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After a long talk with fellow developers on how to improve my "storm" application, we came to the conclusion that it was the "wrong" approach to developer tools, it tried to do too much and often times it did things that some didn't want it to do. to get around this, we have decided to break up "storm" into multiple applications and call them "The Dev Toolbox". These applications are being provided free of charge to the IPS developer community, but i ask if you find them useful or lifesaving, consider making a donation of any amount, to ensure the future development of these fantastic tools: https://paypal.me/codingjungle if you would like to access the git repo: https://bitbucket.org/CodingJungle/devtools there will be two branches, master and dev. master will be what is found here in the download and dev will be any fixes, features, etc, that are in the works, so it might not be ready for general use. if you want access to be able to push, send me a PM with your bitbucket name/email and i will consider adding you. In this download you will find 4 new and improved components to the "storm" application (well 5 in total, but dtbase will be required to be installed along with any of the other apps, as it contains shared code and data they will use). they are as follows: DT Proxy: Proxy, is the proxy class generator reworked and improved upon proxy class generator found in "storm". most of the improvements will be seen by people who use IDE's and in particular PHPStorm, coupled with a very powerful plugin, php-toolbox. The biggest improvements that weren't made for phpstorm and this plugin, was the property generation for ActiveRecord and descendant classes. In this version it will try to determine the return type from the fields definition and will use the fields description if it has one to describe the property. this is useful to avoid "return" type errors in most IDE's inspections. however it is not a 100% perfect, if you are not satisfied with the results of it, you can regenerate the proxy's without the field type being set, it will just configure them as "strings". PHPStorm and PHP-Toolbox Features: Templates return type (this uses built in features of phpstorm and does not require the php-toolbox plugin). this feature when you type in \IPS\Theme::i()-getTemplate('somegroup'), will try to match the "group" parameter to a class, which overrides the methods default return type, so you can get a list of "available" templates to that group. this feature is limited by the ability in phpstorm and can only match on the group, so you might find that it doesn't always return the template you want, as there can be multiple groups with the same named template, it does work for the most part. will continue to try to improve this feature: *note: from this point on for dtproxy description you will need phpstorm and the php-toolbox plugin installed and enabled to have these features working! Application Hinting: there are several IPS methods that require "application" to be entered as on of its parameters, this feature provides a hinting dialogue for you to select an app from for several methods for IPS. (note: this isn't an exhaustive list for methods that handle a parameter, just the most used imho, below is a list of methods this works for, if it has a number after it, it is what parameter it is for, the first param would be 0): IPS\Application::load IPS\Application::appIsEnabled IPS\Email::buildFromTemplate:0 IPS\Application::appsWithExtension:0 IPS\Lang::saveCustom:0 IPS\Lang::copyCustom:0 IPS\Lang::copyCustom:3 IPS\Lang::deleteCustom:0 IPS\Theme::getTemplate:1 IPS\Application::extension:0 IPS\Application::allExtensions:0 IPS\Output::js:1 IPS\Output::css:1" Table Name Hinting: This one is for methods in IPS that require a table name as a parameter. IPS\Db::select:1 IPS\Db::insert:0 IPS\Db::delete:0 IPS\Db::update:0 IPS\Db::replace:0 IPS\Db::checkForTable:0 IPS\Db::createTable:0 IPS\Db::duplicateTableStructure:0 IPS\Db::renameTable:0 IPS\Db::alterTable:0 IPS\Db::dropTable:0 IPS\Db::getTableDefinition:0 IPS\Db::addColumn:0 IPS\Db::changeColumn:0 IPS\Db::dropColumn:0 IPS\Helpers\Table\Db::__construct:0 Language Strings Hinting: several methods in IPS require a use of a language string. IPS\Lang::addToStack:0 IPS\Lang::checkKeyExists IPS\Lang::get IPS\Lang::saveCustom:1 IPS\Lang::copyCustom:1 IPS\Lang::copyCustom:2 IPS\Lang::deleteCustom:1 Template Group Hinting: \IPS\Theme::i()->getTemplate( 0 ) is a required parameter and requires a template group to be added, this will add hinting to it: Modpermissions hinting: Url Hinting (on \IPS\Http\Url::internal, will bring up a list of apps, apps with modules, and apps with modules and controllers): Furl Hinting: this isn't exhaustive list, but