IP.Board Features

IP.Board is the most powerful forum software available today. As part of the IPS Community Suite, it inherits all of the great features on offer, as well as having it's own list that sets it apart from the alternatives.

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Suite Feature = Core IPS Community Suite feature

Forum Handling

  • Unlimited forums/subforums
  • Forums with unread content appear highlighted
  • Password-protected forums
  • Redirect forums that link to external URLs
  • Fine-grained forum permissions, including viewing, posting, replying, uploading and downloading
  • Drag and drop forum ordering in AdminCP
  • One-click 'mark forum as read'

Topic Handling

  • Pinned topics
  • Poll topics, with private or public voting
  • Inline topic preview, showing first and latest post snippets
  • Various topic sorting options, including Recently Updated, alphabetical etc. at a forum level, and as a user preference
  • Topic ratings

Posts & Posting

  • Rich post formatting with our fully-featured text editor
  • Automatic embedding of videos from various video services
  • MultiQuote for one-click quoting of posts, even from different forums
  • Suite Feature Shared Media pane, allowing easy reuse of previously-posted content, like photos
  • Suite Feature Our iconic emoticons, with the ability to easily import other emoticon packs
  • Advanced attachment uploader allows multiple files to be attached at once, with progress indicator
  • Suite Feature Tag topics, with option for open (user-defined tags) or closed (admin-defined tags) system
  • Tag cloud can be configured to show on the Board index
  • Topic prefixes (shows a specified tag as part of the topic title, e.g. "For sale")
  • Bad Word filter to help prevent obscenities, with per-group on/off
  • HTML posting support, with per-group on/off
  • URL filtering for posted links, on a whitelist or blacklist basis
  • Draft posts saved automatically in the editor
  • New posts made while replying appear automatically on the page

Moderation Tools

  • Support for super moderators (with site-wide powers), individual forum moderators and group-based moderators
  • New topics/posts can be queued, pending moderator approval (per-group and per-user basis)
  • Ability to prune topics from forums that match certain criteria, such as age
  • Multi-Moderation, allowing multiple moderation actions to be chained for one click access
  • Deleted content can be reviewed and restored in the ModeratorCP
  • Search by IP address to find all posts/members that match
  • Report Center, allowing users to report topics/posts, and moderators to review them
  • Members' display name history logged
  • Moderating Team page shows super moderators and individual forum moderators
  • Flag As Spammer tool, enabling instant ban of a member and deletion of all their content
  • Topics can be managed: merged, renamed, moved, edited, deleted, split, unapproved and pinned
  • Posts can be managed: edited, moved, merged, deleted and unapproved

Content Consumption & Sharing

  • Suite Feature Full content search, with quick search available on every screen
  • Suite Feature View New Content area, showing visitors topics & posts they haven't seen before
  • 'Follow' forums and topics, and get notified when they're updated
  • Import RSS feeds as new topics in specified forums
  • Syndicate topics via RSS feeds, with customization options
  • Share content to social networks like Facebook & Twitter in one click
  • Extensive notification events & methods, including inline popup, email & mobile push.
  • Recent topics shown on Board index

Members

  • Anonymous sign in (hides the member's name and online status on the Active User list)
  • Custom profile fields (variety of types; can be required at registration; with access permissions)
  • Single sign-on support built in for Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Live & OpenID. Other providers can be supported via a custom plugin
  • Status updates can be shown on the Board index
  • Profile customization via background images
  • Integrated photo cropper for perfect profile photos
  • User ratings
  • Reputation points shown on profile, with admin-defined badges at certain thresholds
  • Automatic member group promotion after defined post increments
  • Auto-profile photo syncing with Gravatar, Twitter and Facebook support
  • COPPA support, requiring parental permission for under-13s

Customization & Languages

  • Support for a different skin per forum
  • Suite Feature Visual Skin Editor for point-and-click color customization
  • Suite Feature Advanced skin editor for manual customization of templates & CSS
  • Suite Feature WebDAV skinning allows local editing of templates & CSS
  • Suite Feature Support for multiple skins, each with individual access permissions
  • Suite Feature Fully translatable interface & AdminCP
  • Suite Feature Language packs can be easily imported and exported
  • Suite Feature Extensive hook system allowing functionality to be extended

Promote, Optimize & Monetize

  • Simple ad placement system, with user group permissions
  • Suite Feature Friendly URL structure for humans and search engines
  • Suite Feature Semantic HTML markup
  • Support for microformats, including hCalendar, hCard, hAtom and Breadcrumbs
  • Suite Feature Auto-generated meta tags, including description, canonical and noindex
  • Search engine spiders are recognized and displayed in the Active Users list
  • Suite Feature Bulk mailer tool for communicating with membership via email
  • nofollow added to posted links
  • Search engine spider activity is logged and compiled for viewing

Technologies

  • Suite Feature Support for IPv6
  • Suite Feature Sphinx searching supported when available
  • Suite Feature Caching support: Eaccelerator, Memcache, Xcache, Wincache & APC
  • Suite Feature CDN support for static resources
  • Suite Feature Minify built in
  • Suite Feature Option to serve Javascript libraries from Google