Categories and Forums basic guideline #154
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I think this may help some new users of MyBB software
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I personally think a better title for articles like these would be "Getting Started with [Thing(s)]". "Guidelines" is typically interpreted to mean rules or boundaries, rather than a guide for how to use something. |
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Yes, Actually name is: "Categories and Forums Management". I don't know why I used this name for commit subject... |
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| ## About Categories and Forums | ||
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| This is most basic guideline how to make and edit your first forums and categories at your forum. |
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I think this should be:
"This basic guidance will show you how to make and edit your first forum and catagories."
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| This is most basic guideline how to make and edit your first forums and categories at your forum. | ||
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| Categories and forums are root of your forum. It is suggested that they should be in some order so users and visitors can get good view of all categories and forums of your forum. There will be explained basic princip of how categories and forums work and what they are for. |
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I think this should be:
"Categories and forums are shown on the index of your forum. We suggest they are arranged in some order so users and visitors can get good view of all categories and forums on your website."
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| ## Categories | ||
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| In Category you can't write anything, you can't open threads or post. They are made just for organisation. Inside them there are forums and sub-forums wich are here for threads and posting. |
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I think this should be:
"In Categories you can't open threads or post. They are made just for organisation. Inside them there are forums and sub-forums which is where you can create threads and posts."
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| ### So what are Categories for then? | ||
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| Well, you can't just make some forum / subforum without it's parent. They cannot be alone. They needs parent Category in wich they are put. Categories are mostly general names of forums under it. |
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I think this should be:
"Well, you can't make a forum / subforum without it's parent. They cannot be alone. They needs parent Category in which they are put. Categories are mostly general names of forums under it."
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| Well, when creating new category they need to contain: | ||
| - **Forum Type** - Forum type should be **category**. | ||
| - **Title** - name of your category. Multiple categories can have same name. It is not it's id. |
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I think this should be:
"Title - name of your category. Multiple categories can have same name but we don't recommend this as it may become confusing"
| Well, when creating new category they need to contain: | ||
| - **Forum Type** - Forum type should be **category**. | ||
| - **Title** - name of your category. Multiple categories can have same name. It is not it's id. | ||
| - **Description** - You can have Category description. That can be few words wich will be displayed right below Category name at forum's home page. This field is **not** necessary and is mostly blank. |
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I think this should be:
"Description - You can have Category description. The description can be just a few words which will be displayed right below Category name at forum's index page. This field is not necessary and is mostly blank."
| - **Forum Type** - Forum type should be **category**. | ||
| - **Title** - name of your category. Multiple categories can have same name. It is not it's id. | ||
| - **Description** - You can have Category description. That can be few words wich will be displayed right below Category name at forum's home page. This field is **not** necessary and is mostly blank. | ||
| - **Parent Forum** - Mostly this is left **None** as categories are here to actually be parents. But if you wish, you can put it under another category. Then it will look like forum but you will be unaviable to write in it so there is not much point in doing that. |
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I think this should be:
"Parent Forum - Often this is left None as categories are here to actually be parents. But if you wish, you can put it under another category."
| - **Title** - name of your category. Multiple categories can have same name. It is not it's id. | ||
| - **Description** - You can have Category description. That can be few words wich will be displayed right below Category name at forum's home page. This field is **not** necessary and is mostly blank. | ||
| - **Parent Forum** - Mostly this is left **None** as categories are here to actually be parents. But if you wish, you can put it under another category. Then it will look like forum but you will be unaviable to write in it so there is not much point in doing that. | ||
| - **Display order** - This is position of your category between other categories. So if you have more than one category, there you can manage wich will be displayed at wich position. Please note that you can put any number in that places, and they will be sorted from lowest number - top category to biggest number - last category. |
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I think this should be:
"Display order - This is the order of your category between other categories. So if you have more than one category, there you can manage which will be displayed at wich position. Please note that you can put any number in that places, and they will be sorted from lowest number (1) - top category to biggest number (100) - last category."
| - **Display order** - This is position of your category between other categories. So if you have more than one category, there you can manage wich will be displayed at wich position. Please note that you can put any number in that places, and they will be sorted from lowest number - top category to biggest number - last category. | ||
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| There are some **Additional Forum Options**. Inside them you can change some category settings. **Please note:** | ||
| - **Forum link** will work and redirect to written url (in that case, note that you must write whole url as long as http:// or https://). And you will be able to still visit it's all forums and everything under it. |
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I think this should be:
"Forum link will work and redirect to specified url (in that case, note that you must write the full url as long as http:// or https://)."
I think this may help some new users of MyBB software