4. Settings

Podium settings

Sign in as Administrator and go to the Administration > Settings.
On the left side you will find Settings index - click an element to quickly scroll to a chosen setting.

There is the limit of 255 characters per setting max.

Maintenance mode

• Set forum to Maintenance mode (default off)
  All users without the Administrator privileges will be redirected to the Maintenance page while this option is on.

  Warning: do not sign out when this mode is on - you will not be able to sign in again.
  Doh! I did it anyway... what to do?

Meta data

• Forum's Name (default 'Podium')
  Displayed in navigation bar, footer, page titles and emails.

• Global meta keywords (default 'yii2, forum, podium')
  Meta tag "keywords" used on every page (unless overridden by category or forum meta keywords).

• Global meta description (default 'Podium - Yii 2 Forum Module')
  Meta tag "description" used on every page (unless overridden by category or forum meta description).

Registration

• Switch registration off (default off)
  Switches registration off so new users are not allowed to register.

• Add captcha in registration form (default on)
  Adds Yii 2 standard CAPTCHA field for registration.

• Use reCAPTCHA instead of standard Captcha - Enter Site Key (default empty)
  You can use reCAPTCHA instead of standard captcha code.
  Register your site and enter site key here.

  You have to check Add captcha box for reCAPTCHA to appear.

• Use reCAPTCHA instead of standard Captcha - Enter Secret Key (default empty)
  Enter secret key here.

Posts

• Minimum number of posts for thread to become Hot (default '20')
  Hot threads are marked with flame icon.

• Merge reply with post in case of the same author (default on)
  Reply will not appear as new post but will be merged with previous post separated with horizontal line.

• Allow polls adding (default on)
  New polls can be added to the thread.

• Use WYSIWYG editor (default on)
  Check this box to use Quill as WYSIWYG editor or uncheck it to use CodeMirror in Markdown mode as text editor.

Guests privileges

• Allow guests to list members (default on)
  Check this box to allow Guests to see the list of Members and Member profiles.

E-mails

• Podium "From" email address (default 'no-reply@change.me')
  This is the email address Podium uses to send emails.

  Make sure this address is set properly otherwise there might be a problem with emails sending (i.e. SMTP authorisation).

• Podium "From" email name (default 'Podium')

• Maximum number of email sending attempts before giving up (default '5')
  Every failed attempt to send an email is logged. When maximum number of attempts is reached email changes the status to gave up and is removed from the queue.

  Do not set this too high because it might slow down whole queue.
  How to check the current queue status?

Tokens

• Number of seconds for the Password Reset Token to expire (default '86400')
  After this time Password Reset Token will be invalid. Default is 24 hours.

• Number of seconds for the Email Change Token to expire (default '86400')
  After this time Email Change Token will be invalid. Default is 24 hours.

• Number of seconds for the Account Activation Token to expire (default '259200')
  After this time Account Activation Token will be invalid. Default is 3 days.

Database

• Database version (read only)
  This is the version of Podium database. Module checks this value against its version to decide if database needs update.

Contents

Here you can customise all the emails sent by Podium.
Sign in as Administrator and go to the Administration > Contents.

In case you signed out with Maintenance mode on

1. Manually modify database table podium_config.
2. Set maintenance_mode value to 0.
3. Flush Podium cache (if set). (Yii 2 Cache Flushing)

Podium should be back in default mode.

Current email queue status

Run the following console command:

php /path/to/your/application/yii podium/queue/check