Friendly URLS
Back to TopThis option determines how to handle unicode in URLs.
If your content generally differs from your language charset then converting to UTF-8 may provide the best results while ignoring unicode may result in the majority of your URLs displaying incorrectly.
If the majority of your content matches your language charset then stripping unicode may provide the best results. Ignoring unicode may cause some URLs to display incorrectly.
Default Value: Ignore
NCR Encode UTF-8 URLs for IE
This option determines whether to NCR encode URLs for Internet Explorer when Friendly URL Unicode is set to Convert to UTF-8.
This will ensure that UTF-8 URLs display correctly in Internet Explorer. However it will add some performance overhead and if Enforce Canonical URL is set to Strict may cause guest users to be redirected to a URL that cannot be displayed correctly in Internet Explorer's address bar.
Note: This option can only be used if the mbstring extension is enabled, or if your PCRE has unicode support.
Default Value: No
Standard URL Routing Variable
The variable to use in the URL when using Standard URLs. Ensure that this is not set to a variable used elsewhere by vBulletin. Default Value: r
The Settings > Options > Style & Language Settings setting group lets you set the default style and language for your site.
Here you can setup the behaviors for the CSS file (store as file), Popup menus (hide or show) and postbit (new or legacy).
Use the vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > Email Options setting group to setup the behaviour of your email features throughout the board.
Here you can setup:
z Enable and Disable your Email Features as a global switch
z Allow users to Email other Members
z How Email addresses are displayed (public or private)
z Email Flood Control
Relying on the PHP internal mail function has always caused problems with a few configurations. The PHP internal mail function is simply a wrapper for the systems own mail program such as sendmail or procmail. The problems occur when certain configurations have extra authentication settings or confusing with line endings.
This has been resolved by the introduction of our mail class to correct any problems that may occur with the internal mail function and also to allow the use of SMTP which will completely bypass PHP's own internal mail function.
The SMTP server options can be edited via the Email Options in the vBulletin Options, this will be enabled via the SMTP Email switch and then the appropriate settings must be completed.
It should be noted that the majority of servers do not require a username and password to send SMTP as they are limited by IP address. Also the use of your ISP email is not recommended as this is usually limited to the network of the ISP and will result in a failure to send email.
Style and Language Settings
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Use the Settings > Options > Censorship Options setting group to manage the words you specify to be placed with characters.
All message titles and messages will be affected.
Note:
To use the censor feature on your site, don't forget to activate it!
These options allow you to control how new user registrations are handled on your forums.
Settings > Options > User Registration Options
z Allow New User Registrations - If you would like to temporarily (or permanently) prevent anyone new from registering, you can do so. Anyone attempting to register will be told that you are not accepting new registrations at this time.
z Use COPPA Registration System - Use the COPPA registration system. This complies with the COPPA laws and requires children under the age of 13 to get parental consent before they can post.
For more info about this law, see here: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.htm
z COPPA Registration System Cookie Check - This option will save a cookie onto the user's computer if an age under 13 is entered. Subsequent registration attempts will be failed, no matter what age is entered. This only applies if the previous option is set to either Enable COPPA or Deny registration for users under 13 years.
z Moderate New Members - Allows you to validate new members before they are classified as registered members and are allowed to post.
z Send Welcome Email - Enabling this option will send a welcome email to new users using the email body/subject phrases for 'welcomemail'.
Note: If you require emails to be verified, this email will be sent after the user has activated his or her account. If you moderate new memberships, no welcome mail will be sent as the user will already be receiving an email.
z Welcome Private Message - Enabling this option will send a welcome private message to new users.
Please input the username of the user that this PM is to be sent from. To alter or translate this message, use the email body/subject phrases for 'welcomepm'.
Note: If you require emails to be verified, this message will be sent after the user has activated his or her account. Also ensure that Receive Private Messages is enabled in the Default Registration Options.
z Email Address to Notify About New Members - This email address will receive an email message when a new user signs up. Leave the option blank to disable this function.
z Allow Multiple Registrations Per User - Normally, vBulletin will stop users signing up for multiple names by checking for a cookie on the user's machine. If one exists, then the user may not sign up for additional names. Note: This does not stop users from logging out and then registering new accounts.
If you wish to allow your users to sign up for multiple names, then select yes for this option, and they will not be blocked from registering additional usernames.
z Verify Email address in Registration - If you set this option to 'Yes' new members will not be allowed to post messages until they visit a link that is sent to them in an email when they sign up.
