Forum Administration

Forums are managed through the PostNuke Administration panel by selecting forums from the main administration menu. Forums are organised on three levels:

• Categories
  These are the highest level of organisation, and can contain multiple Forums, which in turn can contain multiple topics.
• Forums
  These are the middle level, are organised into categories, and can contain multiple topics.
• Topics, or threads
  These are the parts of the Forum which contain the messages themselves.

The forum administration panel enables you to set Forum-wide options, as well as Add, edit and delete Categories and Forums within them.

Forum-Wide Options

These allow you to:

1. Configure who you want the email to come from when someone subscribes to a topic and gets an email showing a new post.
2. Set the Character Set that will be used in the e-mail headers.
3. Set the ==Hot Topics== threshold.
4. Set the number of posts per topic that will be displayed per page.
5. Synchronize the users, forums and topics indexes to fix any discrepancies that might exist.

Categories

You can add new categories by clicking on 'Add', after which you will be give a space to type in the name of your new category. Click 'Submit' when you have finished entering your text. You can 'Edit' or 'Delete' any categories that have been previously made by clicking on the links and choosing the Category from a list. 'Re-Order' allows you to re-order the Categories.

Forums

You can add new Forums by clicking on 'Add', after which you will be give a space to type in the name and description of your new Forum. Highlight who you want to moderate this Forum and which Category you want the forum to be in, then click 'Submit.' You can 'Edit' or 'Delete' any Forums that have been previously made by clicking on the links and choosing the Forum from a list. 'Re-Order' allows you to re-order the Forums within individual Categories.

Users Ranks

You have the ability to create various 'Ranks' for users based on the number of posts they generate. To add a rank, click on 'Add', and you will be give a space to type in the name and description of a new User Rank. You can 'Edit' or 'Delete' any Users Ranks that have been previously made by clicking on the links and choosing the rank from a list.

Honorary Ranks

You can create 'Ranks' for special members. This could be 'Webmaster', 'Associate', 'Client', etc. Do this in the same way as you would for User Ranks.

Bad Words Filtering

Here you can add/edit/delete bad words that will be filtered and replaced with others on your site.

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