to spare. If you've never seen "Raiders of the Lost Ark", then you probably think this is a weird way to start a blog. As we wrap up development for Invision Community 4.5, we squeezed in two extra features that I want to talk about today. Per Topic Post Approval The first is a way to cool down a heated topic without locking it. Right now you can put an entire forum on post-approval. This means that moderators must review and approve all new posts before they are allowed to be publicly displayed. As of Invision Community 4.5, you can now choose to set a single topic to post-approval regardless of the forum setting. This is a great way to let a topic cool off but still receive new replies to review before adding to the topic. Club Terms and Conditions The ways that clubs are used throughout the many communities that run Invision Community are becoming increasingly varied. A popular request is to allow members to agree to a set of club-specific terms and conditions before they can contribute to the club. Invision Community 4.5 now allows the club owner to set up its own terms and conditions. You can optionally enforce that members agree to them before continuing. That's it for feature announcements. We're excited to be closing development on Invision Community 4.5 and move towards a beta in the coming weeks. View the full article

This resource will allow members to purchase files to other members. A new option to choose the member will show up in the checkout screen for those who can buy for anothers. View the full article

Limitless 4.4 1.0 - SUPPORT TOPIC DEMO: http://cyberpixelz.com/forums/ ( user: demo / pass: demo ) A small Youtube Video with presentation ABOUT THEME: Header ( Here you can change forum menu, change color of top and secondary menu color ) Color Panel ( Here you can change 70% of theme colors, with a little bit of knowledge you can transform the theme on light version directly from ACP or you can just change the principal color wich on default is yellow ) Mega Footer ( Many options for megafooter, you can see the features in screenshots or youtube video ) Index ( You can change the pattern style, you can chose between 3 types of patterns, activate new badge & set sublist on 2/3/4 columns or you can select the default sublist style ) Swpier Slider ( You can fully customize the slider, 3 predefined pages and you can add more if you want ) Post Container ( You can chose between 2 types of post container, default one and custom profile ) INFO: It's the first release, so you can help us to fix bugs, just enter in the support topic For minor changes im open for free ( so just give me a pm ) or use the support topic I used FontAwesome OTHER INFO Postcontainer customizable from ACP ( You can activate or dezactivate every single field ) You can change the entire principal color ( now it's a yellow color ) + text color. You can change colors from ACP ( diffrent tab ) 100% responsive on phone or low resolutions! You can put the subforums on 2, 3 or 4 columns from ACP Full Customizable Footer A post container modified 100% Menu it's easy to change. Modified ckeditor Megafooter For othe awesome things check my website! FEATURES ACP THEME - Coming next updates More Options to customize every single part of forum More updates will come with awesome things, you can contribute to this template with ideas in support topic OTHER THEMES: If you want so see previous themes and files ( CHECK ALL MY STUFFS HERE ) View the full article

This plugin enables few features for download Optional Add Sign in button and highlight text when file require login to download, redirects user back to the page after complete Optional Add download button that show on top of pagination of auto generated topic Plug and play, author will auto follow the generated topic based on his follow setting Optional Disable syncing topic content (except tags) Useful for user want to have different content on support topic than download content Since IPS default sync support topic just overwrites content with content from file, this will prevent erasing content In addition, prevents duplicate content if you want to keep support and download separated Optional Added new minimalist template for generated topic And more ... this plugin will get more features added Support language translation Used system language and style as much as possible to ensure compatibility of theme and other component updates View the full article

