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Topic Settings

The Forum ☛ Options ☛ Topic Settings administration panel is where you can configure the appearance of the Topic view. You can configure how many Topics appear on a page, and whether or not to show various icons and elements for each Topic. If you are using Tags in the Forum, you can also set the maximum number of Tags allowed in a Topic.

Topic View Formatting

Topics to Display Per Page

The topic index is paged to cater for large forums. You set here the number of topic rows to show per paged display.

Number of Topics Paging Links to show

The page links are shown in bars at the top and bottom of the topic index. Set the number to show. The first and last are always shown.

Sort Topics by Most recent Postings (newest first)

By default, topics are displayed in the order in which they were created. By turning on this option, when a topic receives a new post, it will then take the topmost position. Topics are therefore shown by those with the most recent postings.

Topic Row Display


You can turn on or off various elements of the topic row display. These elements are:

  • The Topic Information Icons
  • Post Rating Aggregation Score
  • In line Topic Page Links
  • Current Topic Status
  • Topic Tags

Topic Tag Formatting


These options are valid when Tags are enabled for a Forum or Topic that is being viewed.

Maximum Number of Tags

This option allows admins to limit the number of tags that may be applied to a Topic when it’s created. For an unlimited number of tags, set this option to 0.

Topic View Columns


Check the boxes to select which columns to display in the Topic index view. This can be useful if your page is tight for space. Possible options to turn or off are:

  • First Post date, poster and link
  • Last Post date, poster and link
  • Number of Posts in Topic
  • Number of times topic posts have been viewed

The Topic

First Post Tooltip

Turn on this option to show an extract of the first post in a topic as a tooltip on the topic link.

Display the Print Topic button

Turn on this option to show the print topic button.

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Article written by Luffer on January 29, 2010 and last modified by Luffer on April 26, 2010