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A little history For many years, IP.Board functioned under a relatively normal model of managing a content's status. A topic, for example, was either unapproved or approved. If a moderator did not like the topic, that moderator could delete the topic. This worked well for many years, but improvements in technology and processes necessitated changes. As IPS software evolved we recognized the need to handle all content throughout the entire suite in a uniform manner, so old concepts like the "trash can" forum were no longer relevant when considering how you work with Gallery images or Download Manager files. Additionally, many sites today employ moderators that they do not wish to entrust with the complete ability to irrevocably delete content, yet they still need the moderator to be able to clean up a mess should it occur. A few years ago, we introduced the concept of "soft delete". In practice what this meant was that when a user soft deleted a topic, the topic would be removed from general view for most users, but the topic would not actually be deleted. Administrators could choose who can view soft deleted topics, and who could "un-delete" the soft deleted topic. Some time after this, the way topics were deleted changed as well (which was now referred to as "hard delete" in contrast to "soft delete"). If a topic was truly deleted, it would not actually be immediately removed from the database. Instead, a flag was set and the topic would be deleted from the database at some future point in time by a task. The idea was that you may need to restore something that was deleted by a moderator...but then, the software already supports a soft-delete concept to account for this, right? When clients proved to be confused with all of the terminology (we can't blame you!), "hard delete" was renamed back to "delete", and "soft delete" was renamed to hidden. Nevertheless, behind the scenes we still had all of the various statuses to account for Content is awaiting approval (unapproved)Content is approved and viewable (approved)Content has been hidden or soft deleted (hidden)Content has been deleted but not removed from the database yet by the task (pending deletion)Content has been deleted and is gone permanently (deleted) And how about 4.0? In reviewing the needs of most admins and how the process of managing the content and your moderator roles works in the real world, we decided to simplify and improve this experience. The 4.0 Suite now has just 4 of the above statuses, and they behave in a manner you would expect. If you require moderator approval of new content, when something is submitted it will be in an unapproved status. If you do not require moderator approval of new content, that content will be approved automatically and immediately viewable.If a moderator has permission to hide content, the moderator will be able to hide any content that has been submitted. The moderator may or may not be able to see content that is hidden, and may or may not be able to restore hidden content to viewable status. (All that depends on Admin settings.)If a moderator has permission to delete content, the moderator will be able to delete content that has been submitted. Upon doing so, the content is immediately and permanently deleted. You can configure your moderators such that they are able to hide content, delete content, or both. As with 3.x, moderators who can see hidden content will be able to review all hidden content in the Moderator Control Panel, and those with permission to restore hidden content will be able to do so from here as well. You will not have to worry about the content you are viewing in the Moderator Control Panel is deleted or hidden, as there is only one status now. This is an example of a very minor change that was made after careful consideration of how the software functions and should "flow" when being used in a real-world situation. It is often the case that the smallest changes can make the biggest impact in the eyes of the users. View the full article View the full article at IPS

Hello, I'm here with two great gateway for IP.Nexus, Amazon Simple Payment & BIPS.me, Amazon Simple Payment Amazon Advanced Simple Pay is an easy way to accept payments or donations and makes it possible for hundreds of millions of Amazon customers to pay conveniently and securely on your website using the information in their Amazon accounts. (more) FAQ, you can find it Here for IP.Nexus BIPS.me BIPS is one of the largest bitcoin payment solution providers. BIPS operates as a Payment Service Provider (PSP) for Merchants and acquirers bitcoin payments for consumers and merchants. More you can find it Here for IP.Nexus View the full article at IPS

IPS Connect is our in-house cross-site authentication framework utilized by IP.Board in order to facilitate sharing of login credentials on one or more of your websites. While IP.Board supports Connect out of the box (meaning administrators of two or more IP.Board installations can allow users to use the same login credentials on any site in the network with just a few clicks in the ACP), the design of the system allows for third party software to tie in to the network as well. Indeed, one of the more popular addons in our Marketplace is the Wordpress IPS Connect plugin. We have made several changes to IPS Connect in 4.0 that we believe will help you better manage a network of sites designed to share login credentials amongst them. These changes stemmed both from our own internal use of IPS Connect and from direct user feedback in our feedback forums. Fundamental Improvements In IP.Board 3.4, a "master" installation has no knowledge of any "slave" installations that may call to it. Any IP.Board can be set up to call to the master installation and this mater installation will never remember that the slave has called to it in the future. While this is fine for basic login credential checking, the original design of IPS Connect introduces many limitations. For instance, updating your email address on any given site cannot cause the email address to be updated on all sites because there is no central installation that knows about any of the sites in the network. Similarly, logging in to one site cannot log you in to all sites because all of the sites on the network are not actually known at any one location (we do, however, work around this if all sites are on the same domain). Beginning with 4.0, the master installation will "register" any site that connects to it using IPS Connect. This introduces many benefits: If you make a change on any individual site (master or slave), that change can now be propagated to all other sites in the network. Logging in or out of any given site can log you in to all other sites (because all other sites are now "known") Requests can be queued if there are problems You can create a listing of all sites in the network from the master installation Further, we have thought through potential issues and have implemented a queue system where-by if requests to an individual site in the network begin failing then those requests will be queued and reattempted at a later date in the order they were originally received. If failed requests start queuing on the master installation, an ACP dashboard block will show you this and let you attempt to process them manually. If the issue causing the requests to fail has been resolved, the queue can quickly clear out in this manner (vs waiting for the task to clear them out). If the issue is still occurring, however, you will be given some additional information which will be helpful in determining why the requests are failing. Finally, if the site in question has been taken offline and future requests should not be sent to it, you are given the opportunity to unregister the "slave" installation so that the master will no longer communicate with it. More changes propagated We found while using IPS Connect internally that we wanted certain actions to propagate across all sites on the network but IPS Connect did not handle this, and we subsequently had to develop custom hooks in-house to account for the missing functionality. As a result, with 4.0 IPS Connect will now manage a few additional capabilities. Banning As of 4.0, if you permanently ban a user from the admin control panel, the ban will be copied to the rest of the sites in the IPS Connect network. Bans are only propagated to other sites if initiated via the admin control panel as a security precaution. It is probable in many cases that you do not want moderator actions on one site affecting accounts on another site, so front-end bans will not be copied to other sites. Deleting As of 4.0, deleting users from one site in an IPS Connect network will now cause the user to be deleted on all sites in the network. Merging Similarly, as of 4.0 when you merge two users on a site in an IPS Connect network, the users will be merged on all sites in the network. Password Changes As of 4.0, password changes are fully propagated to all sites in an IPS Connect network. The net effect will be no different than IP.Board 3.4 in this regard, unless you later disable IPS Connect on a site in the network - in this case, the last used password will still be valid on that site, rather than some random password potentially stored on a "slave" installation 5 years ago that the user cannot remember. Cross Domain Logins (and Logouts) Beginning with 4.0, IPS Connect will now support logging in and out across different domains. Cookie restrictions (and the fact that the master installation did not register and/or remember any of the slave installations) prevented this capability with 3.4.x, so while the login credentials could be shared across domains, signing in to one installation did not sign you in to any other installation automatically (unless they were on the same domain). Similarly if you logged out of an installation you were not automatically logged out of any other installation in 3.4.x. As of 4.0, if you sign in to an installation (whether it is the master or an individual slave application), you will be redirected to the master installation, then redirected to each slave application in turn, and finally redirected back to your original destination. This is all very seamless to the end-user and largely unnoticeable. Logging out will, similarly, redirect you to each application to log you out of that application, bypassing security restrictions applied to cookies in a multi-domain environment. Wrapping Up Just as with IP.Board 3.4, other applications can tie in to the IPS Connect network, either as a master installation or as a slave installation. IPS Connect support has otherwise been greatly improved and now offers a much wider range of functionality, a more robust built-in SSO system, and more reliability when problems do occur via the new request queuing system. It should be noted that IPS Connect with 4.0 is NOT compatible with IP.Board 3.4.x, and sites will need to "re-register" with the master so that it can know about them. That minor limitation aside, we believe you will enjoy the great improvements coming in the next release! View the full article at IPS

IPS Connect is our in-house cross-site authentication framework utilized by IP.Board in order to facilitate sharing of login credentials on one or more of your websites. While IP.Board supports Connect out of the box (meaning administrators of two or more IP.Board installations can allow users to use the same login credentials on any site in the network with just a few clicks in the ACP), the design of the system allows for third party software to tie in to the network as well. Indeed, one of the more popular addons in our Marketplace is the Wordpress IPS Connect plugin. We have made several changes to IPS Connect in 4.0 that we believe will help you better manage a network of sites designed to share login credentials amongst them. These changes stemmed both from our own internal use of IPS Connect and from direct user feedback in our feedback forums. Fundamental Improvements In IP.Board 3.4, a "master" installation has no knowledge of any "slave" installations that may call to it. Any IP.Board can be set up to call to the master installation and this mater installation will never remember that the slave has called to it in the future. While this is fine for basic login credential checking, the original design of IPS Connect introduces many limitations. For instance, updating your email address on any given site cannot cause the email address to be updated on all sites because there is no central installation that knows about any of the sites in the network. Similarly, logging in to one site cannot log you in to all sites because all of the sites on the network are not actually known at any one location (we do, however, work around this if all sites are on the same domain). Beginning with 4.0, the master installation will "register" any site that connects to it using IPS Connect. This introduces many benefits: If you make a change on any individual site (master or slave), that change can now be propagated to all other sites in the network.Logging in or out of any given site can log you in to all other sites (because all other sites are now "known")Requests can be queued if there are problemsYou can create a listing of all sites in the network from the master installation Further, we have thought through potential issues and have implemented a queue system where-by if requests to an individual site in the network begin failing then those requests will be queued and reattempted at a later date in the order they were originally received. If failed requests start queuing on the master installation, an ACP dashboard block will show you this and let you attempt to process them manually. If the issue causing the requests to fail has been resolved, the queue can quickly clear out in this manner (vs waiting for the task to clear them out). If the issue is still occurring, however, you will be given some additional information which will be helpful in determining why the requests are failing. Finally, if the site in question has been taken offline and future requests should not be sent to it, you are given the opportunity to unregister the "slave" installation so that the master will no longer communicate with it. More changes propagated We found while using IPS Connect internally that we wanted certain actions to propagate across all sites on the network but IPS Connect did not handle this, and we subsequently had to develop custom hooks in-house to account for the missing functionality. As a result, with 4.0 IPS Connect will now manage a few additional capabilities. Banning As of 4.0, if you permanently ban a user from the admin control panel, the ban will be copied to the rest of the sites in the IPS Connect network. Bans are only propagated to other sites if initiated via the admin control panel as a security precaution. It is probable in many cases that you do not want moderator actions on one site affecting accounts on another site, so front-end bans will not be copied to other sites. Deleting As of 4.0, deleting users from one site in an IPS Connect network will now cause the user to be deleted on all sites in the network. Merging Similarly, as of 4.0 when you merge two users on a site in an IPS Connect network, the users will be merged on all sites in the network. Password Changes As of 4.0, password changes are fully propagated to all sites in an IPS Connect network. The net effect will be no different than IP.Board 3.4 in this regard, unless you later disable IPS Connect on a site in the network - in this case, the last used password will still be valid on that site, rather than some random password potentially stored on a "slave" installation 5 years ago that the user cannot remember. Cross Domain Logins (and Logouts) Beginning with 4.0, IPS Connect will now support logging in and out across different domains. Cookie restrictions (and the fact that the master installation did not register and/or remember any of the slave installations) prevented this capability with 3.4.x, so while the login credentials could be shared across domains, signing in to one installation did not sign you in to any other installation automatically (unless they were on the same domain). Similarly if you logged out of an installation you were not automatically logged out of any other installation in 3.4.x. As of 4.0, if you sign in to an installation (whether it is the master or an individual slave application), you will be redirected to the master installation, then redirected to each slave application in turn, and finally redirected back to your original destination. This is all very seamless to the end-user and largely unnoticeable. Logging out will, similarly, redirect you to each application to log you out of that application, bypassing security restrictions applied to cookies in a multi-domain environment. Wrapping Up Just as with IP.Board 3.4, other applications can tie in to the IPS Connect network, either as a master installation or as a slave installation. IPS Connect support has otherwise been greatly improved and now offers a much wider range of functionality, a more robust built-in SSO system, and more reliability when problems do occur via the new request queuing system. It should be noted that IPS Connect with 4.0 is NOT compatible with IP.Board 3.4.x, and sites will need to "re-register" with the master so that it can know about them. That minor limitation aside, we believe you will enjoy the great improvements coming in the next release! View the full article View the full article at IPS

