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(TB) QR Code Share Service
This application adds a QR Code to the share button for items and the individual share popup for individual posts/comments/reviews.
Features
- 2 free APIs supported: Invision Community & QuickChart.
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Options to change the following settings for all APIs: size, margin, error correction level.
- The QuickChart API supports 3 additional settings: foreground and background color, image format.
Notes
- Test colored QR Codes if you use the QuickChart API. Depending on the chosen colors' contrast the QR code might not work!
- If you'd like to see more free (or paid) APIs supported let me know.
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[Wolf] Wolf Theme
The Wolf theme theme is a manifestation of creativity and innovation. This template effortlessly fulfills all the requirements of a forum, and you can easily customize all its sections without the need for any expertise. I can confidently say that this theme is the first and last one you will ever need to purchase.
let's go for a brief introduction of the theme!
Four UI Author panel Design Styles for Every Taste! Four Unique User Interface Design Styles to Suit Every Preference
private categories:
Private forums:
full customizable slider:
toggle to show/hide widgets like categories:
topic rows with useful options:
- attachments
- ratings
- reactions
- solver user
- starter user
User menu Customization:
build-in copy to clipboard:
custom backgrounds:
Editor message:
quick buttons:
mega footer:
customize highlighted reply color:
more features on hovercard:
manage your forums:
post controllers:
custom navigation:
Demo info:
user: demo@demo.com
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(TB) VIP Status for Members
This application lets admins add a VIP Status to specific members promoting them to a different group. It can be either a permanent promotion or a temporary one. It can be used to give higher privileges to helpful members of the community (for example hiding ads for them).
Features:
- Setting to specify which group VIP members are moved to.
- Setting to specify which group expired VIP members are moved to. It also supports "Original Group" as an option.
- Setting to specify the default VIP period duration when adding a new member.
- Setting to change the icon used to display the members' VIP status.
- Settings to control the VIP status icon display (global user bar + topic user info).
- Option to send a PM notification to members who are promoted to VIP and when their VIP status expires.
- Every VIP status change is logged in the member history in ACP.
- An icon is added in the user bar near the notification icon and in a topic's user info while the user is in the VIP group.
- Widget to display to members more details about their VIP status start/expiration.
- Expired VIP Members are automatically moved out of the VIP group by a task.
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(TB) Replace Forum's Last Post
This modification lets you replace the last poster data in a forum with custom HTML for specific groups. Hiding the statistics (number of posts) is also supported.
For example, you can use it for premium forums that require a paid subscription and encourage the users to subscribe.
Features
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All settings are per-forum:
- Enable the replacement feature
- Select groups who'll see the replacement
- Hide the forum statistics
- HTML Replacement
- Both Table & Grid views are supported.
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All settings are per-forum:
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Reactions in Private Messages
This plugin will allow members to react in private messages.
Setting:
- Groups allowed to react in private messages
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Advanced Fake Members Online System
Description:
- This app will allow the admins to add fake members in the online list. When you add a fake member online, you can also add the number of minutes that you want that particular member to be online. A task will run every half hour to remove the expired fake sessions from the online list. This can be very useful for start up forums as well as for those forums where there is not much activity. It will make the forum look busy and it might attract new users and boost the activity.
- To keep things real, fake members will appear to read random topics, which they are allowed to view permission wise. You can select a certain forum or forums, whose topics you do not want to be showed up as being read from the fake members in the online list.
- You can view all fake members that have been added to the online list at the app 's log page.
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Advanced Widget Display Settings
Advanced Widget Settings adds advanced options to the widget settings. You can control all widgets to display for a specific group, specific members, specific date and specific URLs.
Suppose you want to:
Display a widget for a specific user group.
Display a widget at a specific date range
Disable displaying a widget on a specific date
Start displaying a widget on a specific date.
Display a widget in a specific URL.
Display a widget in a specific URL and its sub-links.
When the widget is off, display custom content instead (using the IPS editor)
This app does it for you and works on all widgets (3rd-party and the IPS widgets).
Enter specific URLs, so that the widget is displayed only in those URLs.
