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Works with the LATEST VERSION of ALL of these applications: IP.Board 3.4.5 3.4.6 [*]IP.Nexus [*]IP.Content [*]IP.Downloads [*]IP.Gallery [*]IP.Blog [*]IP.Calendar [*]IP.Chat [*]IP.Shoutbox [*]IP.Tracker [*]IBProArcade Included in the download: All fonts used throughout the skin logo.psd team-icon.psd Installation instructions (document and video) IBSkin copyright and license agreement Logo text change, copyright removal and skin installation will be offered to you as an optional add-on after you put the skin in your shopping cart. You must purchase copyright removal license if you wish to alter the skin in any way (other than the logo which you ARE allowed to edit, of course. http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.png ) View the full article at IPS Resources

In IP.Board 3.x, we have a setting group where you can specify some global advertisement HTML. You can enable and disable advertisements, and you can specify code to insert into the header and footer of the page. For the forum index, forum listings and topic view pages, you can override these header and footer ad codes, and you can specify advertisement code to insert into a couple of other areas specific to those pages. If you install IP.Nexus, this setting group redirects you to the IP.Nexus advertisement control panel where you can effectively do the same thing, but with a few more options (including click and impression tracking, advertisement image uploading, automatic cutoffs for advertisements, and more). We felt that the entire system and process was too basic when IP.Nexus was not installed, and too disorienting once you do install IP.Nexus. This setting group suddenly redirects you to another application and configuring the advertisements is an entirely different experience prior to installing this application. Subsequently, we have done the only logical thing and consolidated the two systems and improved the functionality. (Please be aware that, as with all early screenshots of the 4.0 Social Suite, the interface displayed in the following screenshots is very much subject to change before release) Advertisement Configuration First and foremost, we have consolidated the functionality provided by IP.Board and IP.Nexus in previous software releases into one control panel. Now, whether you install IP.Nexus or not, you can have powerful advertisement management at your fingertips. Installing IP.Nexus still provides additional enhanced functionality, such as the ability to sell advertisements to your members. You can now have both HTML and image-based advertisements available, and you can create multiple advertisements for the same "location" (more on this in a minute). There is a setting available to tell the software how to pick which advertisement to show if more than one is configured for a single area (options include picking one at random, showing the newest advertisement, showing the oldest advertisement, and showing the advertisement with the least number of impressions). You can configure start and end dates for advertisements, set them to cut off after a certain number of impressions (or clicks, in the case of image advertisements), and you can filter by status (and toggle the status from this page). If IP.Nexus is installed, an additional status of "pending" is present and supported for advertisements that have been purchased but not yet approved. Naturally once you reach any cut offs specified or the end date has passed, the advertisement will no longer be rotated. As you can see in the screenshot, javascript is removed from the preview for security reasons. If you have a caching engine enabled, advertisement data will be cached to improve performance. Some new functionality If you are already familiar with the feature set of the current release of IP.Nexus, the advertisement functionality you already know and love will be carried over to the 4.0 Suite. You can still specify which groups are exempt from seeing advertisements, for example, to help you upsell subscription packages to users on your site. In addition to the current functionality, however, we've made some great improvements. Ability to specify SSL advertisement code Google Ads does not have an SSL version of its advertisement code, and including their advertisements on secure pages can lead to browser warnings for your visitors. This is especially troublesome when you only use SSL for logins or for your store (IP.Nexus), as it gives an impression that the page is not secure. Now, you can specify an alternative secure page advertisement code if you wish, or choose not to show a specific advertisement on secure pages at all. Ability to specify multiple images When uploading an image advertisement, you now have the option to also upload a small and/or medium version of the advertisement image. The small and medium versions, if present, will be used on the responsive layout on the alternate views for mobile devices and tablets. If not provided, the software will simply use the next best size available. We have NOT included the ability to specify alternate HTML for the different resolutions. In our research, most advertisement partners either (1) already handle responsiveness with their own javascript code or (2) provide alternative instructions for responsive ads. If you use a CDN such as Amazon S3 for your file storage in the 4.0 Suite, your advertisement images will be served from the CDN. Extendable application support As of 4.0, any and all applications that wish to support advertisements can do so via the extension system built into the software. All an application will need to do is provide an extension for the advertisement system, and then call the advertisement location in the template where they feel the advertisement should display. You can even add custom settings (so for example, the forum application can allow you to configure which forums an advertisement will be displayed in...). Skinners can move the advertisements around however they like in their skin templates simply by moving the appropriate custom tag. Custom locations You can now define entirely custom locations for advertisements easily in the advertisement configuration page. Once you have defined a custom location for the advertisement, defining where to show that advertisement in your themes is as simple as inserting a tag where you want the advertisement to be displayed. Closing We hope these small changes will help you better manage your advertisements and provide you with the options you need to capitalize upon your community. If you have no use for advertisements, you can completely ignore this area of the software and no resources will be used by it, but if you do utilize advertisements on your community, the new tools should make it much easier to manage your site. Attached Thumbnails http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-46197-0-24512700-1380310006_thumb.png View the full article at IPS

