Principle The goal of crumbs is to prevent a hacker from being able to blindly carry out actions on your blog by tricking you into clicking on a link. For example, let’s suppose a hacker sends you an email containing a link saying "click h…

Goals allow you to track hits on specific links or specific pages. They are called "goals" because they serve a similar purpose as what is called "goals" in other analytics packages such as Google Analytics. Tracking clicks on a…

Here are some simple steps to add a new blog to your site: #In backoffice? under the tab? click the link at the bottom to create a ‘'’New blog”’. #Fill out the tab#General_tab | form? for creating a new blog. #Click ‘'&…

The Analytics Tab displays detailed and summarized information about hits on your site. Website analytics can provide insights and data about your visitors that can help you create a better user experience for them. Understanding the nature and behavior of your visitors is also key to optimizing a website for key conversion metrics.

We use the convenient term "moderator" to designate a User who has been given Advanced Permissions to create and especially edit Posts? or Comments? having the Review, Member and/or Community Post/Comment visibility statuses. (Note the User m…

To give an example, here is a question from the forum: ‘’Is there any way that I could add something so it shows as:'’ Day 331 of Week 48 Wednesday November, 28 2007 This is the answer: ‘’Find your skin, crack open ind…

If you already have a personalized skin that works with b2evolution 1.6 and you now want to upgrade it to work with 1.8, then this guide shows you how. Luckily, there’s not much to it. Head plugin hook There’s a new plugin hook that allo…

An ‘'’Antispam Plugin”’ is a plugin that implements methods to prevent/fight back at spam. Creating an ‘'’Antispam Plugin”’ is the same as [[CreatingPlugin|creating a "normal" plugin]]. This pag…

In the /blogs folder there should be a file called .htaccess . This file optimizes the way the Apache web server works with b2evolution? If you used the standard b2evolution installer, this file will probably be already set up properly. However, if in…

This tab shows a list of currently scheduled jobs. Each line represents a job that is pending (waiting to be executed), currently executing (started), or has already executed: Finished, Timed out, Error.

b2evolution has a method to automagically apply styles to each widget you might select for any given container. Your skin needs to use a special class caller in order to get the automagic classes to happen. After that, your style sheet needs to say what…

This section will explain everything about the Collection Contents tab in the back-office.

If your blog is being hammered with comment spam, it will get slower and slower as your database gets bloated with hundreds of thousands of spammy comments. At some point your site will get so slow and will consume so many resources that your web hosti…

Comment spam is a plague on all blogs, forums and generally all websites that allow user generated content. Why is that? Spammers are actually professionals hired to do just that! What they try to achieve is to place a link to their own website (or th…

This panel controls the activation process for newly created user accounts.

There are several ways to access the file manager.

Widget output can be cached in memory on the server using the BlockCache (requires a memory cache like APC to be installed).

You can manage the slugs associated with an Item in the Item Edit Form. There are some considerations you should know when specifying URL slugs.

Note: on collections of type "Manual" the revision history can also be accessed from the front office by a link at the bottom of each page (for editors only).

This is a very annoying error kind of error! First let us be extremely clear about 2 things: 1) you should always backup your site, and especially your database before attempting an upgrade. 2) this kind of error does NOT happen randomly. It happens…