this is a start. as development continues on DT Proxy, hopefully we can bring it to new levels and offer more comprehensive phpstorm features, if you don't use phpstorm but know of plugins or features in other IDE's that can do similar things, let me know, if it is not too much of a hassle, i will try to add them in :). DT Dev Plus: this app extends the features of the developer center for applications in IPS. this will add 3 new tabs (Sources, Dev Folder and Languages). Sources: this is the feature that received the biggest boost in new features and abilities. You can create several class types (and interfaces and traits here) that will automatically be added to your applications sources folder, with all the appropriate namespacing and class prefixing. you can also define what it extends or implements or uses (for traits). On ActiveRecord, Node, Item, Review, you can select to have the database generated for you, along with other scaffolding (like for nodes/items, it will create the controllers and modules for it, along with adding the nodes to the ACP menu of your app). for Nodes/Items/Comments/Reviews, you will be present with list of interfaces and traits found in IPS, that you can select. if the trait/interface needs to add a property/method or a map to the column map, this will automatically add them to the newly created class (and if the property or map is a table field, it will also add it to the table if it creates a table). It really takes out the guess work and the hunting down what you "need" to add something, now just check a box and the way you go! Dev Folder: Not a whole lot has changed here, but you can create templates, js widets/controllers/modules, that will automatically add to the location/group you select, and will give you a skeleton of the code. the biggest change here is the ability to select existing location/groups. Languages: this might not be a feature for everyone, but i find it saves me time. this will provide a list of all the languages strings defined for your app (this includes lang.php and jslang.php), and provides a list that can be edited in the browser, along with where it should be saved too (like is it a lang.php only or jslang.php only or do you want it to appear for both). I like being able to quickly and easily see both lists and make changes where needed Extension: Dev Center Plus also includes an extension, if you add it to your app, it will add a "doc block" at the head of each php file, and will also add a blank "index.html" to each directory that doesn't have one, to prevent directory listings from those folders. these are both executed at build time. if you don't have the extension for your app, then these features will not run. you can also provide a list of files or directories to ignore thru the extension that you don't want to include in your tar file. DT Dev Folder: ever misplaced those pesky dev folders for your plugins or applications, or woking for a client and they want you to do something with another application, but you don't have the dev folders and the author is slow to respond. do not fear, DT Dev Folder is here! This applications allows you to generate the dev folders for applications and plugins. this application will also allow you to install plugins while in_dev mode (and generates the dev folder for you). it will also create the dev folder for apps installed while in_dev DT Code: I'm not sure where i will be going with this application exactly, right now it will search thru your code looking for lang keys and settings, it will check and verify they are both in use and defined. it can return false positives as these might not always be "defined" in a way it can read it, but can give you the ability to see which language strings are in use and get rid of the "dead" ones and same with settings. if you have any suggestions for things you would want to check in your code, let me know and i will see about implementing this feature. DT Base: This app doesn't really do much on its own, it adds the "DevBar Menu" to the acp, but it is required for the other apps as it is has classes and data they will use (instead of reinventing the wheel for each application) decided to go with a "required" base app. There are a ton of features and abilities i'm probably forgetting about, so why don't you try it out for yourself, its free after all Future DT apps: Content Generator (this includes member generations and at least forum/topic/post generation) Profilier - will provide an area so you can monitor your apps performance and find out other vital information about your apps performance. Hope everyone enjoys this! send me any bugs or feedback to my PM's, i won't be supporting this application in my apps topic. thanks to everyone who has made this possible View the full article

