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It's an unfortunate fact that when you run a successful site, you attract unwanted users posting spam on your site. IP.Board has always been incredibly pro-active in preventing spam users from signing up by making use of built in tools such as the question and answer challenge, spam monitoring service and CAPTCHA systems. I'd like to take a moment to talk about some enhancements we've made in IP.Board 3.4.0 to help prevent unwanted posts and spam. Spam Monitoring Improvements We've further enhanced the spam monitoring service in IP.Board 3.4.0 by adding a new option: "Do not permit the user to register an account". This reduces the amount of clean up you need t…
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There has been much confusion over the recent exploit reported to us and subsequently patched. I would like to personally apologize for any confusion and inconvenience caused. We have conducted a review and made appropriate changes to our policies to ensure a smoother release and notification schedule for any future incidents. With that said, it is very important to note that while an IP.Board vulnerability did exist, its impact would have been minimal, if not non-existent on servers that have their PHP installations properly secured. I would like to touch on a couple of basics to minimize the effects of future vulnerabilities not only in IP.Board, but any other PHP ap…
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We are nearly ready to release the supported version of IP.Board 3.4 and are very excited to get this great new release out to you. Beta Testing We are currently doing a public beta test of IP.Board 3.4. If you are comfortable testing pre-release software please consider testing and letting us know any bugs you might find. You can find the pre-release on our forums but you will need to login as an active IPS Client to access. The more people who test our beta releases the better for everyone! What's New Please read these blog entries for a full list and explanation of what's new in this release. IP.SEO Removed (we have removed IP.SEO and merged all its functio…
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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 5.0.3 and IP.Blog 2.6.1. IP.Gallery 5.0.3 IP.Gallery is a fully-featured photo and multimedia sharing app for the IPS Community Suite. Create albums, upload photos, discuss the hottest shots and much more. This release resolves issues reported since the release of IP.Gallery 5.0.2. A list of bugs reported in 5.0.2 and fixed in 5.0.3 can be seen in our tracker. IP.Blog 2.6.1 IP.Blog enables users to create and maintain their own individual or group blogs right from within your community, to share ideas & thoughts. A list of bugs reported in 2.6.0 and fixed in 2.6.1 can be seen in…
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It has come to our attention that a security issue is present in IP.Board. We strongly recommend that you follow the instructions below to patch your community. Instructions This security update is a simple one file patch. Simply download the relevant zip file for your version. Expand the zip file and upload /admin/sources/base/core.php to your /admin/sources/base directory on your server ensuring that the file is overwritten. Please contact technical support if you're unsure how to update your community. The main download zips have been updated at the time of this announcement. IP.Board 3.3.x http://community.invisionpower.com/public/style_extra/mime_types/zip.…
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It has come to our attention that a security issue is present in IP.Board. We strongly recommend that you follow the instructions below to patch your community. Instructions This security update is a simple one file patch. Simply download the relevant zip file for your version. Expand the zip file and upload /admin/sources/base/core.php to your /admin/sources/base directory on your server ensuring that the file is overwritten. Please contact technical support if you're unsure how to update your community. The main download zips have been updated at the time of this announcement. IP.Board 3.3.x http://community.invisionpower.com/public/style_extra/mime_types/zip.…
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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Content 2.3.3! IP.Content is our community content management platform for IP.Board allowing you to create content for your site ranging from a simple portal to a full website with custom databases and more - the possibilities are endless! This release resolves issues reported since the release of IP.Content 2.3.2. This release also incorporates a handful of new features and functionality improvements: Significant improvements to item markers in databasesAbility to allow users to filter by fields, which adds a filter bar on the left side of the screen (as seen in our Tracker)Reports you have posted i…
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At IPS, we pride ourselves on providing industry leading products and services, unsurpassed in quality, features and support. Much like any other company, we indeed have our strengths and weaknesses. One admitted weakness is clearly developing an independent mobile app platform that can meet your and our expectations. We have struggled over the past several years in securing a proficient mobile app development team and ultimately, the platform has not met our expectations. Our mantra has become: if we can't do it right, we simply will not do it. That is where we are at with the mobile app platform. Unfortunately, this means the Android app will not make its debut a…
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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Nexus 1.5.4. IP.Nexus 1.5.4 Fully featured commerce system to sell products, membership access, advertising, digital downloads, and more. Includes tools like a support desk to help manage your clients. This release resolves issues reported since the release of IP.Nexus 1.5.3. View the full article at IPS
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As we wrap up principle development of new features for IP.Board 3.4, I wanted to go through some of the other changes we've implemented for the new release. System Templates Some "system templates" such as the wrapper used for HTML emails were previously only editable by manually changing the files which contained those templates. This is inconvenient, especially as it means one has to remember not to upload those files when upgrading IP.Board. In IP.Board 3.4, these templates will be editable from the Admin CP making it much easier to maintain edited versions of these templates. Mobile Moderation Our mobile theme is suitable for all mobile devices…
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IP.Board has for a long time allowed administrators to send bulk mails to members, including the ability to filter recipients and use variables to customise the message sent to each member. This is an important tool for communicating with the members of your community and in 3.4 we've made it even better. The problem with bulk mail Sending vast amounts of email through your own server is troublesome. Firstly, it takes a long time (you can't just send out thousands of emails in one go) and due to the way PHP works, you need to have activity on your community to initiate the sending of each batch of emails (you could set up a cron, but you'd probably only want…
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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Downloads 2.5.2. IP.Downloads 2.5.2 Integrated download management for IP.Board allowing you and your members to upload files for sharing in an organized category listing with permissions, version control, and more This release resolves issues reported since the release of IP.Downloads 2.5.1. A list of bugs reported in 2.5.1 and fixed in 2.5.2 can be seen in our tracker. In addition to the bug fixes included in this release, 2.5.2 includes the following notable changes: New setting: "Members must download to rate". Allows the administrator to restrict ratings to only files that users have do…
