Hello ProBoards!
Did you miss me? I hope you're beginning to look forward to these periodic announcements! Today we're going to talk about plugins, headers and footers, and for some reason...
salad.
Plugins:I hope nobody thought paid plugins were the only exciting plugin change coming with v6! Plugins on ProBoards started out 3 years ago as an idea of a way to replace headers and footers on the forum. The idea was that instead of using complicated JavaScript code in your headers and footers to achieve different things on the forum, you could simply install a plugin and have a delicious graphical user interface to work with. Initially we decided to be conservative with plugins. We didn't know how resource intensive it would get with all the plugins we imagined users creating! In the months and years after the release of v5 we realized that we could meet the resource demand of plugins and began questioning if we even needed to limit the amount of plugins a user could have on a forum at all. With our latest back-end upgrades that we're doing in anticipation of v6 we've decided to lift the restrictions on the amount of plugins a forum can have. You read that right, all ProBoards forums will have unlimited* plugin space with the release of v6! With that said, on a very related note...
Headers and Footers:We have to face the hard truth; headers and footers are the
Candle Salad of the forum world. They're both dated and (in general) not terribly useful when compared to other things (like plugins). Usage of headers and footers has dropped dramatically on ProBoards since the launch of v5 and we think it's time we give headers and footers a new lease on life.
I can already hear the cries of "Wait! I use headers and footers on my forum!" Fear not! Prior to the release of v6 a new ProBoards Official Plugin™ will appear on your forum and your headers and footers will be automatically transferred over to this new plugin. This new plugin will be more powerful than the current version of headers and footers. It will allow you to enter your header and footer codes a single time, then select multiple boards to place them on without having to copy and paste them over and over. You can even choose to have a header or footer code only run on a specific theme! This new plugin makes headers and footers more powerful and rewarding than ever before.
That's all for now everyone! Please look forward to our next announcement where we'll continue to bring you the best and most interesting news about ProBoards v6.
*Within reason. If for some reason you are running too many plugins such that it causes performance issues we will contact you to figure out a reasonable solution.
FAQ:
I use headers and footers, what will change for me? Absolutely nothing. Everything will be transferred for you automatically. You need to take no action at all!
I don't use headers and footers at all, is there anything I need to do? Nope!
Does this mean unlimited keys and super keys? Yes! Once v6 launches you can have as many plugins that use keys or super keys as you'd like.
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