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Quick Delete Members from Memberlist in phpBB3

February 18, 2011

Memberlist Mod for phpBB3 No matter what I do, I still get spam on my phpbb3 forums.  It seems like there should be better spam prevention by now, but apparently the spammers are presistant.  Generally, I go through and delete & ban the users one by one.  I’m fairly sure banning is a waste of [...]

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SEO for Page Titles in phpBB3

April 1, 2009

One irritating thing about a phpBB3 forum is the way that the titles appear in a search engine. Valuable space is given to “View topic” or “View forum”, when it could be giving people real information. A more descriptive page title is a great way to help people find your website! Rearranging the page titles [...]

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Anti Bot Question Mod for phpBB3

February 22, 2009

When phpBB3 was released, the new CAPTCHA was supposed to finally beat the bots. Well… according to my three forums, that lasted until about February 3rd. I’ve been flooded with bot registrations ever since. On my old phpBB2 forum I’d installed a great mod that added a simple question to the registration form. It worked [...]

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phpBB3 Auto-backup Database Mod

February 1, 2009

Remembering to backup your phpBB3 forum database can be a challenge.  You may never need it, but you can bet that that one time you do, it’ll be in a stretch where you haven’t backed anything up for weeks. Luckily, somebody has written a mod to automate this task for you.  I’ve been running it [...]

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