As a basis, the original Online Indicator plugin was used which places the indicator next to the names of users in messages and private messages. You can specify the Font Awesome icon for both statuses, online and offline. The avatar indicator has many settings for placement, color, etc. Also supported are round avatars. The Advanced plugin allows you to determine the type of device from which the member entered and display it in addition to the online indicator in the form of an additional icon and text. Another Advanced setting allows you to display the device indicator only if this device is mobile (eg. Tablet or Phone). Adjust font sizes and layout icons and apply to Advanced icons View the full article

The plug-in allows you to extend the standard settings of the reactions and make them more flexible for the administrator. The main functions of the plug-in are the settings for the availability of each reaction to certain groups / users / forums topic, the possibility of changing the standard "weight" (reputation points) for each reaction, and settings of the maximum number of negative reactions allowed to be given to the group during the day. Availability settings for group/member/forums include: Ability to prohibit the reaction for a certain group or several groups (or all groups, which is equivalent to a standard disabling reaction). Ability to prohibit the reaction for a particular member or several members (in case you have individual members abusing certain reactions you can not prohibit the reaction to the group as a whole, to prohibit it only for individual members). The ability to resolve the reaction only for a specific member or several members (for example, you have an exclusive reactions to which you want to provide only one or more members / moderators / administrators, while other members should not be available). The ability to exclude a member or several members from recipients of a particular reaction. That is, for all publications made by the members specified in the setting, the reaction will not be available. The ability to configure the availability of reactions depending on the topic of the forum. The global setting allows you to completely disable reactions for selected forum topics. The settings for each reaction allow you to configure the availability of a specific reaction in various topics of the forum. Settings of the "weight" of reputation include: The ability to specify an extended range of reputation points from -100 to +100 (compared to the standard + 1 / -1). Settings: The maximum number of negative reactions allowed to be given to the group during the day: ACP -> Members -> Groups -> Tab Social (the logic of the work is as follows: the default setting sets the limit for all reactions per day, setting the plug-in sets the limit for negative reactions from this total number. Thus, if you specify for example a limit of total = 10 and a limit of negative = 3, this means that the group can issue a maximum of 10 reactions per day, with only a maximum of 3 of which may be negative). All Prohibited reaction will not be available even when you try to substitute the request URL in the address bar. About what the corresponding page will be given with an error. To visually identify the presence of additional options in the reaction list, additional labels are added to the reaction list indicating that the response has settings for groups, users, or the presence of an enhanced reputation value, while also the number of reputation points that this reaction modifies. Thus, when composing these settings, you can pretty flexibly configure which reactions will be available to certain users or groups or forums etc. ATTENTION!!! I would like to dwell on some points, so that there are no unnecessary questions. For the correct operation of the plug-in, I had to change the opening of the reactions settings window to the non-modal mode, in spite of the fact that developers like modal windows, this imposes some restrictions on the behavior of some elements on the form. So do not be surprised that when the plug-in is enabled, the response settings window is now not modal. In view of the fact that the work with the developers' reactions is realized through a third and not through the class, there are certain restrictions on overriding the standard settings. When the plug-in is disabled, the extended reaction values remain in effect as they were set when the plug-in was enabled. When removing the plug-in, all extended reaction values are given to + 1 / -1 by the principle of whether the reaction had a positive or negative weight. Plugin originally English-speaking (EN). In order not to keep in development two versions of the plug-in for different languages, in this plug-in I tried to implement my pseudo-multilanguage. , but if you have the Russian language in the system, translated (RU) lines will be installed automatically when installed. View the full article

The simplest plugin for disabling control is the mandatory filling of ALL address fields in the appropriate settings and sections. View the full article

Hebrew Language 4.2 ips 4.x - forum + admin cp and more! Updated every month , speed problem fix ,Quick support and nice Language pack תרגום למערכת אייפיבי ,מתקן בעיות מהר מאוד תרגום מלא של הפורומים לוח בקרה לאדמין והמערכת ( הרשמה וכו) ועוד View the full article

Plugin which allows you to place advertisements within the post content posted in your forum. List any advertisements that are configured with a 'custom location' and provide settings to control where and how to display those ads within post content. Control after which paragraph the ad will show 0 = shown before the posted content. If the number of paragraphs in a post is less than the number chosen, then the ad will appear at the end of the posted content. Show within quoted text. Show in all or some forums. Topic exclusion option available to avoid showing ads in topics, if required. View the full article

