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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: Microformat and Schema Updates / SEO

Posted by Matt, in 3.3.x 08 February 2012 -

· 1,020 views

IP.Board has made use of micro formats and schema data since IP.Board 3.0. We added to this in 3.2 to include breadcrumb data in our navigation. This enabled Google to display our navigation links within search...

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: Auto-share on posting

Posted by Matt, in 3.3.x, Blog 07 February 2012 -

· 1,891 views

IP.Board was one of the first commercial products to make use of Facebook integration to allow logged in Facebook users instant membership. We extended this in subsequent releases to include the ability to share status updates and links from the board such as topics. During this time, we also added Twitter as an authentication system and the ability to...

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: A few more SEO tweaks

Posted by Matt, in 3.3.x 30 January 2012 -

· 2,485 views

Our core goals for IP.Board 3.3 where to clear up the moderator tools, make IP.Board more efficient for larger communities and improve SEO.

We've already blogged...

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: Performance Enhancements

Posted by Matt, in 3.3.x 29 January 2012 -

· 2,033 views

During each release cycle we often take some time out to assess performance and look at ways to improve in this area. We're also in a unique position to have first hand experience at hosting tens of thousands of IP.Board installations via our own hosting network.

We also work closely with our clients...

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: Banning and more SEO tweaks

Posted by Matt, in 3.3.x 26 January 2012 -

· 2,172 views

Anyone that runs a lively and thriving community knows that now and again you have to make the hard decision to ban a member. IP.Board has a powerful set of tools built in to manage this for you and you can ban a member for a set number of days or permanently with a few clicks via the warning system or the ACP member management system.

Currently, there are...

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: Reputation Enhancements

Posted by Mark, in 3.3.x 05 January 2012 -

· 5,902 views

IP.Board has featured a reputation system since 3.0, allowing users to give positive or negative reputation to posts, as well as content in other apps in the IPS Community Suite (blog entries, gallery images, etc.) as well as content in third party applications.
In IP.Board 3.2, we enhanced this by adding a new way of viewing the reputation system, in terms...

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: Miscellaneous Enhancements

Posted by Mark, in 3.3.x 04 January 2012 -

· 5,635 views

With every release of our products, we like to spend some time identifying areas which can be improved slightly, and small feature suggestions we can use. 3.3 is no exception, and I wanted to write a quick blog entry to highlight just some of the smaller enhancements we've made to 3.3 to make the product more powerful and easy to use.

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: Applications & Hooks Enhancements

Posted by teraßyte, in 3.3.x 02 December 2011 -

· 1,559 views

Parts of this entry may only apply to those who create hooks for IP.Board. Feel free to skip the sections that may not interest you.

For IP.Board 3.2 I made several changes for both applications and...

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: Moderation

Posted by Mark, in 3.3.x 01 December 2011 -

· 1,275 views

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry discussing our efforts towards moderation features, and specifically the new warning system.
Today I wanted to talk about another area of moderation, perhaps the most important area - managing content - and...

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IP.Board 3.3 Dev Update: SEO Improvements

Posted by Matt, in 3.3.x 29 November 2011 -

· 2,607 views

Over the past few years, we've invested a good amount of time into ensuring that your forum content is spidered well by various search engines. We've created a crisp clean skin with good semantic mark-up, introduced a friendly URL system and made numerous enhancements to ensure that search engines read your content and spider it effectively.

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