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When administering your forum members you will perform many actions from time. One of the most common tasks is changing the user password. Perhaps they Read More >

What is forum pruning? As your forum community grows, you may wish to remove older posts from your boards. This is known as pruning and Read More >

As an administrator you will have control over what features the moderators, users, and administrators have access to. You can enable or disable the different Read More >

Part of the administration duties on your forums is to regularly get rid of inactive members. This process is known as pruning. Pruning your members Read More >

In many forums, members are allowed to use a signature. A signature is a portion of text that is added to each post a user Read More >

As an administrator, you have access to several tasks for the board that you will manage from the System tab. These are general tasks and Read More >

Adminstrative access will give you the ability to control the tabs that both you and other administrators have access to. You can cotnrol these by Read More >

With phpBB 3.0, one of the new features regards attachments. Users are now able to add attachments to their posts. The board administrator has the Read More >

Within phpBB 3.0 users have the ability to use avatars, or images, that represent them within the community. As an admin, you have the ability Read More >

Many site owners wish to enable syndicated feeds for their site content. This broadcasts any new content added to your site to subscribers so they Read More >

Automated spam is very prominent across the web. Spammers employ bots, or automated programs, to crawl the web and inject forums and blogs with comments Read More >

When creating your community you may end up working with many forums and categories. You may want to change permissions on the forum level to Read More >

As you manage your community and help it grow, you will likely add forums and categories to your site. You may want to use the Read More >

Whenever you deal with a community of users, there is always a risk of one person offending another with specific words. While you can moderate Read More >

PhpBB allows you to select from different templates to customize the look and feel of your site. Regardless of the template you select to use, Read More >

Once you get your phpBB 3.0 site installed and online, you may want to begin to customize it to set it apart from all other Read More >

The beauty of phpBB 3.0 is that it is a free open-source software program. To help increase its brand awareness, phpBB tags its software with Read More >

Once your site is installed and running, you may want to keep track of various statistics on your site. One of the most common stats Read More >

After installing your phpbb and getting your first basic forums set up, it is time to begin customizing your site to be your own. While Read More >

When editing or creating a forum in phpBB, you may encounter the following error: (See image to the right) Warning The specified forum image does Read More >

When adding users to a phpBB forum, when testing or debugging your user registrations, you may run into an errors like the following. The entered Read More >

By default, new users are automatically part of a group named Newly Registered Users. This group typically requires that the posts they create be approved Read More >

When working with different user groups in phpBB, you can assign a group color so that the members of that group appear with a specific Read More >

When working with users in your phpBB board site, you may wish to segregate users into different ranks. Ranks are simply titles that are achieved Read More >

Your phpBB website has the ability to send email notifications, using your SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) settings. In this guide we will show you Read More >

phpBB is a very popular online bulletin board. Before you install phpBB and jump into it, you may want to first go over how forum Read More >

In this PhpBB installation tutorial, we will demonstrate how to manually install phpBB. This means it will be done without the help of any third Read More >

In this tutorial: Dashboard Types Login to your Admin Control Panel (ACP) Login to your Moderator Control Panel (MCP) Understanding the Dashboard Types After successfully Read More >

When maintaining your site, you will want to ensure you keep backups of your files and database. It is also a good idea to back Read More >

A new template, or theme, can give your website a completely new look. Templates help to individualize a site with colors, images, and icons that Read More >

When creating your forum community creating a certain look and feel requires customizing various settings. One of the more common features to change is the Read More >

By default, phpBB 3.0 is set to use British English. You may upload different language packs and set the default language from within your Admin Read More >

One of the basic features of a  board administrator is to create new forums for your users in your phpBB board. The ability to create Read More >

A ‘Category’ is a special type of forum. Think of it as the parent container of the forums under it. PhpBB allows unlimited subforums, but Read More >

The board settings found in the General tab of the ACP allow you to edit the way you govern your boards. This includes name, timezone, Read More >

After learning to create a new topic in your phpBB 3.0 site, you will want to know how to reply to a topic. It is Read More >

As your community begins to form, visitors will sign up and begin to create topics and replies. You or your moderators will now spend time Read More >

Even though you may set site rules for your forums specifying the rules of conduct about posting, there will always be instances where you will Read More >

When acting as the administrator of a forum such as your phpBB site, you will want to customize the behavior of posts. This allows a Read More >

As your site becomes more popular and begins to attract new members, you may want to set up an activation system before new members are Read More >

As a phpBB admin, you have the ability to change which group in a user’s group list will be their default. The default group dictates Read More >

After creating your new user group, you will want to assign permissions for the members of that group. The permissions come in three categories, user, Read More >

In the beginning, you may be able to administer your forums by yourself. As your community grows, however, you may want to begin assigning individual Read More >

When dealing with administrators, moderator, and users, you notice there are many levels of each. Editing the permission roles in phpBB allows you to customize Read More >

Your members have the ability to report inappropriate posts when they come across them on your site. Moderating these reported posts in phpBB is a Read More >

By default, new users in phpBB 3.0 must have their topics and replies approved until they reach five posts. As an administrator, you can certainly Read More >

While administering your site, you and your moderators may have to make textual changes in topics and replies. Administrator and moderator roles have the ability Read More >