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Today, I'm going to show you a handful of changes in XenForo 1.3 that are all related to posting and editing messages. View on Vimeo Editor toolbar adjustments [SPOILER] BB Code MultiQuote Continue reading...

Here are a handful of new 1.3 features neatly packaged up into a single video for your viewing entertainment... View on Vimeo Update, Jan 15 - Case Sensitivity 101 There have been various questions about what case sensitive searching means in the video... In a nutshell, without case sensitivity, searching for 'Foo' would return all results containing any... EXIF Rotation, ACP Searching, Proxying and Change Logging Continue reading...

Let's look at a few more features coming in XenForo 1.3. Google+ and Twitter Registration/Login Like the Facebook registration/login that we've had, XenForo 1.3 will now support registering via Google+ or Twitter: View attachment 64533 The first time a user clicks one of those buttons, they'll be taken to the correct service to validate the request. They will then be redirected back to the forum. If they have already registered, they will be... Google+/Twitter Registration, User Upgrade Logs, Censor Improvement Continue reading...

Some of you may have spotted this in a previous Have You Seen, but today we're going to look at XenForo 1.3's custom BB code support in detail. At a high level, custom BB codes let you define BB codes to fit your site's needs. This allows you to give your users more options for mark up, without opening up arbitrary HTML and the various issues (security and otherwise) that come with that. A BB code may take an "option" parameter if needed, such as in ....... Custom BB Codes Continue reading...

XenForo 1.3 also contains a number of changes and improvements to help moderators. Let's look at some of them... Reporting a User While this isn't related to an action a moderator would take themselves, users can now be reported directly from their profile. This can be used for users that haven't posted any content, but may have an inappropriate avatar, signature, or other value. Thread Moderator Action... Various Moderation Improvements Continue reading...

Welcome to the first Have you seen... for XenForo 1.3! In this video, I demonstrate the significant improvements and new features we've added to make the management of smilies easier, faster and more flexible. View on Vimeo ... update, Dec 11th - a follow-up video :) View on Vimeo Continue reading...

The Resource Manager 1.1 update will soon be running here on XenForo.com with a public beta release to follow after further testing. But before that, let's talk about a few more of the new features coming. Watching Resource Categories Similar to watching a forum in XenForo 1.1, you can now watch a whole resource category: View attachment 57917 Anonymous Reviews Administrators can now... Watching Resource Categories, Anonymous Reviews, and More... Continue reading...

We continue our XenForo Resource Manager 1.1 feature showcase with 2 more commonly requested features. These may not be ground breaking, but they will significantly expand the flexibility of the Resource Manager and open up more possibilities for using it. Resource Category Permissions I'm not sure what to show here exactly as you can probably guess what this looks like. :) If you are familiar with node permissions, you'll understand this... Resource Category Permissions and Prefixes Continue reading...

XenForo Media Gallery 1.0.5 is a maintenance release for our media gallery add-on. We recommend all customers running XenForo Media Gallery to upgrade to 1.0.5 to benefit from increased stability. This release fixes several bugs that were reported following the release of XenForo Media Gallery 1.0.4: Improved caching of permission based template params in templates. Some small fixes and improvements to inline moderation including the display of the "Selected Items" on all... XenForo Media Gallery 1.0.5(a) Released Continue reading...

Today, we are pleased to release XenForo 1.4.7. This release fixes a number of bugs and issues that were found since the release of 1.4.6. As this is a maintenance release, the vast majority of the focus was an increase in stability. Please note that we are now formally recommending that you upgrade to PHP 5.4 or newer. Our intention with XenForo 2.0 is to require PHP 5.4 or newer. If you are running PHP 5.3 or 5.2, you will receive a warning when installing or upgrading XenForo. Some of... XenForo 1.4.7 Released Continue reading...

Today, we are pleased to release XenForo 1.4.6. This release fixes a number of bugs and issues that were found since the release of 1.4.5. As this is a maintenance release, the vast majority of the focus was an increase in stability. However, we have improved our login brute force mitigation system to not only limit login attempts per user but to also place temporary blocks on entire IP addresses if they fail to login too many times. This release also brings our use of the Facebook Open... XenForo 1.4.6 Released Continue reading...

XenForo Media Gallery 1.0.4 is a maintenance release for our media gallery add-on. We recommend all customers running XenForo Media Gallery to upgrade to 1.0.4 to benefit from increased stability. This release improves performance in various areas, especially for larger galleries, by adding indexes to various tables. Please be aware that depending on the size of these tables, it may take time for the queries to execute. This will vary significantly by board size and server configuration,... XenForo Media Gallery 1.0.4 Released Continue reading...

Today, we are pleased to release XenForo 1.4.5. This release fixes a number of bugs and issues that were found since the release of 1.4.4. As this is a maintenance release, the vast majority of the focus was an increase in stability. This release improves performance of several operations by adding indexes to 2 tables (xf_edit_history and xf_user_alert). If you are running a larger forum and have command line access, you may wish to consider using the command line upgrade option. The... XenForo 1.4.5 Released Continue reading...