feed | default_sort_criterion_feed | n/a | 4.6.0 | drop | top_stories | Default criterion to sort on New Feed
Select the default criterion to sort in New Feed. This setting will be applied for new registered users on your site only |
friend | total_requests_display | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | inteter | 10 | Friend Requests Display Total
How many friend requests should be displayed when a user accepts requests? |
friend | friend_display_limit | n/a | 2.0.0beta3 | inteter | 6 | Friends Display Limit
Define how many friends should be displayed on a users profile and dashboard. |
friend | enable_birthday_notices | n/a | 2.0.0beta4 | boolean | TRUE | Enable Birthday Notices
When enabled users will see a list of their friends upcoming birthdays. |
friend | days_to_check_for_birthday | n/a | 2.0.0beta4 | integer | 7 | How many days in advance to check for birthdays
This setting tells how many days in advance should the script check for.
Setting it to a number too high may beat the purpose of the feature.
The results from this feature cannot be cached, so it is prone to becoming a slow down for your site.
Keep in mind that you can disable this feature altogether in the setting Enable Birthday Notices |
friend | show_empty_birthdays | n/a | 2.0.0beta4 | boolean | FALSE | Show Empty Birthdays
When enabled the site will show the block in the dashboard regardless if the user has friends whose birthday is coming or not.
Disabling it does not mean a performance optimization since the contents are already cached. |
friend | friend_suggestion_search_total | n/a | 2.0.0rc12 | integer | 50 | Friends Suggestion Friends Check Count
When performing the search to find friend suggestions for your members it will pull out X amount of users, where X is the numerical value of how many friends to search. |
friend | enable_friend_suggestion | n/a | 2.0.0rc12 | boolean | FALSE | Friend Suggestions
Enable this if you want to suggest friends to your members when they visit their dashboard.
You can control the search criteria on what defines a friend to suggest.
This feature requires a lot of extra server resources in order to perform such a search.
Each search result is cached for X minutes (where you can control X).
Notice\: This feature is experimental and is not stable. |
friend | friend_suggestion_timeout | n/a | 2.0.0rc12 | integer | 1440 | Refresh Friend Suggestions
Define how long to wait till we run the search to find friends to suggest to a member in minutes. |
friend | friend_suggestion_user_based | n/a | 2.0.0rc12 | boolean | FALSE | Check Location for Friend Suggestions
Enable this option in order for us to pick up friend suggestions for your members based on the Country, State\/Province and City they live in. |
friend | friend_cache_limit | n/a | 3.0.0Beta1 | integer | 100 | Friends Cache Limit
Certain features on the site pick up on the users friends list especially when running a search for a friend. In order to provide a "live" feel to search results we cache in advance X (where X is this settings value) number of friends in memory. Making it easier for users to find their friends instantly. |
friend | friends_only_profile | n/a | 3.0.1 | boolean | FALSE | Friends Only Profile
With this setting enabled only friends can view each others profiles.
Note this will override your users privacy settings and force anything related to viewing their profile and have it set to "Friends Only". |
friend | cache_rand_list_of_friends | n/a | 3.6.0rc1 | integer | 60 | Friends List
Minutes. 0 = no cache. Block is friend.small in the profiles, defaults to the left column. It is also called from the timeline block in the friend module. |
friend | friend_meta_keywords | n/a | 2.0.0rc1 | large_string | friends, buddies | Friends Meta Keywords
Meta keywords used when in relation to the Friend module. |
invite | invite_expire | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | integer | 7 | Expire invites timeout
How many days is an invite valid for?\r\n\r\nNote: this relies on cookies. |
invite | pendings_to_show_per_page | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | integer | 9 | How Many Pendings To Show
This tells how many pending invites to show per page. |
invite | check_duplicate_invites | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | boolean | TRUE | Check Duplicate Invites
Do you want the site to check for duplicate invites before sending mail invites?
