Question "Standard" Kunena settings

I would like to offer some suggestions about "standard" and appropriate settings for Kunena. These suggestions are based on Kunena 1.0.8; they may not be suitable nor appropriate - they may not even exist - in later versions of Kunena. There is no guarantee they are appropriate for everyone ... and everyone will have their own ideas about whether they're right for them. They work for me and that's the only fair claim that I can make.

These suggestions may be helpful if people are having problems in getting Kunena to work on their website. Before you ask questions about why your implementation of Kunena is not working, try the following suggestions - they may save you (and us) a lot of trouble! To make the changes, go to your Joomla administrator backend and select Components » Kunena Forum » Kunena Configuration:

• Basics

• Forum Offline = no
• Session Lifetime = 1800
• Enable RSS feed = yes
• Default RSS type = By Post
• RSS History = 1 Week
• Enable PDF creation = yes

Frontend

• Show New posts = yes
• Joomla Mambot Support = no
• Disable emoticons = no
• Template = default_ex
• Image Sets = default_ex
• Default Kunena Page = Recent Discussions
• Use Joomla Style? = no (IMPORTANT)
• Show Announcement = yes (IMPORTANT)
• Category Image Path = category_images/

Security

• Registered Users Only = no
• Allow Name Change = no
• Public Read/Write = no
• Flood Protection = 0
• E-mail Moderators = no
• Spam protection system = yes (note: I don't know if this feature works)
• Include complete post content in the e-mail sent to subscribers = no

Avatars

• Allow Avatars = yes
• Allow Avatar Upload = yes
• Use Avatars Gallery = yes
• Image Processor = GD2 (note: may not be available)

Uploads

• Images

• Allow Public Upload for Images = no
• Allow Registered Upload for Images = no

Files

• Allow File Upload for Public = no
• Allow File Upload for Registered = no

Ranking

• Ranking = yes
• Use Rank Images = yes

BBCode

• Show spoiler tag in editor toolbar = yes
• Show video tag in editor toolbar = yes
• Show eBay tag in editor toolbar = no
• Trim long URLs = yes
• Auto embed YouTube videos = yes
• Enable Code Highlighting = no

Integration (these settings depend entirely on what other components are installed)

• Profile Settings

• Profile = Kunena

In addition to the basic, "standard" Kunena settings I wrote about yesterday, some people also have problems setting up their forum categories. Here, therefore, are some of my ideas for creating a forum category. As I wrote in my earlier post, there is no guarantee they are appropriate for everyone ... and everyone will have their own ideas about whether they're right for them. They work for me and that's the only fair claim that I can make.

Use Components » Kunena Forum » Forum Administration and select a category to edit:

• Forum advanced configuration

• Locked = no
• Public Access Level = Everybody
• Include Child Groups = yes
• Public Access Level = Everybody
• Admin Access Level = Manager
• Include Child Groups = yes (note: I don't understand why this is repeated)
• Review posts = no

Moderation of the Forum and Forum moderators

• Moderated = yes

#10980 updated with IMPORTANT settings that fix defects in Kunena 1.0.9.

good good :laugh:

FYI: I have copied your "standard" config to docs docs.kunena.com/index.php/Configuration with some minor change.

Thanks, core2. I thought about submitting an entry there, but I wasn't too sure how to go about it. I'll look at what you've written and see how it looks there. Between us I'm sure we can make it a useful resource.