Configurations

The Kunena Configuration feature allows users to tailor Kunena’s functions to their specific site needs. This feature allows, for example, users to decide what they will call their forum page, whether forum messages can be posted by anonymous users or only by registered users of the site, and whether other third-party components (like private messaging) are to be used. Many of the choices can be made according to individual tastes; some, however, may cause unexpected consequences if they’re not handled correctly.

As a general guide, the default settings that ship with Kunena’s installation kit will be adequate for most purposes.

Basics

This article describes how to change the Kunena configuration parameters.

Accessing the Kunena Configuration feature

Go to the Kunena Backend and select the Kunena Configuration feature.

Configuration Page

There are two basic functions: Save and Restore Default.

Save function

  • Any changes become effective by clicking the ‘Save’ button located at the top left of the page.

Restore Default function

  • This restores the default configuration parameters for Kunena.

List of settings

The settings are arranged in the groupings listed below. The default/initial values are settings that are supplied with a clean installation of Kunena. If a previously-installed version of Kunena or Fireboard had been installed on the user’s site, the old values will be preserved.

New versions of Kunena may add or remove items in the list below. Please check your version of Kunena.

General

Basic Settings

Forum Title Initial/default value: Kunena

Forum E-mail Address Initial/default value: Empty

Send E-mails to Users Initial/default value: Yes

Forum Offline Initial/default value: No

Forum Offline Message Initial/default value: The Forum is currently offline for maintenance. Check back soon!

Read Only Mode Initial/default value: No

Session Lifetime Initial/default value: 1800

Enable RSS feed Initial/default value: Yes

Enable Debug Mode Initial/default value: No

Use English On Missing Strings Initial/default value: Yes

Display Page Creation Time Initial/default value: Yes

SEO Settings

Search Engine Friendly URLs Initial/default value: Yes

Direct Component Access Initial/default value: No

Support Legacy URLs Initial/default value: Kunena 1.x

Caching Settings

Caching Initial/default value: Yes

Cache Time Initial/default value: 1 minute


Frontend

Look and Feel

Topics Per Page Initial/default value: 20

Messages per page Initial/default value: 6

Search Results Initial/default value: 15

Show History Initial/default value: Yes

History Limit Initial/default value: 6

Message Time Format Initial/default value: 22 hours 13 minutes ago

Hover Message Time Format Initial/default value: 27 Sep 2015 23:30

Show New posts Initial/default value: Yes

Show Announcement Initial/default value: Yes

Show Avatar on Category Index and Recent Topics Initial/default value: No

Show Moderators in Category Index Initial/default value: Yes

Category Legacy Image Path Initial/default value: category_images

Show Sub-Category Image Initial/default value: Yes

Enable Category Jump Initial/default value: Yes

Message Reporting Initial/default value: Yes

Reply Numbering Inside Topic Initial/default value: Show Real Post ID

Hide IP Addresses From Moderators Initial/default value: Yes

Category Filter in Recent Topics Initial/default value: Show Categories

Category List in Recent Topics Initial/default value: Show All Categories

Selectable Topic Icons Initial/default value: Yes

Enable Lightbox for Images Initial/default value: Yes

Recent Topics Time Period Initial/default value: Month

Default topic layout Initial/default value: Flat

Force users to pickup a category Initial/default value: No

Choose how to display article by default Initial/default value: Intro

Message Ordering Initial/default value: Oldest Post First

Search Time Initial/default value: A Year Ago

Let users edit the subject Initial/default value: Yes

Allow rating Initial/default value: No

Number of characters from start for shorten filename Initial/default value: 0

Number of characters from end for shorten filename Initial/default value: 14

Users

User Related

Display User Name Initial/default value: Yes

Require E-mail Initial/default value: No

Show E-mail Initial/default value: No

Show User Statistics Initial/default value: Yes

Show Karma Indicator Initial/default value: Yes

Enable Thank You Feature Initial/default value: Yes

Visible Thank You Limit Initial/default value: 10

User Edits Initial/default value: Yes

User Edit Time Initial/default value: 0

User Edit Grace Time Initial/default value: 600

Show Edited Mark Up Initial/default value: Yes

Allow Favorites Initial/default value: Yes

Check Shadow Topic Box Initial/default value: No

Show Banned Reason Initial/default value: No

Display profile tab to manage attachments Initial/default value: Yes

User can report himself Initial/default value: Yes

Define if you want to log action or moderation Initial/default value: No

Show user status Initial/default value: Yes

Subscriptions

Email Header Image Initial/default value: /media/kunena/email/hero-wide.png

Allow Subscriptions Initial/default value: Yes

Plain Text Emails Initial/default value: No

Include Post Contents Initial/default value: Yes

Category Subscriptions Initial/default value: E-mail New Posts

Topic Subscriptions Initial/default value: E-mail Every Update

Check Subscription Box Initial/default value: Yes

E-mail to Multiple Recipients Initial/default value: 0

E-mail Recipient Privacy Initial/default value: Hide Other Recipients (BCC)

