Setting Up a Map of Your ocPortal User’s Locations

Last Updated on Sunday, 5 May 2013 01:46 Written by Steve Jarvis Wednesday, 8 May 2013 12:00

Something I have been asked to add on a few occasions for community based forums is a map of the site user’s locations.  For a larger community this can be a chance to show the variety in locations of their members. ocPortal has an addon created specifically for this purpose. To add a Map of your Users locations there are a few steps to follow:-

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.

How to Moderate New Members in Dolphin 7.1

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 12:09 Written by Mscott Tuesday, 20 November 2012 12:00

Hello and welcome! Today I am going to show you how to use the Dolphin 7.1 member moderation options. To get to these options, login to your Dolphin 7.1 admin menu and click “Moderation” under the “Advanced Settings” tab  on the left side menu (under “Settings”).

Dolphin 7.1 Member Moderation Options

You will see that there are 5 options to choose from:

How to Add Icons for User Groups in phpFox

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:04 Written by Stephanie Brown Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:00

This article will focus on how to add user group icons specific to each of your user groups.

A great way to acknowledge members in different user groups, is to give each user group a unique icon.  This icon will show up on the info tab of your user’s profile pages.

The first thing you want to do is find or make icons for each of your user groups.   After you have the icons ready, log into your phpFox AdminCP.  Select Users > Manage User Groups.

How to Create Membership Subscriptions in phpFox

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 June 2012 10:34 Written by Stephanie Brown Monday, 2 July 2012 12:00

This article will focus on how and why you may want to create membership subscriptions for your website.

Creating a membership subscription will allow you to generate income by allowing members to have access to pay to use features of your website.  You may want to allow your basic members the ability to upload photos and add blogs, but you may want to allow a paid member to create pages, upload videos, or even to post items for sale in the marketplace.  Setting up membership subscriptions will allow you to do these easily.

CREATING A NEW USER GROUP

The first thing you want to do, is make sure you have created your upgraded user group.  Select Users > Create User Group.

On the next screen, you will see the following: