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Upcoming Feature: reCAPTCHA (Anti-Spam Registration)

Hello SE Fans, Want to stop bots from registering to your SocialEngine site? reCAPTCHA is the solution! reCAPTCHA is a completely FREE SERVICE that makes it harder for spam bots to register on your site. Below is a screenshot of it in action. You might have already seen this feature in action in many of…

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New Feature: Multiple Social Login (Janrain)

Whats up SE Fans!We just wanted to showcase another upcoming feature for the next version of SocialEngine – Janrain, a web application that offers site registrations and login with Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, and other social networking services. The main purpose of this feature is to help you optimize your site for social media…

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Tips and Tutorials: Selecting a Theme for your Community

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…

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SocialEngine 4.1.8p1 – Download the Patch!

4.1.8p1 is now released to address certain issues with 4.1.8. It is available to download from the client area of your account, and you can upgrade directly to 4.1.8p1 from prior versions. We thank you for your patience with bug reporting. Here is a list of the changes: Please contact us if you have any…

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SocialEngine 4.1.8 – Google Analytics, Viglink and MaxCDN

4.1.8 is now released! This version is available to download in the client area.Please note: We always recommend that you backup your database fully before attempting to upgrade to the latest version. Here is the new list of features: Thanks for the support. We hope that you enjoy the new release! Please feel free to…

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Upcoming Feature: MaxCDN Integration with SocialEngine

We are pleased to announce MaxCDN integration with SocialEngine for the coming 4.1.8 release. Here is a quick introduction of the service from MaxCDN: ” The web has to be fast! We all know that we have to tweak our sites to make them faster since the benefits of a fast website are mind boggling!…

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Video: New Pages for 4.1.8 Layout Editor!

The following video showcases the new pages that can now be edited with the Layout Editor. This new feature will be releasing for SocialEngine version 4.1.8. You can check for updates on SocialEngine Website. Here is a list of the pages that can be edited with the layout editor:

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Upcoming Feature: Viglink for SocialEngine

This blog is just a short explanation about the upcoming feature for Socialengine version 4.1.8, Viglink, and what it will do for your SocialEngine website. Viglink is a dynamic ad technology that will transform your links into “affiliate links.” Here is an example: You or a user post a link to a product on your…

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v4.1.8 Scheduled for Release

We are excited to release 4.1.8 towards the end of this month! As you may have noticed, we’ve been creating video documentation for our community, and we will continue to add more videos and articles, so leave us feedback on what we should cover.4.1.8 includes many bug fixes, and we thank you for supporting us…

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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…