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No settings, no buttons, icons or other additional elements of the ui, just a quick mention of the members by clicking on their nickname. Works with all standard applications, except Pages. Manual integration into pages is also possible if necessary (instruction is attached). Works in desktop and mobile view. Supports work with versions IPS 4.2.x and 4.3 View the full article

For most of us, at some point in our lives we've been told we look like someone famous. Maybe it's an actor from a favourite movie, or a member of a popular band. This has certainly come up a few times among the team in chat. We often joke about our more famous doppelgängers. We've often wondered who'd play us in the movie version of Invision Community. I'm holding out for Ryan Reynolds [Keep dreaming - Editor]. More recently, friend to Invision Community @Joel R mentioned that it'd make a really fun blog entry. So please direct all constructive criticism to Joel if this is not as promised, a fun blog entry. Ok, lets get started. Andy is DJ Qualls You may recognise DJ Qualls from comedies such as Road Trip and Road Trip: Beer Pong [Great list there - Editor]. This comparison was straight from Andy. He gets compared to him by his friends quite often apparently [He needs new friends- Editor]. Personally, I think it's just the fact that he also wears the exact same glasses. Andy is DJ Qualls Brandon is Adam Levine Brandon was incredibly quick to mention that his dentist routinely says that he looks like Adam Levine, which seems like an odd thing to mention at most appointments. You may have heard of Adam from the band Maroon 5 and a few movies that I've not bothered watching [Awesome research for this piece - Editor]. Brandon is Adam Levine Daniel is Daniel Brühl Not only do they have the same first name, they also share a nose [Who has it today? - Editor]. You might have seen Daniel playing Nikki Lauder in the movie Rush, as well as that shady guy in Captain America: Civil War. Nose twins Jennifer is Charlize Theron Jennifer had several looks for this blog entry, and chose the one featured below, which is very reminiscent of Charlize's role in Mad Max. You may know Charlize from her many movies. Including Max Max [Again, great research - Editor]. The eyes have it. Lindy is Tony Soprano This is a comparison I've been making for years. Lindy has a certain "aura" that reminds me a little of the the mafia boss with a conscience. There was a hotdog incident at his house which I don't want to go into right now [No, please do - Editor]. Tony Soprano was played by the late James Gandolfini. Both know how to hide bodies Marc is Casey Affleck Honestly, this took a while to figure out because Marc looks like no other human being alive. We even tried those "Who is your celeb twin" apps and they threw errors and deleted themselves in a panic. This is the best we could do. Casey Affleck is of course Batman's younger brother [Have you ever read a comic? - Editor]. Yeah, it's not great is it. Mark is Ansel Elgort So one night I sat down to watch Baby Driver, featuring Ansel. It was uncanny how much he reminded me of our resident developer Mark. Even down to the facial expressions. It's uncanny. I honestly have no idea which is which Mark H is Ben Folds Full disclosure, the photo Mark submitted could politely be described as "vintage" [Not sure that's polite - Editor]. However, as soon as I saw it, I was amazed at how much he looked like my favourite singer/songwriter Ben Folds. I'm not saying this photo of Mark his old, but lets say it cost us $10,000 to have an expert colour it from the black and white original. Classic Mark Matt is David Boreanez Over the course of my 20s and 30s [Clearly not now you're old - Editor], I was often compared to "Angel from Buffy" played by David Boreanez. I thought it was because of my cool but brooding demeanour [lol - Editor] but maybe it's just one of those chance genetic occurrences. Well, similar hair at least Rhett is Bruce Willis Rhett never lets our servers Die Hard [Jeez, you went there - Editor] but he does resemble Bruce Willis. It's not just that they visit the same hair dresser either. Twins! Ryan is Ethan Hawke We've saved the best to last, because this comparison caused actual goosebumps. Someone even said "wow" when they saw it. These two could be related. Ethan Hawke is a huge movie star, so Ryan was quite happy with this comparison. Uncle Ethan? So, there you have it. If there was a movie to be made featuring our lives, then this is the cast that would be our first choice. Who do you look like? We've love to see your pictures too. Let us know below! View the full article

If you use a Pages database for articles, you can turn on a nice blog-style “article mode” for it — but just for the frontpage view. In the listing view for the categories of your articles you will see a “forum-style” view. If you don’t like that, this template solves this problem. You can assign it to your database or individual categories and your category listings will look like the article mode frontpage. What’s needed: IPS 4.3 in its most recent version with the Pages application I am providing this free of charge. If you like it, feel free to check out my commercial Pages templates as well. ☞ https://invisioncommunity.com/profile/374850-opentype/content/?type=downloads_file View the full article

