How to Hide the Main Menu from Your phpFox Website’s Visitors

Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 08:44 Written by Stephanie Brown Monday, 15 April 2013 12:00

In this article, I will show you how to hide your site’s main menu from your website visitors.

In order to hide the main menu from your guests, you need to login to your admincp and select Settings > Manage Settings.

How to Manually Change a Member’s Password in phpFox

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 April 2013 08:24 Written by Stephanie Brown Saturday, 13 April 2013 12:00

This article will show you how to change a member’s password in phpFox.

Once in a while you may receive an email from a member, stating that they are having an issue logging in and you may need to manually change their password.  This is a simple task that you can perform.

Login to your phpFox admincp, and select Users > Browse Users.

How to Send Reminders to Inactive Members in phpFox

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 April 2013 02:05 Written by Stephanie Brown Thursday, 11 April 2013 12:00

This article will focus on how to send an email to inactive members of your phpFox website.

Every once in a while you may want to contact members that have not visited your site for a while, so that they will come back and login to your site.  You can do this by sending emails to inactive members via the admincp.

In the admincp, select Users > Inactive Members.

phpFox Basics: What is a Block?

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 March 2013 04:31 Written by Stephanie Brown Monday, 1 April 2013 12:00

“What is a Block?” is a question that comes up on a regular basis. This article will explain what a block is and how you can use it to add unique content to your phpFox website.

phpFox uses a system of Blocks, to organize content on your site. The word block refers to two separate things. The first, being the Position on the page. And the second, being a Content block that can be placed in one of the Position blocks.

There are 13 Position blocks in a typical installation of phpFox. These positions are pictured below (note that blocks 9 and 10 are not visible, they are positioned above the header). You can create Content blocks and place them in any of these Position blocks to show content in any location of your website.

Managing Your phpFox Site’s Themes

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 March 2013 07:57 Written by Stephanie Brown Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:00

This article will focus on managing your phpFox website’s themes.

As of phpFox v.3.5, phpFox now comes with 4 default themes: Default, Cosmic, Microblog, and Nebula.  Up until now we have only had 2 default themes to work with.  Each theme has its own set of styles as well, which are variations on the theme.  All but the Default come with a single style, Default comes with 4 different styles to choose from: Default, Facebookish, Altitude, and Density.  You may or may not want to have all or some of these themes enabled, and you may want to purchase or download a new theme to use on your site.  For now, we will work with the default themes.