| Feature or Option | Availability Level |
| Security |
| Protected members passwords | Included in the core; could be manually re-programmed using any other encoding algorithm |
| Flood protection by the IP-address and time | Included in the core |
| Brute Force Attack Protection | Included in the core |
| Your board may be securely opened even for guest posting! - with the special Captcha module protection on guest posting and new registrations. | Paid add-on |
| Special rules for guests and new users for posting external links on forum | Included in the core; modifications available as a Free add-on |
| Safe auto-login when returning on forum in X hours | Included in the core; X could be configured up to unlimited time |
| Single super-admin account for better security | Included in the core |
| Email verification on registration | Included in the core, applied with the free optional solution |
| Full HTTP Secure (HTTPS) Compatibility | Included in the core |
| Immediate security fixes | Always performed in 24 hours by miniBB developers with notification on RSS feed |
| 100% running with PHP's register_globals set to OFF (or ON); as recommended by PHP this setting is turned to OFF in the default PHP version "because it often leads to security bugs". Read documentation for more. | Included in the core and all extensions |
| 100% running with PHP's error_reporting set to ANY level. Our software's output is developped as extra clear, without reporting the Notices or any kind of PHP lowest level mistakes. | Included in the core and all extensions |
| Members Profiles and related |
| Unlimited amount of member accounts | Included in the core |
| Forum-related statistics and graphs, based on the amount of posts for each user | Included in the core; variations available as a Free add-on |
| Gender | Free add-on |
| Last Visit date | Free add-on |
| Member Photos | Paid add-on |
| Possibility to extend member profiles with any kind of custom fields | Included in the core, programmed manually for each individual case |
| Private Messaging and communication between forum members, with the optional Email notification when the new PM arrives; as well as "Reminders" feature (PM to yourself) | Paid add-on |
| Contacting members by email sent through the server | Free add-on |
| Displaying Members |
| Members List | Free add-on |
| Who's Online module (truly instant!) | Free add-on |
| Managing Members |
| Profiles may be edited anytime by members, administrator and moderators | Included in the core |
| New registrations and profile updates monitored by the administrative staff | Free add-on |
| Posting Messages |
| Unlimited amount of posted messages and topics | Included in the core |
| Straight linking to a certain post | Included in the core |
| BB-codes support (external hyperlinks, images, Bold, Italic, font colors, bulleted lists etc.) | Included in the core or available as free add-ons, may be extra programmed manually for each individual case |
| Client-side JavaScript to apply BB-codes easily (char-precise applying of text; not WYSIWYG!) | Included in the core |
| HTML support in messages (for administrator only) | Included in the core, optional |
| Dynamic Quotation option: highlight and quote others messages, move quickly between messages and replying box | Included in the core |
| Quick-Reply and Quick-New Topic forms | Included in the core (from the ancient times! :-) |
| Smilies support | Free add-on; custom smilies may be added manually for each individual case |
| Files and Images attachments (with Image thumbnails) stored on the local filesystem | Paid add-on; may be configured for any file type and size |
| Local Files uploads and references in messages | Paid add-on; may be configured for any file type and size, and plugged in with the Upload Indicator |
| Embedding YouTube Videos | Free add-on |
| Polls | Paid add-on |
| Preview Message option | Free add-on |
| Color Picker | Free add-on |
| "Bad"-words auto-filtering | Free add-on |
| Displaying Messages |
| Avatars from Member's profile; available are pre-defined or uploaded avatars | Free add-on |
| Signatures from Member's profile, incl. BB-codes (URL, External Images, Fonts and Colors support) | Free Solution; may be extra-programmed for each individual case |
| Members Rankings based on the amount of posts | Free add-on |
| User reputation ("Karma") | Paid add-on (avail. by request) |
| ANY piece of information from poster's Profile (posts count, registration date, country, website, gender etc.), passed through a custom function | Included in the core, programmed manually for each individual case |
| Dynamic displaying of Unread messages for a certain member | Paid add-on (Forums Checker) or Free add-on (New Post Indicator) |
| Watching certain topics (Subscriptions) with optional Email notifications | Included in the core |
| Google Adsense integration | Free solution |
| Pre-approval of posted messages (for administrative staff) | Paid add-on |
