Guides

If you're new to IPS, this guide will help you install your Self-Hosted license from scratch

Already using an earlier version of our software? Find out how to upgrade to IPS4 here.

If you're using one of our Cloud plans, this guide covers everything you need to know to get the most out of it.

If you're moving to the IPS Community Suite from another community platform, our free converters can bring over almost all of your data.

Welcome to the IPS Community Suite! This guide covers what you need to have a basic installation ready to use.

Find out about the tools available to deal with members, from signing up through to permissions.

In this guide, we cover the global options you can use to set up and configure your community after installation.

From the powerful Activity Stream to search, following content, and member notifications there are so many ways for your members to constantly find new content to enjoy.

Leverage options to enhance your search engine presence, social media sharing, and return visits from your members.

There are multiple ways to store and manage member and system generated files in the Suite.

Multiple tools are available to you and your Moderators to ensure a friendly, welcoming community.

Once you have set up all your administrator options, your members have a huge selection of preferences and features in the Suite to use for finding and posting in your community.

Learn how to allow members to sign in with Facebook, Twitter and other services.

Learn about the key features available in our flagship community application, Forums.

Our Gallery application lets members share photos and videos with the community.

Share files with the community with our Downloads app. Integrate with Commerce to sell digital files easily!

Let your members create and manage their own blog within your community, with our Blog app.

Let your community schedule and RSVP to events in multiple calendars with our Calendar app.

Find out how to configure and use our real-time community Chat application.

Find out to build completely custom areas of your community using Pages, including a complete start-to-finish tutorial.

Sell products with the Storefront, offer support through the built-in ticket support system, manage hosting, and much more.

Themes are normally the first port of call when customizing your community. This guide will help you get started.

If you are a designer/developer looking to build custom themes, find out about the advanced tools we offer.

The IPS Community Suite fully supports localization for users around the world. Discover how to use the language tools.

Discover how to customize IPS4's powerful rich text editor and how to manage your emoticons.

Learn some useful tips & tricks for working with the IPS4 template engine beyond the basic changes you can make.

HTML logic is our syntax for allowing more complex handling of HTML in templates. This guide covers the available features.

Developer documentation covering how to use and create code from IPS4's Javascript framework.

Developer documentation covering how to use the CSS classes available in the IPS Community Suite.

Learn about some of the advanced configuration settings available to administrators.

Find out how to set up and use IPS Connect, our single-point-of-authentication platform for multiple communities