Sorry I don't remember exactly as its been so long, but as far as I recall the default install includes the htaccess.txt file in the root of the file system. It only works once you rename it to .htaccess which is what you may need to do if your friendly URLs don't work
. Just ticked to use friendly URL's and that sorted it. No need to do anything to htaccess. Google code entered and signed up with Google Analytics and Google Ads. So forum all set up and ready to go - except. Probably could do to tweak the code of conduct and make it more visible. And could do with a better logo (working on that).View the current visitors list. It will tell you its its a guest or a bot.
It says guest for all of them except 1 google bot. I did have google ads start today so that might be to do with it but seems strange to have 50 all around the same time.
Normal behavior... new posts go to the top of the thread list. You want it to stay at the top, make it a sticky.
Not really... you can have several of the same bot visiting. Invariably when I push a post out to my FB page, I end up with 3-4 FB bots visiting very shortly afterwards... and AHREFS used to hit 6-10 bots at a time until I started blocking them. You can check the IP of each guest and see where they resolve back to.
EVERY post you make in there is going to have that issue. Is there a reason your "introductory" thread can't be a sticky? That's what most do for important threads that need to stay at the top of the list without having to change the date every time a new thread is started in that area... which changing the date can cause its own issues unless special efforts are made by to exclude the changed date post from "New" status for users.
This was a particular thread and it was the post order I needed to change. I started the thread with an introductory post. But moved something from another thread into that thread and it came up at the top (as had been posted earlier than my post originally) so my introductory post moved down. Changing the date on my post sorted it . It's only just up and running and only one other member ha ha - who is getting the hang of where to post things so I have to keep moving them.
The way I'm reading it is in this case it was the post order within the thread, not the thread order within the thread list. So if you move an old post to a new thread, it becomes the OP, not waht you really want.
