Forum admin basics
Your managed forum comes provisioned and ready: an admin account, a welcome forum, and daily backups are set up for you. This page covers the first things most administrators want to do.
Log in as the administrator
Section titled “Log in as the administrator”Log in to your forum with the administrator account for your instance, then open the management area from the account menu. Everything below happens there.
Structure your community
Section titled “Structure your community”Forums are organised into categories that contain forums (boards), which hold the actual topics and posts.
- Create a category for each broad area (e.g. “Announcements”, “Support”).
- Add forums inside each category.
- The welcome forum created at provisioning is yours to rename or remove.
Members, groups, and permissions
Section titled “Members, groups, and permissions”- Members register themselves; you manage them from the management area.
- Groups control what members can do (post, moderate, administer). Assign trusted members to a moderator group rather than handing out admin.
Moderation
Section titled “Moderation”Moderators can edit, move, close, and delete topics and posts from within the forum itself. Keep the rules of your community visible — a pinned topic in your main forum works well.
Plugins and themes
Section titled “Plugins and themes”The Starter plan includes the forum with its plugin and theme system. Browse the management area to enable bundled plugins or switch themes. Changes apply to your instance only.
Backups
Section titled “Backups”Daily backups are included on every plan — you don’t need to configure anything. If you ever need a restore, contact hi@infoemu.com.