(Conversr Only)

Issue warnings (with an optional Private Topic sent to them) for unruly members. Optionally include one or more of several punitive actions as explained below.

Ban the member's IP address so they can no longer access the site from that device (this also adds their IP address in your htaccess file)

Ban the member so they can no longer log in (and their profile can no longer be viewed by others except high-ranking staff)

Report spammers to public blocklists such as Stop Forum Spam

Put members in a special restricted 'probation' usergroup for a specified number of days

Silence a member from the forum or topic on which they made their problematic post (this also works on comments).

Change a member's usergroup (useful to de-rank them)

Automatically delete recent or violating content / posts posted by the member

Charge points from the member's balance (also affects rank points to penalise their ability to rank up)

Reverse recent point transactions members made in abuse

Save and load explanatory messages for future use

Automatically generate punitive action text in the Private Topic sent to the member

Members can view their account standing on their profile, including any active punitive actions and their warnings history

Staff can view full details of individual warnings including an action log and options to undo some of the individual punitive actions

Develop your own cns_warnings hooks to define additional punitive actions that can be used with the warnings system

Use one of the several pre-defined "reasons" for a warning in the dropdown to include the warning in your site statistics (for number of warnings issued by reason).

Configurable word filters

Investigation: Investigate activity by member ID, username, IP address, or e-mail. Ban troublesome IP addresses.

CAPTCHA: Include CAPTCHA on forms for guests and new members. Enable CSS and/or JavaScript CAPTCHA to make detection by bots much harder. Enable an audio version for the visually impaired.

Integrate with known-spammer blacklists: Multiple configurable levels of enforcement.

Honeypots and blackholes: Find and ban bots via automated traps that humans would never see or fill out.

Heuristics: Clever ways to detect and block spammers based on behaviour.

Published e-mail addresses will be protected from spammers

Protection from spammers trying to use your website for their own SEO

Also known as Tempcode.

Perform computations: Run loops, manipulate logic, numbers, and text.

Handy effects: Easily create design effects like “Zebra striping” and tooltips – and much more.

Branching and filtering: Tailor output according to permissions and usergroups, as well as user options such as language selection.

Include other templates, blocks, or pages, within a template

Create and use standard boxes: Avoid having to copy and paste complex segments of XHTML5.

Easy web browser sniffing: Present different markup to different web browsers, detect whether JavaScript is enabled, detect bots, and detect PDAs/Smartphones.

Randomisation features

Pull up member details with ease: For example, show the current users avatar or point count.

Easily pull different banner rotations into your templates

Escaping: Easily escape parameters and strings to avoid JavaScript or HTML syntax errors and XSS vulnerabilities.

Create your own Tempcode symbols through hooks

Switch users: Masquerade as any user using your admin login

Change theme images inline with just a few clicks

Easily find and edit the templates used to construct any screen

Error monitoring: Get informed by e-mail if errors happen on your site.

Make inline changes to content titles

Easy text changes: Easily change the language strings used to build up any screen.

Easily diagnose permission configuration problems: Log permission checks, or interactively display them in Firefox.

Testing platform: Use our testing_platform non-bundled addon when developing with Composr to ensure nothing has been broken.

Profiler: Use the documented profiling tool to monitor intensive logic and their time / memory consumption.

Health check: Use the bundled health check to routinely run site checks and report any issues or failures detected.

Comcode: Powerful but simple content-enrichment language.

Media embedding: Easily integrate/attach common video and image formats, as well as embeds for common sites such as YouTube (just by pasting in the URL).

Easily create cool effects: Create scrolling, rolling, randomisation, and hiding effects. Put content in boxes, split content across subpages. Create XHTML5 overlays. Place tooltips.

Customise your content for different usergroups

Create count-downs and hit counters

Automatic table of contents creation for your documents

Custom Comcode tags: Set up your own tags, to make it easy to maintain a sophisticated and consistent design as your site grows.

Embed pages within other pages

Full control of your vision: Control hundreds of settings. Strip Composr down. Reshape features as needed.

Full templating support: Reskin features to look however you want them to.

No navigation assumptions: Replace default page and structures as required.

No layout assumptions: Shift content between templates, totally breaking down any default layout assumptions.

Embed content entries of any type on your pages

Theme Wizard: Recolour your CSS and theme images in just a few clicks (Composr picks the perfect complementary palette and automatically makes 100's of CSS and image changes)

Logo Wizard: Generate a basic logo for use on your site

Built-in template and CSS editing tools

Interactive CSS editor: Quickly identify what to change and preview.

Dashboard: View a checklist of things that need done, software upgrade information, latest Composr news, posts in the staff forum, staff notes, useful links, and more.

Audit: View logs and statistics of just about anything with the site and Composr system.

Site statistics: View comprehensive graphs and statistics across a wide range of metrics. Set your own KPIs and get notified when they are reached.

