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Forums

Overview

You can browse Bot Libre's forums for How Tos, FAQs, and other useful information. You can also create your own forum, and embed it on your own website.




Creating

You can create your own forum from the browse forum page. To create a forum, just give it a name, description, and category to categorize it under. You can either make the forum private and choose who can access it, or make it public and accessible by anyone.




Properties

Properties Description
Forum Name Enter a forum name.
Description Optional description.
Details You can enter optional additional information.
Disclaimer You can enter optional legal information.
License Optional license to release the forum and all of its content under.
Website If this forum has its own website, you can enter it here.
Website Subdomain (or domain) You can choose a subdomain to host your forum's own website, or give a domain that you have registered and forward to this server.
Categories Comma separated list of categories to categorize the forum under.
Tags Optional comma separated list of tags to tag the forum under.
Private A private forum is not visible to the public, only to the user and users grant access.
Hidden A hidden forum is not displayed in the browse directory.
Access Mode Define who can access this forum.
Fork Access Mode Define who can fork(copy) this forum.
Content Rating Rate the forum.
Post Mode Define who can post to this forum.
Post Reply Mode Define who can reply to posts in this forum.
Ad Code You can display ads on your forum's pages.

Embedding

You can embed your forum on your own website or blog just by adding some simple html to your site. You are free to embed your own forums for personal, or commercial purposes.




Properties

Properties Description
Subdomain (or domain) You can choose a subdomain to host your own chat website, or give a domain that you have registered and forward to this server's ip address.
Embedding Type Choose an embedding type.
Caption The text on the button or link.
Guest User Guest user to connect as.
Password Password for guest user (not secure).
Token Token for guest user.
Style Sheet The CSS style sheet or CSS to customize the page.
Banner HTML An HTML script or page to embed as the page banner.
Footer HTML An HTML script or page to embed as the page footer.
Color The color to use for the button or link.
Background Color The background color to use.
Login Banner Choose if login banner should be displayed.
Facebook Login Choose if facebook login option should be provided.
Backlink Choose if a backlink to Bot Libre should be displayed (requires Bronse account).
Show Ads Choose if the forums's ad show be displayed.

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