It enable Invision Topic Feed to show full topic path, has an organization in the community. What will change: Before: Water After: Glass > Cup > Water View the full article

We're thrilled to announce that Invision Community 4.3 is available to download now. After months of development, over 2500 separate code commits and quite a few mugs of coffee you can now get your hands on the final release. You can download the beta from your client area. If you need a recap of what was added, take a look at our product updates blog which takes you through the highlights. These include: We'd love to know what you think, let us know below. View the full article

Version 4.3.1 is a small maintenance update to fix issues reported since 4.3.0. **IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE**Please note that not all third party applications and themes are yet compatible with Invision Community 4.3. If you have customizations to your community, including SSO / custom login integration, third party modifications such as themes plugins and applications, please ensure they have been declared compatible with this update or your site may be non-functional after upgrade. There is a new compatibility field on all marketplace resource listings. If this field is missing or does not specifically list 4.3, it is likely not yet compatible. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Version 4.3.1 is a small maintenance update to fix issues reported since 4.3.0. **IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE**Please note that not all third party applications and themes are yet compatible with Invision Community 4.3. If you have customizations to your community, including SSO / custom login integration, third party modifications such as themes plugins and applications, please ensure they have been declared compatible with this update or your site may be non-functional after upgrade. There is a new compatibility field on all marketplace resource listings. If this field is missing or does not specifically list 4.3, it is likely not yet compatible. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

Forum Legend Widget Icon legend for forum Options: Enable &Disable Legend Icon legend(fontawesome) ُ Description legend Color legend Demo View the full article

Night -is a dark modern theme that will standout beautifully on your monitor. *NEW* Framework You don’t just get a simple theme, you’ll get settings that will change the default framework into your own. It’s your website, make it yours! *NEW* Language Setting Keys In this theme, we've set up the language keys for our settings. I know all of you were dying to wait for this, so you can understand the settings very well. *NEW* Body Overlay Image By default, there will be an top & bottom overlay image on the body to make the body standout beautifully. Plus, there will be an overlay color over the bottom image. *NEW* Back to Top Also in our framework, when you scroll down, you'll see the back to top button so you don't have to scroll yourself. Guest Message You will get a guest message that displays everywhere of consisting of a title and a short paragraph of what's possible when your guest creates an account. *NEW* Google Import Style Sheet Editor Inside the setting tab called "Google Fonts", you'll be able to paste the embed @import into the CSS style sheet editor. Google Font Head Field Below the style sheet editor, there will be an input field to input the head font for this theme. Enable/Disable Secondary Footer Need more storage for the footer? Don’t worry, we created another footer so you can store more stuff or anything that you want inside. *NEW* Secondary Footer: Twitter Integration Introducing Twitter integration! In the configuration settings, you'll be able to enable/disable the Twitter feed and input your user profile name. *NEW* Secondary Footer: Facebook Page Introducing Facebook page integration! In the configuration settings, you'll be able to enable/disable the Facebook page plugin and input your page ID. *NEW* Secondary Footer: New Social Icons In our new framework, we introduce you with new social icons: Instagram, Dribbble, Soundcloud, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. *NEW* Secondary Footer: Logo/Site Title On the about us section, you'll get a site title, which is default and a logo if you uploaded to the 'Site Logo' section on the setting tab called "Logos". *NEW* Secondary Footer: Physical Address In our new framework, we introduce you physical address built right into the about us section. Secondary Footer: About Us Also on the secondary footer, we made an about us section so you can describe your site and your users interests. Appearance You will get setting(s) of changing the default colors to your own liking. And much more! Theme Demo Go here to read about previewing themes on the demo board. Test Account Wanna look more into our themes? Well, now ThemeTree supports a test account for all of our themes. So no more looking at those screenshots or even looking at our themes live. Login to the test account and browse the contents. Display Name: TestAccount123 Password: testyaccount123 Keep up with ThemeTree By: Registering, so you can get upcoming news and updates, and 24/7 support on our forums. Following us on Dribbble (https://dribbble.com/Themetree). You can find out our latest upcoming themes and shots. Contacting us at [email protected]. View the full article

Top Bar Forums Display contact information and introduce social network links important in all forums Demo Settings: Set Email Address Set Phone Number Set Social Links View the full article

