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This is made for users who are installing some forum software or just MyBB for the first time just to help them point out important things to set forum on the right tracks and get some basic view of what they should search in which part of administration panel. Nothig complex, nothing too much so it could be hard and lot do read, just simple clues to start forum
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Thanks for your contribution! 😀
I've made a few specific comments but there are some other sentences that may need rewording to be clearer.
Another thing is you're using bold text all over the place - perhaps italics might be more suited for subtle emphasis?
The file also needs to have a .md extension.
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Perhaps change the file name to match this as well?
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I tought I did that... Well, sorry, my bad...
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| ## Administration panel |
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The rest of the documentation refers to this as Admin CP or Admin Control Panel.
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Also other places that refer to the administration panel in the main body of the text should be changed to Admin CP.
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| If you are new and forum is not set yet, maybe you may want to close it for visitors. That can be done in **Board Online / Offline**. There you can switch if you want your forum closed for others or opened. If you choose closed, you will get message which will be displayed to visitors of your forum. | ||
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| Nextly you may edit some **Site Details** if you want to change Board title, or other cookie, url or contact information about your site. |
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I think Next would be good here :)
Next, you may edit some **Site Details**, for example the Board Name, URL and contact settings.
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| Nextly you may edit some **Site Details** if you want to change Board title, or other cookie, url or contact information about your site. | ||
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| In **General Configuration** you can change default board language as well as CAPTCHA and other minor things like decimal point and so. |
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In **General Configuration** you can change the default board language as well as the CAPTCHA to use, in addition to toggling settings like friendly redirect pages and the forum jump menu
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| This is place when you can ban someone from forum, or ban someone's IP and so. Please note that you can access this setting from Users & Groups -> Banning, too. | ||
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| ### Custom profile fields |
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Should use title case here.
### Custom Profile Fields
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| This point is **must** if you want some protection of spam bots. Here you can set up your security questions and answers which users should write at registration. | ||
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| ## Forums and Posts |
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Should be Forums & Posts to match what is seen in the Admin CP.
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| Here you can manage user groups, give them username colors, custom user titles and similar things for all users in same group. Also, here you can change permissions of specific group of users. | ||
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| ### User titles |
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| When you finished with setup of forum, you have your forums and subforums and you are almost ready to go, you need some groups of moderators, administrators, who will manage your forum if you need help. Than can be done here. | ||
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| ### Awaiting activation |
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| In this place of forum you can add and delete categories, forums and subforums. Be extremely careful while creating them and giving permissions to users to have maximum of security and to have organised forum by categories and forums. You can easily sort them as you wish by simply putting numbers in "order" field. Forum will short it so forums and categories with lowest numbers are first and with biggest numbers are last. | ||
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| ## Users and Groups |
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As above Users & Groups
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| ### Awaiting activation | ||
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| If you put in settings that administrator is approwing new members you will spent a lot of time here activating members accounts. |
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Typo here. Perhaps rewrite the sentence to something like this?
If you require registrations to be approved by an administrator, new member registrations will appear here for you to approve.
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Thanks, looks good... English is not my native language so... It's not perfect but it's something... And could be helpful :) I have totaally forgotten .md extension About bold - I think that those parts should be seen if someone is looking specifically for them so I made them bold... I'm not sure if italics would make same effect... |
Applied changes by JordanMussi as well as few other minor tyops
This is made for users who are installing some forum software or just MyBB for the first time just to help them point out important things to set forum on the right tracks and get some basic view of what they should search in which part of administration panel. Nothig complex, nothing too much so it could be hard and lot do read, just simple clues to start forum