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One of the reasons why phpFox is the best social network solution is because of its extended plugins. These extended plugins include apps, themes, and language packs which are an absolutely great addition to your social network sites. As of today, we have 300+ plugins available in the phpFox store. But for now, let us give you a quick update on the new apps and themes in March 2018. 1. Advanced Comment [v4] by YouNetCo DESCRIPTION Advanced Comment app expands several additional features to Core Comment of phpFox and helps your social network own the most modern tools for users to express themselves. The app provides several ways for users to portray their opinions and ideas through images, stickers, and emojis. Various improvements are also implemented to comment section such as picture preview on links, hide/unhide comments, preview on the embedded link... And certainly, all these components & settings are easily customized. Learn More → 2. Add Links Button by FoxExpert DESCRIPTION The main thing in each social network based on Phpfox it is user's content and it is really important to force your users to add or Share content. Sometimes users registered and cannot find add buttons, but our Add links Button app solver this problem and adds Button into header near notification buttons, so your users never miss add links for any of your apps. Learn More → 3. Neo Material [Theme] by Scheinwelt-Media DESCRIPTION A clean dark material based theme with a fixed header. FEATURES fixed header when scrolling Modern dark color design Learn More → It is always great to ask the 3rd Party Experts about the overall functionalities about these products. All of the plugins listed in the sore have its own 3rd party developers. These developers provide support for their own set of plugins. If in any case, you won't be able to contact them, just drop us a ticket in your client area and we are happy to help.   Helpful Links phpFox Store - https://store.phpfox.com/ Apps - https://store.phpfox.com/apps Themes - https://store.phpfox.com/themes Packages - https://store.phpfox.com/bulk Language Packs - https://store.phpfox.com/language The Experts - https://store.phpfox.com/techie/browse   If you want to develop 3rd party plugins for phpFox and interested to become one of our 3rd party developers, please check out our Developer Program page.

Coolest Social Network CMS ever! That is one of the highlights of this latest stable version release. With its newly designed AdminCP, phpFox officially announces the release of phpFox 4.6.1. (more…)

phpFox is about to release phpFox version 4.6.1, which includes fixes for issues reported by clients in GitHub and in our Community Forum. It also includes feature improvements that are carefully tested by the phpFox development team. There is also going to have a new AdminCP Layout on this latest version. But before the official release, we will release this dev release for testing purposes. Download the Dev Release package in the Client Area For Testing Purposes This Development Release is specifically for all phpFox 3rd party Experts only. The purpose of this release is for all the 3rd Party Experts to test the compatibility of all 3rd party products which include apps and themes to the latest version of phpFox 4.6.1. The 3rd Party Experts will perform the necessary test and tweak features in this version. Compared to the current phpFox 4.6.0, this version contains many improvements that will absolutely love by phpFox fans out there. We encourage you to submit your feedback via ticket. We would love to hear any feedback or suggestions that can help phpFox 4.6.1 before we launch the official release.

It is Easter time indeed. Get on your feet and start grabbing your Easter baskets as we give you this special offer. This year has been one of the greatest years for us. We continue to listen to our clients and focus on improving the script. And to show our appreciation, phpFox would like to give you this special offer as part of Easter celebration. You can now get all the phpFox licenses (LITE, BASIC, PRO) with 20% OFF discount. This promotion will end on April 3, 2018 (PST). Make sure to use the coupon code EASTER2018 to avail this limited offer.   Why purchase today? This is the perfect time for you to purchase the phpFox script and start your social network site. You will be able to experience the new features of phpFox. Learn about the new and upcoming features of phpFox 4.6.1. You will also enjoy all the free lifetime upgrade if you buy today. We hope this great news finds you well and may you all have a wonderful holiday.

