Administrator handbook
Choose a task from the collapsible left sidebar. These guides follow starter beta.156e; optional package screens depend on installed/enabled addons.
- Read the admin overview
- Create categories and subcategories
- Manage prefixes and suffixes
- Organise prefix groups
- Create tags and merge duplicates
- Organise tag groups
- Build custom pages with widgets
- Publish the forum’s built-in knowledge base
- Replace the forum terms of service
- Write and moderate blog posts
- Organise blog categories
- Create, edit and suspend member accounts
- Set group capabilities and category permissions
- Create and order member banners
- Control who submits downloads and listings
- Create automatic badges and grant manual awards
- Create subscriptions and comparison tables
- Reply to support tickets
- Manage resource visibility, areas and deletion
- Review new resources and revisions
- Create download categories
- Create compatibility presets
- Configure downloads, review and upload limits
- Configure Marketplace listings and fees
- Organise Marketplace categories
- Inspect Marketplace orders and refunds
- Manage official Marketplace listings
- Configure the creator programme
- Review creator applications
- Review creators and their submissions
- Review balances and record payouts
- Handle reports, approvals and staff notes
- Block screened addresses and configure spam defence
- Configure trust levels and rate limits
- Configure board identity, usernames and SEO
- Enable or hide optional forum areas
- Upload header logos, favicon and share image
- Import, activate and edit forum styles
- Install, upgrade and license addons
- Import, select and author language packs
- Arrange header/footer menus and footer branding
- Add social network and custom-icon links
- Configure the installable mobile web app
- Add custom CSS and scripts safely
- Configure SMTP and digest defaults
- Deliver queued mail and investigate failures
- Create chat rooms, rules, mutes and bans
- Publish RSS feeds of public topics
- Import RSS items into forum topics
- Set sign-in policy and recover two-factor access
- Create and revoke read-only API keys
- Configure dashboard panels and read activity statistics
- Work with the Bug Reports addon queue
- Put the forum in maintenance mode
- Create, verify and restore backups
- Import another forum and reconcile missing media
- Apply and recover an exact-baseline core update
- Run the shared database upgrade
- Identify the installed release and its changes
- Test and apply word filters
- Configure and deliver outgoing webhooks
- Arrange widgets around built-in pages
- Repair imported bodies, passwords and groups
- Move a Forovanta board to another host
- Configure payment providers and verify orders