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as a registered user you have some advantages like free downloads, comments and posting on our forums, depending upon this site's configuration and options.
This is where several parameters are set for the site.
Website Configuration
General Site Info
Site name:
Site logo:
Named logo.gif and located in the images directory. This logo has nothing to do with your theme logo which you need to include for each theme. By default, the MDP logo is included. This image is shown on other sites when they get a news feed from yours and they enable images. See backend below.
Description of site:
This field should include a description suitable for search engines. See MDPro and Search Engines.
Meta keywords:
These would be the descriptive meta keywords that only a few (if any) search engines use. Alta Vista may still use them.
Dynamic MetaKeywords
Yes No
When this option is enabled, whenever an article is being displayed, all the words in it become meta keywords which are generated dynamically. Enabling this feature incurs a slight performance cost.
Use organized admin
Yes No
The Yes selection places admin icons under different tabs. Selecting No places them all together.
Site start date:
(Statistics uses this as the starting date of your site. If you had an HTML site prior to a MDP site, you should enter the starting date of your MDP site rather than the date you started your HTML site).
Administrator e-mail:
This is the from e-mail address for any messages sent automatically by MDP or any third party modules. Beware if you are sending a message to any site spammers use as they will get this e-mail address.
Default theme for your site:
This is the theme you would like users to see when they access your site. Once registered and logged in, they may choose another one for their own viewing if enabled below.
Allow users to override theme?
Yes No
This is where you allow users to choose any other theme you may have installed.
Note: If you allow users to override your default theme setting and later change this setting to "No" or you delete themes that some may have chosen, those users will be denied access. You will have to edit each of their preferences and manually change each one to the default theme in order to restore their access. They will see a blank page otherwise.
Allow user to change channel?
Yes No
You must have Channels installed for this to function.
Display Right Blocks in Articles?
Yes No
When displaying the full article (click on "read more...), you can decide whether to show your right blocks or not.
Locale time format:
This determines the time and date format displayed on the site.
Time zone offset:
This is the time zone your server is located in. The offset is from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Start page.
The module index.php is pointing to.This is the one that will appear in your central area on your homepage.
# of articles on Admin menu:
You can decide here how many articles to be displayed on the Main Administration menu (below programmed articles).
Stories # on homepage:
You can decide here how many articles to be displayed on the homepage (if News is selected as your module start page). Please be aware that the more stories you display, the longer it will take for your page to load and it might put your visitors off if the first page they load takes too long! Remember that registered users can change this value to whatever they want so this is just a default value for non-registered users.
Stories order on homepage:
You can order the news stories on your homepage by ID or by Date/time (which is in most cases the same order anyway).
Show admin menu graphics?
Yes No
Determines whether icons are displayed in the administration menu
Send Error reports by email:
Don't send error reports For referrers from this domain only For all referrers
This enables and configures the ability for the administrator to be notified if users request a non-existent page.
Enable funny error message in error.php
Yes No
This enables a slightly humorous 404 error page. See Error.
Enable pnAntiCracker?
Yes No
The pnAntiCracker is a security system that stops hackers from sending queries to your database using input fields and alerts you as the administrator.
Enable Security Code for login?
Yes No
This enables the graphic security code images for logging in to the site.
Enable Security Code for new registration?
Yes No
This enables the graphic security code images for registering on the site.
Initial group for users
This is the group people will be placed in upon registration. It is related to the minimum permissions you wish to give them. See both Groups and Permissions.
Select the language for your site:
This is the primary language for your site. You may add additional language packs at any time.
Detect language?
You can choose to let MDPro detect the language of your users (using the browser settings) or not.
Activate compression?
Activate compression or not. Uses the GZIP compression system, this can accelerate the page loading.
Footer Messages
Footer Line
Backend Configuration
This is the title and language seen on other sites if they use your site as an RSS news feed.
If you wish them to do so, they should use the URL http://www.yoursite.com/backend.php.
By default, this feature is enabled. To disable it, rename or delete backend.php or move it elsewhere.
Backend title:
Since the site name is automatically displayed on other site, this should be a one line description of your type of news, perhaps the content of your site.
Backend language:
Security Options
Security level:
You can decide the security level of your site by deciding how long cookies can stay active. The higher the setting, the more secure your site is, while the less convenient it is for your users.
For medium security, users stay logged in for:
days
If you choose the medium setting, you need to decide how long can users stay logged in.
Users become inactive after not using the system for:
minutes
If no activity is detected in X minutes from your user's browser, it is automatically logged-out.
Check referer on printer friendly page?
Run on intranet
Intranet
Yes No
Intranet should only be turned on if you cannot access MDPro with a fully-qualified host name (eg www.mysite.com). Enabling intranet removes a number of levels of security from MDPro. It is not recommended to run in this mode unless you are behind a firewall and users outside the firewall cannot gain access to your MDPro site
HTML Options
This is where you specify which HTML tags can be used on the site. It applies to administrators as well as users.
HTML tags allowed in posts:
Tag
Not allowed
Allowed
Allowed with parameters
<!-->
<a>
<abbr>
<acronym>
<address>
<applet>
<area>
<b>
<base>
<basefont>
<bdo>
<big>
<blockquote>
<br>
<button>
<caption>
<center>
<cite>
<code>
<col>
<colgroup>
<del>
<dfn>
<dir>
<div>
<dl>
<dd>
<dt>
<em>
<embed>
<fieldset>
<font>
<form>
<h1>
<h2>
<h3>
<h4>
<h5>
<h6>
<hr>
<i>
<iframe>
<img>
<input>
<ins>
<kbd>
<label>
<legend>
<li>
<map>
<marquee>
<menu>
<nobr>
<object>
<ol>
<optgroup>
<option>
<p>
<param>
<pre>
<q>
<s>
<samp>
<script>
<select>
<small>
<span>
<strike>
<strong>
<sub>
<sup>
<table>
<tbody>
<td>
<textarea>
<tfoot>
<th>
<thead>
<tr>
<tt>
<u>
<ul>
<var>
WARNING: enabling the <img>, <span>, <marquee> <script> <embed> <object> or <iframe> tags can leave your users open to attacks that will reveal their personal information, and as such it is recommended that you keep the setting for this tag to "Not allowed" unless you are absolutely sure that you understand what enabling the tag will allow Translate embedded HTML entities into real charactersYes No
Not allowed: The HTML tag is not allowed in any post.
Allowed: The HTML tag is allowed without any parameters. This is useful for text-formatting tags (for example, <b> and </b> for bold or <i> and </i> for italic).
Allowed with parameters: The HTML tag is allowed with parameters. An example of a tag with parameters is <font type="Arial" color="#FF0000">.
Translate embedded HTML entities into real characters: Embedded HTML entities usually begin with "&#", and pertain mostly to multi-byte languages such as Korean or other Asian languages. If you do not use multiple languages on your web site, or if your language does not require multi-byte support, you should set this to "No".
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