Chapter 3

Forum Posting Options

Not all forums are the same. There are a number of settings that come under the section

Posting Options.

For example, this section allows you to control whether the forum can be posted to or whether it is a category below which other forums will appear.

You can also control whether the forum is active or not, open or closed, or whether it should be searchable. (It can be useful to have some areas not searchable. This improves search speeds and reduces the database size, as the search index is stored in the database along with the rest of the data.)

Enable/Disable Features

Finally come the Enable/Disable Features options. If you are creating or modifying a category, then BB Code, [IMG] Code, Smilies, Post Icons, and Thread Ratings are not needed.

Note that it is not recommended that you enable HTML code anywhere within your forum.

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