Features: A-Z Index

A

Administration Zone

Administration Zone

B

Banners

Banners

C

Calendar

Calendar

Catalogues

Catalogues

Chatrooms and IM

Chatrooms and IM

Community features

Community features

Content Sharing

Content Sharing

Conversr Forums

Conversr Forums

Conversr Topic Polls

Conversr Topic Polls

D

Design without barriers

Design without barriers

Downloads

Downloads

E

Ease of Use

Ease of Use

eCommerce and Subscriptions

eCommerce and Subscriptions

Extendable

Extendable

F

Featured Content

Featured Content

G

Galleries

Galleries

I

Installation

Installation

Integration

Integration

L

Localisation

Localisation

M

Membership

Membership

N

News and Blogs

News and Blogs

Newsletters

Newsletters

P

Parental Controls

Parental Controls

Performance

Performance

Points

Points

Privacy Tools

Privacy Tools

Q

Quizzes and Surveys

Quizzes and Surveys

R

Rich Media

Rich Media

S

Search Engine Optimisation

Search Engine Optimisation

Searching

Searching

Security

Security

Spam Protection

Spam Protection

Stay on Top

Stay on Top

Structure / Navigation

Structure / Navigation

Support Tickets

Support Tickets

T

Template Programming Language

Template Programming Language

Testing tools

Testing tools

Themeing tools

Themeing tools

Third party integration

Third party integration

W

Warnings / Moderation

Warnings / Moderation

Web Pages

Web Pages

Web standards

Web standards

Website Polls

Website Polls

White-labeling (Debranding)

White-labeling (Debranding)

Wiki+

Wiki+

Newest 10 Entries

Title Warnings / Moderation
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(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).

Title Spam Protection
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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

Title Template Programming Language
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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

Title Testing tools
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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.

Title Rich Media
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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

Title Design without barriers
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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

Title Themeing tools
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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.

Title Administration Zone
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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

Title Website Polls
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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

Title Community features
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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.

Top 10 Entries

Question How do I add attachments to my content?
Answer Composr has an integrated attachment system. You can upload files, like images or documents, via the attachments section (or the image button if using the WYSIWYG editor with simplified attachments UI), and they will be automatically added to your Comcode using the attachment tag. You can then move this tag within your content to position the attachment as needed.
Question How do I use Comcode tags?
Answer Comcode tags are similar to HTML tags, but use square brackets [] instead of angle brackets <>. Each tag has an opening and closing tag, with content in between.

Example: [b]This text would be bold.[/b]

Tags can also have parameters:
Example: [img src="image.jpg" alt="Image description"]

A shorthand exists for the param parameter (the primary parameter of Comcode tags):
Example: [page="_SEARCH:howdy_do"]Howdy do[/page]
Question What are the advantages of using Comcode?
Answer Comcode offers several advantages:

Intuitive content authoring: It's written like plain text, making it easy to learn and use.
Dynamic functionality: You can embed dynamic content like blocks, comments, and forms using Comcode.
Special effects: You can easily add prebuilt graphical features like tabs, carousels, and more.
Basic styling and layout: Comcode allows for basic website styling and page layout.
HTML integration: For advanced styling and layout, you can embed HTML code within Comcode with the semihtml tag.
Question What is Comcode?
Answer Comcode is Composr's markup language, similar to BBCode used in forums. It allows you to create formatted text, embed dynamic content like blocks and attachments, and even mix in HTML for advanced styling. It's user-friendly and designed to work alongside standard web technologies.
Question Can I leave notes for myself or other staff members?
Answer Yes, the Admin Zone includes a dedicated "Notes" block for you and your staff to leave messages and reminders. This space serves as a shared communication hub for your team.
Question How can I stay informed about the latest Composr version?
Answer The Admin Zone dashboard displays information about your current Composr version and alerts you if it's not the most recent one. A link will be provided to guide you through the upgrade process if necessary.
Question What is the action log, and how can I use it?
Answer The action log keeps track of administrative and content-related actions on your website. It allows you to see who did what and when, providing valuable insights into site activity and accountability. You can filter the log to focus on specific actions, users, or timeframes. It's also helpful for revisiting previous tasks by providing links to the relevant content or settings.
Go to the Admin Zone > Audit > Action logs. A quick action log block is also available on the dashboard.
Question What is the staff checklist in the Admin Zone?
Answer The staff checklist is an automatically generated list of tasks that need attention on your website. It includes routine updates like assigning new awards or adding news, as well as less frequent but important tasks like backups, software updates, newsletters, content validation, and periodic content reviews. You can customize the frequency of these tasks in the 'Configuration' section under 'Administrative options'. You can also add your own custom tasks. Anyone with Admin Zone access can see the checklist. So you can collaborate with your highest level staff on it.
Question I'm lost! How can I find a specific feature or setting?
Answer The Admin Zone has a powerful search feature that you can access under the Help icon. It searches through various categories, including configuration options, privileges, templates, language strings, administrative modules, and more. You can even refine your search by adding "@sectionname" to the end of your search term to limit results to a specific section.
Question How do I access the Admin Zone?
Answer You can access the Admin Zone by clicking the "Admin Zone" link located at the bottom of every page on your website, assuming you are using the default theme. If you are logged in as a staff member, your user menu will also have a link to the Admin Zone or the Content Management Zone. You might be asked to log in again / confirm your session for security reasons.