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Flatnity Lower price and demo Flatnity in my Store Theme with a llot of settings like a Slider, Footer, Profile, Forum, Dropdowns and more. View the full article

Once again, we hand over the reigns of our blog to client and friend to Invision Community Joel for another client view of our community suite. Today @Joel R tackles Activity Streams, and how to make them "your awesome". Activity Streams is one of the best new features of Invision Community 4 with more flexibility and options than ever before. It can be an amazing and easy way to dive into interesting and new content, constantly feed new content to your users, and uncover different parts of your community. Your community contains amazing content. Activity Streams empower your users to discover the awesome in your community! While earlier versions of the software contained New Content streams, they were pre-defined and shipped by default. Now, everyone from users to community managers to admins can create their own unique Activity Streams, customized for the needs of the community or your own browsing interests. These new options in Invision Community 4 give incredible power to both you and your users to discover new ways of looking at your content. You can reference Invision’s Guide on Activity Streams. Let’s take a look at all the different ways to strategically use Activity Streams. 1. Home Stream Make the Activity Stream your homepage! It’s a beautiful, automated, chronological stream of recent content that constantly replenishes as new content is posted. Rather than a blocky homepage that is literally stacked with blocks in a chunky mix-and-match, you can offer a blended homepage that unifies all of your content into one continuous stream. It’s easy to browse, and you can still decorate the page with blocks in the sidebar and hot zones. To make the Activity Stream your homepage, go to the ACP > Applications. Set System as the default app by clicking on the ☆ star. Then open up System, and make Content Discovery the default module by clicking on the ☆ star. Bedlington.co.uk uses “All Activity” as its homepage. Look who just moved into town! 2. Default Stream The default Activity Stream is always one the most significant links in your entire Invision community. After the homepage, the default Activity Stream is usually the most popular page to which returning users will consistently use. On some Enterprise boards, the default Activity Stream drives up to 20% of the initial clicks from repeat members. It’s no wonder why. The default Activity Stream is the portal to the rest of the website and easily shows recent content. But how many of us have customized or self-critiqued it? Review your default stream and filter for the primary content you want to display. Make your best stream the default stream. 3. Content Streams By default, Invision Community ships with a handful of global streams. While those are appropriate for a new community, they aggregate all content in the community. This can be problematic if your community emphasizes one content type over another since all content is mixed together and content types with high volume can overwhelm less popular types. For example, a recent upload of IP.Gallery images can flood the Activity Stream with new images, pushing discussion and blog posts too far down. One thing you can do is to create new Activity Streams per content type or exclude certain content types. Make separate streams for Forum Topics, Gallery Albums, Blogs, and more depending upon your community. This will delineate content and makes it easier to navigate exactly what you want. And even within content types, you can filter down to specific boards or categories. You can create special streams specifically for Introduction or New Member boards; Gallery images and albums, so they don’t clutter up your primary stream; or Club discussions open to all members. 4. User Streams One of the most creative ways to use Activity Streams is to show content from specific users. This can be strategically used to create streams for specific users or accounts: staff members, special contributors, or leadership accounts. You can also stealth stalk your most favorite IPS staff members! Create an Activity Stream of all recent activity, then each user can customize the stream to follow the people most important to them. Each user can track the members most important to them and survey a quick overview of those members’ most recent activity. Follow the most interesting users in your community. 5. Mobile Streams There are a couple of options that can help your stream be optimized for mobile. By default, the Activity Stream can be packed with information. You can include every detail of when a member registers, changes their profile photo, reacts to an item, and more. You can also show the Expanded view, which includes up to three lines of text. If your website receives a lot of mobile traffic, you should toggle on Condensed view. This streamlines the Activity Stream and packs more content items onto the viewport. In a typical smartphone, you may only see 2 – 3 items in Expanded View, but see 5 – 6 items in Condensed view. That allows users to see twice as much content, even on a smaller device. Pack more into less with Condensed view 6. RSS Streams For community managers who run an IPS community in support of an enterprise or organization, you can activate an RSS feed per stream. This allows you to push the content to your other digital properties. Turn a feedback and testimonial board into a showcase of product reviews; turn Q&A boards into a live stream of ongoing customer support; turn a New Customer introduction board into profiles of actual customers; and tap into the best parts of your community-generated content to fit into other parts of your support channels, brand marketing, and sales outreach. Leverage your passionate community elsewhere with Activity Streams, and its built-in feature of RSS feeds. Like most advanced features, learning to ‘surf the Activity Stream can be tough. The streams are usually tucked away into the menu or an icon. And many users are unaware that it exists! What your users will say when you introduce Activity Streams. That’s okay, just put on a life vest and hold on for dear life. Activity Streams are such an incredibly powerful and flexible tool, which is why I personally love it. You can slice-and-dice your community in any number of ways, and you gain an instant overview of the parts of the website that are most important, most engaging, and most interesting to yourself. Spend some time sharing a quick tutorial with your community. Show them where to view streams. Show them how to customize it. And let them discover the awesome in your community! View the full article