Security: Control site access (including IP bans), privileges, members / usergroups, and word filters.

Structure: Manage and upgrade addons, define zones, configure chatrooms and forums, manage menus, create redirects, and edit the sitemap.

Style: Whitelist the software, manage emoticons, manage themes / run the theme wizard, run the logo wizard, and translate / rephrase the software.

Setup: Set a wide variety of options for your site depending on what addons you have installed.

Tools: Run full or incremental backups, scan for broken URLs, clear the cache or run optimisation tools, edit the code, run Commandr, run the upgrader, run health checks, import content from another site, make and send newsletters, run server checks and view PHP info, run privacy purging or downloading, send an e-mail through the software, and view Composr contributors

Content: Manage all of your content for your site

Help: Search across the site or the tutorials for something

Conflict detection: Detect when multiple staff are trying to change the same thing at the same time.

Examine action logs: See exactly who has done what and when

Commandr: Optional use of a powerful command-line environment (for Unix geeks). Use unix-like tools to explore and manage your database as it if was a filesystem, and perform general maintenance tasks.

Aggregate content types: Design complex content relationships, cloning out large structures in a single operation.

Content versioning: See revisions of certain content

Integrate polls into your website: Gauge visitor opinion.

Community involvement: Users can submit polls and comment and rate them.

Multiple polls: Showcase different polls on different areas of your website.

Archive the data from unlimited polls

User content submission: Allow users to submit to any area of your site. Optionally enable validation so staff must approve the content before it goes live.

Public awards: Give public awards to your choice of “best content”

Per-usergroup privileges: Give special members access to extra features, like file storage

Recommend: Visitors can recommend your website or a page to other visitors. Control who can specify their own custom message and those who must use the default (spam prevention).

Members can report content to you for review via "Report This" links (which creates a Support Ticket with a copy of the content at the time of reporting). You can also turn validation off for content to hide it after a certain number of reports.

• CAPTCHA: A visual or audio test that humans can easily pass but bots struggle with. This helps prevent automated spam submissions.
• Heuristics: If Composr thinks an action is spam based off of configurable criteria, it can either flag the content for validation, block the attempt, or ban the IP address outright.
• Public block lists: Composr can utilize the Stop Forum Spam system or other block list systems to identify and block known spammers based on IP addresses, usernames, and email addresses.
• Link posting restrictions: Disallowing links in member profiles for users with no posts and adding "nofollow" attributes to links discourages spammers seeking backlinks.
• Black hole fields: Hidden form fields that should remain empty. Bots often fill these in, allowing Composr to identify them.
• Project Honey Pot integration: A system that places hidden links on pages, attracting and identifying spam bots.
• Content/post reporting: Users can report spam, enabling staff to take action.
• Guest posting limitations: Restricting guest permissions raises the bar for spammers.
• Advanced techniques: Developer addons like "antispam_question" or probation systems provide additional layers of protection.

• Generating menus.
• Creating the user-facing sitemap page.
• Generating the XML Sitemap for search engines.
• Providing a visual representation of your website structure in the Sitemap editor and Permissions tree editor.

• /pg/ (e.g., /pg/home)
• .htm (e.g., /home.htm)
• Simple unadorned URLs (e.g., /home)

• Improved user experience with more readable URLs.
• Potential SEO benefits, as some believe search engines favor cleaner URLs.
• Easier sharing on social media and other platforms.

• Default Menu: Generated automatically from the Sitemap, reflecting the structure of your content.
• Editable Menus: You can create and fully customize these menus, adding links to specific content or external websites.

• Welcome Zone: The initial landing page, often used for login/signup.
• Site Zone: Your main website content, with features for viewing, submitting, editing, and deleting content on the member level.
• Admin Zone: For site administrators to manage the website.
• Content Management Zone: Where content is added, edited, and deleted, typically by site staff.
• Forum Zone (if using Conversr): Houses the forum section of your site.

• Zones, Pages, and Categories: Control which usergroups can view specific zones, pages, and categories (permissions).
  • Admin Zone > Security > Permissions Tree Editor, or on the UI for the Zone / Page / Category.
• Global Privileges: Define permissions for actions like using advanced Comcode or bypassing the word filter, applicable across the entire site.
  • Admin Zone > Security > Global privileges
• Module/Page Overrides: Tailor privileges for particular content types by overriding them on the controlling module or page.
  • Admin Zone > Security > Permissions Tree Editor [> Content permissions]
• Category Overrides: Modify privileges for specific categories, allowing fine-grained control over actions within those categories.
  • Admin Zone > Security > Permissions Tree Editor
• Match-key Permissions: Implement ad-hoc access control based on specific match-keys, offering flexibility beyond traditional permission structures.
  • Admin Zone > Security > Match-key page restrictions