SMFNEW Support Forum

My test forum that I let my friend play around on to try and get a feel for how smf works (before breaking a copy that is needed) and when he changed the theme, everything got moved around and it didn't look how it was supposed to. I switched the theme back (took a while to find the links since they were misplaced) and the default loaded fine, but any custom theme seems to not load properly. Also, I get an error at the top stating the following:

"The default theme's directory is wrong, please correct it by clicking this text."

Even when I click the text, the error returns after refreshing the page and it doesn't seem to fix it. I'm not concerned about getting the forum to work properly again, I just want him to have a place that he can test the features out and get a hang of how it works before giving him full (or some restricted, I still don't know yet) to a fully loaded forum. I installed SMF on his webserver and I've been administering it for him because I know more about it than he does.


My test forum: http://test1.smfnew.com/

I thought it would be a good idea to add a modification to the administration panel that would allow you to edit ranks of users and view the forum logs. If someone you make on the forum decides to overthrow you, they can demote your rank, make themselves admin, and promote other users to higher ranks. My idea is to set it up so you can view the forum logs (see who changed the ranks, banned users, and other actions) and also manage the member ranks. I know their is an option to create a new administrator account on the forum, but if the user is constantly watching the forum for that and has others doing it also, they can easily demote and ban the account immediately. My idea is to make it so you can promote/demote the accounts on the forum and even ban them so if they do constantly monitor it, you can have more control and overthrow them. Plus, users may not want extra accounts laying there just to keep overthrowing if they do this. It's just a thought I had, since the forum I'm administering for my friend I got demoted from the owner and I don't want to make another account just to make me admin again. If this idea is tossed I'll just make a new account but if not I'll wait for it to be added. Their's no rush, seeing I barely use the forum.

I was wondering what kind of protection smfnew offers for its forums from hackers such as DDoS attacks and such.

I'm wondering if it's possible for me to add a domain to my forum such as co.cc or .tk
If so, how would i go about adding it on my forum? I know how to do it personally but am I able to do it here?

I'm wondering if their is a way to set the block option called "Forum News" so it won't show the news at random and it will go in order.

I created a membergroup for banned users called Banned and im wondering how to set it up so when a member is banned they are put in that group as default until the ban is lifted. i know you can do it manually but the problem with that is remembering to unban because the group denys pretty much everything

I was wondering if their is any way to assign an icon that shows on page tabs of your browser so when someone visits your forum it will take place of the browser's default

Facebook's example:

Just wanted to suggest a new smiley set. These smileys were pretty cool and work on every forum version (I think). Post your vote below to try and get it added




Mod: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2892

Im wondering why my forum can use this code but my shoutbox can't. I have URL enabled for it but it wont show them.

heres how its written: (example)

[ ulr=www.google.com ] google link [ /url ]


without spaces obviously since it would link it on the post without them. I'm just wondering of theirs something else i have to do to fix this because i added some words to the filter list to change to this so say someone says google it would appear as google
It does this in posts but not the shoutbox

My friend was trying to register on my forum but he couldnt enter his xat ID (one of the fields) because their was no text field to enter it. I checked it on my computers but didnt have any problem. I registered the account for him in the admin panel but it still wont show for him on his profile. It shows for me on mine and if i go visit his profile but he still doesnt. I know i can add it for him but i want to get this fixed so theirs no problems in the future.