This plugin will make the member who joins the club to follow it automatically. The follow will be removed when the member leave the club. View the full article

This plugin will allow you to sends out automated birthday greetings to your members in public, by way of an automated topic, and privately, by way of a personal conversation. The plugin adds a task which will run daily. Topics and Personal Messages make use of the WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor, which will give you the ability to customize your messages to your liking. You can exclude members from the automated birthday greetings based on their groups, last activity and last visit to your forum. Automated Topics: Enable/Disable. Select the member who will be the starter of automated Happy Birthday topics. Select the forum where you want the automated Happy Birthday topics to be posted at. Enter the title of the automated Happy Birthday topics. Use {name} to display members names. Enter the birthday message that will be displayed as the first post of the auotmated Happy Birthday topics. Use {name} to display members names. Have automated birthday topics pinned and/or closed. Automated Conversations: Enable/Disable. Select the member who will be the starter of automated Happy Birthday topics. Enter the name of the member who will be the starter of automated Happy Birthday conversations. Enter the birthday message for the auotmated Happy Birthday conversations. Member Restrictions: Members of the selected the group(s) will not be included in the automated birthday greetings. Enter the minimum number of days since members last visit to the forum in order for them to be excluded from the automated birthday greetings. Enter the minimum number of days since members last activity to the forum in order for them to be excluded from the automated birthday greetings. View the full article

MAXX Dark for IPS 4.3 MAXX Dark is simple professional design that can be considered as a multi purpose IPS theme. Suitable for any IPS community field/category. Limited Offer till the end of September: Buy MAXX Dark and get "Upcoming Events Slider Widget" For Free [Save $12] This is theme was originally designed for IPB 3.X in early 2012 by @Ajouz ♞ And I've got the official permission to upgrade it to IPS4 with more features added... RTL Compatiable + IPS Pages App Compatible. What's Next? (Coming Soon) 1- Adding Color Switcher in Front-End 2- Design Landing Page for Pages App. View the full article

Do you recall that scene in Harry Potter where young Harry is sitting in his Uncle’s living room when hundreds of letters from Hogwarts burst through the fireplace, filling the room? Sometimes, when you log into the administrator’s control panel, it can feel a bit like that. As the administration control panel has evolved, there has been more of a need to display notifications, alerts and warnings to the administrators. There are several things which may require an administrator's attention which may show a notice on the AdminCP dashboard, a banner on the community, or send an email. For example: When a new version of Invision Community is released. A new member registers and requires administrator validation. A configuration issue is detected, for example if dangerous PHP functions are enabled on the server. There are items Commerce which require manual action, such as transactions pending manual approval or items to be shipped. Up until now, each such area would manage how these notifications show and are sent independently. In 4.4 we have introduced a new section of the AdminCP which shows all things which require administrator attention in one place, easily accessible from any AdminCP page. AdminCP Notification Menu Clicking on any of these notifications will take you to the relevant area of the AdminCP, or there is also a full-screen Notification Center which allows you to quickly take common actions such as approving members. AdminCP Notification Center While the best approach is to take the appropriate action (which will automatically dismiss the notification) so you always have an empty Notification Center, most notification types can be hidden, either temporarily on a per-notification basis by clicking the cross in the top-right, or administrators can hide all notifications of a certain type from their individual settings. Administrators can also choose which type of notifications to receive an email notification about. Notification Settings Each notification has a severity indicated by the coloured bar on the side and certain notifications can also show banners either across the AdminCP, or also on the front-end (to administrators). Notifications group automatically (so for example, if there are 5 members pending approval, you will see 1 notification rather than 5 separate ones) and where appropriate each administrator can choose if they want to receive a single email, or a separate email with each occurrence. Now you won't miss an invitation to Hogwarts, or anything important again. This is a blog about our upcoming Invision Community 4.4 release, due later this year. View the full article

