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Q> What are permissions?
A> These allow you to give administrators different access levels to the admin section. For example you might only want to let a certain admin post news items; using permissions you can do this. There are some admin functions that are only accessible to the main site admin, this is for security reasons.
Q> I want to make an existing registered member into an administrator - how?
A> Click on Users in your admin section and search for the registered member, then click on Make Admin. You should then go immediately to the Administrators section and set his permissions. You can also remove admin status from someone in this way.

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Q> What's BBCode?
A> A BBCode is a shortcut to an HTML tag, for example entering [b] I am bold text! [/b] in any of your admin textboxes will make the text inside the [b] and [/b] appear in bold text, so [b]I am bold text![/b] would appear on the screen.
Q> But what's it for?
A> It saves you time when entering HTML tags. You can use normal HTML tags in your text entry boxes but using BBCode will really speed up your text entry.
Q> When I click one of the BBCode buttons to enter the code, it enters it at the end of my text, not where the cursor is - why?
A> There is a bug in Internet Explorer that can cause it to crash if e107 tries to enter the code at the cursor position, so in the interests of compatibility the code is entered at the end of your text.
Q> What BBCodes can I use?
A> Hover your mouse pointer above any of the bbcode boxes; you'll see a small explanation appear just above the buttons. There are also codes for links [url] [/url] and email [email] [/email], although again using normal HTML tags is ok. All web addresses and email addresses entered are automatically made into clickable hyperlinks.

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Q> What's this section for?
A> This page allows you to ban visitors to your site, either by their IP address and/or email address.
Q> Why do I have to give a reason?
A> You don't, that textbox is there so that other administrators can see the reason for the ban, or they might remove it by mistake.

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Q> I defined a new banner from the admin area but it's not showing up - why?
A> The theme you're using needs to know to display a banner. Open the theme.php of the theme and make sure you have {BANNER} or {BANNER=yourcampaignname} in the $HEADER section.
Q> I want to one set of banners in one area and a different set in another area - how?
A> You can group your banners under 'campaigns', and then set up your theme to show banners from certain campaigns. For example, if you had two campaigns, called cam_1 and cam_2, putting {BANNER=cam1} in one area of your $HEADER section in the theme.php will show only cam_1 banners, and putting {BANNER=cam_2} in another area will only show cam_2 banners. Putting {BANNER} (no campaign name) in your theme.php will show random banners from all campaigns.
Q> What's the client login and client password for?
A> You can define a login and password for your banner clients, they can then use these to access information about how their banners are performing by going to http://yoursite.com/banner.php and entering the name and pass.
Q> How can I have a 'tower' type banner in a menu item?
A> First you need to define the campaign for the tower type banners (this will keep them separate from bar type banners) ...
1. Go to your admin area and click on banners.
2. Enter your tower-type banner(s), make sure you use a new campaign name, for example 'towers'.
3. Now go to your Menus area, and activate the Banner_menu into one of your menu areas.
4. Click on the 'Configure' link in the menu item.
5. Enter the caption title (by default it's 'Advertisement'), and enter the campaign name you defined before.
6. Leave your admin area and you'll see your tower-type banner(s) in the area you assigned them to.

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Q> What's this section for?
A> Setting Cache Status to on will save certain areas of your site in your database. This reduces calls to MySQL, and vastly speeds up your site.
Q> I made some alterations to the theme I'm using but it hasn't changed - is it because it's cached.
A> Most probably. When you change themes the cache is cleared but altering code in your theme.php won't clear the cache. Set Cache Status to off until you're finished.
Q> Can I save the cache to files on the hard drive?
A> Yes. Just make sure that your e107_files/cache directory is writable (chmod 777). And then click the option on the cache page.

