The 1.6 Documentation is no longer maintained and some information may be outdated.

The MyBB 1.6 series reached end of life on October 1, 2015.

This means there will be no more security or maintenance releases for these series and forums running these versions of MyBB may be at risk of unfixed security issues. All administrators are strongly encouraged to upgrade their forums to the latest release of MyBB as soon as possible.

The Configuration tab contains all the configuration of your forum on a global level.

All of the various general board settings for all of the various features on your board. Read the full document »

The location of banned IP addresses, disallowed usernames, and disallowed email addresses. Read the full document »

Custom profile fields allow you to create your own fields, both required and optional, for your members to fill in. Read the full document »

Add, edit, or delete the smilies (also known as emoticons) for your forum, including "Mass Edit," allowing you to edit all smilies at once. Read the full document »

Word filters replace one word or phrase with another, also commonly called a "bad word filter." Read the full document »

Custom MyCode allows you to create your own MyCode using your own custom regular expressions. There is also a MyCode tester allowing you to test your custom MyCode before saving when adding or editing. Read the full document »

There are various language packs available to translate your MyBB forum into another language. This section allows you to edit the language strings in each of these packs. Read the full document »

Post icons can be set to enhance the subject of the post and differ it further from other posts or threads. Read the full document »

You can modify the default help documents on your forum, as well as add your own. Help documents are found under "Help" on the front end. Read the full document »

Plugins use hooks throughout the code that allow them to run snippets of code to add new features without making any code modications. Read the full document »

Attachment types are the various file types that are allowed to be uploaded to your forum via the attachments system. Read the full document »

Custom moderator tools allow you to combine the various moderator functions of your forum into a single tool. Read the full document »

MyBB allows you to set custom themes, languages, or forum permissions for the spiders and bots that visit your forum based on their user agent. Read the full document »

Your forum can have multiple calendars on it. This section allows you to manage the settings and permissions for your forum's calendars. Read the full document »

MyBB's warning system allows you to warn users and have actions automatically taken when users reach certain levels. You can configure pre-set warning types (reasons to be warned) and the "warning levels" (the actions that happen when users reach a certain level). Read the full document »

Thread prefixes allow you to define prefixes that users can assign to their threads. Prefixes can be configured to only be accessible in certain forums or certain user groups. Read the full document »

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