Demo : https://ips.valacoding.com/index.php?/topic/12-bebop-publishing-will-release-a-limited-edition-of-justice/&tab=comments#comment-12
Note that some widgets use the cache system. In this case, you must disable the cache with this option to access the current URL. Enabling this option may reduce performance on large boards. Use this option when your widget does not work properly in the settings you specify.
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Pages Legend Magazine
Legend Magazine is a series of Advanced Templates designed for IPS Pages App. This templates are accompanied with a powerful plugin, gives many customization, styles and re-orientation choices for these templates. Legend Magazine Templates can be assigned to already exist or newly created Database within IPS Pages app.
Key Feature:
- Ajax Page Load. allows users to quickly navigate between in-database Pages back and forth.
- Magazine Look and Neat Design with many customization freedom for Database[Show article]/Database[Show categories]/Category/Display Article view of your database. Great for Content oriented databases like Articles, News ...
- Custom navigation bar at the top. allows to have constant access to every useful options in each page.
- Custom sidebar at the left, can be open/close by user. Sidebar have items like User menu, Links to all categories within a database. with plugin setting, it is possible to add more links as well.
- Database and Category each one have Two different "Theme" can be choose in Plugin setting. each theme also come with it's own style customization.
- Display article view also come with Three different theme. more importantly it's possible to change every article theme right through article submit/edit form. with this optional feature, authors can assign one of these three theme to article when they want to send /or/ edit an already exist article.
- Support Color scheme of IPS Default/Custom themes. gives freedom to admin to use their own theme color scheme [useful for multi-color communities] or use Legend Magazine Plugin for completely custom color scheme.
- Auto language detect for support RTL communities
Requirements:
- IPS Pages 4.7
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Pages Legend News
Legend Grid News Is a series of Page-App-Templates accompanied with a powerful plugin, so you can create a very flexible layout throughout your Pages app Database, in FrontPage, Category and Record View pages. These templates can be use on a New Page app Database setup or can be assigned to an existing Databases.
FrontPage - Category View (Grid Style) - Category View (List Style) - Display View (Full Width Record Image)
Note: Usage of this product requires IPS Pages App 4.7
Features:
- Very Nice and flexible options to play it's layout for FrontPage area
- A nice, stylish and Built-in "Featured Record Section" that can be set to show 3/5/6 of your latest/pinned records
- Choose between two style of listing items in FrontPage: 1. Grid view (with more setting to display 2/3/4 grid per line) 2. List view
- Nice/customizable Hover effects for listing items
- Omittable Parts in listing Items, you can choose to show which part to see (Description, stats, last poster, byline...)
- Very Nice and flexible Category Page. choose between two style of listing items: 1. Grid view (with more setting to display 2/3/4 grid per line) 2. List view
- Nice JQuery Tool for Users to swipe between 2/3/4 grid per line at any time
- Nice Template for Record view with option to display between two style: 1. Fully scaled and wide article image 2. Normal and customizable size for article image
- Nice Block/Widget template for record feed in Pages app. can be used in every places in Page app, including non Legend Grid News databases.
- Image LazyLoad support
- Support YouTube video in News image section (Demo)
Template/Plugin Can be used Multiple time in one domain installation.
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Legend Editor Buttons
Legend Editor Buttons is a big package of 15 Editor buttons, can be use in every place in invision website that uses editor. these buttons have their own customization settings so it is possible to change colors, size and other styling options. Legend Editor Buttons is an application and created specially this way to make it possible to upgrade my old resources as CKEditor buttons here along new features and more buttons.
InfoBox Buttons
Infobox buttons originally released with 8 buttons, capable of creating Infoboxes Like Wikipedia, categorized information, quotebox and ... buttons released in old version have all being upgraded and now can be customized as well. new buttons for Infobox also redesigned and more simplified to use. for example instead of having four separate buttons for creating standard infobox, now all of them included in one menu button.
Features compare to old Infobox:
- Upgraded version
- Created from scratch with additional buttons and full styling option via application settings
- Easy install
- Simplified to use
- Infobox now have 2 new button: 1. Infobox center, for creating a center aligned in page. 2. Infotoggle, for creating a toggle box and ability to hide/show information.
