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[NEEDS REVISION] The Complete guide to SMFNEW
« on: September 19, 2009, 04:17:09 pm »


1. Introduction

2. The Basics
~~~~ Setting up your own SMFNEW forum
~~~~ Your SMFNEW control panel Password.
~~~~ PRO Hosting
~~~~ Removing Adverts
~~~~ Making a Backup of your forum
~~~~ Your Own Domain Name

3. Administration Centre
~~~~ Configuration
~~~~ Features and Options
~~~~ Security and Moderation
~~~~ Server Settings
~~~~ Current Theme
~~~~ Themes and Layout

~~~~ Forum
~~~~ Boards
~~~~ Posts and Topics
~~~~ Calendar
~~~~ Search
~~~~ Smileys and Message Icons
~~~~ Attachments and Avatars Manager

~~~~ Members
~~~~ Membergroups
~~~~ Permissions
~~~~ Members
~~~~ Registration
~~~~ Ban List
~~~~ Search Engines

~~~~ Arcade Admin

~~~~ Simple Portal

~~~~ Maintenance
~~~~ Forum Maintenance
~~~~ Generate Reports
~~~~ Forum Error Log
~~~~ Moderation Log

4. Support and Credits

5. Packages/Modifications

6. News and Newsletters

7. Advertising



1. Introduction
This guide will teach you how to use SMFNEW as an Administrator and should hopefully help many of you to become masters of SMF. All this information is my own and has been gathered from what i have learnt in my time here at SMFNEW. Please post your feedback and suggest anything you believe belongs here that i have missed out.

2. The Basics

Setting up your own SMFNEW forum.

To set up your own SMFNEW Forum simply visit http://www.smfnew.com/signup.php and configure your forum details until it's suitable for you.

Your SMFNEW control panel Password.

You will receive your Control Panel password when you set up your own forum. This will be a big code consisting of lots of Letters/numbers. This code allows you to access the SMFNEW control panel - http://www.smfnew.com/control/. If you do not receive this code Don't Panic! Simply go to your SMFNEW forum and click on "Admin". You will now see a page with a heading of "Administration Center", underneath the Admin notepad you will see

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Control Panel Code

You can use this code to reset your password if you have forgotten your control panel password at http://www.smfnew.com/control/. Note: Only you, the root Administrator can view this code.

You will see a big code full of random numbers/letters. This is your code allowing you to reset your SMFNEW control panel password.

PRO Hosting

PRO Hosting gives you full control over your forum. You get great benefits such as;
Uploading your own Mods/Themes
Unlimited access to SQL
No adverts
Editable files
Etc..

To go PRO simply login to your SMFNEW control panel - http://www.smfnew.com/control/ and click on "Hosting". PRO Hosting costs $9.95 USD per month.

Removing Adverts

To remove adverts from your forum simply login to your SMFNEW control panel which is located here - http://www.smfnew.com/control/ and click on "Upgrades". Removing adverts costs $7.95 USD per month.

Making a Backup of your forum

To make backups of your forum simply login to your SMFNEW control panel which is located here - http://www.smfnew.com/control/ and click on "Upgrades". You get 10 backups for $56.95 USD.

Your Own Domain Name

To make your SMFNEW forum have it's own name simply visit a domain changing website (such as www.namecheap.com) and set the nameservers to ns3.smfnew.com and ns4.smfnew.com. Once that has been done, please contact our support staff on this support forum where we will add your domain name to the accepted domains list to access the server.

3. Administration Centre

To access your Admin CP visit your SMFNEW forum and click on "Admin".

Configuration

-Features and Options
--Basic Features

How do i change my forum's name?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Change your forum name

This affects your tab at the top of the page and the name that it displayed near the top of the forum page.

E.g

If you want to actually change your forum's URL to a different .smfnew.com address

e.g

www.example.smfnew.com

Then please visit the suggestions area and request it -

Please Note: Changing your forum name costs a one time small fee of $4.95 USD.
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How do i put my forum in maintenance mode? And take it out of maintenance mode?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Enable/Disable Your Forum

E.g
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How do i change the maintenance title?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Maintenance Title

As you can see above the maintenance title is "Maintenance Mode".
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How do i change the maintenance message?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Maintenance Message

As you can see above the default Message is "We are doing some work on the board...news will be posted once we are back!"
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How do i Enable/Disable Polls?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Enable/Disable Polls
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How do i Stop guests from browsing the forum area?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Guests from browsing the forum

This is a good way to cut down on leechers.
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How do i enable/disable users to select different languages?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - User-selectable language support

If you want to have a language installed to your forum please visit http://www.support.smfnew.com/showthread.php?t=1758 and request the language.
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How do i allow/disallow users to edit their display name?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features -  Users can edit their displayed name?

E.g If allowed and my display name is "Nick" but if i wanted to change it to "Nickx" i could without a member of staff's permission.

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How do i Allow/Disallow non administrators to hide their online status?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Non-administrators can hide their online status?

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How do i Allow/Disallow users from hiding their email from everyone except admins?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Users can hide their email from everyone except admins?

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How do i Allow/Disallow the contact details of members to be shown to guests?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Do not reveal contact details of members to guests

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How do i Enable/Disable custom titles?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Enable/Disable custom titles

E.g the "Senior Member" part of my name.



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How do i Enable/Disable buddy lists?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Enable/Disable buddy lists

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How do i Enable/Disable buddy lists?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Enable/Disable buddy lists

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How do i set the Default personal text of members?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Default personal text

I usually set this as my forums name.

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How do i Set the maximum allowed characters for a signature?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Maximum allowed characters in signatures

A good number for this is between 250-300.

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How do i change the Membergroup legend display arrangement?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Membergroup legend display arrangement