| Easy search messages function, with options to search by username, post text or topic title within a selected forum only or through all forums, and/or within the selected time period. | Included in the core |
| Previous/Next topic links | Paid add-on (avail. by request) |
| Topic ratings | Paid add-on (avail. by request) |
| Managing Messages (Administration) |
| Editing messages (expiration time limit for regular users, no limits for moderators) | Included in the core |
| Moving certain message(s) to another topic (available to moderators only) | Included in the core |
| Moving certain topics between forums (available to moderators only) | Included in the core |
| Deleting message(s) (optionally available for regular members) | Included in the core |
| Deleting topics (available to moderators only) | Included in the core |
| Locking topics | Included in the core |
| Strickying topics (available to moderators only) | Included in the core |
| Messages Reporting - report posts to the administrator and moderators | Available as the part of "Direct Email" free add-on, or "Private Messaging" paid add-on |
| Search Engine Optimization |
| Fully valid W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML, ultra-compact, printing-ready and indexing-friendly output | Included in the core and all extensions |
| SEO Friendly URLs | Included in the core as the basic version, or extended with a Free add-on; may be programmed manually for each individual case |
| Automatic Description META-tags for forum and topic pages | Included in the core |
| Dynamic INDEX, FOLLOW (NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW) META-tags | Included in the core (could be functionally customized) |
| Automatic "nofollow" tag on external hyperlinks, and automatic "follow" tag on internal forum and website domain URLs | Included in the core |
| RSS feed | Free add-on |
| Forum Sitemap | Free add-on |
| Administrative Settings |
| Creating and managing forum titles, descriptions, icons | Included in the core (Admin Panel) |
| Assigning private, read-only or replies-only forums | Included in the core (manual editing) |
| Protecting whole forum by a single password | Included in the core (manual option) |
| Banning users by IP/username or blocking user accounts | Included in the core (Admin Panel) |
| IP tracking in messages (for administrative staff only) | Included in the core and via Paid add-on |
| Members search (by email, username, activity etc.) | Included in the core (Admin Panel) |
| Exporting members emails | Included in the core (Admin Panel) |
| Assigning forum moderators | Included in the core (manual editing) |
| Assigning special member rankings | Included in the core (manual editing) |
| Forum Disclaimer and Rules upon registration | Free add-on |
| Statistics of the board | Included in the core (available to public) |
| Forum manual | Included in the core; manually edited for each individual case |
| "Contact Us" secure form | Paid add-on (avail. by request) |
| "Tell-a-friend" secure form | Paid add-on (avail. by request) |
| International Support & Interface Localization |
| All language packs are competely external. More than 40 pre-existing Language packs available. | Free from Downloads |
| Any interface language modification is easy as editing the plain text file | Manual modification |
| Individual Customization |
| Detailed W3C Valid CSS stylesheet: you are able to change colors, font sizes, tables width withint the couple of minutes, knowing basic CSS techniques, and apply them to any website's design | Included in the core, programmed manually for each individual case |
| Advanced customization regarding your own PHP header and footer, or even complete integration in your scripting template via include() function | Included in the core, programmed manually for each individual case |
| Easy and universal "hand-made" HTML-templates in good old-school style, with no heavy JavaScript, AJAX or newest tricky CSS | Included in the core |
| External Membership functions and authorization module with possibility to integrate with almost any kind of the current users login system (based on PHP sessions or cookies) at the non-destructive level. | Included in the core, programmed manually for each individual case |
| Bring forum information on your website's external pages | Free add-on ("First page news"); customized manually for each individual case |
| Customizable database tables names | Included in the core and all add-ons, if they require tables |
| Customizable date format's display, and time differences | Included in the core |
Like being a little car, miniBB is full of details which are impossible to list on one page, and like when driving a car, you should know in advance what each of its function means. Study our miniBB Manual for more information on how to set it up, configure and use. You will how such small piece of code could contain almost everything of what every forum needs!
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