Important Security Patch
A security exploit was discovered today affecting both the SocialEngine Core (up to version 4.1.2p1) and the Forum plugin (up to version 4.1.2). The exploit allows a registered user to delete content that doesn’t belong to them. While this won’t threaten the integrity of your server or even your SocialEngine installation itself, it does pose…
Wanted: Import Scripts, Plus New Tutorials for Developers
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…
SocialEngine Version 4.1.2 Released
SocialEngine Version 4.1.2 is now available for download in the client area as promised! If you’re running any third-party addons/mods, please check with the developers to make sure that their mods are compatible with the new version. Additionally, don’t forget to take a full site backup before you upgrade, just in case you need to…
SocialEngine 4.1.1 Released
We’re right on schedule! SocialEngine clients can now download the new SE 4.1.1 release from the client area. If you’ve got the SE 4.1.0 BETA installed (or an earlier version), we recommend that you upgrade to 4.1.1. If you’re on an earlier version with lots of customizations or third-party addons/mods, you’ll definitely want to check…
SocialEngine 4.1 BETA Released with Membership Billing Features
Good news everyone. We’ve finished developing the SE 4.1 BETA – a major update that I know many of you have been awaiting eagerly. SE 4.1 introduces an interesting new way to help you monetize your community. We know that monetizing traffic on niche social websites can take some work, especially with advertising-based methods, so…
SocialEngine 4.0.5 Released
The most recent version of SocialEngine is now available for download from the client area. It includes lots of enhancements and bug fixes, including major improvements to the package manager stability, fixes to the FTP file transfer system within the package manager, improved indexing of searchable content and much more. Please continue to report any…
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…
SocialEngine 4.0.4 Released
SocialEngine 4.0.4 has been released and is now available for download from the client area. This upgrade includes many bug fixes, enhanced RTL (Right-to-Left) support and fixes for translation issues so we highly recommend upgrading. If you’re interested in the changelog for any release, you can find it in the upgrade package (tar file) contained…
SocialEngine 4.0.3
SocialEngine 4.0.3 has been released and is now available from the client area. It includes another big batch of improvements and bugfixes and we highly recommend upgrading. You can find a complete changelog in the core package. All plugins have been updated as well, except for chat. Please note that the 4.0.3 update will switch…
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