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Title | Chatrooms and IM |
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Description | Make unlimited chatrooms each with your choice of access restrictions. Moderation: Moderate messages and ban troublesome users. Integrate shout-boxes into your website Instant messaging: Members may have IM conversations with each other, or in groups. Members receive an archive of the conversation in Private Topics once closed. Site-wide IM: Give your members the ability to pick up conversations anywhere on your site. Sound effects: Members may configure or upload their own. Download chatroom logs Blocking: Choose to appear offline to certain members. Allow members in certain usergroups to make their own chatrooms, and control when they expire based on inactivity time. |
Title | Points |
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Description | So many ways to earn points: From submitting different content to logging in, you control the economy. Integration with eCommerce: Members can buy advertising space, temporary privileges, gamble, and more! Members can also use points for store discounts. Send points: Members can send each other points to reward each other Escrow points: Members can escrow points with a written agreement in exchange for a product or service. The recipient does not receive the points until both members satisfy the escrow. Escrows can be disputed to staff. Gift points: Enable the gift points balance so members can send a limited amount of points to other members without it deducting from their spendable points balance. Leader board: Create some community competition by showing who has the most points or who earned the most points for a configurable time interval Auditing: View every points transaction that has taken place, and reverse any of them, in the points ledger. Profiles: Browse through member points profiles, and see what virtual gifts members have been given. Ranks: Create usergroup promotion ladders with rank points; members rank up as their rank points increase. Members can view their rank and unlocked / unlockable privileges on their profile. |
Title | Conversr Topic Polls |
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Description | Conduct a poll on a forum topic to gather user opinions and feedback Add unlimited choices Define a range of acceptable number of choices on which members can vote Control when voting is open or closed Control if guests can vote or if you must log in Require making a post (reply) in the topic when voting Allow (or deny) the ability for members to revoke / change their vote Show or hide results from the public Enable viewing of which members voted on which choices Add a date/time voting automatically closes Enable weighted voting through the points system Enforce topic poll options on a forum basis including defining default or required choices |
Title | Content Sharing |
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Description | Show topics on your website through blocks Comment integration: New topics appear in the ‘comments’ forum as you add content to your website. Members can watch these topics so they never miss an addition to your website. |
Title | Third party integration |
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Description | Support for integrating popular forum software: See our download page for a list of supported forums. Share login credentials: Login to the Composr site with the same usernames/passwords as your forum. Share usergroups: Control website access based on someone's forum usergroup. Emoticon support: The emoticons on your forum will also be used on your website. |
Title | Stay on Top |
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Description | (Conversr only) Virtual Forums: Find posts made since you last visited or within a time frame. Remembers your unread posts even if you frequently change computers Recent activity: See what topics you recently read or posted in Unanswered topics: Find which topics have not yet been answered RSS and Atom support |
Title | Conversr Forums |
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Description | The usual: Categories, forums, topics, posts, topic polls, announcements / pinning, sinking, quick reply, topic closing Forum and Topic tracking: Receive notifications when new posts are made on monitored topics and forums. Password-protected forums Present an 'introductory question' which members must answer or agree to before accessing a forum. Full moderator control: Determine who may moderate what forums. Inline personal posts: Whisper to members within a public topic; only those members will see the post. Over 50 bundled emoticons: Also, support for batch importing new ones Multi-moderation: Record and perform complex routine tasks; make post templates for those tasks. Mass-moderation: Perform actions on many posts and topics at once. Post preview: Read a topic's first post directly from the forum-view. Also see the latest posts when making a new post. Highlight posts as ‘important’ |
Title | Membership |
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Description | (These features pertain to Conversr only) Profiles: Browse through and search for members, and view member profiles. Multiple usergroups: Members can be in an unlimited number of different usergroups. They can also ‘apply’ to join new ones. Social networking: Create and browse friendships. Custom profile fields: Allow your members to add extra information which is relevant to your website (or to their subcommunity), and members can set privacy settings on them. Promotion system: Set up a usergroup rank ladder so members advance the ranks through their rank points. Members can view rank on their profile rank tab including unlocked and unlockable privileges. Private Topics: A special kind of private messaging system between 2 or more members. Think 'on-site e-mail inbox'. Invitation-only websites: Restrict registrations from the public; existing members can invite others to join. Allow members to create and manage clubs (personal usergroups). Avatars: Include avatars that members can pick from, or allow members to upload their own. Member signatures, photos, and personal titles Users online: See which members are currently online (unless they logged in as invisible) Account pruning: Find and delete unused accounts, or merge duplicate accounts, based on defined criteria. CSV files: Import and export members using CSV files, including support for automatic creation of custom profile fields and usergroups – great for migrating data |
Title | Support Tickets |
