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 |