Invision Community has been going strong for over sixteen years now. Many of those who work for us were customers first before they signed away their souls and became staff. This month, we part the mists of time and ask: How did you first come across Invision Community? Andy (Developer and man of mystery) Way back in 1998 I was involved with an online investment club in the UK (of course you were - Editor) and we set up a directory of national share clubs with a threaded “bulletin board”. This was based on a freely available perl script (as everything was back then (did they claim it would always be free? - Editor)) but it just wasn’t up to the job. This was my first exposure to writing web based software as I started customising it for our needs. Soon after, we switched to UBB which moved away from messy layouts and to a more structured forum, topic, post experience. With the release in 2004 of Invision Community 1.3 we switched again and I’ve been working with Invision Community software ever since (and you had such a promising life planned out - Editor). Around the same time the investment club moved to Invision Community, I also started up two other sites, one for modified cars which was an extremely popular niche at the time and one for my home town of Bedlington which is still running to this date. When developing for Invision Community I find it very useful to have that historical experience and real world insight. A lot of my input when we discuss new features as a team comes as a direct result of this first hand experience. I was part of this Investment Club when I was younger Marc (Support and fan of bouncy castles) My first real experience trying to set up forums/communities for myself was somewhere around 2000 (lol slow down grandpa - Editor). Me and a few friends used to host gaming servers for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and wanted something for storing stats on, so I set up UBB which I remember thinking was really cool at the time. I never really did much with it other than setting it up for people to use, and remember at the time backing things up on a 1mb hard drive (can't even fit a picture on that these days (need a push on that rocking chair? - Editor)). Over the years, I ran a few more sites and the software at some point became vBulletin (cant recall when, but just seemed to happen) which I ran through version 2 and late into version 3. At that point I was starting to add things for myself, usually learning from other peoples "FIND abc, AFTER ADD, xyz" which is how we all used to add our own modifications at the time. The thought of an upgrade at the time, I know used to make me cringe. At some point during vBulletin 4 release, I was becoming a little disillusioned with the whole community software scene in general (other disappointing platforms are available - Editor), and hadn't really used Invision Community before, but ended up using that for a site for my wife. I was using Invision Community more and more. Purely because it was the site that was most active at the time. This led me to becoming very interested in the new Invision Community 4 release, and was becoming a bit of an social addict on the alpha forum that was released, helping out people who weren't sure of things, and generally asking questions. It was around this point I was asked to join the team here at Invision. And you guys have had to put up with me ever since! My sincere apologies for that. (apology accepted - Editor) This has nothing to do with Castle Wolfenstein but it's late and I need this blog entry done Mark H (Support and keeper of Dropbox) The internet was in its infancy in 1985 (and there goes 80% of our readers - Editor), and I was using BBS's on a dial-up 1200 baud modem. In 1986 I took over a BBS from a friend, running it on a 2400 baud modem and single phone line. It was just a few years later that I got my first look at the real "Internet", using Netscape and now a 9600 baud modem (we just lost another 10% - Editor). At some point I discovered online communities, then only "Forums" with perhaps photo gallery software similar to Coppermine. My focus was gaming at the time, so I gravitated to forums for such things as (like Marc) Castle Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, and the first RPG-type text-based games. I also joined a number of MUD's (multiplayer real time worlds - Editor), and am a (now retired) staff member of the MUD, Ancient Anguish. I've seen the progression of technology and software which, today, we take for granted. But back then if someone had told me where we would be today, (oh boy, here we go - Editor) I'd have been...... skeptical. Over the years, I've used a verity of "forum software" but well over a decade ago started using Invision Community version 1.3a. Today I am a partner with another person running a site using Invision Community software, and it's the highest-ranking result at Google for its (admittedly niche) speciality. Since I was using Invision Community, having purchased it at version 2.3, and given that background, it seemed a natural progression to join Invision Community as an employee when the opportunity arose, and I have never looked back! (must be dangerous when reversing - Editor) Actual footage of Mark listening to an internet podcast back in 1985 Jennifer (Designer and sock fanatic) Communities, for me, started on AOL. The chat rooms was where I started. I evolved to javascript chat rooms later and eventually into Neopets clubs followed by a community software called Avidgamers and eventually stumbled across InvisionFree forums. It was while I was adventuring through Avidgamers that I discovered an art type called "pixel" art which truly explains my passion. I was personally never good at it but I found a community called "Eden Enchanted" where all these really awesome pixel artists were. So I started to develop my own Pixel art community (because back then I thought I might eventually get good at it so I should admin). I started on the free community software of "SMF" but envied the ease of use and the beauty of Invision Community (which this awesome pixel community used (they have outstanding taste - Editor)). After what felt like forever, which mind you was really only like 2-3 months, I bit the bullet and purchased an Invision Community license. I wanted this gorgeous piece of software and I couldn't live with the second rate free stuff anymore (there's our new advert slogan - Editor). So I bought Invision Community 2.3 and delved in (this was back in 2007). I really haven't looked back since. I've been developing skins since I got it and I've made a few mods/applications on it back in the 3.0 days. I've owned and ran many communities, and roleplays, on Invision Community since. My current community, which has officially been running on Invision Community since December 2013, was transferred