Back in June, we announced several updates to our proprietary Spam Service, which includes influences from existing spam mitigation services (Project Honeypot and Stop Forum Spam). Today, we are announcing the release of more options to help you fine-tune the spam service for your site. These features are being released as a part of our new Enterprise Spam Service package, which is available now. Weighting The first feature added, as a part of this new package, is “Weighting.” With this feature, you will be able to adjust how influential the Spam Service is against registrations to your site. As you can see, the slider here presents several options to help fine-tune the service for your site. The options presented are fairly straightforward. If you find your site to be a heavy target of spam, you can adjust the slider to Strict or Very Strict as a means of telling the spam service that registrations to your site should be evaluated more vigorously than normal, and treat all registrations with higher caution than normal. Conversely, if you find the spam service to be too rough on registrations to your site, you can adjust the slider to Loose or Very Loose. Doing so will tell the spam service to take a step back on registrations, and treat them with less verbosity than normal. And finally, the middle option (Normal) will simply tell the spam service to act as it does now, with no preferential influence one way or another. Whitelisting / Blacklisting Another feature added as the ability to define your own custom White and Black Lists for your site, providing even more granular control in addition to weighting. First, you can define your own custom Whitelist entries. Using this interface, you will be able to add any Email Address or IP Address to your own custom whitelist. If a member registers, and is using any IP Address or Email Address defined here, then they will automatically be flagged as Not a Spammer, and no action taken against the account by the spam service. This is useful for Administrators, Moderators, and Developers who frequently test registrations on their own sites, allowing them to do so without turning the service off. Further, you can also define a custom Blacklist. If you find that the spam service may not be catching a newly released spammer fast enough, and need to prevent them from accessing the site immediately, then you may add their email address or IP Address to the Blacklist. Once added, any registrations from either of those will be flagged as a spammer and will be denied registration (depending on your community settings for Code Level 4). Calls from multiple origins As mentioned in the previous entry, this service also allows administrators to use the spam service in Load Balanced and Cloud environments with ease, using the same license key. The Enterprise Spam Mitigation is now available for $100/6 months as an additional add-on to your license. Please feel free to contact Sales for any additional information regarding this new service. Attached Thumbnails http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_12_2013/blogentry-180536-0-86052000-1387469464_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_12_2013/blogentry-180536-0-36952200-1387469465_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_12_2013/blogentry-180536-0-91973200-1387469465_thumb.png View the full article at IPS