Comparison Images
Comparison Images originally released with one button, capable of adding two image and make a compare box. it can be use in every places in community that uses Editors.
Features compare to old comparison images:
- Upgraded version
- Created as application with new setting
- Easy install
Contextual Buttons
Contextual buttons are included from two new buttons and also the PDF viewer button. first new button, is Column paragraph/text button. with this button it is possible to make 2 or 3 column paragraph in the posts. there is also option for making the first letter of the paragraph bigger and stylized. Second new button, is a Inline spoiler/Inline redacted text feature. with this button, it is possible to drag any parts of the text in editor and make it redacted. user will see the text redacted, and can click on it to see the content. this button is also have styling settings as well.
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Legend Styler - Downloads
Legend Styler - Downloads is an advanced plugin, to modify and re-design everything about IPS Downloads app. in 3 area: Download app's FrontPage, Category view and File view, there are dozens of option to style and redesign different sections. from "Featured Downloads" box, "What's new", "Highest Rated" and "Most Downloaded" boxes in FrontPage, to category view and finally for file view, there are options to change how generally your download hub can be looks.
Demo (Please review live demo in IPS Default theme)
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FrontPage view
- Featured files > theme 1: story slideshow
- What's new theme > theme 1: Tiles
- Highest Rated > theme 2: Grid - List
- Most Downloaded > theme 3: List
- Category view [theme 3: List]
- File view [theme 1: Custom 1]
Areas and options:
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Download app FrontPage:
- "Featured Downloads" box: 2 different "Theme" [Story view and Tile view] > each theme have their own inside settings.
- "What's new", "Highest Rated" and "Most Downloaded" boxes: each one 3 different "Theme" [Grid, Tile, List] > each theme have their own inside settings.
- Download app Category pages: 3 different "Theme" [Grid, Tile, List] > each theme have their own inside settings
- Download app File view: 2 different "Theme" > each theme have their own inside settings
There are dozens of style options and combinations to make Downloads app areas look unique and fresh.
Requirement:
- Invision Download app
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FrontPage view
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Legend Styler - Hover Cards
Legend Styler - Hover Cards is a powerful plugin, designed to give so many options and design choice when it's come to hovering on user name in Invision Community websites.
Plugin came with initial of 6 different theme/style for user hover cards including IPS default theme and IPS 4 old user hover card theme. almost every part of these template can be modify by plugin side options. along with normal data in hover cards like statistics, user groups etc... Legend Styler - Hover Cards adds many more feature to it as well.
Some of the additional info that Legend Styler - Hover Cards can add to user hover cards:- 8 different Theme/Style including IPS 4 default for user hover cards
- Full support of Social media links for users [based on custom profile fields], display user's social media links in their user hover cards
- Display secondary groups in user hover cards
- Follow user button in user hover cards
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Full support of profile fields that can be filled by individual:
- Targeted Custom fields for specific Personal information like Age, Location and Occupation in user hover cards
- Display full list of custom fields line by line in user hover cards
- Ability to display "About Me" section in user hover cards
- New statistic user data like number of followers, number of solutions by user and can be show/hide in user hover cards
- Full support for LTR / RTL communitis
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IPS announced public release of beta next week
By JoelRhttps://preview.invisionalpha5.com/topic/202-alpha-16-released-beta-next-week/ Four months of alphas and 16 releases. IPS considers their beta release to be more like an early release candidate with the amount of work they've put in to alpha. -
Existing IPS4 deployment references for design and implementation inspiration
By TwinTurboHello Everyone, I am currently setting up my forum and looking for some well built IPS4 deployments that could serve as design and implementation inspiration. If you could kindly point me to some well done IPS4 communities, I would appreciate it a lot. -
Are you building social memory?
By JoelRWhen we think about growing our online community, it’s easy to focus on individual contributions—like posts, likes, and badges. But what if we shifted our focus to building collective social memory instead? Collective social memory is the idea that a community's identity and strength come from shared experiences and knowledge, not just individual achievements. This means that instead of everyone seeking personal recognition, we create a space where the community remembers and grows together -
What features of IPS 5.0 are you looking to use right away?
