Author Topic: [Guide] Admin CP (Read 24599 times)

Nightmare · « **on:** July 14, 2006, 08:29:30 pm »

This is a guide for help in the Admin CP.

NOTE: This was written for smf 1.0

Guides for the Admin CP for 1.1 can be found in the Guide Index near the top
Guides & Tutorials Index

Forum Controls

[1.1.1] Administration Center
[1.1.2] Admin Note Pad
[1.2.1] Support and Credits
[1.3.1] Edit Forum News
[1.3.2] Preview
[1.4.1] Manage Boards
[1.4.2] Categories
[1.4.3] Forums
[1.4.4] Child Forums
[1.5.1] Attachment Manager
[1.5.2] File Attachment Statistics
[1.5.3] File Attachment Options
[1.5.4] Browse Files
[1.6.1] Get a Blog
[1.7.1] Get Support

Forum Configuration

[2.1.1] Edit Features and Options
[2.2.1] Forum Settings
[2.2.2] FAQs
[2.3.1] Current Theme's Settings
[2.4.1] Theme and Layout Settings
[2.4.2] Install a New Theme
[2.5.1] Manage Styles
[2.6.1] Smileys and Smiley Sets
[2.7.1] Arcade
[2.8.1] Edit Censored Words
[2.9.1] Edit Registration Agreement
[2.0.1] Directory Information

Member Controls

[3.1.1] Edit Membergroups
[3.2.1] Edit Permissions
[3.3.1] Register New Member
[3.4.1] View/Delete Members
[3.5.1] Set Reserved Names
[3.6.1] Ban Members

Forum Controls
[1.1.1] Administration Center
[1.1.2] Admin Notepad
The admin notepad is a place to leave notes to your fellow admins on your forum. so to leave a note you have to do the following:

Write the note you want to leave in the box
Than click Save Notes

The admins who logs into the Admin CP will see the note.

[1.2.1] Support and Credits
The support and credits just a place where the makers of Simple Machines made to give credit to the people who helped to make Simple Machines.

[1.3.1] Edit Forum News
To edit the Forum News you have to:

Put the stuff you want in the News box in the box
Hit save

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Some BBC tags, such as [b], [i] and [u] 
are allowed in your news, as well as smileys and HTML. Clear a news item's text box to remove it.

[1.3.2] Preview
Preview is just a preview what is going to be in your News box when you hit save.

[1.4.1] Manage Boards
Manage boards is a place where you can make new forums or new categories on your web site

[1.4.2] Categories
How to add categories:

go to your Admin CP
under Forum Controls click Manage Boards
click Create new category
put in the information you want your new category to say
click Add Category

you won't see your category unless there is a forum under it.

[1.4.3] Forums
How to add forums:

go to your Admin CP
under Forum Controls click Manage Boards
click Add Board
put in the information you want to have your forum to say
when done click on Add Board

[1.4.4] Child Forums
How to add child forums:

go to your Admin CP
under Forum Controls click Manage Boards
click Add Board
put in the information you want to have your forum to say and where you want it to be
in Order click on Child of...
beside that box click on it and click on the forum that you want forum you want your child forum to be
Click Add Board

[1.5.1] Attachment Manager
From here you can administer the attached files on your system. You can delete attachments by size and by date from your system. Statistics on attachments are also displayed below.

[1.5.2] File Attachment Statistics
just a place where it gives the stats of the attachments added, avatars, etc is on the site.

[1.5.3] File Attachment Options
this is where you can delete files that are old or people's avatars that have not been actived for X amount of days, and when it deletes the files it is replace with a message that you want it to say.

[1.5.4] Browse Files
this is where you can see what attachments and avatars that have been posted on your web site using the attachment mod.

[1.6.1] Get a Blog
Clicking on Get a Blog will bring you to http://www.ezblogworld.com/ and it will open a new window.

[1.7.1] Get Support
Clicking on Get Support will bring you to http://www.smfsupport.com/support/ and it will open a new window.

Forum Configuration
[2.1.1] Edit Features and Options
In here you can edit the main part of your forum, Basic Forum Features, Layout and Options, Search, etc.

[2.2.1] Forum Settings

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This page allows you to change the basic settings for your forum.
Be very careful with these settings, as they may render the forum dysfunctional.
Also note that some of these options (such as time format) are default options or for guests only.

This page lets you change your admin email, forum name etc.

[2.2.2] FAQs
Q. What does maintenance mode mean?
A. It means when there is a checkmark in the box it will turn off the web site to members, and mods. Admins can still log in the Admin CP and post when it is in maintenance mode.

Q. What does subject for display mean?
A. When the web site is in maintenance mode, whatever you put in the box it will come up as the title when members and mods try to go to your web site.

Q. What does message for display do?
A. Message for display gives the poeple who try to log in your web site a reason why it is in maintenance mode.