Back in June, we announced several updates to our proprietary Spam Service, which includes influences from existing spam mitigation services (Project Honeypot and Stop Forum Spam). Today, we are announcing the release of more options to help you fine-tune the spam service for your site. These features are being released as a part of our new Enterprise Spam Service package, which is available now. Weighting The first feature added, as a part of this new package, is “Weighting.” With this feature, you will be able to adjust how influential the Spam Service is against registrations to your site. As you can see, the slider here presents several options to help fine-tune the service for your site. The options presented are fairly straightforward. If you find your site to be a heavy target of spam, you can adjust the slider to Strict or Very Strict as a means of telling the spam service that registrations to your site should be evaluated more vigorously than normal, and treat all registrations with higher caution than normal. Conversely, if you find the spam service to be too rough on registrations to your site, you can adjust the slider to Loose or Very Loose. Doing so will tell the spam service to take a step back on registrations, and treat them with less verbosity than normal. And finally, the middle option (Normal) will simply tell the spam service to act as it does now, with no preferential influence one way or another. Whitelisting / Blacklisting Another feature added as the ability to define your own custom White and Black Lists for your site, providing even more granular control in addition to weighting. First, you can define your own custom Whitelist entries. Using this interface, you will be able to add any Email Address or IP Address to your own custom whitelist. If a member registers, and is using any IP Address or Email Address defined here, then they will automatically be flagged as Not a Spammer, and no action taken against the account by the spam service. This is useful for Administrators, Moderators, and Developers who frequently test registrations on their own sites, allowing them to do so without turning the service off. Further, you can also define a custom Blacklist. If you find that the spam service may not be catching a newly released spammer fast enough, and need to prevent them from accessing the site immediately, then you may add their email address or IP Address to the Blacklist. Once added, any registrations from either of those will be flagged as a spammer and will be denied registration (depending on your community settings for Code Level 4). Calls from multiple origins As mentioned in the previous entry, this service also allows administrators to use the spam service in Load Balanced and Cloud environments with ease, using the same license key. The Enterprise Spam Mitigation is now available for $100/6 months as an additional add-on to your license. Please feel free to contact Sales for any additional information regarding this new service. Attached Thumbnails http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_12_2013/blogentry-180536-0-86052000-1387469464_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_12_2013/blogentry-180536-0-36952200-1387469465_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_12_2013/blogentry-180536-0-91973200-1387469465_thumb.png View the full article View the full article at IPS

