How to moderate the posts of new users only

To help combat spam, many users opt to have new user’s posts moderated until they’ve made a specific number of posts. This allows the Admin/Moderator team to keep potentially malicious posts out of the public eye until a user has effectively passed a ‘probationary period’ as a member of the site.

In order to do this, you will need to create a custom usergroup and a promotion.

Creating a Custom Usergroup
First, you need to setup the usergroup for your non-Moderated...

From time to time, we will need to update the indexing schema for the Sphinx server. In order for this fix to take effect, you will need to update the sphinx schema for the index. Follow these steps to rebuild your Sphinx Search Schema.

1. Stop the Sphinx service on your server.
2. Replace your existing Sphinx configuration file (vbulletin-sphinx.php) with the one provided in the current version of vBulletin 5 Connect. You can find this file in the do_not_upload directory.
3. Update the file as provided

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CONVERTING YOUR FORUM TO HTTPS
Applies to self-hosted versions of:
vBulletin 3; vBulletin 4; vBulletin 5;
Cloud sites have https enabled by default and you do not need to do anything.

This FAQ explains how to convert your vBulletin forum to use secure https (SSL) rather than http, and why you might need to.
Note: This guide contains links to external sites. vBulletin Solutions is not responsible for the content of external links and cannot be held responsible...

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of creating your custom style for a vBulletin 5 Connect site using Style Variables. The tutorial assumes that you have already uploaded your custom logo using the Quick Setup Tool in Site Builder....

Using the advanced editor you can create powerful search modules. Following you find possible filters / parameters for using within these modules:
The search JSON parameter has the following format:

{ "filter": <value>, "filter": <value>, ... }

<value> may be any valid string, number or JSON structure and will be interpreted by the specified filter. Filters not listed below are ignored.

Filters

The valid filters...

Themes are styles designed to be easier to maintain over time. Themes typically change a few elements to achieve a new look and feel. These elements include background images, fonts and colors and are typically handled by style variable changes without changing templates. The theme system allows us to offer multiple styles to customers out of the box. This is especially helpful for Cloud customers as they cannot upload additional Styles at this time....

This Tutorial is out of date and no longer valid.

Many vBulletin sites have historically used some sort of portal, or even the vB4 CMS, as their default "landing" page if you visit the root URL....www.mysite.com, with no /forum etc.

Currently in vB5 there is no CMS, and there is no portal addon such as vBAdvanced.

So what do you do?

Well, you could simply rewrite the root URL so it points to /forum, or wherever your forum actually is....

This will show you how to add a Google Calendar to your VB5 Connect or vBCloud site. The calendar will be on a custom page in an IFRAME.

Live Demo: http://sedona.vbulletin.net/SedonaCalendar

1) First make sure you have a Google account and are signed into it. (If you have Gmail or use any Google services you already have a Google account.)

2) Go to Google Calendar - https://www.google.com/calendar/render

3) On the side expand "My Calendars"...

Note: This article is for an older version of vBulletin. As such, the instructions are slightly out of date. vBulletin 5.7.5 includes native pages for your privacy policy and terms of service so you do not need to add these.

This tutorial is good for both the download version of VB 5,x and vBCloud.
Note- You must be logged into the forum to see the images.

If you want to add a custom page to your site, such as a privacy policy, and link it through the footer of your site...

This tutorial will help you to add a navbar link to a custom page that you have created using THESE instructions.

Firstly, make sure you are logged in as an Admin - so you can access Site Builder.

Then, switch Site Builder ON using the switch at the very top right of the screen.

Then, click "Navigation Bar" from the site builder menu.

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