By JoelRIPS 5.0 comes packed with so many changes, from the new editor, dark mode theme, page builder, to Helpful. What one feature are you looking to use right away? -
Are you the greatest speaker that no one's heard of?
By JoelRA story Have you ever noticed how sometimes less is more when it comes to communication? Edward Everett, once the greatest orator of his time, delivered a two-hour speech at Gettysburg in 1863. But it's Abraham Lincoln’s two-minute, 272-word Gettysburg Address that we all remember. This story highlights a key lesson: brevity matters. In building an online community, it's easy to think that more words or longer posts will make a greater impact. But in reality, carefully chosen, concis -
Peacock Theme Update 1.4
By shahedHello Invisioneers 🙂 Recently new version of Peacock Theme has been released. this is a big update with new features and optimization. number of new features was actually inspired by Invision V5. Clickable panels for forums Clickable panels is a new cool feature that users can see in Invision v5. this feature now implemented in Peacock theme for IPS v4 as well. clickable panels in peacock comes with usage of selected color from it's color palette as well. added -
Follower system customization
By Live GamesHello, When user x follows user y, user x gets notifications on all user y new topics and replies. And it's annoying users. Because of the structure of my forum content, all they care about is the opening a new topic. I want the following member will choose which item he wants to follow and get a notification on. (replies/new topic/both) Does costume app can solve it? -
Preparing for a Cookie-Free Future in Digital Marketing
By JoelRGoogle's recent announcement to maintain third-party cookies in Chrome has left many marketers and community managers re-evaluating their strategies. While some see this as a win for the status quo, it's crucial to recognize that the digital landscape is still shifting towards a more privacy-conscious future. For online communities, this means that relying solely on third-party data for targeting and personalization will become increasingly unsustainable. Community managers need to leverage -
Jack Appleby on the White House Creator Economy Conference (WHCEC)
By JoelRhttps://futuresocial.beehiiv.com/p/inside-white-house-creator-economy-conference The White House Creator Economy Conference (WHCEC) was the first-ever event hosted by the White House's Office of Digital Strategy that convened a group of digital creators and industry professionals. Imagine creators and government officials discussing everything from mental health to AI and fair pay—all in the White House. One interesting point that came up was how the conference flipped the usual scri -
Nudge Plus: Aligning Actions with Values
By JoelRHave you heard of the concept of a "nudge plus"? It's an interesting twist on the idea of a behavioral nudge—those subtle pushes we get towards making certain choices. But a "nudge plus" takes it a step further by not only steering us towards a particular behavior but also encouraging us to reflect on whether this behavior truly aligns with our personal values and goals. For example, In IPS, you can send out an Alert and require a response. A "nudge plus" design would ask the borro -
Psychologists have figured out why you get so bored scrolling through Tiktok and Instagram
By JoelRThis is fascinating: Our research shows that while people fast-forward or skip videos to avoid boredom, this behavior actually increases boredom,” Tam explained to CNN. A fear of missing out or looking for the next best thing is keeping us in unhealthy cycles. “Boredom is closely linked to our attention,” she continued. “We feel bored when there’s a gap between how engaged we are and how engaged we want to be. When people keep switching through videos, they’re not fully engaging with a -
Are forums appropriate for new group owners?
By JoelRAre independent forums - out of all options on the modern web - are appropriate or even good for users new to community building or who don't have a group yet? I'm starting to think that forums are no longer starter projects, but fairly advanced in the group-building cycle once you have an established (or can tap in to an established) audience. You probably want to start with a blog or a resource site, and then add on forums once you've built up enough followers or users.
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Passion & Strategy
We take a fundamentally different approach to building great communities on the modern web. We focus on the hard questions of strategy, and believe communities of all sizes can succeed with the right passion and strategy.
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Continuous Learning
We believe in learning from expert education and best-in-class advice to inspire us. We built some of the world's largest resources for community building, and won't stop sharing the best advice from the smartest people we can find.
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Modern Perspectives
Modern communities deserve modern approach to community building. We believe in pushing everyone to a more forward-thinking approach to building great communities that thrive on the modern web.
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