MyBB Community Forums

Hi everyone. 'm really knew to the whole website and forum building thing so please bare with me
I have so much trouble getting my host and forum software working. I opted for SMF at first but had no trouble with trying to host them with iPage so after a little research decided that MyBB was the way to go (a blessing in disguise I hope).
Anyway I have managed to install MyBB no problems but now I am at square one with doing research as to what mods I need. I am after a little advice from you guys as to which I should use or even if the mods are actually out there?
Here is my short list...
1. An option to log in with your Facebook account
2. Some kind a anti-spam mod when registering and for general maintenance and running of the forum
3. A good banner ad mod where I can add my own banner ads on each page for revenue
4. I was also wondering if there is some kind of mod like they had on SMF called SIMPLE PORTAL which is kind of like a homepage with various blocks of information (RSS, links etc)

I hope I posted this in the right place, like I saaid I'm new to all this and really appreciiate any advice you guys can give.

Thanks,
Dean

1. http://forums.mybbcommunity.com/thread-1381.html

2. This http://mods.mybb.com/view/registration-s...y-question and this http://mods.mybb.com/view/recaptcha are good for anti spam.

3. This http://mods.mybb.com/view/index-ads and this http://mods.mybb.com/view/postad-lite or this http://mods.mybb.com/view/advertisement-in-posts should do good.

4. A Simple portal is already included in the defult MyBB package in your installation. To find the portal just go to : http://www.yoursite.com/portal.php (example)

Hoped I helped!

1.- http://community.mybb.com/thread-82730.html
2.- http://mods.mybb.com/view/registration-s...y-question
http://mods.mybb.com/view/simple-captcha
http://community.mybb.com/thread-63764.html
3.- http://mods.mybb.com/view/my-advertisements
4.- http://community.mybb.com/thread-63463.html

Wrong forum, lol

/beaten

(2011-08-22, 03:52 PM)Everett777 Wrote: [ -> ]4. A Simple portal is already included in the defult MyBB package in your installation. To find the portal just go to : http://www.yoursite.com/portal.php (example)

How do I get that portal to become my homepage?
I did find something about adding the following line anywhere to my htaccess.txt file...

DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php

But that didn't work!!!

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I've got the newest version of MyBB and the mods you guys have shown above aren't compatible with the newest version. I'm already wishing I'd stayed with SMF

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I gotta admit that after trying the above links I think I'm gonna change my hosting and go back to SMF. The Mods don't have any tutorials and I find trying to navigate to find the appropriate mods a real pain. MyBB may have a good reputation but for first timers I personally find it a real chore to setup. Maybe it's teething problems or maybe it's me? I'll try again once I have used something more user friendly.
Thanks for the help anyway guys

Setting up the mods should be as easy as uploading them to your forum and activating/installing them in the admin CP. The well-behaved ones are layed out so that all of the files go where they should if you just dump the .zip's contents to the root of your forum. There's only 1 that I can think of that needs a core edit, and that's for an optional feature.

The Mods site up top contains a bunch of neat plugins that should just work with MyBB since they're reviewed by staff before being made available.

Uh, I don't know where you got that they aren't compatible, but they are.

Try uploading a advance modification for SMF, the come back to the simplest world of mybb plugin installation.

Really, you will find it is easiest to install mybb modifications.