Forum General Settings tab
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- Overview
- Configure how forums work.
- To Access
- From the Forums page, click the General Settings tab.
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Forums | Threaded or flat discussions. | Disabled |
| Home forum (main forum) | 0 | |
| Forum image file gallery | File gallery used to store images for forums | 0 |
| Rankings | Users can see several charts or rankings about the page. | Disabled |
| Process inbound mail in cron job. | This prevent to process inbound mail when user is viewing a forum. This will require setting up a cron job running "php console.php forum:inbound-mail" command | Disabled |
| Accept wiki syntax | Disabled | |
| Strip wiki markup from outgoing forum emails | Convert outgoing emails from forum posts to plain text. | Disabled |
| Topic archiving | Disabled | |
| Quick jumps | Disabled | |
| Replies are empty | If disabled, replies will quote the original post | Enabled |
| Allows quoting in flat forums | Allows users to reply. | Disabled |
| Don't display forum thread titles | Titles of posts usually don't change because they are a direct reply to the parent post. This feature turns off the display of titles in edit forms and forum display. | Disabled |
| Do not start messages titles with 'Re:' | Disabled | |
| Require reply to have a title | Present an empty title input form and require it to be filled in before the forum post is submitted. | Disabled |
| First post of a thread can have an empty body | Will be a thread title | Disabled |
| Prevent Nesting of Quote wikiplugins when replying | Strips quote plugin in reply in order to prevent nesting of quote plugins. | Disabled |
| Allow inbound email posts from anyone | Allow messages from non-users in the forums using incoming messages from any email address. | Disabled |
| Parse HTML in inbound email posts | Attempt to keep the formatting of HTML "rich text" emails if using WYSIWYG. Experimental Has problems with some HTML emails, especially those with table-based layouts. |
Disabled |
| Uploaded filenames must match regex | None | |
| Send moderation email | Send email to forum moderators when post is queued | Enabled |
| Approve link in moderation email | Include a link for forum moderators to approve queue from email | Disabled |
| Mask emails | Email information will be masked as "<2 letters>…@<2 letters>…" | Disabled |
| Manage thread defaults per-forum | Disabled | |
| Display thread configuration bar | Allows users to override the defaults | Enabled |
| Keep settings for all forums during the user session | Disabled | |
| Display the thread configuration bar only when the number of posts exceeds | 10 posts | |
| Number per page | 20 comments | |
| Default style | Plain | Threaded | Headers only | Plain |
| Default sort mode | Newest first | Oldest first | Score | Title (desc) | Title (asc) | Oldest first |
| Display forum thread or forum post title in the search engine friendly URL | Enabled | |
| New email thread for each topic | If enabled each topic a forum will use it's own email thread, instead of all forum posts sharing the same one. | Enabled |
| Forum name search | When listing forums | Disabled |
| Forum content search | When listing forums | Enabled |
| Topic content search | Enabled | |
| Unified search for forums and file galleries | Enabled | |
| Index posts on forum section change. | Re-indexes forum posts to match the parent section when the section is changed | Enabled |