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Interview with Josh Williams - Ex IP.Board Deve...

Aug 28 2010 10:00 PM | Azhria Lilu Interviews
To get us moving with some more great content here at Admin Extra, DanCryer has given us permission to republish his interview series. He has been in touch with developers at thetop forum software companies, as well as some of the administrators of huge onlinecommunities such as Gaia Online and OffTopic.com to get an insight into whothey are and what they do, and their views on the forum softwareindustry.

The following interview is with Josh Williams from InvisionPower Services...
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Interview with vBulletin's Kevin Sours and ...

Aug 18 2010 03:00 PM | Azhria Lilu Interviews
Interview with vBulletin's Kevin Sours and Don Kuramura


I'm pleased to say we've now got our first interview with members of the vBulletin team. Thanks to our contact with Joe from Internet Brands, we've got an inter...
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Simple Tweet Button Template Mod

Aug 14 2010 06:13 AM | Mikey IPB Tutorials
Someone wanted the new tweet button on the ipb forums. so - heres a quick thing I did.

Go to

Look & Feel > Manage Skin Sets & Templates > Topic View > TopicViewTemplate > find - <ul class='t...
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IPB3 - Adding a link to the bottom

Apr 26 2010 12:25 PM | bozonessinc IPB Tutorials
I wanted to add a footer copyright link to one of my themes, but also in general using IPB3 so heres how you do it: (note I am not telling you how to remove the IPB3 Footer Links)

First, Open Look & Feel, Click the theme you want to ch...
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IPB3 - Portal as Index Page

Apr 26 2010 08:02 PM | Mikey IPB Tutorials
Now, if you're like me, you'd like your guests to hit a portal which showcases all the latest news and information from the forum in one easy to manage place.


I wanted to do this with IPB, and the IPB default portal, which i...
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IPB3 - Remove IP.Blog header bg image

May 12 2010 09:53 AM | Mikey IPB Tutorials
So, you've just installed IP.Blog, yet that annoying default IP.Blog default header background fluffs up your skin. Personally I like the personalised text in place of the logo, but I don't like the background which doesnt fit with the skins at...
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Set a default Avatar for your members

Feb 17 2010 05:09 PM | Azhria Lilu IPB Tutorials
Here on AdX, when a member registers, it automatically adds a default avatar to their accounts until they wish to upload their own. This is also achievable on IPB so I thought I'd show you how.

Open core.php - found in admin/sources/b...
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How to Separate Pinned Topics from normal topics

Go to
ACP --> Look & Feel-->your skin-->Templates tab-->Forum View-->forumindexTemplate

Find:-
<!-- BEGIN TOPICS --> <if test="hastopics:|:is_array( $topic_data ) AND count( ... Apr 16 2010 07:08 AM | Azhria Lilu IPB Tutorials
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Postbit Sidebar

This tutorial will teach you how to add a nice sidebar in the first post of every thread (unless you change it not to).

Just follow the simple steps below. http://adminextra.co...fault/smile.gif

Open up your postbit template, ... May 03 2010 08:58 PM | Trasion vBulletin Tutorials
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vBulletin 3 - Adding Sidebars

Thanks to @Trasion for helping write this tut:


This tutorial will teach you how to make a vBulletin 3 sidebar on your FORUMHOME only.


First of all, open up the CSS page (All Style Options) for whatever style you ... Apr 27 2010 08:51 PM | bozonessinc vBulletin Tutorials
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