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Preparing your Plugins for 1.4

By Tikitiki | Published July 11th, 2008 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

Hello,
With the MyBB 1.4 release pending ever closer, we are stepping up to get your plugins ready for 1.4. There are two main things you should do:

Update your plugins to work with MyBB 1.4 ahead of time.
MyBB 1.4 Beta has been available to download to those who request it. […]

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Plugin Upgrade Guide (for Plugin Authors)

By Tikitiki | Published July 11th, 2008 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

As we approach the release of MyBB 1.4 and the code is finalized I thought it would be a good idea to take some time and write an in-depth guide on how to upgrade your plugins for MyBB 1.4.
First are the required code changes in MyBB 1.4:

TABLE_PREFIX is not used anymore except in $db->query().

In MyBB […]

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MyBB 1.4 Admin CP - The Complete Overview (Part 4)

By Justin S. | Published May 20th, 2008 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

Welcome back for the final installment in our Complete Admin CP Overview. First and foremost I would like to thank all of you who had submitted their questions for this week’s blog post. Second, today we will be going over the Templates & Themes tab and some of the cool things we did to make your experience easier!

The new simple stylesheet editor

The new simple stylesheet editor

See the full post for the final Admin CP overview.

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MyBB 1.4 Admin CP - The Complete Overview (Part 3)

By Tikitiki | Published March 18th, 2008 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

Welcome back for another overview of MyBB 1.4’s Administrator Control Panel - this time, we’ll be covering the “Users & Groups” tab as well as some of the technical decisions made.

A portion of code in the User ACP page

A portion of code in the User ACP page

See the full post for this week’s overview.

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MyBB 1.4 Admin CP - The Complete Overview (Part 2)

By Tikitiki | Published March 10th, 2008 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

It’s time for another overview of MyBB 1.4’s Administrator Control Panel - this time, we’ll be covering the “Forums & Posts” and “Tools & Maintenance” tabs, as well as some of the general design decisions made - and how we made them.

Did you know? Many of the Admin CP pages are born by rough sketches by hand from Justin, one of our designers. We then discuss and revise them, and finally implement the finished product in code. We have taken a lot of time to develop pages which let administrators extensively manage their forum, while maintaining the ease of use. Read more about this process in the “Design Decisions” section in the full post.

Sketch of the forum permissions view

Sketch of the forum permissions view

See the full post for this week’s overview.

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Screenshots from the MyBB 1.4 Beta

By Chris Boulton | Published February 17th, 2008 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

Every now and again I’ll be posting a few more screenshots of some of the things that have changed in MyBB 1.4 as well as general screenshots from the beta.

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The new (optional) vertical style post layout.

See the full post for all of this weeks screenshots.

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MyBB 1.4 Admin CP - The Complete Overview (Part 1)

By Chris Boulton | Published February 9th, 2008 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

The Dashboard

The Dashboard

As most of you would already know, MyBB 1.4 has been in development for quite a while. The reason for this is that the administration area of MyBB has received a complete overhaul along with several new features being implemented.

It’s now time to release information regarding the new Admin CP and I’ll be doing so over a series of posts which cover the different sections of the administration panel, I’ll covering how we developed the admin panel and reasons why we’ve structured it as it is. I’ll also be answering any questions that users may have.

In this post, I’ll be introducing the administration panel, the configuration area and talking about some of our design decisions.

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