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New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#0, by chief, 09 October 2008 11:12 PM


If you click on 'Forum Admin' you'll see a brand new Admin Panel that we've been working on for many months.  A lot of research and hard work went into this new interface.

What did we research?
We talked to people who ran community sites, from forums to blogs and asked them what they do on a daily basis on the backend of their site.  From this we came up with a list of tasks that you do pretty often, and a list of tasks that you only do a few times (such as setting your forum's description).

So what's new in the admin panel?
  • Completely New Look & Feel - we hope you'll enjoy it better then the last one.
  • Summary page - helps you get to where you want to go.
  • Recommendations page - We'll be adding more here in the future, but these are suggested recommendations to help you run a successful forum.
  • Spam Page telling you how much spam we've killed, for instance, on support, we've automatically removed 20,036 spam posts in the past year!
  • Sidebar page (this was the 'Widgets' page and we think this name is a bit more straight forward).
  • Privacy Page - to make it easier to find your forum's privacy settings
  • Categories page - a cleaner interface for adding and moving categories around.
  • Content Importer - previously known as the Blog Importer, this allows you to import any RSS content, from your personal blog to Yahoo News.
  • You'll also see the avatars of you co-admins in the top right of your forum.
 
Many of your old pages, such as the Memberships page and Theme Selector are just the way they were.  We'll be adding improvements to the admin panel over the next few months, but expect to see new major changes to other areas of Lefora over the next few months.


What are some of the things we are working on?
  • Finishing touches on the Directory we just launched
  • A new Invite system that plugs directly into your email
  • Search Engine Optimization - making sure your forum is found by google searches.
  • Translations into other languages - We NEED your help!
  • Bi-Weekly Newsletters to members of your forum
  • Email Notifications to members who have been approved to join a forum.
  • A better forum importer

As always, if you find a bug, please let us know by posting in support.  Start a new Topic with a descriptive title when appropriate.  We constantly making upgrades, so we like it when you report bugs to us - it helps us make releases sooner and we fix them promptly, sometimes within minutes.
Find me answering questions on support.lefora.com or howto.lefora.com

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Re: New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#1, by ewigginton, 09 October 2008 11:20 PM

I don't see the area showing where forum visitors linked from. I check it constantly so I know where my new members found us. Has this been permanently removed or am I missing it?

 Thanks!

Ellen

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chief
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#2, by chief, 09 October 2008 11:26 PM

It hasn't been permanently removed, but it's currently not there. We'll be adding it either to the Summary or a New Stats tab, we'll have it back in soon.

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#3, by ihesus, 09 October 2008 11:33 PM

And it is more fast too. I like it. and like i say to you is easy-to-use to all of us.

in my browser (safari) the page loads very fast.

 

 

Jesús Rodríguez, México

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#4, by matrixone05, 10 October 2008 06:14 AM

I like what you've done so far...

Thanks for continuing to make improvements...

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Re: New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#5, by shepherdess, 10 October 2008 01:14 PM
Thumbs up for the new look and easy use...please put back the Forum links stats as soon as you can...I also checked this on a daily basis to see where my traffic was coming from and if my efforts to promote the forum elsewhere was working or not.  I then would make sure that I was commenting and posting at these sites or if I didn't see links from some sites..I would kick my efforts up there.
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#6, by alexdavina, 10 October 2008 01:39 PM

very good. keep up the good work.

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#7, by lsingleton, 14 October 2008 11:55 PM

Knowing where folks are coming from visiting my site was great -hope its back soon.
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#8, by cookies, 15 October 2008 12:13 AM

The forum stats are comming back we promise, and if all goes to plan better than before!

Though with all this interest we may bring back a temporary one while you wait, we'll see what we can do.

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#9, by croteau, 15 October 2008 12:39 PM

Good job. We should put an irc channel into our forums so we can chat with our poeple. That would be aswsome if we could do that.

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#10, by lsingleton, 15 October 2008 07:16 PM

Thanks-just lost without the stats.
Also I'm real happy with the ability to change catagories. I've tried to get rid of one and it won't go away.
Have two that are exactly the same-if I post in one it shows up in both---strange.

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Re: New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#11, by chief, 15 October 2008 07:21 PM
@croteau, there's a chat widget over at www.chatango.com that you can add to your forum's sidebar for real time chat.
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Re: New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#12, by lsingleton, 15 October 2008 07:25 PM

Excuse meant to not real happy. Can't seem to change stuff as easy.

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Re: New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#13, by chief, 15 October 2008 09:14 PM
lsingleton, could you expand more on the issues you're having so we can fix it (please start a new topic though), maybe a subject of: 'I have duplicate categories' or whatever the issue is.
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Re: New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#14, by ewigginton, 15 October 2008 11:54 PM

Temporary stats would be GREAT! I feel lost without 'em. Can I do anything to speed it up? Cook you dinner? Pick up the kids/drycleaning? Walk the dog? Amazing how we take things for granted until they're gone!

Thanks!!!

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Re: New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#15, by cookies, 16 October 2008 06:52 AM

Can I do anything to speed it up?

-ewigginton

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#16, by cookies, 16 October 2008 06:33 PM

Lsingleton, I have removed the extra category from your forum.
Sorry about any inconvienience there.

Not sure how that happened, if you can remember any of the steps leading up to its appearane that would be a great help, Thanks.

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#17, by lsingleton, 16 October 2008 07:59 PM

Thanks for the repair-I don't have a CLUE what I did---please bring back the stat's.
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Re: New Features added to your forum - Admin Panel

#18, by ewigginton, 19 October 2008 01:55 PM

Almost ready...

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#19, by rsalido1, 22 October 2008 05:27 AM

under images, I would like to be able to upload from other source like a, "url(image) from photobucket or imageshack" other than just straight from my browser! Of course I am willing to remove direct links so that the image will not impair Lefora bandwidth!

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