In IP.Board 3.x, we have a setting group where you can specify some global advertisement HTML. You can enable and disable advertisements, and you can specify code to insert into the header and footer of the page. For the forum index, forum listings and topic view pages, you can override these header and footer ad codes, and you can specify advertisement code to insert into a couple of other areas specific to those pages. If you install IP.Nexus, this setting group redirects you to the IP.Nexus advertisement control panel where you can effectively do the same thing, but with a few more options (including click and impression tracking, advertisement image uploading, automatic cutoffs for advertisements, and more). We felt that the entire system and process was too basic when IP.Nexus was not installed, and too disorienting once you do install IP.Nexus. This setting group suddenly redirects you to another application and configuring the advertisements is an entirely different experience prior to installing this application. Subsequently, we have done the only logical thing and consolidated the two systems and improved the functionality. (Please be aware that, as with all early screenshots of the 4.0 Social Suite, the interface displayed in the following screenshots is very much subject to change before release) Advertisement Configuration First and foremost, we have consolidated the functionality provided by IP.Board and IP.Nexus in previous software releases into one control panel. Now, whether you install IP.Nexus or not, you can have powerful advertisement management at your fingertips. Installing IP.Nexus still provides additional enhanced functionality, such as the ability to sell advertisements to your members. You can now have both HTML and image-based advertisements available, and you can create multiple advertisements for the same "location" (more on this in a minute). There is a setting available to tell the software how to pick which advertisement to show if more than one is configured for a single area (options include picking one at random, showing the newest advertisement, showing the oldest advertisement, and showing the advertisement with the least number of impressions). You can configure start and end dates for advertisements, set them to cut off after a certain number of impressions (or clicks, in the case of image advertisements), and you can filter by status (and toggle the status from this page). If IP.Nexus is installed, an additional status of "pending" is present and supported for advertisements that have been purchased but not yet approved. Naturally once you reach any cut offs specified or the end date has passed, the advertisement will no longer be rotated. As you can see in the screenshot, javascript is removed from the preview for security reasons. If you have a caching engine enabled, advertisement data will be cached to improve performance. Some new functionality If you are already familiar with the feature set of the current release of IP.Nexus, the advertisement functionality you already know and love will be carried over to the 4.0 Suite. You can still specify which groups are exempt from seeing advertisements, for example, to help you upsell subscription packages to users on your site. In addition to the current functionality, however, we've made some great improvements. Ability to specify SSL advertisement code Google Ads does not have an SSL version of its advertisement code, and including their advertisements on secure pages can lead to browser warnings for your visitors. This is especially troublesome when you only use SSL for logins or for your store (IP.Nexus), as it gives an impression that the page is not secure. Now, you can specify an alternative secure page advertisement code if you wish, or choose not to show a specific advertisement on secure pages at all. Ability to specify multiple images When uploading an image advertisement, you now have the option to also upload a small and/or medium version of the advertisement image. The small and medium versions, if present, will be used on the responsive layout on the alternate views for mobile devices and tablets. If not provided, the software will simply use the next best size available. We have NOT included the ability to specify alternate HTML for the different resolutions. In our research, most advertisement partners either (1) already handle responsiveness with their own javascript code or (2) provide alternative instructions for responsive ads. If you use a CDN such as Amazon S3 for your file storage in the 4.0 Suite, your advertisement images will be served from the CDN. Extendable application support As of 4.0, any and all applications that wish to support advertisements can do so via the extension system built into the software. All an application will need to do is provide an extension for the advertisement system, and then call the advertisement location in the template where they feel the advertisement should display. You can even add custom settings (so for example, the forum application can allow you to configure which forums an advertisement will be displayed in...). Skinners can move the advertisements around however they like in their skin templates simply by moving the appropriate custom tag. Custom locations You can now define entirely custom locations for advertisements easily in the advertisement configuration page. Once you have defined a custom location for the advertisement, defining where to show that advertisement in your themes is as simple as inserting a tag where you want the advertisement to be displayed. Closing We hope these small changes will help you better manage your advertisements and provide you with the options you need to capitalize upon your community. If you have no use for advertisements, you can completely ignore this area of the software and no resources will be used by it, but if you do utilize advertisements on your community, the new tools should make it much easier to manage your site. Attached Thumbnails http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-46197-0-24512700-1380310006_thumb.png View the full article View the full article at IPS

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the following applications: IP.Board 3.4.6IP.Nexus 1.5.9 IP.Board 3.4.6 IP.Board is a fully featured community platform including forums, members profiles, calendar, status system, integration, and much, much more. The release of IP.Board 3.4.6 is a maintenance release and includes bug fixes. IP.Nexus 1.5.9 IP.Nexus is our 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. The release of IP.Nexus 1.5.9 is a maintenance release and includes bug fixes. How to Upgrade To upgrade simply log into your client area, click on "Purchases" from the menu and select the community you wish to upgrade and click "Upgrade Now". You can read more about upgrading in our documentation. View the full article at IPS

Last week I attended ZendCon 2013, a prominent PHP developer-oriented conference designed to give industry professionals information on tools, practices and trends which will help them deliver enterprise-class software to customers. During the conference, many sponsors set up booths in order to demonstrate new products and services, and many industry professionals hold tutorials and sessions that attendees can attend in order to learn more about our trade. The conference was held in Santa Clara, CA (about an hour south of San Francisco, just outside of San Jose) from October 7th through October 10th. I spent a lot of time at the conference focusing on tutorials and sessions that I felt might provide the most value for our company, in order to deliver better, faster and more stable software for our clients. One tutorial that I attended, for instance, focused entirely on best practices for implementing caching into software (and at the server level), and tuning settings in PHP, MySQL and Apache/NginX to deliver the highest possible performance. Another session I attended focused on Object-Oriented Javascript Programming and the future of Javascript (or, more specifically, ECMAScript 6). By the very nature of the conference, all sessions were very technical in nature, so don't feel too bad if any of this sounds like Greek to you. The point I want readers to take away is that we take our profession seriously, and IPS feels that an investment into continuing education is important for our clients. I had the pleasure of meeting many industry professionals in the PHP world, including Andi Gutmans (CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies), Zeev Suraski (CTO and co-founder of Zend Technologies), Elizabeth Smith (very active contributor to the PHP project and various PHP extensions), Derick Rethans (creator of XDebug, MongoDB PHP extension, and other PHP project contributions), John Coggeshall (active lead for the PHP Tidy extension) and many other wonderful contributors to the PHP ecosystem. The passion that these people share for the products and services is just amazing, and serves as a great role model for developers everywhere. I won't spend much time getting into the nitty gritty details of each session I attended. Some were very technical in nature, while some focused on more abstract necessities of running a team of developers and managing day-to-day development duties (for example, discussing things like time management, gathering project requirements effectively, and so on). All in all, every session I attended provided useful information that I feel we can make use of to better our processes and delivery of future software releases. As I said, here at IPS we take our profession very seriously. We will always strive to deliver the best possible software, and are thankful for the contributions of our third party developer community as well as the rest of our clients, whom provide us with bug reports and feedback that help to improve our products. We have many exciting things in store in the coming months, so stay tuned by subscribing to our company blog to be notified of changes and updates. View the full article at IPS

Last week I attended ZendCon 2013, a prominent PHP developer-oriented conference designed to give industry professionals information on tools, practices and trends which will help them deliver enterprise-class software to customers. During the conference, many sponsors set up booths in order to demonstrate new products and services, and many industry professionals hold tutorials and sessions that attendees can attend in order to learn more about our trade. The conference was held in Santa Clara, CA (about an hour south of San Francisco, just outside of San Jose) from October 7th through October 10th. I spent a lot of time at the conference focusing on tutorials and sessions that I felt might provide the most value for our company, in order to deliver better, faster and more stable software for our clients. One tutorial that I attended, for instance, focused entirely on best practices for implementing caching into software (and at the server level), and tuning settings in PHP, MySQL and Apache/NginX to deliver the highest possible performance. Another session I attended focused on Object-Oriented Javascript Programming and the future of Javascript (or, more specifically, ECMAScript 6). By the very nature of the conference, all sessions were very technical in nature, so don't feel too bad if any of this sounds like Greek to you. The point I want readers to take away is that we take our profession seriously, and IPS feels that an investment into continuing education is important for our clients. I had the pleasure of meeting many industry professionals in the PHP world, including Andi Gutmans (CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies), Zeev Suraski (CTO and co-founder of Zend Technologies), Elizabeth Smith (very active contributor to the PHP project and various PHP extensions), Derick Rethans (creator of XDebug, MongoDB PHP extension, and other PHP project contributions), John Coggeshall (active lead for the PHP Tidy extension) and many other wonderful contributors to the PHP ecosystem. The passion that these people share for the products and services is just amazing, and serves as a great role model for developers everywhere. I won't spend much time getting into the nitty gritty details of each session I attended. Some were very technical in nature, while some focused on more abstract necessities of running a team of developers and managing day-to-day development duties (for example, discussing things like time management, gathering project requirements effectively, and so on). All in all, every session I attended provided useful information that I feel we can make use of to better our processes and delivery of future software releases. As I said, here at IPS we take our profession very seriously. We will always strive to deliver the best possible software, and are thankful for the contributions of our third party developer community as well as the rest of our clients, whom provide us with bug reports and feedback that help to improve our products. We have many exciting things in store in the coming months, so stay tuned by subscribing to our company blog to be notified of changes and updates. View the full article View the full article at IPS

Introduction The IPS Social Suite needs to store lots of different files - there's attachments and profile photos uploaded by members, CSS and JavaScript files, emoticons, etc. In IP.Board 3.x, various images got stored in different places: Files uploaded by users get put in the /uploads directory. If you have a complicated setup, it's difficult to handle these. If you have a load-balanced cluster you need to set up an environment whereby all files are stored on a single server, or all uploaded files are synched between servers, but serving these files over a high-performance CDN can be difficult. CSS, JavaScript files, images and emoticons get put in /style_* directories. If you want to serve these over a CDN, you can do so, but you need to copy the files over yourself. Other pieces of data are written to disk as a caching mechanism. This has the same issue with load-balanced environments as file uploads. Some applications had other methods - for example, IP.Downloads allows you to store files on a remote server using FTP. In 4.0, we wanted to pull this all together and build a much better system for storing files and build the whole system with high-performance environments in mind. File Storage In 4.0, you have several different ways to store files: On a local server On a remote server using FTP (which you can use to upload files to many CDN services) As binary data in the database On Amazon S3 You can set up different configurations and choose which configuration to use for different types of files. For example, if you want to store user's profile photos on Amazon S3, but you want attachments to be on the local server, or even a different Amazon S3 bucket - 4.0 can handle that. And if at any point you change your mind about which storage method you want to use, the system will automatically handle moving all the files for you. Everywhere that writes a file will use this central system - so IP.Downloads and IP.Gallery are included too. Caching There are lots of places throughout the suite where the same stuff needs to be retrieved or calculated over and over - for example, certain configuration settings, language data, information about the installed applications, etc. If this data can be cached, not only does it alleviate database load, it means the PHP code doesn't need to re-process the data. In IP.Board 3.x, some of this was stored in a particular database table and could be cached using a proper caching system - but it was difficult to configure, and not everything used it - compiled HTML templates, language strings and more were saved as files in the /cache directory, which causes difficulties for load-balanced cluster environments. In 4.0, we've overhauled all of this. For things that need cold storage (like compiled HTML templates) - you can choose either the file system or the database for storage. The data can then cached, along with anything else which might benefit from caching (like settings, application data, etc.) using one of 5 supported caching methods: APC eAccelerator Memcached Wincache XCache Attached Thumbnails http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-108264-0-82653300-1380206769_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-108264-0-99418100-1380206764_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-108264-0-92390400-1380208888_thumb.png View the full article at IPS

Introduction The IPS Social Suite needs to store lots of different files - there's attachments and profile photos uploaded by members, CSS and JavaScript files, emoticons, etc. In IP.Board 3.x, various images got stored in different places: Files uploaded by users get put in the /uploads directory. If you have a complicated setup, it's difficult to handle these. If you have a load-balanced cluster you need to set up an environment whereby all files are stored on a single server, or all uploaded files are synched between servers, but serving these files over a high-performance CDN can be difficult.CSS, JavaScript files, images and emoticons get put in /style_* directories. If you want to serve these over a CDN, you can do so, but you need to copy the files over yourself.Other pieces of data are written to disk as a caching mechanism. This has the same issue with load-balanced environments as file uploads.Some applications had other methods - for example, IP.Downloads allows you to store files on a remote server using FTP. In 4.0, we wanted to pull this all together and build a much better system for storing files and build the whole system with high-performance environments in mind. File Storage In 4.0, you have several different ways to store files: On a local serverOn a remote server using FTP (which you can use to upload files to many CDN services)As binary data in the databaseOn Amazon S3You can set up different configurations and choose which configuration to use for different types of files. For example, if you want to store user's profile photos on Amazon S3, but you want attachments to be on the local server, or even a different Amazon S3 bucket - 4.0 can handle that. And if at any point you change your mind about which storage method you want to use, the system will automatically handle moving all the files for you. Everywhere that writes a file will use this central system - so IP.Downloads and IP.Gallery are included too. Caching There are lots of places throughout the suite where the same stuff needs to be retrieved or calculated over and over - for example, certain configuration settings, language data, information about the installed applications, etc. If this data can be cached, not only does it alleviate database load, it means the PHP code doesn't need to re-process the data. In IP.Board 3.x, some of this was stored in a particular database table and could be cached using a proper caching system - but it was difficult to configure, and not everything used it - compiled HTML templates, language strings and more were saved as files in the /cache directory, which causes difficulties for load-balanced cluster environments. In 4.0, we've overhauled all of this. For things that need cold storage (like compiled HTML templates) - you can choose either the file system or the database for storage. The data can then cached, along with anything else which might benefit from caching (like settings, application data, etc.) using one of 5 supported caching methods: APCeAcceleratorMemcachedWincacheXCache Attached Thumbnails http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-108264-0-82653300-1380206769_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-108264-0-99418100-1380206764_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-108264-0-92390400-1380208888_thumb.png View the full article View the full article at IPS

IPS Social Suite 4 is a modernization of our software line and rather than just refactor existing work, we are rewriting the code from scratch which gives us a chance to really evaluate the interface elements and labels. We felt that "themes" was a much more modern and better understood term than "skins". Of course, the name is just the start, here are some of the other improvements: Managing Themes in IPS Social Suite 4 As you would expect, the interface has been completely overhauled in IP.Social Suite 4. All the familiar elements are there but we've simplified areas and made it easier to manage your themes. As you can see from this screen shot, theme authors can now inform customers when they have an update available for them. The interface makes use of the new IPS Social Suite 4 Trees model which means you can quickly search for theme names and re-order themes. In IP.Board 3, you could change the logo of the suite. We've made this even easier in IP.Social Suite 4. The upload fields are easily accessible on the edit theme form. You can even upload a Facebook sharer image and favicon! Downloading and Uploading Themes In IPS Social Suite 4, downloading and uploading a new version of a theme could not be easier. Just select the menu item and it's done. You no longer need to navigate to separate areas of the Admin CP to do this. Conflict Management What happens if you upload a new version of a theme but it contains changes to templates you have also changed? You'll get a chance to review these changes and select which version to use on the conflict management page. Editing templates and CSS The template and CSS editor should be familiar for any existing customers. The editor is now fully syntax highlighted which will make writing and editing code so much easier. The template syntax is now much more compact as you can see from the above screen shot. We've also added a few things to reduce the amount of template logic required. A common need is to load a template if a condition is matched: {{if member.isAdmin()}} {template="admin_bar"} {{endif}}You can now put the conditional inside the template tag like so: {template="admin_bar" if="member.isAdmin()"}This is much easier to read and reduces a lot of visual clutter. The combination of the better template syntax and HTML 5 mark-up results in a dramatic reduction in size and complexity of often edited templates such as the globalTemplate which is commonly used to add your own site chrome. The screenshot below shows all of the IPS Social Suite 4 globalTemplate and for comparison, part of the IP.Board 3.4 globalTemplate which is over 340 lines long! The CSS framework much like the javascript framework has been completely rewritten and is now modular. This means that most CSS files are very small which makes looking for specific selectors much easier. In addition, upgrades are less destructive to your themes. If you made edits to the button styles, then only that one style sheet is altered leaving the rest as default. Of course, IPS Social Suite combines and minifies these separate CSS into fewer files when saved. This blog entry is just an overview of the theme section in the Admin CP. We'll go into more detail in a later entry on the new tools available designed to make theme creation and management a breeze for theme authors. We know you will have a ton of questions but please be patient with us if we keep saying "wait for next blog entry" http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png Attached Thumbnails http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_08_2013/blogentry-62-0-13116300-1377680002_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-62-0-88290100-1379500698_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_08_2013/blogentry-62-0-29956100-1377680008_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_08_2013/blogentry-62-0-66510200-1377680009_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_08_2013/blogentry-62-0-99090000-1377680010_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-62-0-92329600-1379500701_thumb.png View the full article at IPS

IPS Social Suite 4 is a modernization of our software line and rather than just refactor existing work, we are rewriting the code from scratch which gives us a chance to really evaluate the interface elements and labels. We felt that "themes" was a much more modern and better understood term than "skins". Of course, the name is just the start, here are some of the other improvements: Managing Themes in IPS Social Suite 4 As you would expect, the interface has been completely overhauled in IP.Social Suite 4. All the familiar elements are there but we've simplified areas and made it easier to manage your themes. As you can see from this screen shot, theme authors can now inform customers when they have an update available for them. The interface makes use of the new IPS Social Suite 4 Trees model which means you can quickly search for theme names and re-order themes. In IP.Board 3, you could change the logo of the suite. We've made this even easier in IP.Social Suite 4. The upload fields are easily accessible on the edit theme form. You can even upload a Facebook sharer image and favicon! Downloading and Uploading Themes In IPS Social Suite 4, downloading and uploading a new version of a theme could not be easier. Just select the menu item and it's done. You no longer need to navigate to separate areas of the Admin CP to do this. Conflict Management What happens if you upload a new version of a theme but it contains changes to templates you have also changed? You'll get a chance to review these changes and select which version to use on the conflict management page. Editing templates and CSS The template and CSS editor should be familiar for any existing customers. The editor is now fully syntax highlighted which will make writing and editing code so much easier. The template syntax is now much more compact as you can see from the above screen shot. We've also added a few things to reduce the amount of template logic required. A common need is to load a template if a condition is matched: {{if member.isAdmin()}}{template="admin_bar"}{{endif}}You can now put the conditional inside the template tag like so:{template="admin_bar" if="member.isAdmin()"}This is much easier to read and reduces a lot of visual clutter. The combination of the better template syntax and HTML 5 mark-up results in a dramatic reduction in size and complexity of often edited templates such as the globalTemplate which is commonly used to add your own site chrome. The screenshot below shows all of the IPS Social Suite 4 globalTemplate and for comparison, part of the IP.Board 3.4 globalTemplate which is over 340 lines long! The CSS framework much like the javascript framework has been completely rewritten and is now modular. This means that most CSS files are very small which makes looking for specific selectors much easier. In addition, upgrades are less destructive to your themes. If you made edits to the button styles, then only that one style sheet is altered leaving the rest as default. Of course, IPS Social Suite combines and minifies these separate CSS into fewer files when saved. This blog entry is just an overview of the theme section in the Admin CP. We'll go into more detail in a later entry on the new tools available designed to make theme creation and management a breeze for theme authors. We know you will have a ton of questions but please be patient with us if we keep saying "wait for next blog entry" :smile: Attached Thumbnails http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_08_2013/blogentry-62-0-13116300-1377680002_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-62-0-88290100-1379500698_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_08_2013/blogentry-62-0-29956100-1377680008_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_08_2013/blogentry-62-0-66510200-1377680009_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_08_2013/blogentry-62-0-99090000-1377680010_thumb.png http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/uploads/monthly_09_2013/blogentry-62-0-92329600-1379500701_thumb.png View the full article View the full article at IPS