Visible E-mail Recipient Initial/default value: Empty


Security

Security Settings

Allow Guests to Post/Write Initial/default value: No

Moderate Guests Initial/default value: No

Allow Guests to see Userlist Initial/default value: Yes

Allow Guests to see User Profiles Initial/default value: Yes

Registered Users Only Initial/default value: No

Moderate New Users Initial/default value: 0

User Can Delete Own Post Initial/default value: Never

Show Deleted Messages Initial/default value: Administrators Only

Flood Protection Initial/default value: 0

E-mail Moderators Initial/default value: Unapproved Posts

E-mail Administrators Initial/default value: Unapproved Posts

IP Address Tracking Initial/default value: Yes

Allow Guests to see Stats link Initial/default value: Yes

Max Links in message Initial/default value: 6

Hide Replies For Guests Initial/default value: No

Prevent posting topic or reply with URL in title Initial/default value: No

Allow moderators to permdelete Initial/default value: No

CAPTCHA Configuration

Display Captcha for : Initial/default value: Registered Users

CAPTCHA Challenge for Users Initial/default value: 0

Stop Forum Spam Configuration

API key Initial/default value: Empty


Avatars

Avatar Settings

Allow Avatar Upload Initial/default value: Yes

Use Avatars Gallery Initial/default value: Yes

Max. Avatar File Size Initial/default value: 2048

Avatar Quality Initial/default value: 75%

Avatar Resize Method Initial/default value: Interpolation (Better - Fast)

Avatar Cropping Initial/default value: No


Uploads

Attachments

Limit Attachments Initial/default value: 8

Protect Attachments Initial/default value: No

Enable utf8 characters on attachments Initial/default value: Yes

Images

Allow Image Uploads Initial/default value: Registered Users

Show Images for Guests Initial/default value: Yes

Allowed Image Types Initial/default value: jpg,jpeg,gif,png

Check MIME Types Initial/default value: Yes

Legal MIME Types Initial/default value: image/jpeg,image/jpg,image/gif,image/png

Maximum Image File Size Initial/default value: 150 kB

Maximum Image Width Initial/default value: 800 px

Maximum Image Height Initial/default value: 800 px

Thumbnail Width Initial/default value: 32 px

Thumbnail Height Initial/default value: 32 px

Image Quality for JPG Resizing Initial/default value: 50%

Files

Allow File Uploads Initial/default value: Registerd Users

Show Attachments for Guests Initial/default value: Yes

Allowed File Types Initial/default value: txt,rtf,pdf,zip,tar.gz,tgz,tar.bz2

Maximum File Size Initial/default value: 120 KB


Ranking

Ranking Settings

Ranking Initial/default value: Yes

Use Rank Images Initial/default value: Yes


BBCode

BBCode Settings

Disable Emoticons Initial/default value: No

Show Spoiler Tag in Editor Toolbar Initial/default value: Yes

Show Video Tag in Editor Toolbar Initial/default value: Yes

Show eBay Tag in Editor Toolbar Initial/default value: Yes

Trim Long URLs Initial/default value: Yes

Front Portion of Trimmed URLs Initial/default value: 40

Back portion of trimmed URLs Initial/default value: 20

Auto-Link URLs Initial/default value: Yes

Auto Embed YouTube Videos Initial/default value: Yes

Auto Embed eBay Items Initial/default value: Yes

Auto Embed Soundcloud Items Initial/default value: Yes

Enable Code Highlighting Initial/default value: No

Display Images With Non-standard File Extensions Initial/default value: Text

eBay Widget Language Code itial/default value: en-US

eBay Affiliate ID Initial/default value: 5337089937

eBay AppID key Initial/default value: Empty

The Twitter consumer key Initial/default value: Empty

The Twitter consumer secret Initial/default value: Empty

Google maps API key to get better stats usage of google API Initial/default value: Empty


RSS

RSS Settings

RSS Feed type Initial/default value: By Topic

RSS Specification Initial/default value: RSS 2.0

RSS History (timelimit) Initial/default value: 1 month

RSS Limit Initial/default value: 100

Include Categories Initial/default value: Empty

Exclude Categories Initial/default value: Empty

Render HTML & BBCode in RSS feeds Initial/default value: Yes

Author Format Initial/default value: Name

Render Author in Title Initial/default value: Yes

Limit Number of Characters Per Item Initial/default value: All

Use Oldstyle Titles Initial/default value: Yes

Caching Interval Initial/default value: 15

The URL of the basic RSS feed into FeedBurner Initial/default value: Empty


Extra

Userlist Settings

Users Per Page Initial/default value: 30

Online Status Initial/default value: Yes

Display Avatar Initial/default value: Yes

Show Number of Posts Initial/default value: Yes

Show Karma Initial/default value: Yes

Show E-mail Initial/default value: No

Show Join Date Initial/default value: Yes

Show Last Visit Date Initial/default value: Yes

Show Profile Hits Initial/default value: Yes

Hide Super Users in user list Initial/default value: No

Online Users Contains Initial/default value: By time

Online Users Time Limit Initial/default value: 1800

Statistics Settings

Show Who is Online Initial/default value: Yes

Show Statistics Initial/default value: Yes

Show General Statistics Initial/default value: Yes

Show Popular User Statistics Initial/default value: Yes

Number of Popular Users Initial/default value: 5

Show Popular Subject Statistics Initial/default value: Yes

Number of Popular Subjects Initial/default value: 5

Show Popular Poll Statistics Initial/default value: Yes

Number of Popular Polls Initial/default value: 5

Show Popular Thank You Statistics Initial/default value: Yes

Number of Popular Thank Yous Initial/default value: 5

User Count Contains Initial/default value: All Real Users

Poll Settings

Enable Polls Initial/default value: Yes

Maximum Number Poll Options Initial/default value: 4

Time Between Consecutive Votes Initial/default value: 00:15:00

Maximum Number of Votes Per User Initial/default value: 100

Single Vote Only Initial/default value: Yes

Show Voters Initial/default value: Yes

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