Administration – Configuration

Components

The Components Admin section is where you can manage specific components of your forum.

There are management options for Smiley’s, SEO, Login and Registration. You can also create custom messages in this section. Other Simple:Press plugins also will add components to manage to this section depending on their specific requirements.

Options

The Manage Options section is where you can pick and choose the myriad of options and setups for your Forum. These admin panels are where you can configure the look and feel of your Forum on the front end.

This is where you set the global options of the forums and the global display settings.  You can customize the Post content appearance. Set the style for the Post time and set various filtering and url link options.

This is also where you would configure alternate Email setting for your Forum and how the forum is to handle guests and inactive members.

Profiles

The Profiles Admin section is where you manage specific profile options for members of your forum. You can set the display name defaults, member’s personal links, signatures and more.

This section is also where you can manage the global avatar setting and usage of your members.

You can also set which profile settings members can view and access for their personal settings and turn off or on profile edit form components as desired.