Web Design Tutorial

Optimize the title of PHPBB forums

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to optimize the titles of PHPBB forums posts to be SEO friendly. I talk about optimizing it to be in the following structure:

Topic Title : Forum Name

This tutorial is for PHPBB3 forums and Prosilver theme.

1. Download PHPBB3 SEO Optimal Titles.
2. Unzip the file and follow all instructions located in the test file that begins from “Open: styles/prosilver/template/overall_header.html”
3. After editing and saving processes completed, open “languages/en/common.php” file and find “Index Page” code then replace it with the forum name. Save it and upload it again.
4. Go to your control pane and choose “Styles” and refresh “Template”,”Themes” and “Imagesets”.
5. Check changes.

Add Quick Reply Option to your PHPBB3 Forum

Monday, April 21st, 2008

PHPBB3 forums come without this important option, I mean the” Quick Reply” option that will help your members to reply on posts easily. To add this great tool, you should follow the following steps:

1. Download Quick Reply Hack
2. Unzip the file.
3. Open “Root” folder and upload the files located in “Includes”, “Language” and “Styles” to the folders with same names in your sever hosting.
4. Follow the instruction from the installation file. The installation for “Prosilver” theme is different from “Subsilver” theme.
5. After editing processes completed, go to your forum control panel and choose “Styles” and at the left, refresh “Templates”, “Themes” and “Imagesets”.