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Just add this code to your skin's ipb_styles.css: table.ipb_table td:hover { background: #your-color or background: url({style_images_url}/your-image.png) repeat;

.cssname:hover { background: #color; } I think would be the correct answer. You can even find out if you're using firefox or chrome, right click and hit "Inspect Element". You should see the CSS properties there.

Users who have the hook installed with their IPB 3.4.x package, may have noticed an oddity with their View New Content page (something similar to the image below): If you are experiencing this issue, it is caused by the aforementioned hook. You'll need to make one small edit and you'll be all set. Navigate to: <Your IPB Root>/Hooks/tbGfSkinSearch_xxxxx.php [*]The "xxxxx" substitutes the string of random characters attached to your file. Find this line: $data['last_poster'] = $data['last_poster_id'] ? IPSMember::makeProfileLink( TBGroupFormat::makeNameFormatted( $data, $data['last_poster_name'], $data['last_poster_group'], 'last_poster_id' ), $data['last_poster_id'], $data['seo_last_name'] ) : $this->settings['guest_name_pre'] . $data['last_poster_name'] . $this->settings['guest_name_suf']; ... and replace it with this: /*$data['last_poster'] = $data['last_poster_id'] ? IPSMember::makeProfileLink( TBGroupFormat::makeNameFormatted( $data, $data['last_poster_name'], $data['last_poster_group'], 'last_poster_id' ), $data['last_poster_id'], $data['seo_last_name'] ) : $this->settings['guest_name_pre'] . $data['last_poster_name'] . $this->settings['guest_name_suf'];*/ Save your edit, and refresh your page -- fixed! I strongly recommend downloading a copy of the file, making the edit, and then re-uploading it to avoid any issues with the upload. Editing the file inside of FTP programs such as Filezilla is not always efficient. [*]Credits to Paradiizee for working with me to find a fix for this. Be sure to thank him! [*]Please Note: This is only a temporary fix until the hook's original author makes the appropriate updates for full 3.4.x support.

How to minimize spam registrations on your forum Hello guys, Phun here with another quick tutorial on how to minimize spam registrations on your forum. You know those pesky spam bots that post ads? With a few quick fixes to your site you can stop them from registering. Or, at least, most of them. Step 1. Check if you have CAPTCHA set up By default it is set-up but you might just wanna take a peek and see if it's done. In the admin CP go to: System Settings -> System -> Security & Privacy You can now also check your registration page to see if you indeed have the reCAPTCHA form on there. Step 2. Set up a Question and Answer challenge This is something i've done a lot on forums. It presents the person that fills in the form with a question, which they have to answer. If they get the answer wrong, they can't register, if they get it right: hurrah! System -> Tools & Settings -> Question & Answer Challenge Step 3. Require e-mail validation (or manual approval) This one is optional but also can help a lot in the combat against spambot registrations. You can set your forum up so that all registrants are placed in a validation group before they can post stuff etc. System Settings -> System -> Security & Privacy What you set the incomplete registration validation removal to is up to you, i'd say 7 is a good number. (Optional) Step 4. Get the StopForumSpam Plugin StopForumSpam is widely known to keep a huge database with IP addresses and emails of well known spambots, installing this plugin can surely help you combat spam. It automatically denies registration of the known spambots so you won't have to worry about a thing. You can get it here: And that's it guys, i hope you found this tutorial useful in some way. © Phun ~ WebFlake.net - If you want to share this tutorial, please leave our credits in here.

Adding Images For Your Forum Category Open your boardIndexTemplate Find <p class='desc'>{$forum_data['description']}</p> and replace with <img src='{style_images_url}/cat_images/{$forum_data['id']}.png' alt=''/><br /><p class='desc'>{$forum_data['description']}</p> Now, open your FTP Client and make a new map in /public/style_images/YOURTHEME/ named "cat_images". In this map upload the images for your categories. Example: If your forum id is 3, name the image 3.png and upload it into the cat_images folder. Made by Paradiizee - From this support topic:

The Importance of Descriptive Titles It's important to let your users know that you want them to use descriptive titles. Google loves titles and especially when you're using the friendly URLs this is important. Search engines like Google can't do much with a topic titled "Hey" or "Team" or "error". Sure, it will be indexed but think about the thousands (if not millions) of other topics, pages, blogs etc. with a post or content that has "Hey" or "Team" or "error" in them. Why do you want descriptive titles? For targeted searches, plus you'll reach a much bigger audience and get higher rankings for that specific title. Let's take an example: If your topic title is "Help Me", your fURL would be: sitename.com/topic/201-Help-Me/A person using google typing in "Help Me" will not find your website, because there are millions of other sites that have a topic called "Help Me" and since your site does not have a high pagerank (at least, not so high that u will rank 1st on "Help Me") you will not be in the first results page. The solution would be to let users use descriptive titles, like in the example below: Users should use a descriptive title like "Help Me with Installing IPB Modifications", so your fURL would be: sitename.com/topic/202-Help-Me-with-Installing-IPB-Modifications/Chances are that there's not that many forums with topics about this specific thing, but still there are many people wanting to know how to install IPB modifications and need help with it. So if they would google "Help me with installing IPB modifications", your site is more likely to pop-up in the search results. But trust me, this won't happen in a flash. It takes time for search engines to index your site, and as your site is building up content search engines will start to value it and index it higher over time. But this is based on a lot more factors than just a descriptive title. I hope you know a little bit more now. So, descriptive titles are important for search engines, but are not the only factor. Start out using descriptive titles in your topics and telling your users to use them too, will definitely improve your site's quality. Visitors want to see what a topic is about without doing much work.

Just a few new ones.

Admins are Red Members are Blue Orange Donated Why didn't you? I win.

No! It means that the host has configured the server MySql setup too small for ipb to perform correctly. If you have your own vps /dedi than you can fix it. If you have free or shared hosting only the host can fix it.

he tried that if you didn't read

I have always used Photoshop (Windows) but I know a fair few people who don't use Photoshop always use GIMP and say it's the next best thing. Seeing as it works on MAC then I would go for that.

http://photo-graphics-software.findthebest.com/l/5/Pixelmator Heard this was a good tool a while ago, here are some reviews.

Lock Down is still here guys, he's an amazing guy and he still helps people out.

^ So much this, GIMP is the best tool you can get for free. I have no experience with mac but before i used photoshop, i used GIMP. They have similar features.

If the connection was reset.. the issue is likely one of two things: [*]Horrible latency (your internet) [*]Horrible hosting provider I suggest checking your internet connection (test the speed, ping your host, etc). If everything seems normal from your end, contact your host.

A search would have done wonders!

Is that really necessary? The OP was merely asking for advice/recommendations on software that meets the average standards of Photoshop -- not what software to use in general. @xtraktor - Unfortunately I don't have any knowledge of the MacOS (strictly Windows/Linux), but hopefully someone will be able to offer some insight on compatible programs.

Lockdown is still here and is an active and valuable part of this community.

Q: Did you use google "allowed memory size exhausted"?Q: Do you need reading glasses? The error clearly explains what is going on... That script is trying to allocate more memory than your hosting allows you to use. (32MB) IPB runs best on a minimum of 128MB.