Guides

Got an icyboards forum? Want to transfer your icyboards database to your hosting here on the Initiative? Here's how!

These few steps are universal for creating a theme, we're going to go through the initial steps of developing a theme, this is going to include a few key factors. This will include questions you want to ask yourself and good practices.

Confession: I have never had a problem with spam on my icyboards or self hosted mybb forums. Here is my guide to combatting spam, updated from VirusZero's guide.

This is a base for a mini profile that you can either hover over or click onto, to reveal more information about the author. I built this in response to the problem created by hovers: they do not necessarily work for iOS devices. Adding a click function allows all users to access the information usually found with a hover.

In this wee guide, I'm going to show you how to do a side by side forum layout with MYBB and Jcink. This is the only customization that this code does.

So a lot of people hate the default user bar that JCink provides however if you get rid of it then you get rid of the alerts popup with is super helpful for those that like to track their posts through this. So I figured out the javascript and adapted it so you can move the link to wherever you like.

Want to install a plugin? Not sure how? Read here!

So you have found a theme that you like? Here is a guide on how to import it, along with some of the common issues that you might come across.