IPS Tutorials

This applies to both 4.2 and 4.1 versions of IPS. Occasionally you'll want to style a specific element on a specific page of your community - maybe you want to change how topic titles are shown inside a topic, or do something specific to the styles used in activity streams, without also altering other screens where the same elements are used. Your first instinct might be to open the template editor and add some custom classnames so you can style them. This would certainly work, but the downside is your template is now customized, so any future IPS4 updates would leave the template out of date. Not ideal by any means. Instead, you can use some helpfu…

This guide is for anyone, who wants to customize their Member Groups. It's great if you're willing to distinguish between Staff, Members, Donators or other Member Groups. I'll add some default codes within this guide, which you can easily implement on your website. Useful Links Link to all FA icons We'll be using Font Awesome icons. Link to HTML Color Names There are many colors that may suite your needs or color tastes, that's why this is handy. You don't want to have your Members to have cyan color on a Light Skin and so forth. Step by Step ACP > Members > Groups > Edit (Pencil Icon)…

FontAwesome Forum Icons So this is to get the forum icons like we currently have. You need at least some css & html knowledge and be able to use google/firefox's developer tools. Getting your Forum IDs For this to work at all you need to know the forum ID's you want to change. You can find these by right clicking them and checking the data-forumid attribute: You can also see the forum ID if you edit the forum in the admin cp, at the end of the url: Adding some template code Go to the theme and open up the following template: forums > front > index > forumRow At the end of every instance of a span with the c…