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• Admin Password

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  The “Admin Password Settings” page allows you to beef up your site's security by forcing admins to re-authenticate before they are able to access your Admin Panel. One example scenario where this would be a benefit is if one of your admins logged in on a public computer and forgot to log...

• Performance & Caching

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  For very large social networks, it may be necessary to enable caching to improve performance. If there is a noticeable decrease in performance on your social network, consider enabling caching (or upgrading your hardware). Caching takes some load off the database server by storing commonly retrieved...

• Mail Settings

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  From the “Mail Settings” menu in your admin control panel, you can set the name and email address from which you would like admin correspondence to be sent, change email queuing settings, and select which server to use for outgoing mail. To reach the “Mail Settings” page, in...

• Friendship Settings

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  Facilitating relationships between members is essential to building a successful social network. There are several different types of connections that can exist between members. By default we refer to these relationships as "friendships" in this control panel, but you can use a word that best fits w...

• Mail Templates

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  Various notification emails are sent to your members as they interact with the community. You may find that you want to change the default templates to be more customized for your site. This tutorial will show you how to do that. First, log in to your Admin panel and navigate to Settings > Mail ...

• Spam and Banning Tools

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  Social networks are often the target of aggressive spam tactics. This most often comes in the form of fake user accounts and spam in comments or blogs.  To get to the “Spam and Banning Tools” page, in your Admin panel navigate to Settings > Spam and Banning Tools. On this p...

• Twitter Integration

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  Twitter integration allows your users to login to your social network and post content to their Twitter account from within SocialEngine. The Twitter Integration settings page, allows you to enable Twitter integration on your site. Creating Your App In order for SocialEngine to communicate with ...

• Facebook Integration

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  When building a community it can be very useful to utilize larger, more established social networks to help spread the word. Facebook integration gives you an opportunity to do this by allowing your users to log in to your social network! This can be set up using the Facebook Integration menu within...

• Emoticons

  by SocialEngine April 22, 2022
  Emoticons (smileys) are a great way to let your users express themselves. You can add, edit and delete emoticons in SocialEngine PHP in order to customize your community. You'll need to be logged into your Admin Panel. Navigate to Settings > Emoticons. Adding Emoticons To add an em...

• Activity Feed Settings

  by SocialEngine April 21, 2022
  The “Activity Feed” is an auto-updating list of actions that have recently occurred on your social network. This information is displayed (by default) on members' home page. Also, each member's own personal activity list will be displayed on their profile page. Activity Feed Settings T...

• Signup Process

  by SocialEngine April 14, 2022
  The “Member Signup Process” page allows you to make changes to your registration routine. This tutorial will walk you through the settings. To get to the “Member Signup Process” page, in your Admin navigate to Settings > Signup Process. There are several default steps th...

• Profile Questions

  by SocialEngine April 13, 2022
  The “Profile Questions” page in the Admin panel is where you can create and manage your list of Profile Questions that members will be asked to fill out when joining your site. By default, SocialEngine comes pre-loaded with a single Profile Type and several default Profile Questions. Thi...