Great news for all phpFox Affiliates! You can now have a chance to increase your commission from 20% to 30% for every product purchase from your referrals. What a sweet deal! You just need to have three successful referrals within a month. Once your referrals successfully purchase a phpFox license, we will increase your commission to 30% from the succeeding month onwards. In addition, we also publish many pre-designed banners so that you can put them into your marketing materials. New Affiliate Banners Recently we attached two banners from the article phpFox Affiliate - How it works? And to make your posts more effective, we created new banners with different sizes that you can use in your marketing campaign.   1. Large Leaderboard Banner (900x90) A bigger version of the leaderboard banner that is perfect to place on top of your sites or in forum websites.   2. Leaderboard Banner (728x90) This banner is usually placed at the top of a page, so as to be seen by the user immediately when the page loads.   3. Full Banner (468x60) This banner is perfect to place at the top of a page, in the same spot occupied by leaderboards. It is often used twice on a page, with two banner ads appearing side by side to span the width of the page.   4. Medium Rectangle (300x250) This banner is commonly placed above the fold or the viewable space on a webpage when it first loads.   5. Square Banner (250x250) You can use this banner as an alternative for the medium rectangle banner to fit on the page better.   6. Wide Skyscraper Banner (160x600) The 160×600 banner is generally placed on the side of a page, so as to show users an ad as they scroll down the page.   7. Skyscraper Banner (120x600) A smaller version of Wide Skyscraper that can also be placed on the side of the page.   You can download these banners now and use on your sites, forums, or any page of your choice. Just make sure to use your unique referral link when using these banners. How to become a phpFox Affiliate? Everyone is welcome to join our Affiliate Program. You can earn 20% commission by default for selling phpFox licenses. Moreover, you can earn up to 30% commission once you sell three licenses in a month. How cool is that? You can also read the articles about phpFox Affiliate - How it works? and Earn Money in phpFox Affiliate Program for more information. Register now at https://www.phpfox.com/affiliate/ to get started.

You are about to discover the latest updates for phpFox 4.6.1. So buckle up and let us take you to what this version has to offer. MAIN FEATURE UPDATES   AdminCP New Layout One of the main feature updates in phpFox 4.6.1 is the new layout of its AdminCP. Recently, we posted an article regarding the new look of the Admin Control Panel. Read the Sneak Peek for the new phpFox AdminCP if you happen to missed it. Rechecked all the Core Settings To optimize the performance of the script, we run through its core settings to deprecate all the useless settings and add more useful ones.   Improvements in version phpFox 4.6.1 Support option to show/hide site menu with user groups. "Share" app will be added to Manage Apps page in the AdminCP for easier management of user group settings. Add a Block to AdminCP Dashboard feature is back. phpFox script is now compatible to run on PHP version 7.2 Additional information for IP such as region, city, zip code, lat, long and timezone Fixed Bugs/Issues Duplicated "Meta Keyword" field in Create Static Page page Unable to edit Relationship Statuses in Manage Relationship Statuses page (AdminCP). The photo doesn't show in the feed when users update profile picture. Quizzes and Polls don't load up the results if the Ajax Mode is turned off. The last character of messages in the feed is removed if it's a colon. Duplicated info of "Member Since" in Profile Info page. Cannot login as other users. Missing custom fields in registration popup when enabling the setting "Multi-step registration". Cannot add a ban filter with wildcard email address. Admin can't edit feeds on User Profile page. Users state info show wrong when admin edit their info from AdminCP. Replicated custom fields were blocked in other users profiles. Show avatar of the current admin when editing users in Admicp. Material Template Updates Allow admin to freeze header, sub-menu, profile-menu, and left-right columns The layout of some core components is updated such as comment, reposition profile cover, custom privacy. All the reported bugs and issues have been fixed.   There you go. We hope that this update can help you figure out what this version has to offer. The official release of this version will be in April 2018. We are still in the progress of improving the core script itself. We are also continuously gathering all the information from the list of reported items. In the meantime, please help us report all the issues on our GitHub to be able to fix it before the official release. You can also submit a ticket in your Client Area alternatively. 'Til our next post.

