Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Hello everyone! I’ve been hearing a lot of requests to explain what kind of IDE and environment we use for local development. In house, we all agreed to use Netbeans IDE. This has great SVN support and works well with the Zend Framework. I will go over setting up a SocialEngine project below. Depending whether…
Tips & Tutorials: How to Monetize Your Community
During development of your SocialEngine site you may wonder, how do I monetize my Social Network? For some, monetization simply means covering the costs of the niche Social Network they have built, and for others the goal is to grow into a profitable business. Here are some key features you may find with SocialEngine that…
Tips & Tutorials: Spam & Banning Tools
Many of you have emailed us asking how to best protect your community from spam and fake user-profiles. Our software includes built-in tools for spam control, however some of them are not enabled by default. The Spam & Banning Tools article in our Knowledgebase can walk you through the Settings > Spam & Banning Tools…
Tutorial: Adding your header/footer
Everyone, We know that giving your community a unique look is an absolute priority. We built the Layout Editor in SocialEngine 4 to make this easy. Still, we’re getting a lot of questions about how this can be done, so we wrote a tutorial to help guide anyone with questions about it. I hope this…
Installing Google Analytics
Hi everyone, We’ve been getting a lot of questions about Google Analytics, namely how it can be easily installed on a SocialEngine website. I’ve created a knowledgebase article with specific instructions for those of you that would like to do this. The article should also give you some ideas on how to use SE4’s Layout…


