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Add Shoutboxes to Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- October 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Creating an economy/reward-system for members via points
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Add a Chatroom to Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- October 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- 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.
How to disable joining
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- September 1st 2015
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
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This tutorial explains how you can disable joining of your website.
Setting Up a New Composr Forum
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- April 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- 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.
Setup a New Usergroup in Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- July 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Keeping on track of busy forums
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- By:
- Philip Withnall (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Add a Twitter Feed Block to Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- October 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
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This tutorial covers various ways Twitter can be integrated into your Composr website.
Discussion forums
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Facebook Support
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- April 1st 2015
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Regular
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
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Details of Composr Facebook support, particularly capabilities of the non-bundled Facebook Support addon.
Advanced Composr member system
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Add a Sub Forum to your Composr Forum
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- By:
- Jim Davidson, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- December 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- 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.
Add a New Poll to Your Composr Website
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
- Added:
- July 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- 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.
Composr Points Explained
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- April 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- 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.
Adding an Activity Feed to your Composr Website
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
- Added:
- May 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
The Composr emoticon system
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- 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.
Basic forum moderation
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Running chatrooms (features and advice)
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- By:
- Philip Withnall (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Changing the Composr Forums
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- By:
- Jim Davidson, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- November 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- 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.
Composr member system
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
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This tutorial explains aspects of the Conversr member system, including usergroups, profiles, and avatars.
Updating the Members Listing in Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis and Chris Graham, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
- Added:
- June 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Regular
- Tutorial type:
- 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.
Correspondence between members
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- By:
- Philip Withnall (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
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How members may send each other messages (Conversr only), using private topics and whispers.
Setup a Private Members Forum in Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
- Added:
- July 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
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