It is time for us to give you the latest apps and themes in February. Our developers have added new products to the store that you can absolutely install on your phpFox websites. These 3rd party plugins have just been uploaded last month, February. You can use these easy to set up add-ons to enhance your sites and make it more stunning. 1. Advanced Search by FoxExpert DESCRIPTION It is really important to allow your users to search anything with great design and autoComplete options(Live Search).Our app solves this problem and makes Phpfox global search looks solid and professionally. Rich information about each item, fresh responsive design, history of searching and Ajax search will make this app must have for each Phpfox website. Learn More → 2. Analytics Advanced by Scheinwelt-Media DESCRIPTION The app adds Google Analytics to your site and shows some charts in your AdminCP. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Learn More → 3. Default Avatar by Foxer DESCRIPTION This simple plugin will allow you to set default profile picture for all users who didn't update their avatar yet. phpFox has great feature – it can display user's initials with some color if a user hasn't set up his profile picture. However this doesn't work in all cases – sometimes admins want to set a pretty profile picture that will be assigned to all members who don't have profile pictures set up. Learn More → 4. Triada Landing page by FoxExpert DESCRIPTION An app which allows having unique landing page and slideshow on Triada template. Must install if you buy our theme - Triada. Learn More → 5. Usermenu Advanced by Scheinwelt-Media DESCRIPTION With this app, you can add additional entries to the user menu. Learn More → 6. Fancy Profile Block by Foxer DESCRIPTION We have created Fancy Profile Block for website owners who want to add something new and very personal for their users. Fancy Profile Block's AdminCP allows to configure block's style – colors, background images, add filters to fit any phpFox design. Learn More → 7. DFoxer by Suresh Choudhary DESCRIPTION DFoxer is a Social Network theme that is ideal for connecting professionals and companies.DFoxer is all you need to create a site for any social, company, tourist base, camping, and so on With Page, Event, Marketplace and Blog features. Learn More → 8. Triada by FoxExpert DESCRIPTION Trending design with a sliding main menu and a unique homepage with best widgets for any social networks, which show user activities. Ultra responsive (mobile first) design which works great on any device. Expand features from the Material theme, it means you'll have all new features from 4.6 + fresh design with many admin settings. Learn More → What did you think about the new apps? Does anyone catch your attention? How about the new theme? We hope that this list has helped you narrow your search down.  When looking at these apps and theme, don’t forget to try out their demo and explore the features. Don't forget to check out apps and themes in January 2018 in case you missed it. Have any questions about these apps and themes? Please contact the vendors directly via your client area account. Or submit a ticket if you need support from your site. You can also chat with our live chat agent on our website.

Are you having a great time using the new AdminCP of phpFox 4.6.0? Because we are about to make your experience even more exciting. As you know phpFox AdminCP has changed ever since the released of phpFox 4.6.0. And it looks awesome! But we don't want to settle for less. We want to give you the best. And to make it more convenient and easy to use, we come up with this new layout of the AdminCP. But when is this going to be available? We will let you know in a bit. But for now, let's take a look first at its new look. Dashboard We know that the Dashboard is the first thing you can see when you log in to your AdminCP. In this new design, we make sure that your experience will be so much better. As you can see in the image above, you will be able to see slides about the recent blogs from phpFox so you won't miss any news from us. On top of that, we will add a notification icon that will serve as an alert for some pending items. We also reorganized some of the blocks like site statistics, active admins, latest admin logins, and notes. There will be a space for your logo too. Dashboard's Auto Search Tool The Global Search tool is now placed on top center part of your AdminCP. Making it easier for you to find a specific setting with its auto-suggestion feature. The Form Editor The new layout of form editor has much cleaner and professional look. Settings are very organized and easier to change. We moved all the setting options in the middle of the page in order for you to easily change the settings. AdminCP Tables The table in the phpFox's AdminCP is also redesigned to easily manage and configure. Let's start with viewing the apps on how it will look like. In the image above, you will notice that there is "add button" to easily add items to the table. This button will be present in all the tables on your AdminCP. See the next image for more. Above image is showing the checkbox to select multiple items from the table. It also shows the setting option in each item to select the necessary option for that specific item. As you notice in the image above, we will also add a pagination option. This feature is good when browsing members on your site. You can set how many members will show up on each page. As you can see in the above image, you are still able to enjoy the drag option to rearrange items in your table. When searching for a specific item or user on your site, Advanced search filter is the best solution to that.  As you can see in the image above, we also integrate advanced search in the table of your phpFox AdminCP. Its new design is more nice and clean. And whenever you changed something on your site or in the table, this is how the popup form will look like on the table. Empty State The empty state shows whenever you clear all your notifications or alerts in the AdminCP. See how clean it looks like in the image above.   The data and some information on the images above are just mockups to show you the new design of the AdminCP. It can still change a bit during the development and might look a bit different on the final version. The question is when this will be effective? I'm sure all of you are excited to know. This new AdminCP layout will be effective on April 2018 together with the release of phpFox 4.6.1. Your thoughts are important to us. So if you got some comments or suggestions please let us know by submitting a ticket in the client area or via live chat on our website.