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Description | Users can communicate with staff privately through Support Tickets. Assign to individual staff: Includes the ability for staff members to “take ownership” of raised issues, and for staff to discuss. Allow users to e-mail in their tickets and replies to a designated e-mail address Expanded access granting: Grant third party members access to individual tickets. FAQ integration: Automatically search FAQs before opening a ticket. Multiple ticket types: Set up different types of support tickets, with different access levels and fine-grained ticket notification settings. Anonymous posting: Allow staff to post anonymously or as a designated support operator account so that customers don't always expect the same employee to reply. Merging: If customers open multiple tickets for the same issue, you can merge them. Closing: Let customers close tickets that are now resolved, or do it yourself. Filtering: Filter the tickets you see by status and ticket type. |
Title | eCommerce and Subscriptions |
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Description | Paid membership: Sell access to sections of your website, or offer member privileges. Shopping cart for running an online store Extendable framework: Programmers can easily add new product types to sell, or payment gateways / tax services / shipping providers. Multiple payment gateways: Accepts payments via PayPal or other gateways developers may add, and manual transactions (cash/cheque). Invoicing support: Including status tracking and online payment tracking. Basic accounting support: Input your incoming and outgoing transactions to get a basic ledger, profit-and-loss, and cashflow charting. Currency conversions: Perform automatic currency conversions within your website pages (requires an API key). |
Top 10 Entries
Question | How can I filter the news archive to show specific content? |
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Answer | The news system allows advanced filtering:
These filters are controlled through parameters passed to the news blocks and carried through navigation links. When viewing a news post, you can also filter by the categories associated with that post. |
Question | How do I display external RSS feeds on my Composr website? |
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Answer | Composr offers two blocks for displaying RSS and Atom feeds in a news-like format:
To add a block, use the Block Construction Assistant or insert the following Comcode into your page: [block="http://example.com/feed.xml"]main_rss[/block] [block="http://example.com/feed.xml"]side_rss[/block] Replace "http://example.com/feed.xml" with the actual feed URL. Important: Exercise caution when using external feeds. Ensure the source is trustworthy, as malicious feeds can contain harmful code. |
Question | What are RSS/Atom feeds and how do they benefit my website? |
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Answer | Feeds, in formats like RSS and Atom, are XML files that syndicate your website content, making it accessible beyond your website. They can be viewed using feed reader applications (e.g., Feedly, Vienna) or integrated into other websites or web browsers. Composr supports both RSS and Atom for syndicating news and other content. While RSS is more common, Atom is a cleaner, standardized format. Both effectively share your content updates. Benefits:
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Question | What are Personal Categories/Blogs in Composr? How do I create one? |
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Answer | Composr allows members of permitted usergroups to have their own personal news categories, also known as "blogs". These blogs appear as a tab on the member's profile (Conversr-only) and may also appear in the main news block depending on your configuration. To create a blog, a member simply adds a news post and selects their personal category. If the category doesn't exist, it will be automatically created upon submission. A dedicated "Blogs" CMS module (Admin Zone > Content > Blogs) is available if the "Separate blogs" configuration option is enabled. This simplified module focuses on blog posting and can be used to restrict members from submitting to general website news. |
Question | What is "pinging" and how does it work in Composr? |
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Answer | In blogging, "pinging" is an automatic notification sent to blog search engines and other services when you publish a new post. Composr can automatically ping services defined in Admin Zone > Setup > Configuration > Feature options. These services then index your new article, making it searchable. A default ping service (http://pingomatic.com/ping/?title=title&blogurl=url&rssurl=rss) is pre-configured to relay your ping to numerous other services. You can customize the ping URL with these placeholders:
Pinging only occurs for news categories accessible to the public (guests). |
Question | How do I schedule a news post to be published at a specific time? |
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Answer | Once you have enabled the system scheduler (requires the Composr calendar and commandr addons), an advanced scheduling option will appear when adding or editing news posts. By setting a future date and time, your post will remain unvalidated until the chosen time, at which point it will be automatically validated and published. |
Question | How can members edit their profiles and account settings? |
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Answer | Members can edit their profiles and account settings through the "Edit" tab on their profile page. They can change their password, update personal information, manage their avatar and signature, and adjust their privacy settings. Administrators have access to additional options for managing member accounts. |
Question | What is the difference between member terms? |
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It's important to understand these distinctions to properly manage permissions, track user activity, and personalize the website experience. |
Question | What are Welcome Emails and how do they work? |
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Answer | Welcome Emails are a series of automated emails sent to new members on a predefined schedule. They can be used to introduce the website's features, encourage engagement, and provide helpful information. Website administrators can customize the content and schedule of these emails. |
Question | How can I enhance or enforce the security of member passwords? |
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Answer | Composr offers several features to improve password security:
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