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Parental Controls and Child Safety

By:
Patrick Schmalstig
Added:
31st Jan 2025
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Regular
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Core documentation
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How to comply with regional laws governing child safety and privacy.

Adding a Member Reputation System

By:
Patrick Schmalstig
Added:
31st Jan 2024
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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This tutorial covers how you can implement a powerful crowdsourced member reputation system to your Conversr site.

How to disable joining

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Aug 2015
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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This tutorial explains how you can disable joining of your website.

Composr Custom Profile Fields (CPF)

By:
Jim Davidson, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Nov 2014
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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What are Custom Profile Fields and why would you use them?

Updating the Members Listing in Composr

By:
Steve Jarvis and Chris Graham, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
31st May 2014
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Regular
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Auxillary
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Once your Composr community-based site gets to a certain size you might want to change how your members list is displayed. This tutorial explains how to change the display options.

Creating a Hidden Members Zone in Composr

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
31st Jan 2014
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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It's quite common for community sites to have a hidden member's area of the site where you can post private updates or information relating to things you don't want guests to see.

Notifications

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Core documentation
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How different kinds of notifications may be set up in Composr.

Setup a New Usergroup in Composr

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Jun 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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Depending on the make-up of your Composr site there is a likelihood that you may need to create a new Composr usergroup for your members.

Setup a Private Members Forum in Composr

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Jun 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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Composr works extremely well as a base for a community website and a common task you may face is wanting to set up a private members area of the website. If you are an owner or moderator for a large community you may find this useful.

Setting Up a Map of Your Composr User's Locations

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Apr 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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This tutorial explains how to add a map of user's locations to your website.

Advanced Composr member system

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Regular
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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How to create Custom Profile Fields, manually add members, and set up welcome e-mails for new members.

Integrating Composr into a network via HTTP authentication

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Expert
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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Sometimes, for integration reasons, you want users to login in to Composr via HTTP authentication. We show you how.

Integrating Composr into a corporate network via LDAP

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Expert
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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How to integrate Composr into a corporate network via LDAP (OpenLDAP, or Microsoft Active Directory).

Composr member system

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Core documentation
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This tutorial explains aspects of the Conversr member system, including usergroups, profiles, and avatars.

People in their roles

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Core documentation
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Find out the difference between the 12 terms we use for describing the people who interact with a Composr website.

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