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Updated Aug 23, 2007 by tslocum
AdministrationGuide  
Administrating kusaba

Note: This guide is not yet finished

Managing Staff

  1. Navigate to the Staff section of manage.php
  2. To add a new staff member, use the forms at the top of the page
    1. Username is the name that the staff member will log in with
    2. Password is the password that the staff member will have
    3. Type is the type of staff member they will be:
    4. Once you have added a staff member, you should probably edit them to allow them to moderate boards.
  3. To edit a staff member, click the 'edit' link on the same row as their name in the staff list.
  4. To delete a staff member, click the 'x' link on the same row as their name in the staff list.

Managing Boards

  1. To add a board, navigate to the Add Board section of manage.php
    1. Directory is the place that the board will be inside of your kusaba root directory, ie: for "/b/" you would put "b" (without quotes). Do not put slashes or other non-alphanumeric characters in this field
    2. Description is the name of the board, ie: For /b/ you would put "Random" (without quotes).
    3. First post ID is the number that the first post will have.
  2. To delete a board, navigate to the Delete Board section of manage.php.
    1. Select the Directory of the board you want to delete from the drop-down box
    2. Click the delete button.
  3. To edit the options on a particular board, navigate to the Board Options section of manage.php
    1. Select which board you plan to edit from the drop-down box and click the Go button.
    2. After changing options, select the Update button at the bottom of the page

News

  1. Navigate to the News section of manage.php
  2. To add a news post, fill out the forms at the top of the page (making sure to add proper html) and click "add"
  3. To edit or delete an existing news post, click the relevant link in the Edit/Delete column in the news list

Bans and Deletions

  1. Log in to manage.php
  2. Now, when browsing boards (that you moderate), you will see D & B links next to each post (If you have javascript enabled). Clicking the D will delete the post, while clicking the B will bring you to the ban page to ban the poster. Clicking the & will delete the post and bring you to the ban page to ban the poster.
  3. You can also navigate to the Delete Thread/Post section of manage.php and type in the thread or post ID there.
  4. On the ban page, there are many options:
    1. IP: Put the IP or IP range here.
    2. Allow Read: Whether or not to allow the poster to continue reading the boards while banned. (Your httpd must support .htaccess for no-read bans)
    3. Type: Whether the ban is a single IP or an IP range ban
    4. Boards: Which boards to ban the poster from
    5. Seconds: How many seconds to ban the poster for. You can use the quick links next to the field to quickly fill in preset amounts of time (You must have Javascript enabled).
    6. Reason: The reason you are banning the poster. HTML is not escaped.
    7. Add Ban: Click this when you are done filling out the fields
  5. Also on the ban page is the ban list:
    1. The first 15 bans of each type are always displayed. To display all the bans, select "Display all bans" from the bottom of the list.
    2. To delete a ban, Select the x next to it.
  6. Another way to delete and ban posts, particularly useful in a flood situation is MultiDelBan™
    1. Navigate to a board. (be sure you are logged in)
    2. Select the Checkboxes next to the posts you wish to delete (or delete and ban)
    3. Scroll to the bottom of the page
    4. If you wish to ban the users that posted the selected posts, select the ban checkbox and fill out a reason. Be warned, these will be permanent bans from all boards.
    5. Click the MultiDelBan button to delete/ban all posts/users.

Stickies and Locked Threads

Stickies are threads which remain at the top of the first page of a board automatically. They will not expire or be bumped off the page unless a moderator or administrator deletes them. To sticky a thread, you can either modpost in it with the right flags, or you can navigate to the manage stickies section of manage.php:

  1. Navigate to the Manage Stickies section of manage.php.
  2. Select which board you want to sticky the thread from with the drop-down box.
  3. Type in the Thread ID that you want to sticky.
  4. Click Sticky

Locked threads are threads which cannot be replied to except by staff members. To lock a thread you can either modpost in it with the correct flags, or you can navigate to the Manage Locked Threads section of manage.php

  1. To manage locked threads, repeat the above but navigate instead to the Locked Threads section.

Wordfilters

Wordfilters are things which filter the messages which are posted on your boards. For instance, you could wordfilter "moo" to "baa", and every instance of moo in posters's messages would be changed to baa.

  1. To manage wordfilters, navigate to the Wordfilter section of manage.php
    1. To add a wordfilter, type the word you want replaced in the Word field
    2. Type the word you want it to be replaced with in the Replaced By field
    3. Select which boards you want this wordfilter to filter messages on.

Misc. Administrative Tools

  1. Posting Rates
  2. Check for new version
  3. Disk space used
  4. View Deleted Thread
  5. Cleanup
  6. Search Posts
  7. Modlog
  8. Edit Filetypes
  9. Edit Sections
  10. SQL Query
  11. Ban proxy list
  12. Rebuild all HTML files
  13. APC
  14. Module settings

Comment by omegaltd...@juno.com, Jun 05, 2008

How do i report illegal postings, whom can i contact to request the files be removed? That all i ask. I don't grasp why these people want to discourage me from making a living on my own work... they make more annually working a McDonalds? than i do on my comics... http://paws.ru/kusaba/fc/res/1685.html

Comment by emtupt5, Sep 03, 2008

How do I do an IP-range ban properly? Do I just do like x.x.x.x-y or does x.x.x. work?

Comment by mmorpes, Aug 05, 2009

when i log into the manage board I get a 404. Does anybody know how to fix that.


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