This can avoid spamming (userA, userB and userC know personA, they all 3 send an invite so personA receives 3 emails) but can also slow down a little the process |
invite | make_friends_on_invitee_registration | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | boolean | TRUE | Make invited users friends with their host
When a user invites aPerson and aPerson becomes a member, should they be made friends right then? |
language | lang_pack_helper | development | 2.0.0alpha1 | boolean | FALSE | Language Package Helper
If enabled this option will add brackets surrounding a phrase, which can be used to identify which phrases have not been added into the core language package. Hard coded phrases will not have brackets.
If a phrase is hard coded in the source the site will be unable to translate that specific phrase.
It is best to use this feature during development or creating of a new language package. |
language | display_language_flag | language | 2.0.0alpha1 | boolean | FALSE | Display Flag
Set to Yes if you would like to display the flag beside each of the language packages available. |
link | youtube_data_api_key | n/a | 4.6.0 | string | (empty) | YouTube Data API Key |
log | active_session | server_settings | 2.0.0alpha1 | integer | 15 | Active Session
Define how long a user is displayed as active on the site in minutes.
If a user is inactive longer then the specified setting they will be removed from the online session table. When this is done they will no longer appear to be online when other members view their profile. If the user suddenly becomes active after their session expired a new session will automatically be created. |
mail | mail_hash_check | spam | 2.0.0rc1 | boolean | FALSE | PM Hash Check
If enabled this will check if the last X messages sent in the last Y minutes are identical to the message being set.
Notice: X & Y are settings that can be changed. |
mail | total_mail_messages_to_check | spam | 2.0.0rc1 | integer | 10 | PM Messages to Check If the setting to check if PM's are identical you can see here how many messages in the past should be checked. |
mail | total_minutes_to_wait_for_pm | spam | 2.0.0rc1 | integer | 2 | PM Minutes to Wait Until Next Check
If the setting to check if PM's are identical you can set here how far back we should check in minutes. |
mail | mail_time_stamp | time_stamps | 2.0.0alpha1 | string | M j, g:i a | Mail Time Stamp |
mail | show_core_mail_folders_item_count | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | boolean | FALSE | Show inbox, sentbox and deletebox item count
If enabled will display the mail count totals in each folder, i.e.:
inbox (2)
nsentbox (6)
delete (10) |
mail | message_age_to_delete | n/a | 2.0.0beta5 | integer | 20 | An Old Message Is... This setting tells how old a message must be in (in days) order to be auto deleted.
This setting is directly dependent on Auto Delete Old Mail. |
mail | delete_sent_when_account_cancel | n/a | 2.0.0beta5 | boolean | TRUE | Delete Sent Mail When a user cancels their account should the system delete the sent messages?
This affects the other user's received messages list and is enabled by default. |
mail | show_preview_message | n/a | 2.0.0rc3 | boolean | TRUE | Show Preview Message
If enabled, users will see a short version of their messages. |
mail | disallow_select_of_recipients | n/a | 2.0.7 | boolean | FALSE | Disallow Selecting Not Allowed Recipients
When this setting is enabled the script will run an extra check on each target user when selecting who will receive an internal mail.
This helps the user selector to be more user friendly by not allowing to choose and write a message to someone who cannot receive it but at the same time it uses more resources and could slow down your site. |
mail | enable_cron_delete_old_mail | n/a | 2.0.0beta5 | boolean | TRUE | Auto Delete Old Mail
This setting enables or disables the auto deletion of old messages.
You can set how old a message should be to be deleted in the setting An Old Message Is.... |
notification | notify_on_new_request | n/a | 2.0.0alpha4 | boolean | TRUE | Site Wide Notification
If enabled users will be notified when a new request or notification is available.
_Notice: This feature will include two (2) extra SQL queries on every page the user visits.- |
notification | notify_ajax_refresh | n/a | 2.0.0alpha4 | integer | 2 | Site Wide Notification AJAX Refresh (Minutes)
If enabled this will update the AJAX request to check if a user has any new notifications every X minutes where X is the numerical value of this setting.
