Robin Majumdar 2.0

OK, I often get asked this over and over by people running sites based on Invision Power Board. It is specifically allowed to remove the “Powered by Invision Power Board” text from the HTML title tag - the title tag is dynamically generated usually with the Forum name, and sometimes followed by the topic title.

It’s important to note that this has nothing to do with the copyright removal, which requires payment to IPS.

While there are ways to remove the dynamic title variable from the IPB ACP, this is *not* recommended as having a static title tag will hurt your SEO efforts.

To remove the “Powered by Invision Power Board” text in IPB 2.3.x (and most earlier versions) you need to edit the /forums/sources/action_public/boards.php file.

At around line 190 in that file, there is the following bit of code:

190: $cp = " (Powered by Invision Power Board)";

Do not delete that line! Instead you could change it to:

190: $cp = "";

If you use WordPress 2.5 or (gasp) earlier, you may encounter an error message “Call To Undefined Function: ctype_digit()” when you try to upload and attach an image to your post from inside the post editor.

More specifically, the bug will be something along the lines of :

PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function: ctype_digit() in /wordpress/wp-includes/link-template.php …

This is a known bug in WP 2.5, and obviously the most relevant solution is to upgrade to WordPress 2.6 which at this point is the latest stable release.

If you can’t upgrade for whatever reason (laziness doesn’t count) then you should be able to fix the image or photo upload issue by downloading a fresh copy of the link-template.php file which contains the bug fix for the ctype_digit() error. That preceding link, by the way, is to the file from the official WordPress file download link … that being said, always make sure you have a full backup available!

Firefox 3.0.1 was just released for download and it’s highly recommended that you immediately upgrade your FF 3.x installation (tell me that you’re not running a beta or RC version of 3) as it includes several critical security fixes.

I’m hitting post on this article and then doing the upgrade on a few machines here at work… yeah, at work. :/

Well, the development crew over at Wordpress released Beta 1 of Wordpress 2.6 yesterday and … while I had downloaded the build and run it on a few dev sites, didn’t have time to thoroughly test out the new beta features before Jeremy Schoemaker beat me with a pretty indepth review.

If the upgrade path from 2.5.x was as smooth for me as it was from 2.x to 2.5.x I think this will be a great release once it goes final… err… RTM.

Whew, that was one lengthy title. Well as you may have read here in the past, I really have enjoyed working with phpFoX on a few client sites. It sells itself a bit too much as an easy way to build your own MySpace or FaceBook type of social network site … while that is true, any seasoned veteran of building communities will know that the tool itself is the easy part.

The last time Konsort announced a discount coupon offer was around this time a year ago, and it was 30% off the regular price of about $299 - a pretty nice instant savings. I’ve been keeping my eyes open but haven’t seen any announcements about a discount yet.

That being said, phpFoX is definitely a mature product and has a serious community around the development of 3rd party add-ons. The Konsort group announced the final version of phpFoX 1.6.20 release back in February and there has been only one significant patch since then. That’s a pretty impressive track record given that so many companies rush new versions to RTM and then bury us helpless site managers with a bevy of bug fixes in days and weeks after. Not so with phpFoX consort… nice work guys.

As always, if you have any available licenses, leave a comment below (with your email in the comments form which is never revealed on this site) and I’ll be in touch.

Final note: Konsort offers an excellent affiliate program for phpFox.