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IPB twitterer 2.0 Drive quality traffic to your websiteIPBPlug.in A company specialized in developing applications, addons and plugins for Invision Power Board through the utilization of our extensive knowledge of the IPB framework. We adhere to IPS standards of coding and produce native-grade products. The company also works on customized applications requested by our clients. What is IPB twitterer? IPB twitterer is an innovative application that integrate Twitter services into Invision Power Board and its official applications. It publishes contents from IP.Board to Twitter, and drives quality traffic and registrations to your forum. It's undeniable that people who click links in your tweets are surely interested in what you say. With IPB twitterer, you can control what forums are going to publish their topics to Twitter automatically, and it does virtually real-time publishing. IPB twitterer saves your resources, so instead of depending on third-party services that keep pulling your RSS feed, to determine whether there is new content to be published or not, IPB twitterer is a tool that operates as an application within your IP.Board under your full control, and it's faster than the other remote services. IPB twitterer makes it easy for your members to interact with your tweets under topics, it also enables you to use unified short URL that can be tracked in bit.ly. Features from Old Versions From forums you choose, it posts topics to Twitter immediately after they are posted on the forums. You can either show the topic title alone in the tweet, or add an excerpt from the topic content to it. All tweeted topics have the tweet under their posts, so your members can interact with them. Optionally, you can define a prefix and a suffix to be added to the tweets. This is usually used to add hashtags to your tweets. It shows a link to your official Twitter account in the primary navigation bar. Excellent integration with bitly.com to shorten links before posting them to Twitter. Also, you can take advantage of the Custom Short Domain feature of bitly, to brand your own short links. For example, we use iplg.in to shorten links from ipbplug.in. Whats new in IPB twitterer 2.0? Rewritten from the ground up to introduce better integration between IPS products and Twitter. In addition to its ability to post updates from IP.Board to Twitter, IPB twitterer is integrated now with IP.Blog, IP.Downloads, IP.Gallery and IP.Content. Integrating Twitter Cards: IPB supports Twitter Cards now for IP.Board, IP.Blog, IP.Downloads, IP.Gallery and IP.Content. Ability to embed Vine Videos everywhere using the new [ vine ] bbcode tag. Ability to embed tweets everywhere using the new [ tweet ] bbcode tag. Change the old TweetBox to include an embedded tweet under the content, where readers can reply to, favourite or retweet the tweet. Posting New Content to Twitter IPB twitterer is capable now of tweeting on your behalf whenever content is posted at your website. This works for the applications as the following: IP.Board: You can define in AdminCP the forums from which topics will be posted to Twitter. IP.Blog: Whenever a new blog post is added to a public blog, it will be posted to Twitter. IP.Content: IPB twitterer is integrated as a block, so you need to add a block to your article template, you can use {parse block="ipb_twitterer"}. Published content will be posted to Twitter. IP.Downloads: Open files will be posted to Twitter. IP.Gallery: New & public galleries will be posted to Twitter. Content will be posted to Twitter when they are visited by their creator within an hour of the time of publishing. This time limit is important to prevent posting old content to Twitter when they are visited by their creators. The above image shows an album posted on Twitter, and the tweets is showed as an embedded tweet in the right column, where users can favourite, retweet or reply to it. Twitter Cards Twitter Cards help you richly represent your content within Tweets across the web and on mobile devices. This gives users greater context and insight into the URLs shared on Twitter, which in turn allows Twitter to send more engaged traffic to your site or app. Twitter Cards: Give you control of how your content is displayed with Tweets. Drive traffic to your site. Increase the number of people following your Twitter accounts through content attribution. IPB twitterer utilizes this functionality and enables your content to be represented in such an insightful way, that will bring more interested users to your website for sure. There are several types of Twitter Cards, from which the Summary Card makes sense to represent content of all IPS products except IP.Gallery which uses Gallery Card. IP.Board: Uses Summary Card. Shows in topics. IP.Blog: Uses Summary Card. Shows in Blog posts. IP.Content: Uses Summary Card. Shows in Articles and other database records. IP.Downloads: Uses Summary Card. Shows in files. IP.Gallery: Uses Gallery Card. Shows in Galleries. You can check a live example from IPBPlug.in Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/IPBplugin/statuses/416707516866002944 Twitter Cards dont work immediately, because Twitter requires validation and approval before it shows your Twitter Cards. I have gone through the process and its very easy. Upgrade to or install IPB twitterer 2.0. Prepare one link of your topics or articles, as Twitter requires one URL to test and validate. Go to the validator page: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator and choose the Summary from the catalog. If you have IP.Gallery, you need to repeat the whole process and apply once more for approval to enable Gallery Twitter Cards for your website. Click the Validate & Apply tab. Paste the link you have prepared in the validation textbox and click Go!. Twitter will fetch your page and if its valid, it will show you how your Twitter Card looks like. Finally, you can click the button to apply to twitter. You will see the following form, you have to fill it and click Request Approval. Twitter says it will take long before they get back to you, but in my test it took only few seconds to receive the following email. Embedding Vine Videos Vine is a mobile app owned by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips. The service was introduced with a maximum clip length of six seconds and can be shared or embedded on social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook. IPB twitterer makes it easy to embed Vine videos in your website by introducing a new bbcode [ vine ], and it can be used like this:[vine]https://vine.co/v/hEUKzwzHUbr[/vine]and it looks like this: Embed Tweets Embedded Tweets make it possible for you take any Tweet and embed it directly in to the content of your article or website. Tweets display with expanded media like photos, videos, and article summaries, and also include real-time retweet and favourite counts. When embedded, Tweets are interactive and enable your readers to follow the Tweet author, and reply, retweet, favourite all directly from the page. IPB twitterer makes it easy to embed tweets in your website by introducing a new bbcode [ tweet ], and it can be used like this: [tweet]https://twitter.com/BarackObama/statuses/266031293945503744[/tweet]then it looks like this: Embedded tweets are cached, so there is no need to query them every time from Twitter, and they appear inline without using iframes, thats good enrichment for your content (SEO-wise). The Editor Like most official bbcodes, both previous bbcodes add buttons to the editor: Upgrading to IPB twitterer 2.0 If you have IPB twitterer 1.2.2 already installed, then you can upgrade easily like you do for any other application (Upload all files through FTP, then run the upgrading script). There is no need for re-authorization. Configuring IPB twitterer 2.0 At this stage, we assume that you have already installed the application like you do with any other application. Configuring this app requires two main steps. Since it interacts with Twitter, it requires us to create whats called an Application in Twitter terminology. Then we have to authorize this application to post to Twitter on our behalf. Creating Twitter Application Sign in with your Twitter credentials to https://dev.twitter.com Access your list of applications https://dev.twitter.com/apps Click Create a new application button. You wonder how you should fill the form. Go to AdminCP → Other Apps → IPB twitterer. You will see a page of the recommended values for your setup. Just copy and paste them to the form, then agree to the Developer Rules Of The Road. After you save. Go to the Settings tab of the Twitter application youve just created and edit the settings. You can get the recommended settings from the previous page as well. We emphasize the importance of the Access setting, set it to Read and Write because the default one is Read only which is not sufficient for our task here. Then click Update this Twitter application's settings. Authorizing Twitter Application From the Details tab of your Twitter application, copy two important settings we will need at this stage: "Consumer key" and "Consumer secret". Go to Admin CP → System Settings → IPBPlug.in → IPB twitterer Options and paste the values in the appropariate fields, then save. Now that you have saved the consumer key and consumer secret, you can start the authorization process. Please go to your community, at the Admin Bar, you will see a new red link called Authorize IPB twitterer. Click this link, and you will be directed to Twitter.com and asked to authorizae the application youve created at Twitter a couple of minutes ago to post on your behalf. After you authorize the application, you will be directed back to your forums, and IPB twitterer will try to post a test tweet to confirm that it got the right authorization, otherwise it will show an error message explaining what has gone wrong. Now go to settings and make sure you set everything to customize how IPB twitterer works. Configure IP.Content (Recommended if you have IP.Content installed) Due to the way IP.Content templates work, we couldnt insert the HTML using a Template Hook, thats why we decided to use a Block to address this problem. The only downside, is that it needs to be done manually for each database for which you want to enable this, but its fairly easy. Lets do it on the default Article View template: Go to Admin Cp → Other Apps → Content → Templates → Article Templates. Then open Article View. Find: Add before: {parse block="ipb_twitterer"} And you are good to go. If you have customized Article View template, you may take advantage of the Professional Installation Service (mentioned below), and we will take care of it for you. Configuring Bit.ly (Optional & Recommended) You can configure bit.ly so IPB twitterer can make use of its service and shorten all links before posting them to Twitter. You need to visit the Bitly API Key Page Copy the values from the API Key Page to the related fields in the settings: For Custom Short Domain feature, please refer to the related documentation at bitly.com as we cannot offer support on how to enable it. Once you enable it at bitly.com, it will work automatically on your website, giving that you configured the settings appropriately. Professional Installation Service (US $8) If you want us to install this application for you, you can use our professional installation service. We install the application within up to 48 hours (we will make our best to install this as soon as possible. Im saying 48 hours, just in case) after you make a payment of US $8 to our PayPal account and provide (FTP access, Twitter credentials, Bit.ly API Key and AdminCP access at your forums). Also We can perform the installation process using TeamViewer if you want. Please contact me personally to arrange this: Minimum Supported Versions IP.Board v3.4.6 IP.Blog v2.6.3 IP.Downloads v2.5.4 IP.Content v2.3.6 IP.Gallery v5.0.5 Pricing We are reinstating the old price of US $20 for new licenses, we believe that the product deserves more than ever to be priced at US $20 or more. Renewal price has not changed, and its kept at US $9 for 6-months term. The Future of IPB twitterer Through its history, IPB twitterer sold more than 100 licenses at IPS Marketplace and IPBPlug.in, and we expect another 100 new license to be sold following the release of this upgrade. As a client, your engagement is very important to improve this product. You can follow us on Twitter @IPBplugin or Linkedin, drop us an email at: ipbplugin@ipbplug.in or feel free to post at our forums: https://ipbplug.in/ Dont forget to check our other products, including Two-step Authentication for IPB. View the full article at IPS