Notice: This setting will only be enabled if the parent setting Site Wide Notification is enabled. |
notification | total_notification_title_length | n/a | 3.0.0Beta1 | integer | 100 | Notification Title Length
When users receive a notification certain items include a title. This setting controls the length of the title. |
profile | profile_seo_for_meta_title | seo | 2.0.0rc4 | string | full_name - gender_name - location | Profile Title |
profile | show_empty_tabs | n/a | 2.0.8 | boolean | FALSE | Show Empty Tabs
When this setting is enabled the script will show tabs for empty items in profiles, for example if a user has not yet uploaded a blog and this setting is enabled, the tab "Blogs" will still show in profiles.
If this setting is disabled there will be an extra query for each tab in profiles every time site cache is cleared. |
profile | profile_caches | n/a | 3.6.0rc1 | boolean | FALSE | Profile Tracking
This cache removes the track from profiles. It goes against privacy and is very difficult to circumvent efficiently. |
share | show_addthis_section | general | 4.6.0 | boolean | TRUE | Enable AddThis
Set Yes to show AddThis on item detail page. Set No to hide. |
share | addthis_pub_id | n/a | 4.6.0 | string | (empty) | AddThis - Public ID
Provide the ID of your AddThis profile. |
share | addthis_share_button | n/a | 4.6.0 | large_string | (empty) | AddThis - Inline Share Button
In case you have already customized your tools with inline rule, you can put the code here. |
subscribe | enable_subscription_packages | n/a | 2.0.0beta4 | boolean | FALSE | Enable Subscription Packages |
subscribe | subscribe_is_required_on_sign_up | n/a | 2.0.0beta4 | boolean | FALSE | Subscription on registration is required?
If members should be required to select a subscription package when they register set this to Yes. |
tag | tag_cache_tag_cloud | n/a | 2.1.0Beta1 | integer | 180 | Cache
Define how long we should cache tag clouds that are displayed on sections that use them.
Note that this setting must be defined in minutes.
It is important to cache tag clouds as this removes a query to the database that can be rather memory extensive. |
tag | tag_min_display | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | integer | 1 | Minimum Display
Define how many tags must be added before they can be displayed to the public.
Higher this setting if you do want to display a tag cloud with only a few tags. |
tag | tag_days_treading | n/a | 2.1.0Beta1 | integer | 7 | Days a Tag Can Trend
Define how many days a tag can trend. |
tag | total_tag_display | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | integer | 25 | Total Tags/Hashtags Display in Tag Cloud block
Define the number of tags/hashtags to display in a tag cloud block.
Note: This is the global default setting, other modules can override this setting. |
tag | tag_trend_total_display | n/a | 2.1.0Beta1 | integer | 10 | Total Topics to Display in Item Detail
Define how many topics to display in the topics section in item detail page. |
tag | enable_hashtag_support | n/a | 3.7.0beta1 | boolean | TRUE | Enable Hashtags
Enable this option if you wish to allow hashtags on the site to create topics for the item being added. |
tag | enable_tag_support | n/a | 4.6.0 | boolean | TRUE | Enable Tags
Enable this option if you wish to allow tags on the site to create topics for the item being added. |
track | unique_viewers_counter | n/a | 4.5.0 | boolean | 1 | Unique viewers counter
No: The number of view count increases each time the user refreshes page.
Yes: The number of view count after one or more time page refreshing will increase by only one for one user. |
user | multi_step_registration_form | registration | 2.0.0alpha2 | boolean | FALSE | Multi-step Registration Form
Enabling this option will turn the registration process into multiple steps and using as few fields as we can on the first step to entice users to register. |
user | require_all_spam_questions_on_signup | registration | 3.5.0beta1 | boolean | FALSE | Spam Check Requires All Questions
If set to Yes visitors will have to answer all of the spam questions available before creating their account.