This application will add a Help Guide system to your forum where you can provide an interface for your users to post how to articles visually by uploading attachments/pictures, and textually by providing detailed information. How to articles can be added from the front end. Categories: Admins can add unlimited categories from the application 's category page in the Admin Panel. Each category will display the help guides entries that it contains. Moderation: Entries can be set to be moderated for groups. Moderated entries will appear in the Mod CP where your staff can review them. Management Groups can manage, (edit, delete, move and hide/approve), their own and/or all entries depending on their permssions. Visitors: Depending on their permissions, users will be able to view who viewed their own and/or all entries. Daily Limit: A limit of how many entries users can add can be set for each group at their Help Guides permissions tab. Help Guides Count: An option to show how many help guides members have posted is available on their hoover cards and postbits. Pagination: You can set the number of entries that will be displayed per page on front end from the application 's setting page. Custom Search: Users can search for help guides submited by members, posted between a certain time frame. Reaction Integration. Users can react to uploaded entries. Owners will receive an alert anytime someone reacts to one of their help guide entries. Report Integration. Users can report help guide entries. Share Links Integration. Help guide entries can be shared on social medias. Content Messages Integration. Members with the appropriate permissions can add content messages to help guide entries. Moderation History & Moderator Log Integration. All edit/delete/move, hide and approve actions will be logged individually for each help guide and globally in the Moderator Logs page in Admin Panel. View the full article

This plugin will add a limit on how many topics users can posts in certain forums. The daily limit can be set and configured on a forum per forum per forum basis, under the Daily Topics tab. From the plugin 's settings you can exclude groups from the daily limit. View the full article

This plugin allows users to easily create topics about artists and music and fill them with content automatically. Features Users can add artists or albums to topics. After attaching content, which can be done easily using a search with auto complete, the thread will show various information about it above the post. The topic will display YouTube videos, photos, description text and various other information about the artist or album. Discussed artists can be shown in adjustable widgets which allow random, recently posted, most discussed and much more... Posting artists and albums can be restricted to certain forums. Music forums can show music content with photos above the topic list. Access rights to edit and post artists and albums. How to Install Go to ACP > applications and upload the downloaded tar file. Demo noexcept.de Compatible with other ThreadStarter plugins This product uses the TheAudioDB.com API. View the full article

Theme is built on the lastest 4.3.5 version of IPB, we do not guarantee it will work with anything lower than 4.3.5. For now it supports only core and forums apps ? No Right-To-Left support officially provided as of yet. First 10 buyers will get a free life-time access to one of our available widgets on the market if they don't own 'em already ? PM with your choice View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.3.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - Matching Admin CP Theme - All fonts used throughout the skin - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. Preview this theme and many others live on the IBTheme Forums! View the full article

This is a feminine farmhouse style theme inspired by "Rae Dunn" Long Letter collection. Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.3.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - All fonts used throughout the skin - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. Preview this theme and many others live on the IBTheme Forums! View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.3.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - Matching Admin CP Theme - All fonts used throughout the skin - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. Preview this theme and many others live on the IBTheme Forums! View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.3.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - Matching Admin CP Theme - All fonts used throughout the skin - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. Preview this theme and many others live on the IBTheme Forums! View the full article

Works with the latest versions of these applications: IP.Board 4.3.x Admin Control Panel IP.Commerce IP.Pages IP.Downloads IP.Gallery IP.Blog IP.Calendar Chatbox Clubs Subscriptions & More! Included in the download: - Skin XML file for installation - Matching Admin CP Theme - All fonts used throughout the skin - logo.psd - team-icon.psd - IBTheme copyright and license agreement - Links to purchase add-ons like installation, copyright removal, logo text change, etc. Preview this theme and many others live on the IBTheme Forums! View the full article

This plug-in adds the topic item bottom controls to the top of the post also. If you have long articles, I find it annoying to scroll all the way down to find the edit button. With this you can edit a post at the top and bottom. I added some minor css modifications that adds a line and fixes the padding and margin a little. You can see the modification at the red arrow in image below. View the full article

Sinistra Designs is happy to announce the update of its Article Images addon. This addon has had some massive improvements that allows you to use a single column, 2 columns first featured, and 3 columns with first featured. We are working on some new features for this in the next few weeks such as Image size, borders and much more. So please come back and see what we add next! View the full article

