Should I add a new forum to my site?

[Mattwhf]

Recently I have opened a new site about art painting and I am getting confused is, I should add a new forum for it or not? or should I only develop website without a forum? because grow a forum will consume...

[Mattwhf]

I am running PHP 7.1 ( &Mariadb) with VB4.2.5 beta 4 without any problems. There are one or two plugins that not compatible with PHP 7 then I fixed....

[Mattwhf]

Maybe you need to use a If template condition here to solve your problem you are asking
Mean that you will use If command to show your banner on homepage or subforum only.

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[Mattwhf]

For sure, I asked same question on XF community and got some answers. I will not share link here because I don't want to put a competitor's link on vB community.
If possible, you should focus on...

[Mattwhf]

Because I want to ask this questions on different forums to get more thoughts to make sure I am going right direction.

I don't ask about forum software, I only ask about layout and forum...

[Mattwhf]

Hello,
I am developing a new forum, it looks like a site, it is https://funny.plus/ - a funny site, I used this layout like other social networks are using (Faebook, Linedin, Twiter..) I am needing...

[Mattwhf]

There are many good hosting providers out there, to help you for this, you need to let me know which type of hosting do you need for your forum. A shared hosting or a VPS?
In the other hand, if...

[Mattwhf]

It is a login form hence you can find templates that related to "login"
or searching some html tags that that forum is using and using search feature of vB admin to find that template...

[Mattwhf]

I would recommend using vB 4.2.5 with PHP 7 if you have already got a responsive template for your vB4 forum. Vice versa, vB5 is a good option to move to, it is new version of vB and you can use more...

[Mattwhf]

Are you using a custom mod for PM or have you set/limit number of PMs for each user group or doing other configurations else with PM on your forum?...

[Mattwhf]

Slow sometime or all the time?
If that happened sometime then when you could get a high load on your hosting server. Improve your server will help to solve the problem....

[Mattwhf]

Did your hosting install SSL certs from Cloudflare, OpenSSL or Lets encrypt? If you did that then you apply these steps for your forum https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/arti...onverting-your...

[Mattwhf]

xrayhead you can try Mod_Security Rules from Malware.Expert and install it on WHM/cPanel, Plesk or Directadmin here https://forumweb.hosting/marketplace...ty-rules.1620/ to protect...

[Mattwhf]

I used both these hosting providers but they are not really good to run vBulletin forums, pricing of Hosgator is pretty high while the quality of service is not good (you can read reviews online about...

[Mattwhf]

I think all versions of vB (3,4,5) are good and each one has its advantages, you need to use or try them to see which one will work best for your forum. ...

[Mattwhf]

Nice forum, especially on videos module. With your addon, it is possible to post videos automatically from Youtube?...

[Mattwhf]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018 !...

[Mattwhf]

ZenHosting can provide you Australia servers with good price.
https://forumweb.hosting/13726-top-v...99-aud-mo.html

Check it out and hope it h...

[Mattwhf]

Check postbit template or you can test with a different theme to see if the content will be display there or not.
If on a new theme, thread content is displayed then you should check your CinemaIce...

[Mattwhf]

Of course I set cookie timeout is more than 15 minutes but to be honest, our forum traffic is increasing with thousands of clicks from Google daily thus number of users online is pretty big. I think I...