If this setting is set to false visitors will have to answer only one question, chosen randomly by the site. |
user | captcha_on_signup | registration | 2.0.0alpha1 | boolean | FALSE | Captcha on Registration
Enable this option to add a captcha routine to the registration process. This will help against spam. |
user | verify_email_at_signup | registration | 2.0.0beta5 | boolean | FALSE | Verify Email At Signup
When a guest signs up, should they verify their email address?
If enabled an email will be sent with a special link to verify that is their address. |
user | min_length_for_username | registration | 2.0.0rc2 | integer | 5 | Minimum Length for Username
Minimum Length for Username. Leave empty will be 0 |
user | max_length_for_username | registration | 2.0.0rc2 | integer | 25 | Maximum Length for Username
Maximum Length for Username. Leave empty will be 0 |
user | on_signup_new_friend | registration | 2.0.0rc4 | integer | 0 | On Signup New Friend
If you select a user from the drop down this user will automatically become friends with any new member that registers. |
user | redirect_after_signup | registration | 2.0.0rc10 | string | (empty) | Redirect After SignUp
Add the full path you want to send users right after they register. If you want to use our default routine just leave this blank. |
user | on_register_privacy_setting | registration | 2.0.0rc12 | drop | anyone | User Default Privacy Setting on Registration
With this setting you can control the default privacy setting for a user when they register. This will control how others view their profile.
anyone = Anyone can view their profile.
network = Only members of the site can view their profile.
friends_only = Only their friends can view their profile.
no_one = Nobody can view their profile. |
user | approve_users | registration | 2.0.5 | boolean | FALSE | Approve Users
Enable this if you want to approve users before they can log into the site. |
user | disable_username_on_sign_up | registration | 2.0.5dev1 | drop | full_name | Display Full Name (Display Name) and Username on Sign Up
The Username is used to create a vanity URL of users (eg. http:\/\/www.site.com\/username). If Username field isn't displayed on registration form, we will use their unique ID number to create their vanity URL. You can then enable a user group setting that can allow users to edit their username at a later time. Otherwise, if Full Name (Display Name) field is hidden, we will use Username as Full Name (Display Name) and user can change it when access to Account Settings page. |
user | allow_user_registration | registration | 2.0.7 | boolean | TRUE | Allow User Registration
Enable this setting to allow public registration. |
user | force_user_to_upload_on_sign_up | registration | 2.1.0rc1 | boolean | FALSE | Force Users to Upload Profile Image
Enable this option to force users to upload a profile image before they can register. |
user | hide_main_menu | registration | 3.0.0beta1 | boolean | FALSE | Hide Main Menu
Enable this option to hide the main menu if a user is not logged into the site. |
user | invite_only_community | registration | 3.0.0beta1 | boolean | FALSE | Invite Only
Enable this option if your community is an "invite only" community. |
user | new_user_terms_confirmation | registration | 3.0.0beta3 | boolean | FALSE | Terms & Privacy Confirmation
Enable this option if users must confirm that they understand and have read over your sites terms and privacy policies. |
user | reenter_email_on_signup | registration | 3.4.0beta1 | boolean | FALSE | Force Users to Reenter Email
Enable this option to add a new input field where users would have to reenter their email during the registration process to assure they are entering the correct email. |
user | require_basic_field | registration | 4.2.0 | boolean | FALSE | Require basic field
If you select yes, these fields will require when edit profile: country, gender and birthday. |
user | signup_repeat_password | registration | 4.6.0 | boolean | FALSE | Re-enter password on sign up
Enable this option to require user re-enter password on the sign up process. |
user | validate_full_name | spam | 2.0.0beta4 | boolean | TRUE | Validate Full\/Display Name
Set to Yes if you would like to validate a users full name. |
user | check_status_updates | spam | 2.0.0rc5 | integer | 1 | Spam Check Status Updates
Define how many status updates should we check to see if the new status update the user is adding is similar and if one is we will guide them to add another status update. |
user | user_dob_month_day_year | time_stamps | 3.0.0 | string | F j, Y | User D.O.B (Month, Day & Year)
Control how we display the users date of birth for the privacy setting "Show my full birthday in my profile". |
user | user_dob_month_day | time_stamps | 3.0.0 | string | F j | User D.O.B (Month & Day)
Control how we display the users date of birth for the privacy setting "Show only month & day in my profile". |
user | enable_2step_verification | general | 4.3.0 | boolean | FALSE | Enable 2-step verification
Google Authenticator generates 2-step verification codes on your phone.
