Operation Manual

140 External / Managed Content

To edit your forum:

• Double-click the forum.

For more details about Serif Web Resources account control, see

Using Smart objects (p. 151).

Managing your forum

Up to now, you've just created a single subforum within a single category. To

edit category name, subforum name, and add more categories and/or subforums

within those categories, WebPlus lets you manage the forum. You can also

control forum privacy, moderation, theme, and user ranking (most posts).

To manage your forum:

• Select the forum and click Manage from the context toolbar.

Forum security

By default, your forum is created with the Add new users on signup feature

enabled, which means you don't need to do anything except moderate forum

content when needed. Forum contributors simply register and enter their own

Technically, a forum uses a User List Smart object for access control, which is

automatically created along with your forum. Remember that a forum is a Smart

object itself! It is possible to use the User List Smart object to manage forum

users in several ways:

• Manually add users. You can add a set of users for private forums

rather than have new users sign up by themselves.

• Ban/suspend users. In a lively debating environment, there's often the

need for some timely moderation to keep forum contributor's on-topic

and adhering to "house" rules. You're able to ban or suspend users

accordingly.