If your brand sells a product or service, the first thing that comes to mind as a benefit to building your community is support deflection. And it's easy to see why. It's something you can quickly calculate an ROI for. Let's say every 20 hits to a public question with a solved answer from a client or team member equates to one less ticket. If a ticket costs $10 to solve on average, it's straightforward to see the value by calculating deflected tickets. Let's say your busy public support community had 20,000 hits a month; you've just saved $200,000 a month in support costs. Great! But before you finish there, I want you to consider the rewards a brand community can offer. A public support desk isn't a community. It's likely most of your customers join because of an issue with your product. They tap in some keywords on Google and come across your site. They see a bunch of solved questions like theirs, and they either get the fix and bounce out, or post and wait for a reply. With nothing to get them to come back, once they have the answer they'll likely bounce out then and only come back when they hit a new problem. That's not a community. A community is a place where people return multiple times to collaborate, learn and grow together. "[A brand community is] a group of people who share an identity and a mutual concern for one another's welfare - who participate in shared experiences that are shaped by a brand." - Carrie Melissa Jones For that, you need to look beyond the support desk and expand into more use cases, and there are compelling reasons to do this. Shared experiences Allowing your customers to share their experiences with your products can lead to unique brand stories that reinforce bonds between members and creates social solidarity in the community. A few years ago, I remember reading a post on a travel community. A family were flying with Delta and their son who has autism was becoming more and more distressed with the change in routine for that day. A Delta employee saw this and came and spoke with the family, helped settle the boy and ensured they boarded early to avoid the crush of passengers. It's a small moment of kindness that wouldn't make headlines, but it was very memorable for this family; enough so that they posted about it. This post had numerous replies in praise for the airline and no doubt made many of them think of Delta when booking their next flight. "[Social solidarity is] not just passive tolerance but felt concern for what is individual and particular about the other person." - Alex Honneth "The Struggle for Recognition" All those stories, connections and moments build social capital and loyalty for your brand. Feedback Your customers are already talking about your product. Some of it will be good, and some of it won't be good. They are already talking about it on social media, and in numerous communities, they belong to. If you do not have space within your community for your customers to leave feedback, then you're missing out on a massive benefit. You get a chance to address negative feedback before it spills out further into the public domain. Likewise, positive feedback makes for compelling customer success stories. Feedback is a great way to crowdsource innovation and to guide sales and marketing on how your customers are using your products and where the gaps are. Owning your niche Allowing space for conversations relating to your product makes good sense. If you sold a fitness tracker, then it makes good sense to have areas for discussions revolving around wellness areas such as sleep, diet and exercise. Likewise, a mobile phone network will do well having areas related to the various brands of mobile phones. "There is status that comes from community. It is the status of respect in return for contribution for caring for seeing and being in sync with others. Especially others with no ability to repay you." - Seth Godin Creating these spaces encourages return visits beyond direct support for the product. Those return visits are what makes your community a community. View the full article

