Coding

33 guides in this category

1. Determining your look

   This guide is to help you figure out how you want your site to look. It's an important step when theming a site to know where you want bits and bobs before you put your fingers to keyboard to start developing it. You'll find while coding them it will still evolve but this is to get you thinking about where you want things.

   Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink, Invision Power Services (IPS), Journals (Tumblr, Wordpress, Livejournal, Insanejournal), MyBB, Nova, phpBB, Proboards (Freeforums), SMF, XenForo, Other

   By Morrigan, December 5, 2018

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   • Added by Morrigan
   • January 1, 1970

2. Circular image with circular text around it

   When I have a circular image, I want the text around it to curve with it. Here's a quick guide to doing that!

   Type: Look & Feel

   By Kit the Human, April 11, 2018

   • 1,063 views
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   • Added by Kit the Human
   • January 1, 1970

3. BBCode 101

   Want to make your character's speech stand out or place emphasis on all the yelling instead of CAPSING IT ALL OVER THE PLACE? Find out how to be bold with BBCode.

   Type: Other

   By soggymuse, January 28, 2015

   • 2,697 views
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   • Comment by Lady Isadorabelle
   • January 11, 2016

4. Adding A Custom Menu to the Mobile View

   This information is actually available on the jcink wiki, but it's a bit buried and easy to miss. Or maybe I'm just unobservant. Who knows?

    

   Anywho, you can add links to the mobile view of jcink.

   Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink

   By Kit the Human, August 9, 2019

   • 2,257 views
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   • Added by Kit the Human
   • August 9, 2019

5. Add a Select All Button in Showthread

   Would it be easier for you to select all posts in a thread for moderating? This functionality can be useful when you want to mod nearly all of the posts in a thread, leaving some of them unmodded. 

   Type: Other Software: MyBB

   By Kit the Human, May 4, 2018

   • 4,599 views
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   • Comment by Arasnia
   • July 4, 2021

6. Accessing Profile Field Data in IPS

   Using IPS template logic and a little PHP, you can access, manipulate and display almost any field in the database. Although this tutorial focuses primarily on moving profile fields around to display in posts, the process of finding, naming, and displaying data across the board remains the same. 

   Type: Look & Feel Software: Invision Power Services (IPS)

   By Sadrienne, April 15, 2018

   • 2,929 views
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   • Added by Sadrienne
   • January 1, 1970

7. 2-Grid Forum Layout

   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.

   Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink, MyBB

   By Kit the Human, June 7, 2018

   • 4,896 views
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   • Comment by Guest
   • January 1, 1970

8. "Auto Thread Tracker"

   You can whack the user's subscribed threads into your wrapper, which makes it easier to see what needs replying to. Here's how.

    

   This script will also work with other forum software. However, if you're able to use PHP, I would use that.

    

   For other forums, just change the element that you're targeting:

    

   $("#thread-container").load("URL ELEMENT_TO_TARGET");

    

   Type: Javascript Software: Jcink

   By Kit the Human, August 7, 2019

   • 5,024 views
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   • Added by Kit the Human
   • August 7, 2019