from InvisionFree (not my choice but god were we happy when we left). Ah the memories. Terrible, terrible memories Brandon (Developer and XP log in screen enthusiast) Back in roughly 2004-ish I got into customizing Windows XP (specifically I created custom login screens (this was actually a thing? - Editor) but knew a lot of people who did the full alternative to Windows Blinds by hacking dlls) and eventually opened a site to host my work and to allow others to share theirs: bfarber.com. I used Invision Community v1.3 which was free at the time (2.0 was just getting into beta testing as I recall) and needed a file manager to share my work and to allow others to do the same. I downloaded a free file manager by a modder named 'parkeet' and after installing it on my site (which required those good ole "find X and replace with Y" PHP file modifications) I found that it was lacking in a few areas, so I set out to customize it. From this desire I taught myself PHP (I was already familiar with HTML, CSS and javascript) and learned how to modify the modification. Eventually, the original author left the mod scene (this was back in the ibmods days for those of you who have been here a while (I have - Editor)) and turned the work over to me. I was hired by IPS back around 2006 and shortly after I came on board I built a new Downloads manager from the ground up as a core offering for the company (Now I know who to assign all Download tickets to - Editor). While I don't run my own site anymore (especially a third party hack site for Windows XP), I do have fond memories of my roots. This was both my start with web development (beyond building a few static HTML pages in the early days of the web) as well as my start with forums specifically. Never used this, apparently it was OK Stuart (Developer and owner of large computers) My story is rather similar to the other ones here (selling this story from the off - Editor). My story starts around 2000 when I started a car club with my brother, being the technical one, one of the first things to do was to set up a forum. We started with Ikonboard (imagine Perl & flat-file databases etc), we swiftly followed Matt over to his new PHP-based project "Invision Power Board" (pretty sure the restraining order prohibited that - Editor). With the introduction of the new licensing structure unfortunately with being very low budget we had to then move over to WBB (er... - Editor). Soon after we moved back to Invision Community (It was the best and totally worth it! (I made him say that - Editor)) and I started to get interested with PHP (up to this point, I had only really used HTML/CSS) and learning how to make some changes that we needed for working with 'members' and tying our website in with our community. -- A really simple SSO type approach where the main website would show the user that's logged in and save data they submit, such as a tech spec and images of their vehicles. That community is still using Invision Community and in the meantime I've also converted (and run) some other car club communities that I've been involved in over the years. From there, I was asked to start writing SSO (single sign on, you're welcome- Editor) integrations in early 2014 for Invision Community and soon after became a full member of staff. I still run a number of communities to this day which gives great insight into how end users interact with the software and generally what their feelings of the platform is. Quite often, I'll deploy Alphas to these communities to gather feedback. Oh, he said Car Club... Jim (Support and his name is a bit like the lead singer from The Doors) The first community I really heavily participated in was around 2003. Being a nerd and liking wrestling at the time (Ultimate Warrior FTW- Editor), I joined a wrestling forum that ran a very beginning version of IPB. A lot of time was spent on this website and after becoming a moderator, I really feel in love with IPB. A sub-forum on this community that was pretty active was around graphic design. Feedback/showcases and competitions with the main point of focus around the wrestling world. This really took my interest and while my interest in wrestling kind of faded, graphic design led to the next step in my life and naturally joining graphic design communities. After being a part of quite a few graphic design forums (that were ran quite badly (honesty is always good - Editor)) came time for me to try my hand at this. Being technically inclined, I thought I could run a better show. We started out on PHPBB due to cost but after some frustrating moments, I persuaded the move to Invision Community. Come sometime around 2008 or 2009 and my new passion around cars had reached its peak, I came back onto the forum scene. In 2010, my favorite brand had become defunct so I decided to open a community dedicated to keeping its memory alive. First and only choice was to come back to Invision Community! (Believe early version 3 at the time) This community is still alive and I still have a lot of fun with it! I've been waiting months to post this GIF Rhett (Hosting and boasting) My time on forums started in the late 90's, with a few motorcycle and photography forums I visited often. During the years as time progressed some of these went astray from what the core members wanted, so I started a few of my own Motorcycle forums with the core members following, that lead to other online communities such as Android (is that the cheap iOS knockoff? - Editor) in the late 2000's, and a few other communities. In about 08-09 I had enough of the main platform we were using and made the move to Invision Community (a man of fine taste - Editor). I started digging in, converting all the sites to Invision and haven't looked back (seriously, how do you guys get out of parking spots? - Editor). It's a great product, a great team, that I'm proud to be a small part of. Instagram in the 80s Daniel (Developer and owner of a shop and spa in Arendelle) My Journey started 2003 at an Austrian electronical music forum which was also written in perl. After years where I was only a member, the owner lost interest and a handful of people(incl. myself) took it over (hopefully you asked nicely first - Editor), but we realized that perl was such a pain to work with (I could have told you that - Editor), so we restarted the whole project with phpBB. This was also the time, where I got really interested into coding and customizing stuff. After a long journey from phpBB, to vBulletin(2006), and others, I landed finally here (the best one of course (someone's getting a bonus - Editor)) The forum doesn't exist anymore , I blame facebook and all the european laws, but TBH, I'm just too busy to run one ? Probably not Daniel Those are our stories, but we'd love to hear about your first experiences with Invision Community. Let us know below! View the full article