With the new year fast approaching, I thought it would be appropriate to release a new theme which could be used on a large array of forum genre's (for those of you starting a new site in 2014). Dashboard is a feature-rich IPB theme and includes a neat 'blur' effect behind the vertical navigation panel, a background changer and 'transparent' strips which allow the background image to alter specific internal areas of the theme. The configuration file includes 27 settings which allow you to easily enable/disable certain features within the skin (background picker, social links, custom forum icons, etc). http://www.ipbfocus.com/premade/dashboard/widescreen.jpg In addition, everyone can use the coupon code dec2013 during checkout (on ipbfocus only) to receive a $5.00 discount on any skin (including copyright removal). The coupon is valid from December 12 until December 31, 2013. http://www.ipbfocus.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png As always, feedback or suggestions are welcome! View the full article at IPS

============================ IPB SKIN SALE ANNOUNCEMENT ============================ TheHost4U are pleased to announce our IPB Skin End of Year Sale. Purchase ANY skin and get 25% OFF the price by entering END201325OFF at checkout Sale ends Midnight 31st Jan 2013 More info at Thehost4U View the full article at IPS

Starting today I am putting all of my paid products on sale for over the Christmas & New Year Period, you can save up to 50% off. iAutoDJ CP Was $10, now $5 (With monthly renewals of $5). iAboutULTRA Was $9, now $3. iStream Was $6, now $3 (With monthly renewals of $3). Grab yours today for this amazing price, sale ends 5th January 2014 View the full article at IPS

We are releasing patches for IP.Board 3.3.x and IP.Board 3.4.x to address two cross site scripting issues recently reported to us. IP.Board takes precaution against cross site scripting issues by ensuring sensitive forms and buttons have a unique key in them and also by ensuring that sensitive cookie data is not readable by javascript. However, we feel that it is in our clients best interest to have these issues resolved. To apply the patch Simply download the attached zip for your IP.Board version and upload the files to your forum server. You do not need to run any scripts or the upgrade system. IP.Board 3.3.x http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/public/style_extra/mime_types/zip.gif ipb33_patch_dec_13.zip 36.27KB 383 downloads IP.Board 3.4.x http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/public/style_extra/mime_types/zip.gif ipb34_patch_dec_13.zip 53.02KB 2520 downloads If you are an IPS Community in the Cloud customer running IP.Board 3.3 or above, no further action is necessary; we have already automatically patched your account. If you are using a version older than IP.Board 3.3, you should contact support to upgrade. If you have installed or upgraded to IP.Board 3.4.6 today, no further action is necessary; we have already updated the main download zips. We extend our thanks to indistic for notifying us of the BBCode issue and Artur Czyż ( http://www.arturczyz.pl ) for notifying us of the search issue. View the full article at IPS

