Topic: SMF Online Manual -- FAQs available

[AngelinaBelle]

To help you find answers to your questions faster, the SMF team has put many common problems in the FAQ category of the online manual.

You can find them all at http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Category:FAQ

Here is a selection of FAQs currently available:

A

• Administration - Can I hide my "newbie" status
  
• Administration - I accidentally lost my admin account! What can I do
  
• Archives - How do I extract files in an archive
  
• Avatars - How to I add new avatars.

B

• Backup - How do I restore the database data
  
• Backup - How do I save my SMF forum
  
• Backup - How do I save the database data
  
• Buttons - How do I add buttons to SMF 2.0

C

• CHMOD - What's that all about
  
• Context - What is context
  
• Conversions - How do I convert from my current software to SMF
  
• Copyright - Am I allowed to remove or change the copyright
  
• Copyright - Why am I getting a message saying that it's missing
  
• Copyright - Why does it say I removed the copyright
  
• Copyright Information
  
• Cross references for other software
  
• Custom tabs - How do I add them to the Core (default) theme menu

D

• Database - How do I restore the database data
  
• Database - What is an SQL Database
  
• Default theme - What is it and why can't I delete it
  
• Disallow and Deny - What's the difference
  
• Disallow and Deny - What's the difference when it comes down to permissions
  
• Donate - How do I donate to SMF

E

• E-Mails - Why are members not getting emails sent from the forum
  
• Error pages when using certain words
  
• Errors - Why am I getting all these errors

F

• FTP - How do I use FTP
  
• File check.php - What is it and what does it do

H

• Hacking - I think I have been hacked
  
• Help - Is help available in other languages
  
• Holidays - How do I add/change/remove holidays
  
• Hosting - How do I move my SMF board to a different host
  
• How can I install a mod that doesn't work in my SMF version
  
• How do I get rid of a Byte Order Mark
  
• How do I get rid of the weird character in my forum
  
• How do I get rid of  in my forum
  
• How do I install SMF
  
• How do I integrate SMF into my PHP coded website
  
• How do I know if I can run SMF on my website
  
• How do I make my forum safer against hacker attacks
  
• How do I set the forum width
  
• How to change the default forum language
  
• How to change your forum name to a new one
  
• How to create a new administrator or global moderator
  
• How to put the forum in maintenance mode and back
  
• How to upload a fresh set of files

I

• I deleted myself
  
• Illegal installation - Why does it say I'm running an illegal SMF installation
  
• Images - How do I add images to the board's description
  
• Images - Why am I getting borders around images
  
• Installation - How do I install a theme

K

• Karma - How do I reset karma totals to zero
  
• Known issues

L

• Languages - How do I add a new language
  
• Languages - How do I fix this "Installer unable to find language files" error I am getting
  
• Languages - Is SMF available in other languages
  
• Languages -- How to add or change phrases used by the forum software
  
• License - Is SMF released under the GNU/GPL license
  
• License - What type of license is used for SMF
  
• Local Path - What is the local path to SMF
  
• Locking - How do i lock boards without using "deny"
  
• Logo - How do I remove the simple machines logo

M

• Manually setting a package installed or uninstalled
  
• Membergroups - How do I change a member's membergroup
  
• Membergroups - How do I create a board for certain membergroups only
  
• Membership totals - Why does Total Members show a different number than the memberlist
  
• Mod security - Having problems with mod security
  
• Moderators - How do I assign members as local moderators
  
• Modifications - A mod broke my forum what should I do
  
• Modifications/Mods - What is a mod
  
• MySQL has gone away / Lost connection to server during query

O

• On file and directory permission and ownership
  
• One of my members forgot his/her password. How can I retrieve it

P

• Packages - How to upload packages using FTP
  
• Password - Why do MySQL 4.1.x passwords not work
  
• Permissions - How do I set up post-count based membergroup permissions
  
• Personal messages - Are administrators able to view their members' PMs
  
• Phpinfo() - What's that, then
  
• Problems - How can I get my problems solved faster

R

• Recent posts - How do I show the most recent posts on the main page of my website
  
• Redistribution - Am I allowed to redistribute a modified copy of the SMF software
  
• Redistribution - Am I allowed to redistribute mods
  
• Registration - How do I edit the registration/welcome email
  
• Repairing - I broke my forum. What tool should I try

S

• SMF - What is SMF
  
• SMF - Where can I get it
  
• SMF - Which version of SMF should I use
  
• SMF - Who made it
  
• Search engines - How do i hide my forum from search engines
  
• Smilies - How do I fix this "ALTER TABLE smf smileys ORDER BY LENGTH" error I am getting
  
• Support - What's available
  
• Support questions - How do I ask them in a smart way

T

• Templates - Is there a list of templates
  
• Themes - I don't like or want the default theme - can't I just change it
  
• Themes - What is a theme

U

• UTF-8 Readme
  
• Upgrade and Update packages- What's the difference
  
• Upgrading - How do I use a small update package
  
• Upgrading - Should I Upgrade

V

• Visual verification code - It doesn't work. What should I do

W

• What is repair settings.php
  
• Call to undefined function: create button() - Why am I getting this
  
• Why do I have partially blank or missing text in posts

X

• XML feeds
  
• XML feeds/el

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Edit -- fixed some bad links.  Thanks Illori

[Ashley S]

Nice guide, or what you would like to call it AngelinaBelle
Good job.

[EddieC]

Good to have this info all in one place, thanks!

[AngelinaBelle]

We have Illori to thank for producing this list.
Thank you Illori