Have you got a lot of themes inside the theme menu? This mod will replace the skin menu at the bottom of the footer into a modal showing each theme in a grid by previewing a thumbnail for each theme to show the people on how it looks before they select it. Settings: Dialog Title = Set your own title when you toggle the modal. Default Thumb = Upload your default thumbnail if you don't want each theme to have a thumbnail. Enable Custom Thumb? = Enable/Disable the custom thumbnail Custom Thumb Stylesheet (CSS) = Follow this tutorial here on how to put your own theme thumbnail preview on each theme. How to install: Download the .xml file. Then, go to your ACP and then plugins and click to install the .xml file. Configuration: To configure this plugin, click the edit option of this plugin and it will take you to the Settings page. 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

This mod will send PM to the topic author when moderator will run Saved Action on his topic. You could use several tags included and available to use. It's helpfull to inform member that his topic has been modified and by who. View the full article

Menu Groups Manager, is a spiritual successor to CJ Menu. This menu manager offers a wide range of abilities and features, not found in the default IPS menu manager. You will have the ability to create unlimited groups, use them in a widget, hooks or in one of the 5 predefined locations. Note: if you are a CJ Menu owner and purchased from here, you can claim for a limited time a free copy of MGM (go to Store->manage orders, find CJ Menu, and click on manage, there will be a button for upgrade and you can claim MGM from there). if you purchased it from the IPS marketplace and wish to upgrade, please contact me there. Features: Multiple menu groups Several menu types to choose from (drawer, URL, applications, wrapper and magic block) multi-tiered sub menus two sub menus types: traditonal and mega On IPS applications that support Categories (like forums and downloads) have the ability to attach these Categories as sub menus. (this feature can be extended to third parties apps thru MGM's extension, several 3rd parties apps already support, Babble, Downloads Plus out of the box). Optional replacement of IPS default menu*. custom permissions or use application permissions. custom icons or use of font awesome icons for menus. Magic Blocks: allows you to create customized submenus, allows use of HTML/IPS Template logic/PHP/Javascript/etc. the only real limit is the imagination going into it. minimal style: the style is made to look acceptable on the IPS default them, but the styling is kept to minimal for easier styling into any theme. * MGM will attempt to remove the IPS default menu navigation, this isn't always a guarantee due to difference in theme design, as long as the them is similar to the default theme in the menu area, this feature should work, refunds will not be issued based on this reason alone, if the theme is incompatible with this feature. I do offer additional paid support for this, please inquire in PM if you desire this. limited theme support is available (as i am not a themer, i can help to the best of my ability). View the full article

