In phpBB 3.0.3 we added the possibility to queue posts of users who had a post count lower than an administrator defined threshold, this works very well at keeping spam out of the public eye on your board. But on the board I administer which is primarily for university students who all have their own university e-mail address it penalises new users who I as the board administrator trust. To get around this, I will be applying a small modification to our board during the next maintenance period which I thought I will share with you. (more…)
Archive for March, 2009
phpBB Post Queue
Sunday, March 15th, 2009Firefox 3.0 Address Tweak for SSL/TLS
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Since Firefox 3 scrapped the yellow address bar for SSL and TLS secured sites (i.e. https) and displays a nice green box for EV certificates I was hinted at a way to get a similar visual for non-EV certificates. You need to enter the FF configuration editor, pop about:config into your address bar, confirm you know there maybe dragons. Put browser.identity.ssl_domain_display into the filter box, double click on the result and then enter the value 2. Bingo! Job done.
Wordpress archives
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I’ve been running my blog since late 2005 as such my archives had been getting a little bit unwieldy in the sidebar and stretching the page to extraordinary heights. I’ve reduced this clutter with some very small changes. First I dug around only to find out that Wordpress doesn’t support fetching the monthly archives for one year, so I had to apply some filter foomongery. I discovered somebody else has done something similar, not quite as nice personally but it works.
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Planet phpBB
Monday, March 2nd, 2009I have created a phpBB Planet you can find it at planet.phpbb.cs278.org. Currently I am only aggregating 15 blogs of current and former team members, there is room for expansion. I am quite happy to add anybody who is notable in the phpBB community, contact me if you want your blog added.
