MyBB 1.4 Feature Tour
MyBB 1.4 is a major release of the most powerful, free PHP and MySQL forum software available. There's over 50 new features, many behind the scenes optimizations and a complete rewrite of the Administrator Control Panel. Take a look at the tour below for a small snapshot of exactly what's new and improved in MyBB 1.4 or take a look at the full list.
Administrator Control Panel
Redeveloped from the ground up
MyBB 1.4 contains a brand new administrator control panel that’s been developed from the ground up to be easy to use while giving you complete control over your forum. Our extensive experience in the forum industry tells us one thing: poorly designed control panels lead to increasing frustration and difficulty maintaining a forum. We’ve spent the time planning the MyBB Control Panel while developing it to ensure it’s easy to use and increases productivity.
Organized in to six logical sections
Generally you'll login to the control panel to do one of a few tasks relating to either configuration, user & group management or forum & content management. We've broken down the control panel so that you're only seeing what you need to, when you need to:
- Home - An overview of your forum (the dashboard)
- Configuration - Everything relating to the configuration of your forum (settings, bans, calendars etc)
- Forums & Posts - Content management (forums, announcements, permissions etc)
- Users & Groups - User and group management (users, groups, promotions, mass-mails etc)
- Templates & Style - Design management (templates, themes etc)
- Tools & Maintenance - General system utilities (system health, logs, backups etc)
Powerful user management with Views
Views allow for saved searches in user management. For example, you may like to create a view for users called "Forum Staff" that fetches forum administrators, super moderators and moderators. This search can be saved so it can be quickly recalled later. It can also be customized to only show the information that's important for you.
Completely customizable via skins
The new control panel can be completely customized via an internal skinning system. Thanks to the extensive use of cascading stylesheets (CSS) too, for a lot of design modifications it's as simple as editing the stylesheets. The complimentary "Sharepoint" theme for the control panel that ships with MyBB 1.4:
