Tips and Tutorials

Add arcade games to your community with add-ons developed by SE4Mods, ITterra, and Radcodes. Members can compete with one another over high scores and leaderboard rankings in thousands of games intergrated from services like Mochi Media and Kongregate. Use MochiAds to earn revenue while members play. A Games Plugin is a fun and simple way…

Presentation is an important element when creating your community. How are you representing your idea visually? In what ways can design improve the experience? A glance at our client showcase sites demonstrates how differently a SocialEngine website can be themed. Our default themes provide some variety, but for those you who find these themes too…

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…

We want to let everyone know about the photo albums we’ve been posting on our Facebook Page. Give us a “Like”, if you haven’t already, and check out the links below for helpful screenshots and documentation. We’ll be posting more photo tutorials on Facebook, so be sure to check in from time to time! Membership…

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…

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…

To our utmost delight, we’ve been seeing lots of requests from people who have existing communities but want to switch to SE. Based on the volume of these requests, we know that there’s a real market opportunity for some third-party developers to produce and sell these import scripts. Make sure to let us know if…

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…

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…

Notice: In July, 2015, we had a major upgrade to the Ning Importer. Visit KB article here.We’ve just released a Ning import script to make it easy for site owners to migrate over to SocialEngine. The import tool requires a fresh installation of SocialEngine 4 (without any content) and is designed to work with the…