Notice how Administrator is first? If you don't know the numbers of your membergroups just type in 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 into your Membergroup legend display arrangement box and delete one number at a time and you will find the order you want.

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How do i Set the default time format?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Default time format

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How do i Set the default number format?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Default number format

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How do i Set the Overall time offset?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Overall time offset

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How do i Enable/Disable Failed login threshold

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Failed login threshold

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How do i Enable/Disable Users online time threshold?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - User online time threshold

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How do i Enable/Disable Tracking of daily statistics?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Track daily statistics

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How do i Enable/Disable Tracking of daily page views?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Track daily page views (must have stats enabled)

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How do i Disable administration security?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Disable administration security

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How do i Enable/Disable Required reactivation after email change?

Admin - Features and Options - Basic Features - Require reactivation after email change

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« Last Edit: February 27, 2015, 06:28:05 pm by Jacob »
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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2009, 05:17:33 pm »
Very nice guide, alough, How do you add crowns beside Ranks in the legend?

And is there anyway to edit headers&footers?

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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2009, 05:34:55 pm »
I Still have loads to add in but no unfortunately you cannot edit Headers/Footers. To add crowns by the legends simple go to

Admin - Members - Membergroups - Edit membergroups - Modify (Or just create a new one).

Then in the Gropu name paste this in

<img src="IMAGE URL" border="0"><b> MEMBERGROUP</b>
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« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2009, 06:30:07 am »
Good work nick

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« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2009, 11:16:49 am »
Good job!

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« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2009, 01:30:33 pm »
Quote from: Shole;15290
Good work nick


Quote from: Alex;15295
Good job!


Thanks, Still have ALOT to do though this took me like 4 hours =\ More to come when i cba :p
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The Complete guide to SMFNEW
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2009, 05:12:27 pm »
Awesome guide Nick shame you can't edit your first post :p

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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2009, 12:08:27 am »
Lol, Good work Nick. Now do one on how to do Portal.. :)

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« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2009, 07:03:07 am »
Im going to do the whole of smfnew when i have time it just gets boring quickly :)
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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2009, 08:18:52 pm »
I was looking for section 7.

I want to get rid of the damn sponser ad that poped up today i hate it.

Also you should get rid of the post in the middle of this guide.

Nice work so far.

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« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2009, 06:00:42 am »
Quote from: rian306;16169
I was looking for section 7.

I want to get rid of the damn sponser ad that poped up today i hate it.

Also you should get rid of the post in the middle of this guide.

Nice work so far.

I want to carry this on but i really cant be bothered :) Seems like alot of work and not so many people read :D.
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« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2009, 01:29:40 pm »
if you need help i would be glad if i could help with something just pm me :D

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Re: The Complete guide to SMFNEW
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2009, 09:42:10 pm »
Good work. Hopefully you'll get more in. It's great.
When writing a support topic, remember to post: Your forum URl, forum type(smf 1x,smf2x or mybb 1x), your problem.

When leaving a suggestion, please leave only two links to the modification/plugin, otherwise it will most likely be not looked at until there is a link to the modification/plugin

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Re: The Complete guide to SMFNEW
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2009, 09:14:05 am »
There is one thing that you could add, one on how to administrate the board.
When writing a support topic, remember to post: Your forum URl, forum type(smf 1x,smf2x or mybb 1x), your problem.

When leaving a suggestion, please leave only two links to the modification/plugin, otherwise it will most likely be not looked at until there is a link to the modification/plugin

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Re: I hope your going to finish it
« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2009, 03:47:46 pm »
I was looking for section 7.

I want to get rid of the damn sponser ad that poped up today i hate it.

Also you should get rid of the post in the middle of this guide.

Nice work so far.

Done. With the old host (Vbull) I couldnt add more than 14,000 letters but with this smf i can add more :).
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Re: The Complete guide to SMFNEW
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2009, 12:02:55 am »
Again, good work. Hopefully people will read this.
When writing a support topic, remember to post: Your forum URl, forum type(smf 1x,smf2x or mybb 1x), your problem.

When leaving a suggestion, please leave only two links to the modification/plugin, otherwise it will most likely be not looked at until there is a link to the modification/plugin

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Re: The Complete guide to SMFNEW
« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2010, 03:46:50 pm »
how do i add this crowns  ???


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Re: The Complete guide to SMFNEW
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2010, 03:57:53 pm »
Ok go to membergroups in admin cp and click on modify on any group and just add the image i mean upload the image in smfnew.com/upload/ and then just coppy past the link to the crown icon or something like that..

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« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2010, 04:13:24 pm »
my bad i didn't make my self clear i meant how do i add the crowns next to the ranks in the legend were it says administrator, moderator, head moderator ect
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« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2010, 04:38:20 pm »
no dude i just explained to you Ok go to membergroups in admin cp and click on modify on any group and just add the image i mean upload the image in smfnew.com/upload/ and then just coppy past the link to the crown icon or something like that..

 

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