We have seen a huge increase in people switching to us over the last year or two and want to take advantage of this momentum and offer an exciting conversion promotion. But first some information... Our Pre-Packaged Converters Our conversion scripts make it very easy to convert your existing community to the IPS Community Suite. The process is very simple: just install IPS, upload the converters, and then tell the converters what software you're coming from. It will ask you a few questions and then copy over your data to our format. For many systems we even include scripts to 301 redirect your old links so internal references and search engines don't get lost! Our converters are free to use and well-tested with thousands of successful conversions. Of course converting is not an exact science and things change all the time so we are always releasing updates to make them better and faster. Need some help? But some clients really do not have the desire to take on the process of converting data themselves. In this case we do offer professional services for a fee to have us do it for you. Normally these fees range from $500 - $1000 but for the month of December we are offering a flat-rate fee of $350 to convert your community to IPS if it is on the list of one of our pre-made converters. Just contact sales@invisionpower.com to get started. Even better news: if you're converting to IPS Community in the Cloud we will convert your existing database at no cost! Contact sales@invisionpower.com for full information. Converting from something else? If your software is not listed on our pre-made converter list we can still assist in converting. Maybe you're using something that's old, niche, or even custom. We have a lot of experience converting people to our platform and would love to assist you. Contact sales@invisionpower.com with questions. What about 4.0? If you follow our blog entries you know we are hard at work on the next version of our software: IPS Social Suite 4.0. When version 4.0 is released if you have an active license you will of course get access at no extra charge! Upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 will be very easy and our staff can even do it for you if you like. vBulletin Converter Update Over the last several months we have seen a huge increase in interest from vBulletin users wanting to convert to IPS. As we are asked so often, we want to highlight some of the key reasons to switch to us. We do not make you re-buy with each new major version release. So long as your IPS license is active you get access to new versions. We do not limit your support ticket access or charge extra fees. With an active license you get private access to our support staff. Our staff will install our software on your server at no extra charge. Our staff will even install major upgrades on your server at no extra charge. We have a whole community suite: forums, blog, gallery, CMS, chat, ecommerce, support, and with the flexibility of our platform the possibilities are endless. The IPS Marketplace is a great resource for our clients to get enhancements for their community. Think Apple's AppStore but for IPS products. IPS makes community software and services. That's all we do and our focus is helping you succeed not working against you. Ready to convert? Have Questions? You can download our free converters to give them a try. If you have questions about IPS before purchasing please email sales@invisionpower.com and we would be happy to assist. And as a reward for reading through the end there's one more thing: use the coupon code SWITCH through the end of December for 10% off your order. View the full article at IPS

We have seen a huge increase in people switching to us over the last year or two and want to take advantage of this momentum and offer an exciting conversion promotion. But first some information... Our Pre-Packaged Converters Our conversion scripts make it very easy to convert your existing community to the IPS Community Suite. The process is very simple: just install IPS, upload the converters, and then tell the converters what software you're coming from. It will ask you a few questions and then copy over your data to our format. For many systems we even include scripts to 301 redirect your old links so internal references and search engines don't get lost! Our converters are free to use and well-tested with thousands of successful conversions. Of course converting is not an exact science and things change all the time so we are always releasing updates to make them better and faster. Need some help? But some clients really do not have the desire to take on the process of converting data themselves. In this case we do offer professional services for a fee to have us do it for you. Normally these fees range from $500 - $1000 but for the month of December we are offering a flat-rate fee of $350 to convert your community to IPS if it is on the list of one of our pre-made converters. Just contact sales@invisionpower.com to get started. Even better news: if you're converting to IPS Community in the Cloud we will convert your existing database at no cost! Contact sales@invisionpower.com for full information. Converting from something else? If your software is not listed on our pre-made converter list we can still assist in converting. Maybe you're using something that's old, niche, or even custom. We have a lot of experience converting people to our platform and would love to assist you. Contact sales@invisionpower.com with questions. What about 4.0? If you follow our blog entries you know we are hard at work on the next version of our software: IPS Social Suite 4.0. When version 4.0 is released if you have an active license you will of course get access at no extra charge! Upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 will be very easy and our staff can even do it for you if you like. vBulletin Converter Update Over the last several months we have seen a huge increase in interest from vBulletin users wanting to convert to IPS. As we are asked so often, we want to highlight some of the key reasons to switch to us. We do not make you re-buy with each new major version release. So long as your IPS license is active you get access to new versions.We do not limit your support ticket access or charge extra fees. With an active license you get private access to our support staff.Our staff will install our software on your server at no extra charge.Our staff will even install major upgrades on your server at no extra charge.We have a whole community suite: forums, blog, gallery, CMS, chat, ecommerce, support, and with the flexibility of our platform the possibilities are endless.The IPS Marketplace is a great resource for our clients to get enhancements for their community. Think Apple's AppStore but for IPS products.IPS makes community software and services. That's all we do and our focus is helping you succeed not working against you. Ready to convert? Have Questions? You can download our free converters to give them a try. If you have questions about IPS before purchasing please email sales@invisionpower.com and we would be happy to assist. And as a reward for reading through the end there's one more thing: use the coupon code SWITCH through the end of December for 10% off your order. View the full article View the full article at IPS

IPS is happy to offer 15% off starting now through Monday on all new purchases for both new and existing clients! This includes all software licenses and Community in the Cloud hosting. This is a great time to add on those extra Suite applications you're missing or to go ahead and try out IPS if you have always been considering us. Just use the coupon code HOLIDAY2013 at checkout. Conversion Promotion Coming Soon... Are you using another community software and thinking of switching to IPS? We will be posting a great conversion promotion on Tuesday for those wanting help in converting their community data to our format. So take advantage of the 15% coupon above to order your licenses or hosting services now and then stay tuned for our conversion promotion next week! View the full article at IPS

IPS is happy to offer 15% off starting now through Monday on all new purchases for both new and existing clients! This includes all software licenses and Community in the Cloud hosting. This is a great time to add on those extra Suite applications you're missing or to go ahead and try out IPS if you have always been considering us. Just use the coupon code HOLIDAY2013 at checkout. Conversion Promotion Coming Soon... Are you using another community software and thinking of switching to IPS? We will be posting a great conversion promotion on Tuesday for those wanting help in converting their community data to our format. So take advantage of the 15% coupon above to order your licenses or hosting services now and then stay tuned for our conversion promotion next week! View the full article View the full article at IPS