This is a bundle of plugins to automatically embed videos from adult content websites. It works just like the stock options for YouTube, Vimeo and so on. The user will past the URL of the video and it will automatically be turned into a video player. Currently 12 websites are included: Pornhub, xHamster, RedTube, SpankWire, Tube8, xTube, XVideos, Mofosex, YouPorn, YouPornGay, GayBoysTube, ManPorn. Each website has its own plugin. You can install all of them or just the ones your users are likely to use. View the full article

A very clean beautiful template for the latest IPS 4.3.x The Landing Page is not included in the theme. It is a part of my site and what you can do with "pages" application. Live Demo at my site. Change theme to UltiMaze. Only for IPS 4.3.x Advanced custom footer with 4 column, or choose how many column you want! Background upload setting preview. View the full article

Plugin which allows you to apply extra control over the oembed functionality provided by the IPS core allows group level control over which remote sites members of a group are allowed to embed. provides you the ability to add other remote oembed sources which are not yet supported by IPS, such as http://developers.issuu.com/oembed/ Note: Plugin support does not include assisting you with researching whether a site supports oembed or not. Google, or the site itself, will be your friend in that situation View the full article

Create a good, high quality and professional message Using Message Pro Widget demo The settings that this plugin gives website administrators: * Title Widget * Message (Textarea) * Fontawesome Icon * Background Color * Text Color With this plugin you can create infinite professional messages for your users thanks( @Daniel F and @newbie LAC) For Help Me View the full article

This plugin will show, to the file submitter, the default IPS 4.3 message when their file isn't available to be purchased. Currently, it shows to everyone, except file submitter. View the full article

This is a maintenance to release to the 4.2 series address security issues. As we prepare for our next large release, version 4.3, we do large security audits. We decided to apply those security enhancements to the 4.2 series so you can get them now if you prefer to not upgrade to 4.3 yet. We would like to thank @newbie LAC for his assistance. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

This is a maintenance to release to the 4.2 series address security issues. As we prepare for our next large release, version 4.3, we do large security audits. We decided to apply those security enhancements to the 4.2 series so you can get them now if you prefer to not upgrade to 4.3 yet. We would like to thank @newbie LAC for his assistance. Wyświetl pełną treść wpisu

To monetize, or not to monetize, that is the question that preoccopies our administrators! Ok, I'm no Shakespeare, but a vital question community owners are faced with at some point is: can we and should we make some money from our community? Let's first look at the "should we?" Absolutely! You don't need to frustrate your users or risk goodwill by starting monetization. Running a community comes with tangible costs in terms of paying for the monthly cloud plans or license and hosting costs. Not to mention your own time which must be factored into this decision. If the community sustained all or part of your income, could you commit more time to help it grow? Now lets look at the "can we?" Absolutely! You made a great choice by building your platform with Invision Community. We have built in monetization tools that allow you to collect micro-payments from third party systems; and we have tools for selling products and services. Advertisements An obvious choice, many sites will turn to advertisements through Google Adsense or a similar service to generate income from their community. Whether this approach will work for your community or not is dependent upon many factors. Do you generate enough traffic that you will actually earn an income from advertisements? Do enough of your audience browse your site without tools such as Adblock installed? Is your site compatible with any of the many advertisement services out there? This is worth checking to make sure. Advertisement services are a relatively easy solution for generating micro-payments. It's unlikely you'll be able to retire any time soon on advertising payments alone though. An alternative approach to using advertisements is to sell advertisement space on your own site through Commerce. This can be an especially attractive option if your site holds a captive audience in a specific niche, as advertisers will be certain their ads are targetting the niche they are aiming to target effectively. Viglink Viglink is a service that looks for commercial product references in user-generated content, and links to those products using referral links that can generate revenue. Generally speaking, there is no real harm in using such a service as the functionality is transparent for most users. Invision Community features integration with Viglink out of the box. You simply need to enter certain account information into the AdminCPand the software will handle the rest. Charging for products If you sell digital or physical products, you can leverage Invision Community to help facilitate the sale of such products through your community site. If you are an expert or leader in your field, then why not write a short e-book on your subject and put it up for sale? Low cost e-books under $10 tend to sell really well and it's a great way to generate some passive trickle income. Sale, renewals, invoicing, shipping, customer support and more are all possible through our Commerce product with powerful features that allow you to easily sell products locally and around the world. Charging for additional access The simplest way to monetize your community is to charge for VIP access. This may be for elevated permissions, such as being able to upload larger files, post more content per day and access specific features like user signatures, special badges and so on. You can also set up VIP forums that regular members do not have access to. In fact, Invision Community can be tailored towards being an e-learning platform simply by setting up a subscription in Commerce and creating a private forum only the VIP group can access. Simply post a new topic with each learning module. Topics can contain embeds from YouTube and Vimeo if you prefer to deliver training over video. Be sure to give previews of such areas if you do sell access to additional areas of the community. For example, you can allow all users to "see" that a forum exists, but show an error message to regular members who attempt to read topics in the forum, while allowing subscribers full access to those topics. This helps naturally entice users into subscribing to gain additional access by allowing them to see what they will gain access to. Charging a fee for facilitation Another possible avenue to monetize your community is by charging a fee for facilitating file sharing between your members. The Downloads application allows users to upload and even sell their files to other users on the community, while also allowing the administrator of the community to retain a percentage of all sales. If your community serves a niche that may see online sales of files in a marketplace-type setting, you can earn some money by administering such a marketplace. As you can see, there are several opportunities available with Invision Community to monetize your community. Do you use any other methods of monetizing your community? View the full article

