General Features Overview

Below is a brief outline of some of the features within a standard installation of MyBB. It is by no means complete and you can expect a lot more when you download MyBB and install it for yourself. You can also check out the MyBB Community Forums if you wish to see a copy of MyBB in action.

General Features

  • Have an unlimited number of members, forums, posts, threads - and anything else!
  • MySQL Fulltext search capabilities (MySQL 4.1+)
  • As many copies as you like, one database.
  • Completely customizable with our intuitive templates and theme system
  • Install or create as many different languages on your forum as you please
  • Developed in PHP, compatible with MySQL, PgSQL, and SQLite v2 and v3 database servers

Member Features

  • Powerful user control panel
  • Custom profiles and settings per user
  • Custom profile fields
  • Advanced private messaging system with tracking and multiple folders
  • Reputation system allowing members to rate each other
  • Signatures, avatars, buddy and ignore lists and forum subscriptions

Posting Features

  • Attach multiple files to a single post
  • Automatic thumbnail generation for attached images
  • Clickable smilies and BB Code
  • Quick moderation options for moderators
  • Email notification of new posts
  • Create polls with multiple options and attach them to threads
  • Multi-quote - quote multiple posts easily in one reply

Thread Display Features

  • Threaded or linear viewing modes
  • View a printable version of any thread
  • Subscribe to threads or add them to a favorite threads list
  • Send threads to your friends via email
  • Quick reply area - quickly respond to a thread or quote a reply
  • Report posts to moderators

Moderation Features

  • Add moderators to particular forums, set their permissions or allow them to moderate all forums
  • Extensive logging of all moderation activities performed
  • Open, close, stick and unstick threads
  • Move or copy threads between forums, merge threads together, split posts from a thread
  • Inline moderation - mass action multiple threads or posts in one go
  • Create your own moderation tools to perform multiple actions at once
  • Moderator control panel allowing moderators to perform some light administrative tasks, such as announcement management, moderation queue management for the forums they moderate, and basic user profile editing.

Administration Features

  • Completely customize the look and feel of your forums by creating a color scheme and modifying templates
  • Control every aspect of your forums with little technical knowledge
  • Manage forum announcements
  • Assign permissions to forums and different user groups
  • Manage smilies, custom MyCode, post icons, word filters and more
  • Powerful user management features, including User Views, which are basically saved searches and allow you to track groups of users
  • Ban users by IP address, email address, username or create a timed ban on an account
  • Administrator permissions to limit the abilities of secondary administrators
  • Run maintenance tasks to keep your forum running in tip-top shape

And More...

  • Who's online list
  • Advanced event based calendar functionality allowing multiple calendars, ranged and repeating events, event moderation, private and public events, and more
  • Fully customizable F.A.Q.
  • Members listing and advanced member profile views
  • List of the forum moderation staff
  • Forum statistics page