• When you look at the provided Introducing Templates/EvoSkins? you will see function calls like this for example: <?php the_time() ?> ...which will display the time of the current post, using the default time format. However, many of these function… more »
  • The person who administrates a particular b2evolution installation. Wikipedia more »
  • b2evolution will automatically add social media meta tags to certain Disps. At this time the following tags can be inserted (example): This includes Opengraph tags for facebook and tags for Twitter Cards. Facebook Sharing debugger:… more »
  • A User who has permission to edit other users, including their "admin settings". Those settings are identified with a "User Admin" badge. Users with the "User Admin" permission are allowed to edit/moderate all users except… more »
  • This Disp is used to display (read-only) the user profile of a User. If called without requesting a specific user, the profile of the Owner of the current Collection is displayed. The display is influenced by User Settings > Display and User fields.… more »
  • A Newsletter is a series of Issues to which individual Subscribers can subscribe to. When a User/Subscriber is subscribed to a Newsletter, he will automatically receive all new Issues of that Newsletter. Each Issue is an email Campaign that is… more »
  • Depending on the Renderers you have installed and activated, there are many ways to add links to a post. For example, with the Autolinks Renderer, just pasting an URL into a post will display it as a link. That being said, the "always-works"… more »
  • Bootstrap is a popular CSS framework for creating Responsive (RWD?) web sites. b2evolution uses Bootstrap extensively for it’s default Skins as well as for its Back Office. more »
  • Your Home Page is the top level page of your website, or in this case, the top level page that b2evolution displays when you access its Base URL. Your Home Page is the Front Page of your Main Collection. more »
  • A Front Page is the top level page of a Collection. If your website or b2evolution installation consists of only one Collection, then the Front Page of that Collection is also the Home Page of your site. However, if you have multiple Collections (for… more »
  • A SiteVisitor that has successfully registered on the b2evolution installation. more »
  • If your b2evolution installation cannot reach b2evolution.net to download updates, check any firewalls that may block the download. For example, on RedHat servers you may need to disable or change the configuration rules of SELinux. more »
  • Below is the list of all plugin Hooks as of b2evolution 6.7.8. For more information about each method, look at the source code: in the "test plugin" class (greatly enhanced in v6.7.8) in the Plugin class itself. Plugin information (settings,… more »
  • /conf/_basic_config.template.php is not used by b2evolution after installation. It is only here to serve as a starting point to create _basic_config.php more »
  • 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… more »
  • Widget Plugins are just regular Plugins like all the others. When we call one a "Widget Plugin" though, it means that it provides an additional Widget for b2evolution to use in the Collection Widgets List?. A Plugin can provide Widget… more »
  • Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a set of techniques that make your web pages adapt to the screen size on which they are viewed. b2evolution v6+ uses the Bootstrap framework as the core layer for achieving RWD. b2evolution also takes care of resizing… more »
  • Google offers many webfonts that your are free to use. You can pick and choose here: https://fonts.google.com Once you have selected the fonts you are interested in, here’s how you can quickly add them to b2evolution without editing any file. (If… more »
  • A Mailing List would be a list to which many Users are subscribed and whenever an authorized User posts to the Mailing List, all subscribers would receive the message. b2evolution allows something similar, but doesn’t call it a "Mailing… more »
  • A Subscriber is a User who has subscribed to any of the following: Update Notifications on a specific Collection Update Notifications on a specific Post a Newsletter an Email Sequence more »
  • An email Recipient is an individual User who will receive an email: as part of an Email Campaign as part of an Email Sequence or because they are subscribed to updates on a Collection or a Post or who will receive any other type of email Notification… more »
  • An Email Campaign is one individual email message that is sent to a set of Recipients. This is almost like sending "bulk emails". However, with the "Campaigns" feature, each recipient may (and probably will) receive the email with… more »
  • An email sequence is a series of email templates that will be sent out in sequence to a Subscriber of the sequence. The delay between consecutive emails (Steps) in the Sequence can vary (typically a few days). Each Subscriber will receive the emails in… more »
  • An email Notification will be sent out when a specific event occurs and a User has subscribed to these particular type of Notification. Notifications can be of different kinds, see: disp = subs. For example notifications are sent out when a User… more »
  • A Newsletter Subscription is a particular kind of Subscription that happens when a User has subscribed to a Newsletter. more »
  • An Update Subscription is a particular kind of Subscription that happens when a User has subscribed to updates on a Post or a whole Collection. more »
  • A Subscription exists when a Subscriber has subscribed to any of the following: Updates on a Collection Updates on a Post A Newsletter more »
  • When a User/Subscriber is subscribed to a Newsletter, he will receive all future Issues of this Newsletter. more »
  • An Update Notification is a type of Notification that will be sent whenever there is a new Post or a new Comment and a User/Subscriber has subscribed to these notifications. Users/Subscribers can manage their subscriptions through their User Profile. more »
  • SMTP means Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is the protocol used to communicate between mail servers on the internet. When b2evolution or PHP wants to send an email to a Recipient, it needs to contact a mail server (preferably directly the destination… more »