Turn Spirit into Pre-Made Blocks System Are you tired of messing with code inside your block editor for Spirit? There's a solution to this. It's called "Pre-Made Spirit Blocks Package". This package will enhance your homepage by getting some components from Bootstrap and custom ones from ThemeTree. It's fast from not hassling with code and simple to configure! Here's the lists of pre-made components: Carousel Type Default Carousel Blockquotes Alerts Type Normal Additional Content Collapse List Group Type Default Tabbable Panes Figures Tables Embeds Cards Type Card header Card deck Wow, that's 8 pre-made components! What is Spirit? Spirit -a custom landing page template built with CMS (Pages) and runs on Bootstrap & IPS framework to make your homepage look beautiful. REQUIREMENT Spirit - Power by Pages CMS (Pages) Live Demo We've replaced the custom blocks from the demo board into the blocks package. Go here to see it live. Setting It Up Go here to read the article on setting up the components that you want for your community homepage. Image Credit The thumbnail blocks image goes to Tahsin Tahil. No changes have been made. Keep up with ThemeTree By: Registering, so you can get upcoming news and updates, and 24/7 support on our forums. Following us on Dribbble (https://dribbble.com/Themetree). You can find out our latest upcoming themes and shots. Contacting us at [email protected]. View the full article

25 Theme With beautiful design Settings: Advanced Footer slideshow Social Forums ... View the full article

The plugin allows you to display advanced geolocation of members in forum topics (not in comments). In addition to the standard built-in IPS geolocation, several popular third-party geolocation services are supported, such as ip-api.com, ipstack.com (ex. freegeoip.net), geoip.nekudo.com, sypexgeo.net. This first allows you to use geolocation mapping with an inactive license, second, for example, it extends the geolocation settings in part of the locale display language. Additional options allow you to change the display of geolocation, in the form of an caption or a flag, or both versions together, as well as the standard geolocation is hidden in the mobile version, this plugin has the option to display the flag of the members country in the mobile version. You can also configure which groups can see the geolocation, and for which groups geolocation will not be determined. Supports work with versions IPS 4.2.x and 4.3 View the full article

Installation Instructions: Customization Themes Add Theme Upload Theme Choose File and find Dark Passion.xlm and upload it If there are any issues with the theme, please let me know. View the full article

Endpoints is a Postman library of the endpoints published for IPS 4. In this version I have only included the GET statements as I wouldn't want any destructive action happen. To load the JSON file you will need to download Postman - https://www.getpostman.com Once installed you can setup your own environment with your own API keys or OAuth to your IPS install, once your credentials are setup you will be able to test your API called to your site. I have also published the endpoints at this location https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/2850550/ips4-get/RVu5iTiR#f2da1a27-2aa1-4321-b9c2-3683ef0e8122 Note: I have yet to finish the Gallery and Calendar - caught a head cold ? View the full article

TimeLine Sidebar Despite the almost limitless variety in project management techniques, there is at least one element that appears in every project, at every company and in every industry: the project timeline. Setting: set background color set timeline color set year Or ... set description Demo View the full article

Post Comments is an app, which adds possibility to comment posts on your forum. Functions: - Adding comments under posts (full editor) - Hiding/unhiding comments - Deleting comments - Reporting comments - Reactions - Setting access to application - Number of comments is added to "Total Posts" in default widget "Forum statistics" - In activity of user we can check in which topic he added a comment Demo: https://mcadmins.pl View the full article