Q. How do you change your message board name?
A. In your Admin CP look under Forum Configuration and look for Forum Settings. In Forum Settings try and find Message Board Name. Put the new name for your web site in there.

Q. How do you change the site's admin email?
A. In your Admin CP look under Forum Configuration and look for Forum Settings. In Forum Settings try and find Web Master Email Address. The box beside it will be the place where you can change the email.

Q. How do you change your site's language?
A. In your Admin CP look under Forum Configuration and look for Forum Settings. In Forum Settings try and find Default Forum Language. You can only pick two different languages. English and Spanish.

Q. How do I change my URL?
A. You cannot change your whole URL, for example you cannot change your forum URL like yourwebsitehere.smfforfree.com to yourwebsitehere.com in your Admin CP, but you can change your URL from yourwebsitehere.smfforfree.com to yourwebsitehere.ezsmf.com. To change your URL go to your Admin CP look under Forum Configuration and look for Forum Settings. In Forum Settings try and find Forum URL. There you can pick the subdomain that you want.

[2.3.1] Current Theme's Settings
You can chnage the settings of your background in there, like if you wanted to turn off smiles you can do it for the background your using at the time.

[2.4.1] Theme and Layout Settings
This is where you can change your background or install new ones, and you can do some other stuff in there like allow members to select the "Default" theme.

[2.4.2] Install a New Theme
To install a new theme you have to do the following:

go to your Admin CP
under Forum Configuration click Theme and Layout Settings
pick the theme you want to install under Install a New Theme
click install!

[2.5.1] Manage Styles
You can MOD, add images, or make a new background here. Under Create Style you can make a new background, under Modify Style you can MOD your background that you made, under Customize Images you can change the images from your site, and under Edit Headers/Footers you can edit the header and the footer. The header is at the top of your web site, and the footer is at the bottom of your web site.

[2.6.1] Smileys and Smiley Sets
These settings allow you to change the default smiley set, allow people to select their own smileys, and set paths and configuration data. If you need more help please go to http://www.smfsupport.com/support/guides-and-tutorials/guide-custom-smiles.0.html

[2.7.1] Arcade
http://www.smfsupport.com/support/guides-and-tutorials/guide-to-setting-up-an-arcade.0.html

[2.8.1] Edit Censored Words
Here you can censored the words you do not want on your web site. To add censored words you have to do the follow:

go to your Admin CP
under Forum Configuration click Edit Censored Words
click on Click here to add another word.
in the box on the left add the word you want to be censored
in the box on the right add the word you want the word to appear as
click save

[2.9.1] Edit Registration Agreement
When people click register on your site they should get this to read

Quote from: Register - Required Information

You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well.

You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.

You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason. We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.

After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.

Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.

you can add or change that.

[2.0.1] Directory Information
The information in thoses two boxes will be placed at http://www.smfforfree.com/directory/ to help get people to join your web site.

Member Controls
[3.1.1] Edit Membergroups
http://www.smfsupport.com/support/guides-and-tutorials/guide-to-setting-up-membergroups.0.html

[3.2.1] Edit Permissions
This is where you can edit the permissions to all the groups made by you, (but the admin group). To edit the permission of the group that you want you have to click on modify. Now that you are editing the settings of the group you should see something like A X D. If your wondering what the means, A stands for Allow, X stands for Disallow, and D stands for deny. So now you know what it means, I will give an example. If I wanted Newbie Members who just join to report a post to a moderator. I will look for Global Board Permissions - Newbie form and under change the Report posts to the moderators from disallow (X) to allow (A).

[3.3.1] Register New Member
Just like registering on a website you put the Username you want, password ect. But you can do different things than a normal person could on your website. You can add him to a member group or make him get an email asking him to activate the username. Than click register and your done.

[3.4.1] View/Delete Members
Here you can view or delete members. When you are in View All Users you will be able to see their Username, Display name, Email Address, IP address, Last time he or she was on, and the number of posts he or she has. If you use Search you can put in the information you want and will find the user(s) with the same information.
How to delete members:

go to your admin cp
under Member Controls click View/Delete Members
fine the person's username(s) you want to delete and click the box
click on Delete Selected Members

[3.5.1] Set Reserved Names
You can add Reserved names you want for your site. If you want to add a reserved username just add the name inside the box, but you can only add one per line. When your done pick the options you want to have and click Save.

[3.6.1] Ban Members
When you first look this, you will see the banned typed (IP, username ect) reasons, notes, restriction, expires. To ban poeple you have to:

go to your admin cp
under Member Controls click Ban Members
click on Add new ban
put in the user's information that will be banned
click on add

The ban log shows all attempts to enter the forum by banned users ('full ban', 'cannot register' and 'Cannot Post' ban only).

if I missed anything or got something wrong, please tell me by repling to this topic or PMing me.

I hope this guild is useful for you.