It is indeed great to be back bringing you the new apps and themes in January. We received a lot of good feedback since the released of phpFox 4.6.0. And up to now, we are still making great improvements to level up the experience of your members. We know that users are the most important factors in a social network and so are 3rd party experts do. That is the main reason why we are making phpFox to be your one-stop shop for your social network website. Our 3rd party experts have been continuously adding more 3rd party apps and themes. But before we give you awesome plugins from our 3rd parties, let us all review some of the phpFox standalone apps that were recently added to the store. Captcha Quizzes Polls Events Forum Groups Marketplace eGift RSS Feeds See the complete list of phpFox standalone apps Now here are the latest apps developed by our 3rd party experts 1. Blogs Block by Cespiritual DESCRIPTION Beautify the main page of your phpFox site with this app that will bring the blogs of your network to the main page in a beautiful and organized way. It will allow you, also, to see more information on each blog by clicking on the + button. Learn More → 2. Mail Templates by FoxExpert DESCRIPTION It is really important to have rich mail notifications on the current web. Our app solves this problem and makes phpFox mail notifications looks solid and professionally. The app is very flexible to any of your ideas.Play with different settings and test your template before making it live. Learn More → 3. Hide Feed Entry by Scheinwelt-Media DESCRIPTION This app can hide feeds without deleting them. Items with clarification needed are temporarily hidden from the feed. The admin is able to see the privacy status of each feed entry and can unhide it with one simple click. Learn More → 4. Anonymous Opinions by Foxer  DESCRIPTION This app provides a service for posting wishes, confessions, and thoughts from user's friends list anonymously. Members will be able to express their opinions about their friends and optionally receive opinions about themselves. This opinions will be private and there will be no option to identify who posted an opinion about the member. Learn More → 5. URL Rewrite by Foxer DESCRIPTION This little app will let you manage your URL Rewrites from your AdminCP. For example, you want your blog section to appear as a journal in URLs of your website. Simply choose Blog module in AdminCP and enter "journal" in rewrite field. Then both yoursite.com/blog and yoursite.com/journal will work the same (including sub-URLs). URL rewrite is supported in other languages than English, allowing you to rename all sections to your own language, even with special characters. Learn More →   Can't find what you're looking for? Just visit our phpFox store to see all the available apps and themes developed by our 3rd party experts. You can also contact the experts if you have some questions or clarifications about their apps. Lastly, you can ask the experts if you need some customization on your site too. All you need to do is to get your license now at phpFox.com  

"Ultimate Social Network Solution" - this is what phpFox is all about. People nowadays are so familiar using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other big social networks out there. But did you know that you can also build a Social Network? Have you ever thought of becoming a CEO of your own Social Network site? It is possible with phpFox. With phpFox's ultimate solution, that doesn't require any technical knowledge, you can bring your social network ideas into reality. Whether you want to clone a social network like Facebook or create a unique online community store, we can help you. Here are the things you need to know: Social Network Functionalities. In phpFox, you can choose from three different packages with default functionalities. It includes all the essential features of a social network. Some of the best features are Blogs,  Forums, Marketplace, Subscription, and Ads. See the complete features for your yourself. Clean and Attractive Design. phpFox software comes with two designed templates. The Bootstrap and the very latest and most outstanding template, the Material Template. You can either choose Bootstrap or Material Template to use it as a default theme on your site. These two templates are fully customizable. Customization and Extended Plugins. When you buy a phpFox script, you will have a 100% full access to the codes giving you the power to fully customize your site. You can also reach out to our 3rd party experts if you are having any difficulty in customizing your site. You can also search free and paid 3rd party plugins, themes, and language packs from the phpFox store and use it on your site. Fast and Reliable Support. phpFox software has an online User Manual or Documentation Center where you can find tutorials or how-to steps in order for your site to be up and running quickly. You can also join the Community Forum to read and share ideas with other phpFox users. Last but certainly not the least, the phpFox Helpdesk Support. You can easily submit a support ticket in your client area whenever you encounter any issues on your site. You can read the support details at phpFox Support Policy. Mobile Apps (IOS and Android). This 2018, phpFox will have its very own native mobile application. We will keep you updated about the progress on our future blog announcements.In the meantime, you can check some of the mobile apps developed by 3rd party experts First-class phpFox Services. Worry no more with our complete phpFox Services. We provide these services to everyone but most especially to those who don't have any technical background. You can just sit back and relax while we set up everything for you. From designing your website, server setups, software installation up to initial configuration, we will do the works. Just choose the most suitable package and we'll do the rest. Now when you want to create an online dating site, build an online shopping store, or bring your ideas into a social network site, all you have to do to get started is to find a hosting provider (see phpFox Hosting and Recommended Hosts) and select any of the phpFox packages. You can also ask our live chat agent on our website or send an email to hello@phpfox.com and we'd love to hear from you.