Options Advisor

This hack adds a page to your admin CP which analyzes your options and gives advise on what to change.

[limey]

Didn't realize I had left an certain option on...thanks!

[Tim Wheatley]

Thanks. :up:

[Marzas]

hmm.. another noob thing, well mabye not for us, but the noobs will enjoy, another great addition to the millions of vb hacks, great job!

[filburt1]

I reiterate:

Today at 12:13 PM filburt1 said this in Post #4
Experienced users should use it too because not all of the default vB options are ideal.

[jbear6]

It reminded me that I still had "Maximum Characters per post" set to 50,000 (for a member who wanted to post a huge essay a few months ago), and I was still including template names in templates from troubleshooting a problem last month.

The only mistake it made, was to report: "Use email form? (value: 0): With this option off, e-mail addresses are publicly exposed. This can make your site a haven for spammers.", when I had "Display email addresses" (allow public viewing of email addresses) set to no.

Thanks
Jbear6

[filburt1]

Personally I'm not sure what the difference between the two options is. The descriptions don't really help based on my experience.

[alkatraz]

awesome ! thank you filburt1

[wooolF[RM]]

]Installed, nice one

Just one remark :

Notify about new members (value: ): While not a security risk, you should enter in your e-mail address for this setting to be quickly warned about potential troublemakers who register.

Heh, I have about 200-300 new members every day, I think it's a bad idea to use e-mail notification here

[Yuber]

Thanks filburt

[X-Fan]

Very useful, thanks!