If your brand sells a product or service, the first thing that comes to mind as a benefit to building your community is support deflection. And it's easy to see why. It's something you can quickly calculate an ROI for. Let's say every 20 hits to a public question with a solved answer from a client or team member equates to one less ticket. If a ticket costs $10 to solve on average, it's straightforward to see the value by calculating deflected tickets. Let's say your busy public support community had 20,000 hits a month; you've just saved $200,000 a month in support costs. Great! But before you finish there, I want you to consider the rewards a brand community can offer. A public support desk isn't a community. It's likely most of your customers join because of an issue with your product. They tap in some keywords on Google and come across your site. They see a bunch of solved questions like theirs, and they either get the fix and bounce out, or post and wait for a reply. With nothing to get them to come back, once they have the answer they'll likely bounce out then and only come back when they hit a new problem. That's not a community. A community is a place where people return multiple times to collaborate, learn and grow together. "[A brand community is] a group of people who share an identity and a mutual concern for one another's welfare - who participate in shared experiences that are shaped by a brand." - Carrie Melissa Jones For that, you need to look beyond the support desk and expand into more use cases, and there are compelling reasons to do this. Shared experiences Allowing your customers to share their experiences with your products can lead to unique brand stories that reinforce bonds between members and creates social solidarity in the community. A few years ago, I remember reading a post on a travel community. A family were flying with Delta and their son who has autism was becoming more and more distressed with the change in routine for that day. A Delta employee saw this and came and spoke with the family, helped settle the boy and ensured they boarded early to avoid the crush of passengers. It's a small moment of kindness that wouldn't make headlines, but it was very memorable for this family; enough so that they posted about it. This post had numerous replies in praise for the airline and no doubt made many of them think of Delta when booking their next flight. "[Social solidarity is] not just passive tolerance but felt concern for what is individual and particular about the other person." - Alex Honneth "The Struggle for Recognition" All those stories, connections and moments build social capital and loyalty for your brand. Feedback Your customers are already talking about your product. Some of it will be good, and some of it won't be good. They are already talking about it on social media, and in numerous communities, they belong to. If you do not have space within your community for your customers to leave feedback, then you're missing out on a massive benefit. You get a chance to address negative feedback before it spills out further into the public domain. Likewise, positive feedback makes for compelling customer success stories. Feedback is a great way to crowdsource innovation and to guide sales and marketing on how your customers are using your products and where the gaps are. Owning your niche Allowing space for conversations relating to your product makes good sense. If you sold a fitness tracker, then it makes good sense to have areas for discussions revolving around wellness areas such as sleep, diet and exercise. Likewise, a mobile phone network will do well having areas related to the various brands of mobile phones. "There is status that comes from community. It is the status of respect in return for contribution for caring for seeing and being in sync with others. Especially others with no ability to repay you." - Seth Godin Creating these spaces encourages return visits beyond direct support for the product. Those return visits are what makes your community a community. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This application will allow you to display all groups that a user is in on their posts/hovercard/profile. Features: Displays all groups on forums posts Displays all groups on users profiles Displays all groups on users hovercards Block certain groups from displaying - Note: Does not affect primary group Show group icons on forum posts/profiles if enabled 1 Time Purchase View the full article

With this plugin you can easily clean any member from: started private conversations - they will be deleted from database, replies in the private conversations (started by someone else), both these tools are usefull to remove spam, no wanted content etc. unfollow them from all followed content with ability to refollow it by them in the settings. this tool is usefull to prevent receiving a bouncer e-mails (for example if the mailbox isn't exists anymore or it's full). Then you could send message to this member with request to update his e-mail and prevent increasing size of e-mails logs in the ACP. This is first release of this plugin, if you have any questions or feature requests - let me know! View the full article

This is an application to allow users to create friendships with others. Features: Users can send friend requests to others Notification when: Receiving a friend request A friend request has been accepted. User can manage the notifications (disable/enable, use email/inline-notification) Displaying friends: Friends icon on top navigation displays in all pages. Friends tab in profile page. 1 click to send PM, Chat (requires Chatbox+ application) Easy to search friends. Privacy settings can allow users to set certain actions: Who can view your Profile. Who can send your Personal Message. Who can view your friends in profile. View the full article

Please check gallery of screenshot from live version. If you want to check my demo board please click here. Change theme to RolePlay in themes list (on bottom of the board). To enable custom nodes you have to buy this plugin (paid once with lifetime updates if needed): RolePlay 1.0.0 functions: - logo display + animation - background image + animation - responsive design - you can change main color (default purple) in one form - custom footer panel with 4 panels View the full article

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(change theme to Abstract, default one is Vertiforo) To enable custom nodes you have to buy this plugin (paid once with lifetime updates if needed): View the full article

Change behaviour of how the polls works. Features: enable/disable viewing of results before closing a poll, in pending polls (opened) results won't be viewable, set minimum amount of content to allow vote in polls. View the full article

Translation for the application: Installation / Instalacja: The .xml file is sent to the server as language updates in translations. Plik .xml wygrywamy jako aktualizacje języka w tłumaczeniach. View the full article

(change theme to Abstract, default one is Vertiforo) Please check gallery of screenshot from live version. If you want to check my demo board please click here. To enable custom nodes you have to buy this plugin (paid once with lifetime updates if needed): Abstract 1.0.0 functions: - logo display + animation - render left and render right display + animation - background image + animation - responsive design - you can change main color (default orange) in one form - custom footer panel with 4 panels View the full article