Enable 2-step verification to protect your account from hijacking by adding another layer of security. With 2-step verification signing in will require a code generated by the Google Authenticator app in addition to your account password. |
user | hide_recommended_user_block | general | 4.4.0 | boolean | FALSE | Hide block "Users You May Know" in page browse user. |
user | captcha_on_login | login | 4.4.0 | boolean | FALSE | Captcha on Login
Enable this option to add a captcha routine to the login process. |
user | prevent_profile_photo_cache | n/a | 3.4.0beta2 | boolean | FALSE | Profile Photo Cache Prevention
Enable this option to force a users own profile photo from being cached. This will always assure the user will see the latest profile photo they uploaded. |
user | redirect_after_login | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | string | (empty) | URL Redirect After Login
After a user has logged in and they have not requested a page to visit you can set a default redirection URL, which will send them to this specific page right after they login.
If you add an external link be sure to add "http:\/\/" (without quotes) otherwise the URL will be treated as an internal link. |
user | login_type | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | drop | email | User Login Method
Select the method you would like your users to use when logging into the site.
user_name: Must use their user name.
email: Must use their email.
both: Can use either email or user name. |
user | profile_use_id | n/a | 2.0.0alpha1 | boolean | FALSE | Profile User ID Connection
Set to Yes if you would like to have user profiles connected via their user ID#. Set to No if you would like to have user profiles connected via their user name.
Note if you connect via their user ID# you will allow your members the ability to use non-supported characters which are not allowed if connecting a profile with their user name.
Warning: This action cannot be reversed.
This setting may lock users out if you force log in by their user names |
user | user_profile_private_age | n/a | 2.0.0beta4 | integer | FALSE | Force Profile Privacy
Define what age should a users profile be forced to be private regardless of their profile privacy setting.
If the user's age is the the same or lower than the setting, only their friends will be able to see their profile and interact with them.
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Notice: Set to "0" (without quotes) for no limit._ |
user | verify_email_timeout | n/a | 2.0.0beta5 | integer | 60 | Verify Email Timeout
This setting tells how much time (in minutes) new members have in order to verify their email address.
Make sure your email server is well configured as this setting relies on the user being able to click the link sent when they signed up.
If your site allows changing email address and you require the new one to be verified as well this setting also applies in this case.\r\n\r\nSet it to 0 to disable the timeout. |
user | logout_after_change_email_if_verify | n/a | 2.0.0beta5 | boolean | TRUE | Logout After Changing Email
If users must verify their email address (Verify Email At Signup), when they change their email address should they be logged out so they need to verify right away?
If you set this to no they will be able to use the site until they sign out, after that they will need to verify their email address. |
user | display_user_online_status | n/a | 2.0.0rc1 | boolean | FALSE | Display User Online Status
This produces an "online" icon in User profile page and user profile popup |
user | date_of_birth_start | n/a | 2.0.0rc11 | integer | 1900 | Date of Birth (Start) |
user | date_of_birth_end | n/a | 2.0.0rc11 | integer | 1997 | Date of Birth (End) |
user | user_browse_default_result | n/a | 2.0.0rc12 | drop | full_name | Browsing Users Default Order
Select full_name to order members based on their full name in ascending order. Select last_login to order members based on their last activity, where the latest person to be active on the site is first. |
user | display_or_full_name | n/a | 2.0.5 | drop | full_name | Display or Full Name
When a user registers on the site they can either enter their full name or display name. This setting controls what they should be entering. |
user | check_promotion_system | n/a | 2.0.5dev2 | boolean | FALSE | Check For Promotions
If you enable this option it will enable the promotion system and will run a check on users when they are logged into the site. |
user | enable_user_tooltip | n/a | 2.1.0Beta1 | boolean | TRUE | User AJAX Tooltip
Enable this setting to load an AJAX popup when hovering over certain member names that include the users profile image as well as some information about them. |
user | brute_force_attempts_count | n/a | 2.0.8 | integer | 5 | Brute Force Prevention: Attempts Count
How many attempts are allowed within the time limit?