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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 5.0.2. IP.Gallery 5.0.2 IP.Gallery is a fully-featured photo and multimedia sharing app for the IPS Community Suite. Create albums, upload photos, discuss the hottest shots and much more. This release resolves issues reported since the release of IP.Gallery 5.0.1. A list of bugs reported in 5.0.1 and fixed in 5.0.2 can be seen in our tracker. View the full article at IPS
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The Admin Control Panel (ACP) is a very comprehensive section of your IP.Board. The ACP is used for everything from managing members, creating forums to dealing with support tickets from within our IP.Nexus application. Indeed, the ACP has grown so large that it can be a little bewildering remembering where pages are and you may find that there are areas of the ACP you rarely use and would like to tuck out of the way. Happily, we've made significant improvements in these areas for IP.Board 3.4. Bookmarks You probably use a handful of ACP pages numerous times a day and navigating to those pages may be a little cumbersome or you may find a really useful settings p…
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We're always amazed at how diverse our customer base is and how many different uses customers find for their IP.Board. Many customers, ourselves included often have a forum that invites questions such as pre-sales or support forums. These forums often generate a lot of topics with many replies and it can often be confusing for other readers to know which reply definitively answered the original question. The Best Answer Feature IP.Board comes with a brand new 'best answer' feature. This enables the topic starter (when allowed), moderators (where allowed) and super moderators/admins to mark a post as the best answer. http://www.mattmecham.com/skitch/http__localhost_…
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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 5.0.1. IP.Gallery 5.0.1 IP.Gallery is a fully-featured photo and multimedia sharing app for the IPS Community Suite. Create albums, upload photos, discuss the hottest shots and much more. This release resolves issues reported since the release of IP.Gallery 5.0.0. A list of bugs reported in 5.0.0 and fixed in 5.0.1 can be seen in our tracker. View the full article at IPS
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The new IPS Backup Service is our latest addition to our Community Enhancements services being introduced in IP.Board 3.4. This service allows for remote-backups of your community database processed constantly without any work on your part. How it Works The service works by logging all "write" queries to your database that are processed by the IPS Community Suite. What this means is that any time a database entry is inserted, updated, or deleted a log of that action is created. We ignore what we call transactional tables like sessions and topic markers that are updated often but if you were to lose those tables it does not really matter to your community. When you fir…
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IP.Board 3.4 is approaching and will be released soon with all sorts of great enhancements such as SEO improvements, upgraded editor, login enhancements, core performance improvements, lots of minor changes from feedback, and more still to be announced. This is a great time to take a look at IPS if your community might still be running another software. Perhaps you have a friend or a site you visit frequently using another software and you want to encourage them to switch to the IPS Community Suite. By starting the switch process now you can have your community ready to go, be familiar with IPS software and services, and have any questions answered so when IP.Board 3.4 …
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A Content Delivery Network, or CDN is a distributed system of servers to provide high-availablity and high-performance. For example, rather than serving your CSS, images and Javascript from the same webserver that PHP and the rest of your community runs on, these are loaded from a network of servers, improving performance and reducing load on your server. Having a CDN can improve your community's quality, reliability and scalability, as well as reduce your hosting costs. By offloading the serving of images, CSS, Javascript, etc. you free up your system resources to serve the real content which makes for a better experience. Some say that there are also SEO advantages t…
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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 5.0.0 and IP.Blog 2.6.0! This newest version of IP.Gallery adds many features and fixes reported issues to enhance your community gallery. We have reviewed all of the feedback provided for IP.Gallery 4 and have improved the gallery software to better meet our clients' needs. The latest release of IP.Blog adds many consistency updates and minor functionality improvements to enhance your community blog experience. IP.Gallery 5.0.0 IP.Gallery is a fully-featured photo and multimedia sharing app for the IPS Community Suite. Create albums, upload photos, discuss the hottest shots and much m…
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VigLink is a service which works with a number of affiliates to provide you commission when a user visits the affiliate from your website. So, as an example, let's say someone posts a link to an Amazon item on your community, with VigLink integration, you'll be provided with compensation every time a user purchases that item if they bought it after following the link from your site. VigLink, and services like it, have been a popular addition for many of our clients and we have received requests for built in integration. Monetizing your community is something IPS has been working to enhance support for over the recent years. From ad code integration spots to our full c…
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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Nexus 1.5.3. IP.Nexus 1.5.3 Fully featured commerce system to sell products, membership access, advertising, digital downloads, and more. Includes tools like a support desk to help manage your clients. This release resolves issues reported since the release of IP.Nexus 1.5.2. View the full article at IPS
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As part of our regular SEO round-up when developing a major new release, I'm happy to run through the latest SEO changes we've made for IP.Board 3.4. Friendly URL Changes After much research and discussion with other SEO focused forum owners, I decided to revamp the FURL structure when handling additional page parameters. The existing format uses the following structure: board.com/topic/123-title/page__foo__barThis is then parsed as foo=bar when converted to a normal query string. The problem with this is that it confuses search engines because it looks like another page rather than just a variant of a single page. We have a canonical tag which helps to reduce confus…
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IPS is introducing a program whereby we nominate a charity to receive our attention and support. These nominated charities are chosen by IPS for the work they do and how they might impact us personally. The first nominated charity is Autism Speaks. You can find out more information on our charity... View the full article View the full article at IPS
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The IPS Community Suite provides a fantastic community solution for all kinds of websites. For many of our customers, the community is just one component of their site. Many of these customers utilise single sign-on systems for integrating the community with the other areas. At IPS, we get requests for this on a regular basis, and over the years, I've... View the full article View the full article at IPS
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