This resource will send a notification to the content author when their content is promoted. View the full article

Vertiforo theme was made few years ago for gaming communities who were looking for dark designs. This is rewritten version of Vertiforo known from other forum software. As this is my first release on IPB whole cost of this theme is lowered. All customers can get fast support on my discord. Because this is first release I know there could be some bugs or problems with third part plugins but you won't be left with that! I will fix all bugs which prevent to use additional functionalities ? Please check gallery of screenshot from live version. If you want to check my demo board please click here. To enable custom nodes you have to buy this plugin (paid once with lifetime updates if needed): Version 1.0.0 functions: - logo display + animation - render left and render right display + animation - background smoke effect - background image + animation - responsive design - you can change main color (default orange) in one form - custom footer panel with 4 panels This project will be supported. You can check reviews of this theme from other forum soft. View the full article

This adds a button to your site that is visible to guests that will link to a whatsapp contact number of your choice. Looks great and keeps your visitors in close contact at any given time. settings in acp for custom message text in header custom avatar custom dummy message text Demo at http://dtweb.space/ Warning!!!!! Anybody installs this and adds their phone number, is essentially giving their phone number to every guest on the site. View the full article

One of the most popular requests we get for Commerce is for a free trial period for subscriptions. We've heard from many clients that wish to allow their members a free, or reduced cost trial period before auto-renewing the full price. I'm pleased to say that we've now added this functionality into Invision Community 4.5. Let us take a look at how it works. Initial Terms In 4.5 you can now specify an initial term that is different to the normal renewal term for any subscription plan or product. For example, you could make the initial term $0 for 1 week and the normal renewal term $10 per month which will allow you to create 1 week free trial. The initial term doesn't have to be $0, you can use any special price for the initial term you like. Subscription Plans showing Free Trials For developers creating their own applications with Commerce integration, this functionality is also available to you simply by passing a DateInterval object representing the initial term when creating the invoice. Collecting Payment Details for Free Trials Previously, if you were buying something that is free, the entire of the last step of the checkout would just be skipped and the invoice marked as paid. In 4.5, if: The user is purchasing something which has a free initial period, but also has a renewal term (i.e. is a free trial), and You have a payment method which can collect card details (Stripe, Braintree, etc) The user will be prompted to provide payment details that will not be charged until after the free trial. If the user already has a card on file they will not be prompted to provide the details again but will see a confirmation screen rather than the order just being marked paid immediately. Checkout Process for a Free Trial As you can see, allowing a free or reduced cost trial period has never been easier. We hope that you enjoy using this new feature of Invision Community 4.5. View the full article

One of the most popular requests we get for Commerce is for a free trial period for subscriptions. We've heard from many clients that wish to allow their members a free, or reduced cost trial period before auto-renewing the full price. I'm pleased to say that we've now added this functionality into Invision Community 4.5. Let us take a look at how it works. Initial Terms In 4.5 you can now specify an initial term that is different to the normal renewal term for any subscription plan or product. For example, you could make the initial term $0 for 1 week and the normal renewal term $10 per month which will allow you to create 1 week free trial. The initial term doesn't have to be $0, you can use any special price for the initial term you like. Subscription Plans showing Free Trials For developers creating their own applications with Commerce integration, this functionality is also available to you simply by passing a DateInterval object representing the initial term when creating the invoice. Collecting Payment Details for Free Trials Previously, if you were buying something that is free, the entire of the last step of the checkout would just be skipped and the invoice marked as paid. In 4.5, if: The user is purchasing something which has a free initial period, but also has a renewal term (i.e. is a free trial), and You have a payment method which can collect card details (Stripe, Braintree, etc) The user will be prompted to provide payment details that will not be charged until after the free trial. If the user already has a card on file they will not be prompted to provide the details again but will see a confirmation screen rather than the order just being marked paid immediately. Checkout Process for a Free Trial As you can see, allowing a free or reduced cost trial period has never been easier. We hope that you enjoy using this new feature of Invision Community 4.5. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu