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IPS Converter Update

Posted by AndyMillne, in Converters, 3.4.x 29 April 2013 - - - - - - · 1,471 views

We are pleased to announce an update to our popular converter application  and with it support for conversions from vBulletin 5 Connect.

This release has been particularly focused on converter stability and performance improvements. At the time of writing there are 0 open bug reports in the bug tracker.

Performance Improvements

Whilst data integrity w...


IP.Board 3.4 Dev Update: Anti-spam Enhancements

Posted by Matt, in 3.4.x 20 November 2012 - * * * * * · 16,631 views

It's an unfortunate fact that when you run a successful site, you attract unwanted users posting spam on your site. IP.Board has always been incredibly pro-active in  preventing spam users from signing up by making use of built in tools such as the question and answer challenge , spam monitoring service  and CAPTCHA systems. I'd like to tak...


IP.Board 3.4 Dev Update: ACP User Interface Enhancements

Posted by Matt, in 3.4.x 20 September 2012 - * * * * * · 19,640 views

The Admin Control Panel (ACP) is a very comprehensive section of your IP.Board. The ACP is used for everything from managing members, creating forums to dealing with support tickets from within our IP.Nexus application.

Indeed, the ACP has grown so large that it can be a little bewildering remembering where pages are and you may find that there are areas...


IP.Board 3.4 Dev Update: "Best Answer" Feature

Posted by Matt, in 3.4.x 18 September 2012 - * * * * * · 20,339 views

We're always amazed at how diverse our customer base is and how many different uses customers find for their IP.Board. Many customers, ourselves included often have a forum that invites questions such as pre-sales or support forums. These forums often generate a lot of topics with many replies and it can often be confusing for other readers to know...


IP.Board 3.4 Dev Update: SEO Improvements

Posted by Matt, in 3.4.x, SEO, Beta 15 August 2012 - * * * * * · 12,706 views

As part of our regular SEO round-up when developing a major new release, I'm happy to run through the latest SEO changes we've made for IP.Board 3.4.

Friendly URL Changes
After much research and discussion with other SEO focused forum owners, I decided to revamp the FURL structure when handling additional page parameters.
The existing format...


IP.Board 3.4 Dev Update: IPS Connect

Posted by Mark, in 3.4.x 09 August 2012 - * * * * - · 22,757 views

The IPS Community Suite provides a fantastic community solution for all kinds of websites.
For many of our customers, the community is just one component of their site. Many of these customers utilise single sign-on systems for integrating the community with the other areas.

At IPS, we get requests for this on a regular basis, and over the years, I've...


IP.Board 3.4 Dev Update: Editor improvements

Posted by Matt, in Beta, 3.4.x 02 August 2012 - * * * * * · 24,445 views

With a product history of over ten years, it's quite often a challenge keeping the product right on trend. Old technologies go and we make provisions to remove them and likewise, we make provisions to incorporate new technologies.

For example, IP.Board was the first bulletin board to incorporate Ajax functionality all the way back in IP.Board 2.1 back...


IP.Board 3.4 Dev Update: IP.SEO

Posted by Mark, in 3.4.x 24 July 2012 - * * * * - · 27,632 views

IP.SEO is a popular free add-on for IP.Board which provides many additional SEO features for your community.

IP.SEO has proved so popular since it's introduction that as of IP.Board 3.4, we're going to be moving it's features into the core of IP.Board meaning that a separate...