AF Ultimate Site Settings

Site Settings

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The Site Settings page contains all the settings to keep your site functioning as you choose. All the settings should be customized to your preferrences as soon as have completed installing your site, and to make "tweaks" later on.

"Site URL" is the complete www url to where you installed the AF Ultimate files, and must end with a forward slash!

For example, if you installed AF Ultimate into the www root of article.com, then your www url to access the site would be "http://www.article.com/".... if you installed AF Ultimate into a subfolder of article.com called "ultimate", your www url would be "http://www.article.com/ultimate/". Whatever your www URL is to access the index.php page of AF Ultimate is what you'd enter in that field.

"Site Name" is whatever name you've chosen for your site and will show in emails, pages etc...

"Site Email"is the email address used in emails sent to your authors, signups etc. as the "From" address.

"Your Name" is the site owner name used in emails to your authors.

AF Ultimate includes the code from stoparticlespam.info to check their massive spammer listings for anyone that signs up at your site for an account. If found, the signup is blocked and logged in your user error logs. Your site doesn't include though the code for sending banned acounts to stoparticlespam.info. You will need to get an API key (link is included as shown in the image above).

"API Key" is the key number you get from Stop Article Spam after signing up for an account (It's free!). After you've signed up (highly recommended), you enter your API Key in this field. This will allow you to send your banned authors to stoparticlespam.info in order to help other site owner avoid the bad signups.

"Block IP's" is an option to auto add any new signups that were blocked by stoparticlespam.info to your "Banned IP's" list (see Banning IP's).

"Adsense" is your Google Adsens PUB ID only. None of the javascript code is needed. By entering the pubid, your adsense will show in your right nav, and floating within your site's articles. Whether it's your adsense or (on the right nav featured author's) an author's adsense is dependant on a randon percentage since AF Ultimate uses revenue sharing between you and your authors. Your adsense will appear approximately 50% of the time.

"Other pay-per-click" is for a an adsense-like clone service and will appear as in the adsense setting. You cannot use both adsense and another service.

These two settings control how many articles to show on your homepage and for your related articles lists.

"New Articles To Show". Enter the number of new articles to show on your homepage newest articles.

"Related Articles". Enter the number of related articles to show.

"Max Article Wordcount". Enter the number of maximum words per article you will accept. Anything over this amount will be rejected.

"Min Article Wordcount". Enter the number of minimum words per article you will accept. Anything under this amount will be rejected.

"Allow Author Signups?". If set to 0 (zero) no new author signups will be allowed. Set to 1 (one) to allow new signups.

"Auto Approve Signups?". If set to 0 (zero) all new signups will be manually approved by you. Set to 1 (one) to auto approve author signups (after they've confirmed their email is valid).

"Allow Article Submissions?". If set to 0 (zero) no new article submissions will be allowed. Set to 1 (one) to allow article submissions by approved authors.

"Auto Approve Article Submissions?". If set to 0 (zero) you must manually approve all live article submissions. Set to 1 (one) to auto approve all live article submissions (not recommended!).

"New Author Signup Emails?" If not checked, an email will NOT be sent when a new author signs up at your site. Check to send yourself an email.

"Author Article Changes?" If not checked, an email will NOT be sent when an author changes their approved articles. Check to send yourself an email.

"User Errors Emails?" If not checked, an email will NOT be sent to you if there is a database error, signup error, login error, probably hacking attempts etc... Check to send yourself those emails. The errors are also logged in your admin user error log.

"New PM's sent to you?" If not checked, an email will NOT be sent when an author sends you a new Personal Message. Check to send yourself an email notification.

"Account Delete Emails?" If not checked, an email will NOT be sent when an author(s) deletes their account(s). Check to send yourself an email notification.

"Top Author Approval Count" is the number of approved articles an author must have to be promoted to Top Author. Authors that reach this number will be auto promoted.

"Grace Period Delete Authors" is a grace period of time before authors accounts are deleted for signing up and then not submitting any articles. Enter a number then choose a value from the dropdown list if you wish to change it.

"Grace Period Declined Articles" is a grace period of time before Declined Articles are deleted due to not being corrected. Enter a number then choose a value from the dropdown list if you wish to change it. NOTE: This period is determined from the date you declined the article

"Allowed HTML tags in Title" is the HTML tags you will allow in author's article titles. Leave blank (recommended) to not allow any html tags in the title.

"Allowed HTML tags in Summary" is the HTML tags you will allow in author's article summary. Leave blank to not allow any html tags in the title.

"Allowed HTML tags in Body" is the HTML tags you will allow in author's article body. Leave blank to not allow any html tags in the body text.

"Allowed HTML tags in Resource box" is the HTML tags you will allow in author's resource box. Leave blank to not allow any html tags in the author resource box.

Any HTML tags not specifically allowed will be stripped out completely, along with any content/javascript within the tags. This is to protect your site from malicious people that try to insert XSS attacks and phishing links in your articles.

"Mass Email Delay" is the amount of time to pause in between mass email sends. The field below sets how many emails to send before pausing by this number to send another block of emails.

"Emails To Send" is the number of emails to send before pausing as set by the number above, before sending another batch.

"Admin Signature" is the signature sent in your mass emails.

These settings are for your mass emailings only. The script will auto detect if you can use sendmail, and if not, defaults to php's mail function. If you choose SMTP as your setting, that will be the default when sending mass emails.

"Use SMTP Emails?" enter 1 to use, enter 0 (zero) to not use. sendmail or php mail function will be used instead.

"SMTP Port" Enter the SMTP port if needed for using SMTP. Ask you host if the default SMTP port isn't working for your test email.

"SMTP Domain" Enter the domain used for your mailing service. Ususally "localhost" if you are using your own domain, but you will need to ask whichever mailing service (such as your ISP, gmail, hotmail etc...) you wish to use what their SMTP domain is.

"SMTP User" Enter an SMTP username if required by your mail service.

"SMTP Pass" Enter an SMTP password if required by your mail service.

"Encryption Method" Enter an encryption method if required by your mail service.

Under these settting is a link to send a test SMTP mail to yourself to check if your settings are working.

"Blocked Domains". You may enter any domains you do not wish to signup at your site.

"Bad Words". List of bad words you will not accept in your articles or contact email.

"AutoApprove iSnare?". Set to 1 to auto approve isnare article submissions, set to 0 (zero) of not auto approve.

"AutoApprove Content Crooner?". Set to 1 to auto approve Content Crooner article submissions, set to 0 (zero) of not auto approve.

"AutoApprove ArticleUnited?". Set to 1 to auto approve ArticleUnited article submissions, set to 0 (zero) of not auto approve.

"Show Category Count?". Set to 1 to show the number of articles in each category, set to 0 (zero) of not show.

Brute force Protection stops people that are using scripts to try many different user/passes to try and break into a site. This will stop them after a number of failed attempts that you set.

"Use Brute Force Protection?". Set to 1 to use brute force protection, or 0 (zero) to not use it.

"Tries Before Blocking". Number of failed attempts before blocking further login attempts.

"Time Before Unblocking". Time a blocked user has to wait before they can attempt another login.

"Cache Cron Empty Time". This is the time in minutes until your site's old mysql queries are emptied.

If you've made any changes to your site settings, click on the "Submit" button to save your changes.