Welcome to phpBB Smith, the home of many refinements for phpBB, a popular, free, and open source forum software. If you administrate a web site community, you have probably realized that much work is involved in maintaining smooth operations while also establishing a member base and unique site identity. We are here to make some of these tasks a little easier.
In these pages, you will find many modifications (also known as hacks), tutorials, and other materials to help manage communities and improve the site experience for your members, giving them more reason to return. We call these materials, collectively, Refinements, not so much because of what they are, but rather what they accomplish. The refinements temper your forum software, your community members, and your abilities as an administrator, making all of these stronger.
Tutorial Update
The phpBB 3 tutorial Increase Subject Length has been updated. These changes reflect the layout of phpBB 3 Gold's files and include a more complete set of SQL queries for some finicky databases.
February 1 ◊ 1:31 AM
Subject Check 1.1.0 Released
A new version of Subject Check is now available. This version has a couple of bug fixes and a new setting that allows the checked topics to be restricted to the current forum or to encompass all forums.
October 11 ◊ 6:47 AM ◊ 1 Comments
New Tutorial: Secure Your ACP
I've added a new tutorial, Secure Your Administration Control Panel. This tutorial can be used with both phpBB 2 and phpBB 3 forums.
August 7 ◊ 5:13 PM ◊ 5 Comments
IP Search 2 for phpBB 3
IP Search for phpBB 3 has been updated to version 2.0.1 to fix a bug in searches that appeared only on certain servers.
August 2 ◊ 9:15 PM
Increase Subject Length for phpBB 3
My first tutorial relating to phpBB 3 has been added to the Support section. Increase Subject Length describes how to alter a phpBB 3 forum to allow longer post and topic titles.
July 30 ◊ 7:55 PM
IP Search 2 for phpBB 3
The phpBB 3 version of IP Search has been updated to 2.0.0. This version has a few bug fixes and adds a new username based search feature.
July 30 ◊ 4:51 PM
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Downloads
phpBB 3
◊ Administration Tools (2)→ IP Search
◊ Anti Spam Tools (1)
→ Photo Visual Confirmati...
◊ Site Experience (1)
→ Hide the Red X
phpBB 2
◊ Administration Tools (11)→ IP Search
◊ Admin Upload Utility (10)
→ Admin Upload Utility
◊ Anti Spam Tools (7)
→ Subject Check
◊ Site Experience (15)
→ Enhanced Group List
◊ Shop Add-Ons (6)
→ Effects Store
◊ New Features (3)
→ Instant Messenger List
Support
◊ Software Manuals
◊ Customize Your Forum
◊ Forum Upgrades
→ 2.0.21 to 2.0.22
◊ Making Modifications
◊ Troubleshooting
◊ View All Support
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