Content Settings
The Forum ☛ Options ☛ Content Settings is the administration panel for customizing the Post content appearance. You can set the style for the Post time and set various filtering and url link options.
Date/Time Formatting
You can set the way that all dates and times are displayed within the forum. This uses standard php date/time formatting.
Image Enlargement
When users include images in their forum posts you have no control over the size of the images and this can sometimes cause display problems – especially with themes that have narrow columns. Turning on this option can help resolve that by showing images as a thumbnail which will expand in a pop-up window to their full size when clicked on. A small mouse icon is also placed beside the thumbnail.
You set the size of the thumbnail (its width in pixels) here. You can also set the default image align if none is set by the user.
Post Ratings Support
Simple:Press Forum supports the ability to allow users to rate posts. The posts can be rated by users with proper permissions. The ratings engine records the IP for guests and the User ID for members when a rating is made in an effort to prevent multiple ratings by the same person. It should be noted that this is not a fail safe method for guests as many ISPs assign users different IPs at different times.
Enable Post Rating
To enable post ratings, check the “Enable Post Ratings” box. Permission for members/guests to rate posts is provided with the “Can rate posts” permission that can be applied to permissions set and then user groups. When enabling post ratings, you have two methods of ratings that may be used to rate posts.
Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down
When utilizing the Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down rating method, a forum visitor with post rating permission can either vote up (Thumbs Up) or vote down (Thumbs Down) the post. A Thumbs Up vote adds +1 to the post rating score displayed. A Thumbs Down vote adds -1 to the post rating score displayed. This rating system is consistent with the reddit voting system.
Stars
When utilizing the Stars rating method, a forum visitor with post rating permission can rate a post with a score of 1 – 5 stars. Each star rating is added to the current star sum. The post rating score displayed is then the star sum divided by the number of votes. The number of stars displayed for a score is displayed in integer stars rounded down, but the score itself is shown to 1 decimal place.
Spam Posts
Maxmimum Links Allowed in Posts
As we all know, most spammers like to fill their posts or emails with lots of links. This option allows you to set the maximum number of links permissible in a single post. If that maximum number is exceeded, the post is rejected.
To allow any number of links with no limit, leave the option set to zero.
Duplicate Post Refusal
Duplicate Post detection can be turned on for Members and/or Guests. If enabled and a duplicate post is detected it will simply be refused.
Additional Filtering
Filter <pre> tags – If enabled will filter out these html tags which can often break the formatting of posts.
Profanity Filter
You can set up ‘profanity filters’ if desired that will substitute a ‘banned’ word or phrase with an alternative of your choosing. Start each new word or phrase you wish to substitute on a new line in the top box. Place the alternative on a new line in the bottom box ensuring that each entry is in the same position in the list. When posts are displayed, any match found in the top list will be substituted with the word from the equivalent position in the bottom list.
Post Links Filtering
You can set links within forum posts to include ‘rel=noffolow’ and/or ‘target=_blank’ which will force the link to open in a new browser windw or tab. You can use the URL shortening feature to limit the amount of characters shown in a URL. Any URLs that are over the limit, will be shortened. URLs under the limit will be unaffected and a value of 0 will not shorten the URLs at all.
Shortcodes Filtering
Here you can choose to have SPF filter shortcodes out of your post content.
If you choose not to filter out shortcodes, any shortcodes that can be used on your site in WP posts or pages, can be used by any user with posting privileges on the forum. This may not be desirable depending upon what shortcodes are defined on your site.
If you choose to filter out shortcodes, you can also optionally specify a set of shortcodes to allow. This is useful if you want to allow gallerys, polls or other shortcodes in your post content.
To enter a list of allowed shortcodes, enter one shortcode per line without the brackets [ ]. That is, to allow a [gallery] shortcode, you would just enter gallery.
