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Now that I've been using Invision Community for a few weeks I am getting deeper into the apps that come with it. Tere is so much being offered it's almost overwhelming. I decided to see what I could do with pages the CMS. I was looking in the app at how the basic articles system was set up. Using that as a guide I created a link directory. I bought the scripts that are used here for the link directory. At the time I wanted a solution so that I could replace the one I used when we were on xenforo and the one used here was avaialble. I actually had a license for it so the renewal wasn't bad. In any case I converted SEO Forum to IPB a couple days ago. I then upgraded it to v5 beta 4. I create a new database in pages. The I created a new set of templates to display the data. Some trial and error and a little research and I had the basic setup. I added a few sites. After that I tweaked a little until I came up with a working link directory. The power of this software is really something. I am going to get into the commerce plugin next. See if I can create a points system to reward users and setup a store so they can use those points. You can see the directory at SEO Forum Link Directory. Let me know what you think.
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I upgraded the site to the newest version of IPB version 4.7.19. Upgrade went very smooth. First upgrade I have done in a while. Took about 5 minutes once I entered my details in the upgrader. Way faster than xenforo. The upgrader in xenforo also left a lot to be desired as far as speed. Even the command line version was slow. In any case that's in the rear view and not to be dwelled upon.
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I have installed IPB on a test site. At one time I had all my sites on IPB. I left vBulletin during the version 4 debacle and imported the sites to IPB. After a few years I decided to switch to xenforo. I haven't looked at IPB in a few years. I got an email about IPB 5 demo and looked at it. I went into the client area and renewed one of my old licenses. Site can be found at: http://forumadmins.org I will open it to guest posting once I figure out the permission system again. It's been a while.
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Invision Power Board (IPB) is a popular forum software that provides a robust platform for community engagement. Here are some key impressions and features of IPB: User-Friendly Interface: IPB offers a clean and modern design, making it easy for users to navigate and engage with content. Customization: The platform allows extensive customization options, enabling users to modify themes, layouts, and functionalities to suit their community's needs. Mobile Responsiveness: IPB is designed to be mobile-friendly, ensuring that users can access forums from various devices seamlessly. Built-in SEO Features: It includes tools that help optimize forum content for search engines, improving visibility and attracting more users. Rich Community Features: IPB supports various community-building features, such as user profiles, private messaging, and notifications, enhancing user interaction. Security: The platform emphasizes security, with regular updates and features like two-factor authentication to protect user accounts. Integration Options: IPB can integrate with various applications and services, allowing for expanded functionality, such as e-commerce and social media integration. Support and Documentation: Users have access to extensive documentation and community support, making it easier to troubleshoot issues and learn about new features. Overall, Invision Power Board is a powerful tool for building and managing online communities, suitable for both small forums and large-scale networks.
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ip.board Invision Community 5: Tagging Reinvented
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Invision Community v5 takes a fresh approach to tagging and content discovery. It overhauls the concept to bring content across different sections together with a beautiful new tag page. Tagging is a powerful concept but underused with Invision Community 4 due to overly complex interfaces in different areas of the suite, a confusing open tagging model option and no real benefit in content discovery beyond a simple list of content items. A driving force behind Invision Community 5 is the question of how we can help time-pressured community members find the content that most interests them. Invision Community has robust taxonomy through forum and category structures, but what about content in less visible areas such as Blogs, galleries or Events? How can we bring those together to homogenise the type of content and focus on the content itself? Taxonomy via tagging across all applications in the community suite is the answer. However, we needed to re-approach how tagging was implemented in the Invision Community to bring our new vision to life. Out with the old The current tagging system is implemented loosely, allowing open tagging, which is more akin to hashtags than high-level taxonomy. Allowing forums, albums, and blog categories to define their own tags turns tagging into more of a status label, which does nothing to help bring disparate content together. In with the new With a new focus on taxonomy and content discovery, we set about rebuilding tagging for Invision Community 5. The UI to tag items is the same, but now each defined, globally available tag has its own page with cover image and ability to feature items within that tag page. A uniform approach to different content items in the UI breaks down the barrier between content types and focuses solely on the content. Tags featured on its page are automatically displayed on the community Featured Content page. Finally, tags can now be followed, allowing your community to get a daily or weekly digest of all new tagged items, bringing people back to read more of the content they love. Let’s take a closer look In Invision Community 5, all tags are defined in the Admin Control Panel. The ability to use open tagging and per-node tags has been removed, but don’t worry—the upgrade system will offer conversion for those tags. Once defined, the tags are available for all content types and feature on a dedicated new tag page. This page features cover photos and more information on the tag via a description. Content from across your suite will be displayed on this page. If a single piece of content has multiple tags, it will appear on every relevant tag page making it easy to have content in multiple areas. If you want to permanently or temporarily feature individual content, perhaps your latest news or product release, you can do so right from the tag page. Featured content will show on the community’s Featured Content Page. Blurring the lines Now that we have an attractive and focused page for each tag, we can start to blur the lines between applications and, indeed, forums and categories, offering a new way to organise content. For some communities, the need for multiple forums to categorise content is diminished, and instead, tagging can be used to separate and find content from across the community. Tags can be featured in the menu system, offering new ways into your community for new visitors, regular community members, and even those who visit daily. Invision Community 5 is fearless in challenging past decisions or streamlining features to make them stronger and more focused. Our new approach to tagging takes a vague and underutilised concept and pushes it front and centre in any content strategy. How will you use it in your community? Continue reading... -
In the future Forum² will move to IPB as its software. Forum² started out on IPB and when IPB 4 was first released it was less then stellar so I converted to xenForo. Now that 4.2 is about to be released with new features not available in any other software I decided to convert back to IPB. I feel this converion is needed to move Forum² into the future.