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Q> What is the Replace Links section for?
A> You can convert any links entered in your chatbox to other text, or an image. This keeps your chatbox from overflowing with long website addresses. To use an image, tick Replace Links, and in the box below enter <img src='path_to_your_image' alt='' />, now any links entered will be converted to the image you entered.
Q> What's Wordwrap for?
A> If someone entered a very long word in your chatbox it could disrupt the layout of your site. If you were to enter 40 in the Wordwrap box, any works longer than 40 characters would be wrapped so the column wouldn't be extended. You may have to change this value corresponding to the theme you are using, and the width of the column your chatbox is in.
Q> My site is for all ages yet someone keeps swearing in the chatbox - how can I stop this?
A> Go to the Preferences screen in your admin section, and find the Protection of minors options. You can add a list of words here that will be replaced by a word or sentence of your choice, for example CENSORED! Now anytime that work is encountered on your site it will be replaced with the text you entered.

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Q> What are these user-classes I keep seeing? What are they for?
A> User classes restrict access to certain areas or functions of your site. If you define a class and then add certain users to it, you can choose to make things visible to only the users in that class.
For example, there is a class already created by default when you install e107 called PRIVATEFORUM. Adding users to this class then creating a forum under that class will make only the users in that class able to access that forum. You can restrict other areas and functions by class, like news items, links, downloads, etc.

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Q> What's a download parent?
A> This allows you to group your downloads into different categories.
Q> I want to add a download but the file doesn't appear in the list - why?
A> Only files in the e107_files/downloads folder appear in the dropdown list. Copy the file into this folder and it will appear. The same applies to images; they must be in the e107_files/downloadimages folder.

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Q> What are emoticons?
A> Emoticons are the smiley images you see on other websites. If you enable emoticons on your site, any time someone enters a smiley, for example :), it will be replaced by the image equivalent :)
Q> Can I enter new emoticon codes?
A> Yes, from the emoticon screen you can enter new, edit existing or delete emoticons.

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Q> I'm getting some errors on a certain page, what do I do about it?
A> Browse the Problems forum at e107.org and see if anyone else is getting the same problem. If you think it's a bug please post the error on the bugtracker at e107.org.

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Q> What are forum parents?
A> A parent is a heading to group other forums under, this makes it easier to navigate your forums.
Q> I want to make a certain administrator a forum moderator but his name isn't in the list - why?
A> Administrators will only be listed if they have the correct permission set to be a forum moderator. Go to the Administrators section and edit the admin in question, and make sure 'Moderate forums' is ticked.
Q> What's tracking?
A> If you have this enabled, it allows users to track a forum thread; they will receive an email when someone replies to the thread.
Q> What's pruning?
A> This allows you to remove old threads that haven't received a reply in a certain time. Please be careful with this function, once threads are deleted they cannot be retrieved.
Q> What are reported posts?
A> Users can report posts that they find to contain objectionable material. You can open the reported thread and moderate as you wish.

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Q> What's this section for?
A> This screen allows you to set what appears on the front page of your site, by default it's set to news.
Q> What other pages can I display?
A> Any. You can either tick the preset ones (forum, downloads, etc.) or enter the address to the page you want to use.

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Q> I made some changes to my site and now I'm getting MySQL errors and my site doesn't appear.
A> It could be that your core has become corrupt. The core is the core settings and variables of e107. To reset your core, go to http://yoursite.com/e107_files/resetcore/resetcore.php. Always back up your core (from the Database screen) before you apply changes, you can then restore the core backup if something goes wrong (again from resetcore.php).
Q> I forgot my main admin password and now I can't access my admin area.
A> For very good security reasons it's impossible to reset your password unless you're logged in. If you haven't written your password down in a safe place please do so now, then this scenario will never happen. If it does, you will have to reset your password manually using phpMyAdmin or another similar MySQL manager. Go to the users table, the main admin should be user number 1. Click on the edit button and change the password to 4cb9c8a8048fd02294477fcb1a41191a, this will change your password to changeme. Now log in and [b]update your password immediately[/b].
Q> I installed a theme/plugin etc. and now my site is unreachable, what can I do?
A> Use resetcore.php (see above).

