Settings overview
The settings section of your admin panel allows you to set and manage the security and information for your community. It also allows you to add and edit forums, set viewing permissions and set up access for your members.
You can also access this area from the admin control panel using the community settings box:
- set your board display name
- Manage community description
- Set community avatar
- edit community announcements
Security/Community Security Settings
- Manage access to the community
- show/hide IP address on posts
- profanity filter
- block certain usernames from being created locally
- Set auto ban criteria
- Set new member post limits
- setting up what shows on the main page, forums or topics
- selecting a time and date format
- choosing whether a chatroom displays number of chatters or usernames of chatters on the main page
- setting up how members can interact with each other (eg, allowing ignore)
- setting up hot topics
- managing maximum characters for post titles
- setting the number of replies per page and topics per page
- enabling the community statistics box
- Change the style of subforums on the main page
- setting up what type of poll displays are used
- Managing featured topic settings
Edit Labels
- editing the static text on your board (ie, translating)
- Manage your forum find categories
- set forum keywords for search
Domain hosting
- Set up your community to be accessible from your own domain name
- View history of contributors to you Gold community
- Contribute or buy ad-free page views
- Manage who views ads on your Gold Community (over 50k boards only)