If a user's account is not activated by the user visiting the link, it will remain in the 'Users Awaiting Activation' usergroup.
z Require Unique Email Addresses - The default option is to require unique email addresses for each registered user. This means that no two users can have the same email address. You can disable this requirement by setting this option to 'No'.
z Minimum Username Length - Enter the minimum number of characters in a valid username, for the purpose of ensuring that new members create valid usernames.
z Maximum Username Length
-Enter the maximum number of characters in a valid username, for the purpose of ensuring that new members create valid usernames.
z Illegal User Names - Enter names in here that you do not want people to be able to register. If any of the names here are included within the username, the user will told that there is an error. For example, if you make the name John illegal, the name Johnathan will also be disallowed. Separate names by spaces.
z Username Regular Expression - You may require the username to match a regular expression (PCRE). The admin help provides some examples that may be useful. To disable this function leave the option blank.
z User Referrer - If you enable the User Referrer system, then a user who visits your forum through a link that contains 'referrerid=XXX' will give referral credit to the owner of the referrerid when they register (where XXX is the userid of the referring user).
z Default Registration Options - The user options on the New User creation form in the Admin Control
Censorship Options
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Back to TopPanel, as well as the New User registration form will default to the following settings.
You can control the following settings:
Receive Admin Emails Invisible Mode Display Email
Receive Private Messages
Send Notification Email When a Private Message is Received Pop up a Notification Box When a Private Message is Received Enable Visitor Messaging
Limit usage of Visitor Messages to Contacts and Moderators Allow vCard Download
z Username Reuse Delay - When a username is changed, you may wish to prevent users from registering with that name for a certain length of time. Use this setting to determine the time before a deleted or previous username can be reused, or set it to 0 to disable this function.
Use the Settings > Options > User Infractions & Post Reporting Options setting group to manage user infraction and post reporting notifications.
z User Infraction Discussion Forum
A discussion thread can be created for each user infraction for moderators to discuss the infraction further. Choose a forum for the discussion threads to be created in.
If you do not wish a discussion thread to be created for user infractions, set this to Select Forum
z Require Infraction Message
This option requires that the user sending an infraction include a PM or Email, depending on your forum settings.
z Post Reporting Discussion Forum
A discussion thread can be created for each reported post for moderators to discuss the post further.
Choose a forum for the discussion threads to be created in.
Note:
Reported Visitor Messages, Social Group Messages and Album Pictures & Messages also are posted in the forum set here.
If you do not wish a discussion thread to be created for reported items, set this to Select Forum
z Post Reporting User
Reported post discussion threads default to being posted under the username of the reporter. To have the threads reported under another username, enter an existing username.
z Post Reporting Email
This option sends an email to the specified users when a post is reported. It can be sent to moderators, super moderators and administrators, moderators only, or no email sent.
Note:
If the Post Reporting Email is set to No Email and the Post Reporting Discussion Forum is set to Select Forum then no notifications of any kind will be issued for reported items.
With these options you can control how the way your users edit their profile.
Settings > Options > User Profile Options Enabled User Profile Features
Use this option to globally enable or disable the various user profile-related features. Additional options are available for each feature in their respective sections.
Require Date of Birth
Require users to provide a valid date of birth (1902 to current year).
[note]When this is set to Yes users cannot edit their date of birth once it has been set.
User Title Maximum Characters
This is the maximum number of characters allowed for a user's custom title.
Censored Words for Usertitle
Type all words you want censored in the Usertitle in the field below. Do not use commas to separate words, just use spaces. For example, type "dog cat boy", rather than "dog, cat, boy."
If you type "dog", all words containing the string "dog" would be censored (dogma, for instance, would appear as "***ma"). To censor more accurately, you can require that censors occur only for exact words. You can do this by placing a censor word in curly braces, as in {dog}. Signifying "dog" in the curly braces would mean that dogma would appear as dogma, but dog would appear as "***". Thus your censor list may appear as: cat {dog}
{barn} barn
Do not use quotation marks and make sure you use curly braces, not parentheses, when specifying exact words.
Exempt Moderators From Censor
Do you want to exempt your forum Moderators from the censor words? You will want to set this to yes if you censor anything that is part of a moderator's title like 'moderator' as they have custom titles by default and will get censored.
Number of friends to display in the small friends block
The Number of Friends to display in the Small Friends Block on the Users' Profile Pages Friends Per Page on Full Friends List[b]
The Amount of Friends to show "per page" on the large friends list.
[b]Maximum Visitors to Show on Profile Page
Set an upper limit for the number of recent visitors to show. Recent visitor records are cleaned out on a regular basis, so keep this to a reasonably small number. Somewhere between 5 to 30 is ideal.