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Q> How can I enter a link so that it appears in my main navigation menu?
A> Any links in the Main category will appear in your main nav menu. All other categories appear on the Links page.
Q> What's the link button text box for?
A> This allows you to display the button for the link on the Links page. If you leave it blank a blank button will be displayed.

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Q> What's this section for?
A> This screen allows you to make your site inaccessible to visitors, use it when you are upgrading your site or need to take it down for any reason. Only the main site administrator can access the site when in maintenance mode, you'll know this as a message is displayed on every page.
Q> Help! I set the Maintenance Flag and accidentally logged out, how do I get back in to my admin section to put the site back up?
A> Go to http://yoursite.com/e107_admin/admin.php and log in from there.

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Q> What are menus?
A> They are items that appear in the menu areas (or columns) of your site. These can contain text, links, anything.
Q> How do I activate a menu item?
A> Go to your admin area and click on Menus. You'll see the main layout of your site with a list of the menus in their respective areas. The menu items in the center of the page are inactive; you can move them into an active area by clicking on Activate this menu. You can also move the area the menu is in or move it up and down the column once it's activated.
Q> I need to put some text inside a menu item, how can I do this?
A> Go to the admin area and click on Custom Menus. From here you can enter any text you like to a menu and it will be saved and available like any other menu.
Q> How can I change the options for a menu item?
A> If a config panel is available you will see a link to it (called 'Configure') in the menu box once activated.

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Q> What are news categories for?
A> You can group your news items under different categories, and they will be displayed with a different icon etc if defined. This makes it easier for your visitors to navigate your site and read only the items that interest them.
Q> What is the Extended box for?
A> You may have noticed the way news items are reported on some sites, they have a small intro with a link to the whole article, you can do this by entering the intro in the Body text box and the rest of the article in the Extended box.
Q> What are the activation boxes for?
A> You can set up a news item to only appear between certain dates by using the activation boxes. If you leave them blank the news you post will appear immediately.
Q> I entered a news item and it says 'News saved in database' - does that mean it will show on my news page?
A> It means the text you entered has been saved. If the news item you entered is set to active, then yes it will appear on your news page.

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Q> How do I change themes?
A> There is a section in your Preferences page that allows you to change your site theme. Please preview the theme first as some older themes are no longer compatible and could render your site unusable if applied.
Q> What's COPPA?
A> The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. It's a universally used rule that protects minors aged 13 and under. It ensures that no information on minors will be used by the 'Operator' (i.e., you) for purposes other than maintaining the website. For more information please see http://www.cdt.org/legislation/105th/privacy/coppa.html.
Q> What's flood protection?
A> It prevents your site being flooded by HTTP calls, which can render your site unreachable.
Q> Should I use Cookies or Sessions for tracking my users?
A> It's your choice, if your site is working ok with cookies (the default) then leave it like that. If you prefer to use PHP sessions, then use that (a custom session handler is used by e107 to store and handle sessions).
Q> Why should I run my site in standards mode?
A> If your developing a theme and having trouble getting it to render correctly in Firefox/Mozilla and IE, try ticking this box. IE will then be run in standards mode and use the correct box model.

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Q> I'd like to let people upload files to my site but I'm worried about security...
A> There are a couple of things to do to improve security. First, use Binary storage, the uploaded files will then be stored in the MySQL database and won't be accessible to anyone apart from to download. Also, set the list of allowed file types, if anyone tries to upload a filetype other than the types you have defined it will be deleted immediately from your server.
Q> I've had some files uploaded, what do I do now?
A> You have the option to copy the file to your Download Manager, to allow others to download it, and to copy the upload information to your newspost section, to make a news item announcement about it.

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Q> What's the Extended Field section for?
A> This allows you to add more sections to the Users page. For example, if you were running a clan, you could add a field for clan nickname, or average number of flags :) The new field will appear in the User Settings page, and also the Members list.

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Q> What's this section for?
A> You can enter some text here that will always be displayed above your news items on the front page. You can enter a different message for Guests, Members and Administrators.