This is an amazing theme for ipb 4.2.x DEMO: Click HERE select greentheme0.2 View the full article

Are you a member of a busy Facebook Group? Do you find it overwhelming trying to sort through all the posts to find something posted the day before? Are you now missing new posts and only seeing them a few days later? Facebook Groups are tempting to use as they are free to set up but is this the best decision for the future of your business? At the beginning with just a handful of members, things may fun fine. But fast forward to where your group becomes busy with thousands of members posting and reading. Your group becomes overwhelming. You find it hard to locate posts made on previous days and search is of no use. It is getting harder to keep on top of troublesome and spamming members. Worse still, Facebook's changing algorithms mean that your members are not seeing every post you make. You do as Facebook asks and link your page to your group to find that you must now boost posts to reach your members. This is getting to be a very common scenario. Even more worrying are rumours that Facebook is bringing advertising to groups. Will this allow your competitors to target your hard won membership? Will Facebook roll out the "Discover" tab across all continents? This alone has destroyed organic reach for many brands. What would you do if Facebook blocked your account for a week? Would your sales suffer? There is a way to take back control of your membership and secure your business' future. Building your business on your own land is a powerful way of retaining complete control over your community regardless of what happens to Facebook longer term. Created in 2002, Invision Community has always adapted to the changing habits of the internet. Our latest product is clean, modern, mobile ready and equipped to integrate with social media. It can power your conversations, website and shopping cart. It features single click Facebook sign in and tools to promote scheduled content to your Facebook page. We recently wrote why you shouldn't settle for a Facebook Group when building a community. The benefits of an owned Invision Community are: You own your own data. Your data is not mined for Facebook's benefit. Make it yours by branding it your way You're no longer boxed in by the Facebook format Seamless integration to your shopping cart for more monetization opportunities Set up permission levels to better control what your members can see Lets dig in a look at some of the tools you can leverage to make the migration easier. Mobile Ready Invision Community works great on your mobile. It resizes the page perfectly to match whichever device you are using. You don't need to install special apps or mess with themes. It just works out of the box. Facebook Sign In The first thing you'll want to do is turn on Facebook Sign In. This adds the familiar Facebook button right on the sign in page and register form. Clicking this logs them into your new community with their Facebook account. It even imports their profile photo so they are familiar with other members. Make use of embeds A great way to keep incorporating content from your Facebook Group or Page is to use embeds. Post a link to your content on Facebook and it transforms into a rich media snippet. Social Promotions Share your community content with your Facebook Page. Click the "Promote" button on any content item and you can customize the text and images shared. The promotion system offers a full scheduling system much like Buffer or Hootsuite. This is all built in at no extra cost. Find Your Content Unlike a Facebook Group, your Invision Community makes it easy to find older content. A powerful feature is activity streams. These are customizable "feeds" much like the Facebook News Feed but completely editable to you and your members needs. You can even make this the first page your members see for easy content discovery. Use Clubs Clubs allow sub-communities to run inside your main community. Let's look at a real world example. A FitPro has several different fitness products for sale. Each product is a Facebook Group. She posts daily workouts and answers member's questions. Using many groups can be very time consuming to manage. Clubs puts these sub-communities right on the page making it easy to drop in and update. These Clubs can be private and members invited to join allowing full privacy. This is like a closed Facebook group. We're only scratching the surface of what Invision Community can offer you. You can take back control of your membership and be free from the fear that Facebook will change something that will impact your sales. We're experts in this field with 16 years of experience. We've helped grow thousands of communities from the very biggest brands to the smallest of niches. We'd love to talk to you about your needs. View the full article

