The 1.6 Documentation is no longer maintained and some information may be outdated.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

Below is a brief outline of some of the highlightable features within a standard installation of MyBB.

  • Unlimited Amounts of Members, Forums, Posts, and Threads
  • FullText Search Engine (MySQL Versions 4 and over)
  • Database Table Prefixes
  • Customizable Administrator Control Panel
  • Coded in PHP
  • A great experience!
  • Customisable moderators and moderator permissions per forum.
  • Extensive logging of all actions performed
  • Open/Close/Stick/Unstick threads
  • Move or Copy threads
  • Delete selected posts from within threads
  • Split and merge threads
  • Merge selected posts together
  • Custom moderating tools set by the administrator


About MyBB
What is MyBB? - License - Features - Requirements - Installing - Upgrading - MyBB Team


MyBB Features
Archive Mode - Attachments - Multiquote - MyCode - Polls - Private Messages - Reputation - RSS Syndication - Search Engine Friendly URLs - Smilies - Subscriptions - User Groups - User Referrals - Warning System
This is obviously not the complete feature list. See Features.

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