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Turn Off Posting - But How?

Started by NeedIt, May 02, 2016, 06:04:10 PM

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NeedIt

I have poked around the menus and googled and can't find how you can turn off all posts to the forum.   I would like to shut down all posts and backup my database in order to restore it onto a new server.  And I don't want anyone posting in the meantime.  Can someone let me know where I can find this?

br360

You can change all boards to read only, which would allow members to read threads and posts but not be able to post themselves. A much easier way though would be to put your forum into maintenance mode while you were moving to a new server.

Take a look at this link with some more info about maintenance mode- http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Maintenance_mode

NeedIt


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