This applications lets you upload an icon or use a fontawesome icon on the menu/navigation. It is fully built into the menu manager so no learning curve required. I'll release updates and whatnot, let me know what you think! View the full article

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This is a very simple plugin that fixes the annoying "%OB" issue with the Upcoming Events widget. It's an issue with all BSD systems and potentially other systems as well. This plugin overrides "%OB" with "%B", which these systems can understand. Easy! Install instructions: Add as a plugin in your AdminCP Clear your forum's cache. To do so: Go to the "Get Support" page in your AdminCP Select "Something isn't working correctly" Click "Continue" Your forum's cache has been cleared! (You are free to leave the Support page and not continue) The Upcoming Events widget should be fixed! This was developed on 4.2.8. I'll update this plugin if it stops working. Or if the plugin stops working, let me know in a PM. ? View the full article

LibterForumsIcons plugin adds setting which allows assigning Font Awesome icons to forums. Planned features Setting forums colors. Icons and colors inheritance from parent forum. View the full article

This mod will add your forum description above the forum section title. How to install: Download the .xml file. Then, go to your ACP and then plugins and click to install the .xml file. Configuration: To configure this plugin, click the edit option of this plugin and it will take you to the Settings page. 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

We're thrilled to announce that Invision Community 4.3 Beta 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 beta release. You can download the beta from your client area. Be sure to read the full information on support and service limits that go along with beta releases. You will see this in client area prior to downloading. If you need a recap of what was added, take a look at our product updates blog which takes you through the highlights. If you you find a bug, we'd love for you to report it with as much detail as you can muster in the bug report area. We'd love to know what you think, let us know below. View the full article

This plugin allow you display selected extra fields below a file description. These fields will be removed from sidebar. Request Support topic View the full article

Welcome to Invision Community 4.3.0! This release brings numerous improvements and several new features, so be sure to read our announcement for everything new! **IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE** Please note that not all third party applications and themes are yet compatible with Invision Community 4.3. If you utilize third party resources, including custom themes, please ensure they have been declared compatible by their respective authors 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

Welcome to Invision Community 4.3.0! This release brings numerous improvements and several new features, so be sure to read our announcement for everything new! **IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE** Please note that not all third party applications and themes are yet compatible with Invision Community 4.3. If you utilize third party resources, including custom themes, please ensure they have been declared compatible by their respective authors 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

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This resource will provide canned replies to frequently asked questions for both the members and the staff. Canned replies can be shared. Member can create them in two ways: PRIVATE or PUBLIC. Public replies will be visiable and available to be used by all members allowed to use the resource, but only editable by its authors. Settings: Groups allowed to use the Canned Replies Content to use Canned Replies Topics and Comments in all apps that uses Comments modal, including 3rd-party resources. It will vary according to the applications you have installed in your board. Number of replies per page Note: Canned Replies tab on navigation bar will appear only for those who can use the resource. View the full article

Download Enhanced Widgets and liven up your board with some tasty looking widgets Features nice new design instead of the default IPS widgets, Shows the prefix of the topics if one is set with a nice coloured box around the prefix, Select what forums to show the results from, Select the limit of results to show on each widget, You can also pick the topic prefix colours on each widget, This currently has 6 widgets but more will be coming ( Let me know what sort of ones you would like ) Recent posts ( Shows a list of the recent posts ) Recent topics ( Shows a list of the recent topics ) Trending topics ( Hot Topics ) ( Shows a list of the hot topics ) Lounge ( Shows a list of the topics from your chosen forum ) Members per group ( Shows a 3D pie chart of the member count per group ) Posts per forum ( Shows a 3D pie chart of the post count per forum ) View the full article

This widget will display clubs card on Forums index. Users will see Clubs he has permission to view. Settings: Number of club cards to display Sort Clubs by: Latest Activity, Most Members, Most Content, Latest Created or Name Position: Above or below Forums categories View the full article