Recent Forumotion updates : access to the forum under construction, 2 new widgets, new variable
November 23rd 2023, 2:16 pm by Luzz
Dear community,
A number of new features have appeared on your forums lately, here is a short summary.
Access to the forum under construction for moderators
This update to the "Forum under construction" feature, which was made at the suggestion of our users, adds the option to give access to a forum under construction not only to forum administrators (as was previously the case), but also to moderators.
You can manage this setting from your administration panel:
Administration panel General Forum Configuration Allow access to the forum under construction
New widget "Latest images"
A new widget is now available on your forums, allowing you to …
We have good news for all Forumotion users! Now you can save your drafts of new topics.
As you know, the "Draft" option worked on our forums until now only for topic replies. Our latest update allows you to create a draft of a new topic, find it in the list of your drafts, modify and publish when all the modifications are complete.
As a reminder, to be able to use drafts on your forum, the option must be activated in your administration panel:
Administration Panel General Messages and Emails - Configuration
If drafts are enabled, the "Draft" button appears at the bottom of the editor when creating a …
Footer widgets: more customization in your layout!
Dear users,
Today, we present a new improvement to Forumotion forums: Footer widgets.
This is a new area available to display widgets, namely at the bottom of the page. Indeed, this customization element was clearly missing from our forums!
From now on, you can choose to place (or not) widgets in the footer, while having control over their layout (they can be displayed in one to four columns).
How the Footer widgets are displayed on the forum?
Here is an example of what a forum footer might look like if the new "footer widgets" feature is enabled. Of course, as the number of columns in this area is configurable and the choice of widgets to display is specific to each one, …