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Adding a Member Reputation System

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

Advanced forum settings

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Apr 2018
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Regular
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Core documentation
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This tutorial covers more advanced forum configuration.

How to disable joining

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

Facebook Support / Open Graph

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Mar 2015
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Regular
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Auxillary
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Details of Composr Facebook support, particularly capabilities of the non-bundled Facebook Support addon.

Add a Sub Forum to your Composr Forum

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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Forums can be small or large, but you need to think about the structure and the user experience. Thankfully Composr makes it very easy for us to create forums.

Changing the Composr Forums

By:
Jim Davidson, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
31st Oct 2014
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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As my test site is going to be a community, we need somewhere to hang out and exchange views and ideas, the ideal place is a forum. I'll step through the setup.

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.

Adding an Activity Feed to your Composr Website

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Apr 2014
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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There are a range of core and additional features in Composr which social media users will be familiar with. This tutorial deals with the Composr Activity feed addon which will be very familiar to most users of popular social media sites.

Composr Points Explained

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
31st Mar 2014
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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It's fairly common that many forums utilise a rank system based on forum posts, but Composr has a much better system: points.

Add a Chatroom to Composr

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Sep 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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Composr has its own inbuilt text chatrooms available to be used for any community website. Chatrooms are useful for conducting a discussion quicker than utilising the forums.

Add a Twitter Feed Block to Composr

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Sep 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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This tutorial covers various ways Twitter can be integrated into your Composr website.

Add Shoutboxes to Composr

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Sep 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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A shoutbox is a popular addition to many community websites and is very easy to add. This tutorial covers the process.

Add a New Poll to Your Composr Website

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Jun 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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Adding a poll to a community based site is probably one of the most common tasks you will need to complete. Polls can be a fun addition or used as a more important vote for an award or something similar.

Setup a New Usergroup in Composr

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
30th Jun 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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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
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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 New Composr Forum

By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
31st Mar 2013
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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One of Composr's core features is the forum. Composr forums include many of the common forum features found within other well-known forum systems. This tutorial covers the basics.

Running chatrooms (features and advice)

By:
Philip Withnall
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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Composr includes really cool AJAX-driven chat and instant messaging functionality. Read about the features, and see general advice.

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.

Correspondence between members

By:
Philip Withnall
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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How members may send each other messages (Conversr only), using private topics and whispers.

The Composr emoticon system

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 about all the funky-cool emoticons that come with Composr, and how to extinguish them or add more.

Keeping on track of busy forums

By:
Philip Withnall
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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It can get hard to keep up with all the discussions if you've got an active community. See how Conversr can help.

Discussion forums

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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This tutorial will explain how discussion forums work in Conversr, and how best to organise them.

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.

Basic forum moderation

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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This tutorial explains how to moderate topics and posts under Conversr, and how post approval works.

Creating an economy/reward-system for members via points

By:
Chris Graham and Patrick Schmalstig
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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The points system allows members to earn and spend points, creating a great dynamic. Find out how it works.

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