This tutorial will show you how to make your forums private. Guests and bots will not be able to see the forum itself, nor it's contents. 1. Login to your Administration Control Panel. 2. Click the "Permissions" tab at the top. 3. In the left menu, under "Forum based permissions,"...

In phpBB 3, you are able to give the users within a certain group a specific username color. To change or set this color, please follow these steps: 1. Access your phpBB 3 Administration Control Panel (ACP). 2. At the top, click on the "Users and Groups" tab. 3. On the next page, in the le...

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To create your custom profile field, login to your ACP. Click on the Users and Groups tab, and then locate the Custom profile fields link in the left-hand menu to click on. You should now be on the proper page. Locate the empty textbox below the custom profile fields headings, which is next to a sel...

When a user registers, the default setting on their account for subscribing to topics they reply to or that they create is automatically set to "No". Some Administrators prefer to have the default set to yes for various reasons. This small change below will set this to "Yes" inst...

After updating to phpBB 3.0.6, the only way to turn on the quick reply is to go into each forum and manually turn it on in the ACP.

Quite often you see on help forums people who have been asked to post a copy of a certain file and they do so without the use of BB Code, particularly the code for [ code ] which results in an unreadable post and at the same time makes it almost impossible to get assistance to solve your problem. If...

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Contents: • Uploading Your Logo • Refreshing Your Theme • Resizing Your Logo • Updating imageset.cfg Uploading Your Logo First of all, you need to find yourself a logo (or even create your own), and name/rename it to site_logo.gif. Note: Some custom styles may use other extensions such as .png Next...

The only anti-spam tool I use on my phpbb3 forums is Prime Anti Bot which I have found to be extremely successful to date. One thing about bot's is that no matter what precautions you take to stop them registering and then spamming, is that they will eventually find a way around it. There is also th...