Recent Entries

• 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...

• Locale Settings

  by SocialEngine April 12, 2022
  The “Locale Settings” page allows you to select certain default options for the date and time settings of your social network. This tutorial will explain the settings and show you how to manage them. To reach the “Locale Settings”, when logged in to your Admin panel, navigat...

• General Settings

  by SocialEngine April 1, 2022
  The General Settings page items affect your entire community. Here, you can set your site to “Offline - Maintenance Mode” as well as; set your Site Title, Site Description, Keywords and several other important settings. We’ll walk you through each setting. To get to the General Se...

• Manage Invites

  by SocialEngine March 31, 2022
  Invites are a great way to grow a community. However, admin needs a way to manage invites sent out by members of the community. Your members will see a notice if they try to invite an email that was already invited. The notice will either give an option for them to contact admin to remove an unacce...

• Packages & Plugins

  by SocialEngine March 29, 2022
  Only available for SocialEngine PHP self hosted. SocialEngine 4 includes a Package Manager that allows you to easily install your plugins straight from your SocialEngine admin panel. Packages are a group of files that can be modules, plugins, widgets, themes, or even language packs. Through the Pac...