This setting is used together with "Brute Force Prevention: Time limit" to better protect your site from brute force login attempts.
You define a time in minutes and how many failed attempts are allowed within that period of time, if a user fails to log in within that period of time, missing this many tries the account is locked for a certain time, this lock time is defined by the cool down time and during this time even if the correct log in is entered, access will be denied. |
user | brute_force_time_check | n/a | 2.0.8 | integer | 0 | Brute Force Prevention: Time Limit
How many minutes back should the script check?\r\nSet this to 0 if you do not want to run this check
This setting is used together with "Brute Force Prevention: Attempts Count" to better protect your site from brute force login attempts. |
user | brute_force_cool_down | n/a | 2.0.8 | integer | 15 | Brute Force Prevention: Cool Down
When an account has been locked due to a brute force check, how many minutes should the user wait before unlocking the account? |
user | enable_relationship_status | n/a | 3.0.0beta4 | boolean | TRUE | Enable Relationships
If you would like your users to have the ability to set their relationship status on your community, enable this feature. |
user | default_privacy_brithdate | n/a | 3.1.0beta1 | drop | full_birthday | Default Birthday Privacy Setting
Users can control their default privacy settings when it comes to how they want their birthdays to be displayed on their profile. When users sign up and have not chosen a privacy setting you can define a default setting for the site.
Here is a key of what the values stand for...
full_birthday = Show full birthday
month_day = Show month & day
show_age = Only show the users age
hide = Hide users age\/birthday |
user | no_show_activity_points | n/a | 3.1.0beta1 | boolean | TRUE | Show Activity Points
Enable this option to show the activity points. |
user | shorter_password_reset_routine | n/a | 3.1.0rc1 | boolean | FALSE | Shorter Password Reset Routine
If this is enabled when a user clicks on Forgot your password he will receive an email with a link, when clicking on the link he will be shown an input where to change the password. The site will not assign a new password to that user and the previous password will work until it has been reset. |
user | maximum_length_for_full_name | n/a | 3.3.0beta1 | integer | 25 | Maximum Length for Full Name
Maximum length for full name. It affects when creating user and update profile. This setting only works when "Validate Full/Display Name" is Yes. |
user | split_full_name | n/a | 3.4.0beta1 | boolean | FALSE | Show Activity Points
Enable this option to show the activity points. |
user | points_conversion_rate | n/a | 3.4.0beta1 | string | (empty) | Activity Points Conversion Rate
Define how much an activity point is worth for each available currency. |
user | can_purchase_with_points | n/a | 3.4.0beta1 | boolean | FALSE | Purchasing with Activity Points
Enable this option if you would like to allow users to be able to purchase items using their activity points. |
user | can_purchase_activity_points | n/a | 3.4.0beta1 | boolean | FALSE | Purchase Activity Points
If enabled, users will be allowed to purchase activity points. |
user | cache_recent_logged_in | n/a | 3.6.0rc1 | integer | FALSE | Recent Logins
Cache the users that have recently logged in. Setting is in minutes. |
user | disable_store_last_user | n/a | 3.6.0rc1 | boolean | FALSE | *Disable Last Time Stamp for Users_
If enabled we don't store the last time a user visits the site. |