With this plugin you will be able to prevent members from logging on different IP's. There are two options: member must be logged out from a previous IP before he will be able to login from a current IP - there will be error message displayed. if member try login from a x.x.x.x IP then he will be logged out automatically from all devices logged with a different IP than x.x.x. View the full article

This application will add a like system for users in your forum. When an user like another user, the liked user will receive a notification. Users likes will be displayed on their profiles, whereas their like count will be shown on thier cards and below their names in posts and topics. You can set a maximum daily limit of how many members a member can like. You can restrict likings for members who have not been active or logged in for a certain period of time. You can also promote members by moving them automatically in primary/secondary groups after they have reached a certain amount of likes. A widget to display the most liked members is also available. And all likes will be displayed in the Moderator CP. A detailed overview of all options and features is shown below. Permissions: Groups that can like members. Maximum allowed members to like per day Groups that can view likes. (Members can always see the likes for their own profiles) Groups that can delete own likes. Groups that can delete all likes. Restriction Criterias: Users Last Visit And Activity Date. If an user has not been active, or has not visted the forum for a certain amount of time, then they can not be liked. Action Criterias: Promote users automatically to primary, secondary or both groups after they have received a certain amount of likes. Notifications: Whenever an user is liked, they will receive a notification. The notifications can be disabled from the Notifications Settings page. Only the inline notification option is possible. The email notification option is disabled. Moderator CP: All member likes will be displayed in the Moderator CP. It will be displayed to members who have the permissions to modify profiles. Widget: A list of most liked members will be displayed on a widget that can be placed either in the sidebar or board index. Moderator Logs: Whenever someone deletes a like from a member, it will be logged and displayed in the Moderator Log page. View the full article

CyberPOWER THEME 1.0.0 CyberPower is a new dark theme. Can be used for any forums. Have a lot of settings and it's fully responsive. Demo - http://cyberpixelz.com/community/ Promotion for first customers If you buy this theme in september you will get this theme with lower price and no renewals. In october regular price will be 30$ with renewals. Info's: - Advanced footer - Popup profile - Full Responsive - Profile in topic, without plugin. - You need general statistics for statistics. - You have the psd file, if you want to change the logo. - You can request minor modifications, it's not a problem. View the full article

This mod counting all words (at least two chars per word) belonging to a topic. When the topic is posted: if more than XXX words: INDEX if less than XXX words: NOINDEX After it was posted, if the topic was marked NOINDEX (and only if, it doesn't count again for already INDEX topics), it counts again when somebody replies to it, then same thing: if more than XXX words: INDEX if not, no change Working fine for exists topics too. View the full article

Sidebar widget to display recent purchases in the Commerce application. Set how many you want to list, from which date and allow members to make either their purchase or amount anonymous. Features: Sidebar widget to display Commerce recent purchases. Set a limit on the number of purchases and from which date to show from. Account settings to allow member to make purchase or amount anonymous. Profile hook to display purchase totals in profile page. Keep up to date with DevFuse mod development and releases. View the full article

With this plugin you will be able to enable grid forum view in selected categories only. View the full article

Vulpes Gaming Theme Vulpes is a new unique theme in dark colors and gradients. Can be used for any forums. Have a lot of settings and you can fully customize it. Demo - volpe.invisionzone.com Promotion for first customers If you buy this theme in september you will get this theme with lower price and no renewals. In october regular price is 35$ with renewals. Theme should get a free big update with new features at the end of this month. View the full article

This plugin allows users to easily create topics about movies and actors and fill them with content automatically. Requires a free TMDb API key which can be obtained here. Features Users can add movies, series and actors to topics. After attaching the content, which can be done easily using a search with auto complete, the thread will show various information about the chosen content above the post. The topic will show the movie poster, cast, trailer, tagline, link to IMDb, rating and much more. Discussed movies and actors can be shown in adjustable widgets which allow random, recently posted, most discussed and much more... Posting content can be restricted to certain forums. Movie boards can show movie content with the posters above the topic list. Access rights to edit and post content. How to Install Go to ACP > applications and upload the downloaded tar file After installation a free TMDb API key has to be added in the settings. The API key can be obtained here. Demo noexcept.de Compatible with other ThreadStarter plugins Steam This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb. View the full article