Forum Update 2.0.0 (4/6/2008)
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Changes from 1.2 to 2.0
Presentation:
- The delete, edit & quote tabs now sit flush on the window edge
- 'Breadcrumbs navigation' now provided on every page for quick links back to forums or previous location
- 'Last action' now includes posters name alongside the time/date
- All details of posts within a thread are now all presented within a tidy box
- Post edit now redirects to 1 tidy edit page
- All posts offer ability to make them stickies/locked/announcements, depending on user access rights
- After deleting/modifying posts/threads, the user is now redirected back to the main forum page/category
- The edit box now includes the editor
- Pictures able to be used in forum as icons highlighting stickys/pinned etc threads
- Each threads posts and view count displayed at the top of each thread, below the title
Threads/Posts:
- Stickies
- Announcement
- Locking
- Quoting fully working (quote within quote/pictures/bullet list/template/links)
- Member Signatures
- Unread/New thread/posts indicator
- View count now counts every view as opposed to previously counting unique visitors
- Error message popup dialog boxes displayed when user tries to post a thread without a title, or tries to post without entering any text in main box
- Ability to title individual posts
- Post preview & edited/quoted post preview
- Tabbed/numbered pages for thread posts when posts exceed maximum posts per forum page
- User wiki/threads/post counts and links to
Search
- Forum, category, or thread specific search
- Search user threads/posts
- Admin ability to have specific words omitted from the search
- Searches can include AND (or +), which will find both words separately in posts
- Searches can include OR, which will find one or the other words in posts
Wiki Syntax:
- Tables
- Links
- Pictures
- Templates
- Note: Not all Wiki Syntax has been check, but it should work.
Forum Wiki Tag
- Admin ability to set what forums are displayed, and how many threads
- Ability to choose display format of either just the lastest posts or all the catagorys
- Ability to display only desired table columns (title, posts, views, last action)
- Ability to easily modify forum wiki tag presentation via various parameters
Admin options
- Forum Config Settings
- Show wiki edit count in threads
- Length of users signature
- Guests ability to view signatures
- Show thread count in posts
- Show thread count in threads
- Allow/disallow robots.txt
- Minimum number of letters in search
- Which forums to include in forum wiki tag
- Title length of forum wiki tag
- Number of threads to display in forum wiki tag
- How short dates are displayed
- How long dates are displayed
- Avatar size
- Length of threads title's displayed in forums 'Last Post' column
- How long thread titles can be
- How many threads to display in a forum
- Length of thread titles listed in forums
- How many number blocks to display on forums pages
- Height of the Quick reply text box
- How many post to display in a thread
- Expiration time for Post Count
- Height of the Posting, Editing, Quoting text box
- How many number blocks to display next to a threads Title on the forum page
- How many number blocks to display in threads
- Language file
- Ability to change wording displayed with-in forum
- Ability to change display medium such as use of words or pictures (sticky as a word/picture of a sticky)
- Maintenance section
- Ability to mass delete threads and all included posts older than stipulated 'last post' date
- User account 'lookup'
- Ability to edit Users Forum info Signatures and Avatars
- Ability to force 'recount' of User post/thread totals (after mass deletion of old threads, may be required)
- Moderator ability's
- Edit and delete threads/posts
- Pinning threads
- Locking threads
- Move threads
- Able to create Admin restricted forums and Moderator restricted forums
- Able to create, edit and delete announcement threads and posts
Moderator options
- Edit and delete threads/posts
- Pinning threads
- Locking threads
- Move threads
User options
- Adding signatures
- Avatar - via URL, Wiki Image tag, Uploading
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