We are releasing security patches for IP.Board 3.3.4, IP.Board 3.4.5, IP.Gallery 4.2.1 and IP.Gallery 5.0.5 to address four cross-site scripting issues recently reported to us. It has come to our attention that an unpatched security issue exists in a third party script included with the IP.Board release called "Flowplayer". While this script is included with IP.Board, it is presently only utilized by IP.Gallery to facilitate embedding of certain media files when the administrator allows them to be uploaded. The exploit that has been reported to us may expose a specific type of cross-site scripting vulnerability through Flowplayer and requires a certain level of user-interaction to trigger (in other words, a user must follow a link to the affected target - to our knowledge this issue cannot be triggered automatically by viewing a page normally accessible through typical navigation of the software). It has come to our attention that an unpatched security issue exists in a third party script included with the IP.Board release called "swfupload". The cross site scripting vulnerability, like the one described above, requires a user to visit a specially crafted link to the swfupload flash file directly, where-by arbitrary javascript may be executed. It has come to our attention that two potential cross site scripting vulnerabilities exist within the IP.Board editor routines. These vulnerabilities are not persistent (meaning you can only trigger them against yourself, as opposed to causing them to be stored in the database and triggered against another user), however we feel that it is in the best interests of our clients to release an update to address the issues reported. We are releasing patches today to address all four issues. To apply the patch, please perform the following steps: Identify which version of IP.Board you are running. If you are running IP.Board 3.3.x, you will also need to identify which version of IP.Gallery you are running.Download the appropriate patch file belowExtract the contents locally on your computerUpload the contents of the "upload" folder to your forum root directory (where conf_global.php is located), overwriting any files when prompted. Please refer to this knowledgebase article if you are unfamiliar with using FTP to transfer files to your server.IF YOU ARE RUNNING BOARD 3.4.0 - 3.4.4, you will need to upgrade to 3.4.5, which as of today includes these patches. 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 are running IP.Board 3.4.x, please use the following zip: http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/public/style_extra/mime_types/zip.gif ipb3_4_and_gallery_5_0-9-13-2013.zip 79.87KB 2005 downloads If you are running IP.Board 3.3.x without IP.Gallery, or with IP.Gallery 5.0.x, please use the following zip: http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/public/style_extra/mime_types/zip.gif ipb3_3_and_gallery_5_0-9-13-2013.zip 85.32KB 235 downloads If you are running IP.Board 3.3.x with IP.Gallery 4.2.x, please use the following zip: http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/public/style_extra/mime_types/zip.gif ipb3_3_and_gallery_4_2-9-13-2013.zip 84.91KB 112 downloads As of the time of this post, the full IP.Board and IP.Gallery packages in our client center have been updated. If you are running any version of IP.Board or IP.Gallery that is not listed above, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version to obtain these security fixes, as well as several other security and bug fixes. We would like to thank Sahil Saif for bringing the flowplayer vulnerability to our attention. We would like to thank Masato Kinugawa for bringing the swfupload vulnerability to our attention. We would like to thank Jakub at http://hauntit.blogspot.com/ for bringing the editor vulnerabilities to our attention. View the full article at IPS

Full Greek language pack for Invision Power Board 3.4.x. This is only the Contact Form app by -RAW- (http://community.inv...2-contact-form/) section of the translation, which is 100% complete. Regular updates will be published here. The translation is about all the public strings which users of each community see. All updates will be free to purchasers. View the full article at IPS Resources

This app allows you tu run elections on your board, good for members who wan't to run for staff positions. Fetaures: Settings: • Enable/Disable system. • General view permissions. • Show votes during elections or after voting time expires. • Show active users list. • Select groups than can manage ballots. • Send pm to members elected. Acp: • Create/Edit/Manage ballots. • Create/Edit/Manage positions. • Manage candidates. • Select nominations, start - close date & time. • Select voting, start - close date & time. • Requirements for members to toin, (Joined Date,Posts,Reputation) • Select groups that can vote. • Select groups that can run for active positions. • Select how many spots available for each position. View the full article at IPS Resources

Adds support for video files from NowVideo into the built-in IP.Board [media] bbcode. Installation Log in to your IP.Board Admin CP and visit the Look & Feel tab -> Post Content -> Manage Media BBCode page. In the 'Import New Media Tags' section, browse to the XML file included with these instructions and click Open. View the full article at IPS Resources

My second skin made for IP Board, using minimal html edits, mainly CSS. Works with most applications and won't be updated in the future. Releasing here free for others to use. Zip file includes installation readme along with the skin and images xml files (mainly default IP Board images). View the full article at IPS Resources

This hook will show the block with recent posts that have youtube videos. View the full article at IPS Resources

Kolors is a modern colour changing skin featuring a colour picker to give your site the look and feel it truly deserves. Responsive! Unlimited colours! Clean! Versatile! logo psd inlcuded! Full support given on request View the full article at IPS Resources

As requested by a member, You can insert MP4 Vidéo with this media tag http://community.invisionpower.com/filestore/public/style_emoticons/default/rofl.png View the full article at IPS Resources

A Blue Themed skin for 3.4.5 with an added online/offline image and team icon in topic view Forum (3.4.5) Blog (2.6.3) Gallery (5.0.5) Calendar (3.3.4) Downloads (2.5.4) Content (2.3.6) Nexus (1.5.8) Includes .PSD files for logo, Team Icons and installation instructions NOTE: Team Icons for this skin will not overwrite any others you have for any other skin. Please contact me for demo link as test installation only online certain times of the day. Terms & Conditions: To be installed on one forum only, to install on more than one then you will need to purchase skin again (contact me for discounts for purchasing more than one skin). You are not allowed to give free, re-sell or make profit directly from the skin. You do not have the right to redistribute this skin set in any way. Copyright removal available at extra cost, contact me for details or read the README.txt file included in the download. Checked in IE9, FF 23.01 and Opera 12.16 View the full article at IPS Resources

Hello guys, thanks for visiting this link, team icons of warcraft game, well designed, contains the PSD. Contains file that helps you use. Thank you for your attention. View the full article at IPS Resources

Hello, I thank you for your visit, I have been very pleased to present this issue to you, designed with a modern and attractive, the colors red, white and black, interacting with the colors. Below follows the theme images to better explain to you the price of it is pretty nice, I give full support after purchase, and before too, if they want to ask questions, thank you very much for your attention: Compatible with multiple applications: Invision Power Board Shoutbox, downloads, gallery Blog Nexus Calendar and etc. ... Accompanying installation instructions. View the full article at IPS Resources

Until Friday, September 20th Save $5.00 when you purchase this skin in the IBSkin Shop! Works with the LATEST VERSION of ALL of these applications: IP.Board 3.4.5 [*]IP.Nexus [*]IP.Content [*]IP.Downloads [*]IP.Gallery [*]IP.Blog [*]IP.Calendar [*]IP.Chat [*]IP.Shoutbox [*]IP.Tracker [*]IBProArcade Included in the download: All fonts used throughout the skin logo.psd team-icon.psd Installation instructions (document and video) IBSkin copyright and license agreement View the full article at IPS Resources

Author: Dawid Baruch (IPSBeyond.pl) Description: Addition allows for quick users adds tag to quick reply View the full article at IPS Resources

Author: Dawid Baruch (IPSBeyond.pl) Description: Payment gateway for IP.Nexus. Note this file is encoded with Ioncube. If you are using the Zend version of Nexus please ensure that your host supports Ioncube encoded files. View the full article at IPS Resources

Adds Steam information to users profile. This pro version add the extra functionality of being able to add user as friend and go to game store page. View the full article at IPS Resources