What is Burning Board?

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Woltlab Burning Board, or WBB, is a commercial Internet forum script written in PHP and MySQL. It is developed by WoltLab GmbH, which is located in Germany.

Features:

Calendar


In the calendar of the forum public and private events can be provided. You can also see the birthdays of members in the calendar.

Archive


The archive can be spidered by search engines such as Google. So the contents of your forum can be found by others.

Language packs


You can easily translate the forum to every language you want, because all words and phrases are saved in a language pack.

Newsletter function


The administrator of the forum can send a newsletter to all users of his forum with current information.

Powerful Search Engine


The user of your forum may use a very powerful fulltext search engine with many options available.

User profiles


Every user of your forum can publish information about himself on a profile site like email adresse, homepage and other custom things.

Marking of read posts


Posts will be marked if they are read by a user so they can be distinguished from the unread posts.

Moderation of posts and threads


A moderator of your forum can check threads or posts before they can be accessed by other users of the forum.

Extensive Administration Options


The forum offers loads of functions to administrate it. Check out the online demo to get an overview.

Private Boards


A forum can be made accessible only by a certain user group. It can be protected by a password, activated for a certain user group or assigned to a single user.

Censorship and Banning


Certain words in posts can be censored. The access of the forum with certain e-mail addresses, user names or IP-adresses can be forbidden.

Customize Design and Layout


Colors, font sizes and types can be customized with a single formular. The layout can be changed by modifying the templates.

Polls


A thread can be connected with a poll. Users can vote in an allowed period of time. The admin can adjust which user is allowed to open a poll and where.

Rate threads


A user can rate a thread on scale from 1 to 10. Through this other users can recognize if a thread is interesting or not.

fast database


The forum saves its data in a MySQL database. This means high stability, scalability and fast speed of access.

usage of templates


Templates are patterns which contain the HTML source code and define the layout of the forum. They are editable through the admin panel.

E-mail notification


Users can enable e-mail notification, so they receive an e-mail in the case of new threads and posts in certain boards or the whole forum.

Private Messages


To replace e-mails users of a forum can send each other private messages.

"What you see is what you get" editor


The "what you see is what you get" editor (extended editor) allows you to see how your post will look like in the moment you write on it.

Attachments


You can attach as many documents and files to a post or private message as you want. Attached images will be resized automatically if they are to big.

BBCodes


With the help of BBCodes the text of a post can be formatted without using HTML source code in your post.

Announcements


Announcements are very important topics of your forum. They are displayed in all topic listings in the first place.

Ranks


With the help of user ranks you can award active users with an individual title or a special graphic which is displayed below the name of a user.

Icons and Smilies


Icons and Smilies help to express certain emotions while writing a topic or post.

Avatars


Every user can upload an own image or choose from provided images an avatar to personalize his or her profile.

Signatures


Every user can enter a short message in his or her profile which is displayed as signature below all of his or her posts.

User-Online-Display


You can see if a user is active browsing in a forum.

Usergroups


User can be organized into many user groups. A user group has certain access rights to limit the access to certain parts of the forum.

Stats


The board software offers functions to the administrator for statistically evaluations of the user activities.

Products: Woltlab Burnning Board comes in two versions, one is Woltlab Burnning Board Lite, which is a free version and Woltlab Burnning Board the commercial edition.

- Website: WoltLab GmbH | Startseite
- Support: WoltLab GmbH | Support