Get it while it's new at its introductory price! This hook will obtain data from Steam for your users and place it in your IP.Board cache for use anywhere on your site. Your board will re-load your members Steam information every 15 minutes, time can be changed, so you always have up to date information without impacting load times of your community pages. This hook integrates seamlessly with Lavo's Sign in through Steam.. It will automatically detect if it is installed and pull that users information. Don't have Lavo's sign in installed? No problem, this works with a simple Custom Profile field also. Want to use both a custom profile field AND Lavo's hook? Not a problem, this hook seamlessly pulls information from both locations to create a single list of users to pull information. If there are any other places you'd like to see a users steam information displayed, let me know. It's a very simple matter to output this data on other parts of your IPS Community. View the full article at IPS Resources

Author: Dawid Baruch (IPSBeyond.pl) Description: Hook allows to in selected forums showing user only his topics and topics of his friends. View the full article at IPS Resources

Author: Dawid Baruch (IPSBeyond.pl) Description: Hook allows to add topic author reputation point in selected forums. View the full article at IPS Resources

Halon is a clean forum skin,colorful and light.Logo psd included and as always full support is given. View the full article at IPS Resources

This is the Portuguese (European) translations for IPBoard and IPContent. We did not translate the admin area because we fell that such area is best to leave in English for troubleshooting and clarity reasons. This translation is a collaborative work made by the moderator team of androidPT community. If you find any problems please send us the correction to comunidade@androidpt.com so we can update this file on IPS Marketplace as well. View the full article at IPS Resources

This simple hook change your offline page to coming soon page with counter / progress bar. All important things you can set directly from settings page. If you don't want to use any default background you can use your own link. Example: http://i40.tinypic.com/2ed9noo.jpg View the full article at IPS Resources

No longer do you have to copy paste content from one calendar event to another! With this handy hook, you can create multiple new calendar events simultaneously or you can edit existing events and create a clone event on another date! Ever needed to create multiple copies of the same event, but they don't recur the same day every week, month, or even year? Using the handy date selector, you can specify additional dates that this event will occur. Duplicate events will be created on those dates! Have an event you already created and you want it to occur again? No problem, simply edit the existing event, tell it when it occurs again and save! Your new event will be created as a clone of your existing event! Notes: The events created will not contain any relationship other than the content within them. Each event is created as its own stand alone event. This hook will work with every kind of event type except 'recurring' events. This hook was written on IP.Board 3.4.x. It will likely work on IP.Board 3.3.x, but I'm afraid it's not something I can support. If you have any questions before purchasing, please ask them in the support topic so that I can let you know if this hook is right for you. View the full article at IPS Resources

Keypic protects you from Spam without using CAPTCHA CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) were initially created to protect Web Forms against Robots and spammers. But by now, CAPTCHA has become a problem itself. CAPTCHAs are difficult and annoying for standard users, very difficult for old people and almost impossible for people with disabilities. Also, CAPTCHAs are very difficult for everybody on smart-phones. With CAPTCHA you can see your site conversion and retention go down. While CAPTCHAs are hard for human users, they are easily understood by spambots that use advance OCR tools to read CAPTCHAs and send spam easily in the Web forms. So, Web sites have to use more and more complicated CAPTCHAs, and human users cannot read them. That's why CAPTCHA does not resolve the spam problem and make your users go away. Keypic helps you get rid of Spam, and of CAPTCHA Keypic doesn't require any action from the user. Keypic system analyses users' behaviour and automatically separates humans from bots and spammers. Prevent Comment Spam in Blogs and forums Most bloggers are familiar with programs that submit bogus comments, usually for the purpose of raising search engine ranks of some website (e.g., "buy penny stocks here"). This is called comment spam. With Keypic, only humans can post comments on a blog, and bot actions are really restricted. There is no need to make users sign up before they enter a comment, and no legitimate comments are ever lost! Protect Website Registration Several companies (Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, etc.) offer free email services. Most of these services suffer from a specific type of attack: "bots" that would sign up for thousands of email accounts every minute. The solution to this problem is to use Keypic Web Service as it ensures that only humans obtain free accounts. Free services should be protected with Keypic in order to prevent abuse by automated programs. Prevent Dictionary Attacks Keypic also prevents dictionary attacks in password systems. The idea is simple: we prevent a computer from being able to iterate through the entire space of passwords by blocking access after a certain number of unsuccessful logins. Secure Online Polls Keypic can protect your polls from bots that try to vote with their common Bots techniques. Advertising service Yes, Keypic provides online advertising services by substituting a CAPTCHA with an ad banner but the keypic banner is hidden now with css. Get your Keypic, and stay protected from Spam without CAPTCHA! http://community.invisionpower.com/index.php?app=downloads&module=display&section=screenshot&id=6706 ALL IPS PRODUCTS Russian Language Pack - 40% discount 3.4.6 Category: Language Packs Last Updated Oct 30 2013 09:05 PM View the full article at IPS Resources

With this mod you can force members to reply, vote or create new topic. Fetaures: • enable/disable app • select action, reply on a topic, vote on a poll or create a new topic • select topic id • select forum where to create new topic • select groups that will be affected by this action • control popup message • redirect members after x days if no action has been made by members • and more.... Sponsored By: Telemacus2 View the full article at IPS Resources