BoardTracker offers a growing range of tools and free mods/plugins for board owners to use or to install to provide your members with more features and an enhanced experience while helping to build board traffic and community activity.
Mods:
We now provide a range of free mods/hacks for boards to add useful features and "web2.0" functionality and also to improve performance on the board by reducing server loads.
The following mods are available now:
BoardTracker Search Mod
This mod is a drop-in replacement for the default search script included with your board software and provides all the power of our search engine - and more - with results fully integrated within your board. Since this mod uses our servers for all the indexing and processing it significantly reduces load on your server while offering your users an advanced search engine with results which can be ordered by date or relevancy and can show results only from your board or a group of boards your specify or all boards in BoardTracker. You can search by User, search a specific forum or related forums, block banned-words from being searched and more...
You can choose from the available versions listed below..
vBulletin:
For version 3.0.* |
For version 3.5.* |
For version 3.6.*
phpBB:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=389680
Invision:
Old mod version (Version 1)
New mod version - (Version 2) - Coming soon
BoardTracker Topic Tagging Mod
This mod adds the ability for your users to tag threads when posting and then those threads can be searched by tag using the fully integrated boardtracker search system. Tagging threads in this way builds a 'folksonomy' for threads posted on your board as well as on the boardscape as a whole since tags are indexed in boardtracker and are searchable by all our users. This is a great way for your users to further participate in your community and provides a very useful search and organizational tool. The mod automatically creates cached customizable tag clouds which you can easily place on any page on your board. As with all BT mods you can also show and search tags from multiple boards from within this mod for added 'web2.0' goodness!
vBulletin:
For version 3.5.* |
For version 3.6/7.*
IPB:
http://mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php/f/6314
phpBB:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=555087
BoardTracker Tag Clouds
This is an addon for the tagging mod and creates 'tag clouds' showing the latest and hottest topics on your board or on the entire boardscape. You can simply paste the code onto any page (not just on boards) with some simple params and instantly see your custom tag cloud.
Since this mod is just a line of javascript pasted into a page it works with all board versions. The following post contains full details: http://forums.boardtracker.com/viewtopic.php?t=131
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BoardTracker Blog Mod
This mod easily turns any forum on your board into a blog format. Forums can be switched between forum and blog layout at any time using the forum admin panel. We use this mod for our own blog which you can see
here. Currently this mod is only available for phpBB:
http://forums.boardtracker.com/viewtopic.php?t=52
Further exciting mods to extend and empower your board and your community are on the way.
Developers:
You may like to know we will soon offer an API you can use to build your own apps and mods which interact with BoardTracker systems. Join in our developer forum to find out more or to discuss your own BoardTracker related projects.
Social Network:
An integral part of BoardTracker is our Jabber Instant Message system which we use to provide near realtime thread alerts to premium members. However this IM system is actually available to ALL our members right now and can be used to communicate with each other, with other board owners and with us for support for example. To use the Jabber network you just need an IM client that supports it such as Trillian, Gaim and many others and then login with your BoardTracker account details to the Jabber server at: im.boardtracker.com and your Jabber address will be @im.boardtracker.com. We will be expanding the social networking aspects of BoardTracker soon so stay tuned for that!
Income opportunities:
Coming soon - great ways to make money with BoardTracker!
