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Features
If you need more advanced features than this basic selection, see the full version feature list.
General Features
SEO and Traffic-Building Features
Customization Features
E-mail Features
Links-specific Features
Categories-specific Features
Membership-specific Features
Administrative Features
Restrictions
General Features
If you wish, generate revenue by integrating paid PPC search engine results. This is full integrated to allow complete control of the appearance, location, amount of details, number of results, etc of the paid results. Results can be shown in categories and/or search, and the details are customizable by category.
Integrate with your existing member database, be it a forum database or any other mysql member system. Pre-supplied integration systems selectable in your admin panel: Invision Board, vBulletin 3.00, phpBB, Mambo Server, WSN Guest, WSN Gallery.
Setup is simple. No file editing is ever needed. The setup script asks for your database info, asks you which languages you wish to install, and then automatically sets up your directory for you.
If you wish, generate revenue by integrating paid PPC search engine results from ULSearch. This is fully integrated to allow complete control of the appearance, location, amount of details, number of results, etc of the paid results. Results can be shown in categories and/or search, and the details are customizable by category.
Search. Simple search for links, or advanced searches for links, categories, comments or members. Choose which fields apply for the simple search. Find items where any particular field is equal to, contains, has any of the words, is less than, or is greater than the search term... or search for where items are between two numbers, or use advanced search syntax.
Hide links, categories or comments from the listings. Remove them from the list temporarily, or hide a category so that you can link to it separately outside of the context of the directory.
Sort. The visitor can sort links or categories or the member list in any order, and the admin can set the default orders for links, categories, comments and members. Admin can set a secondary sort order for links where the primary sort order leaves several equal.
SEO and Traffic-Building Features
Meta tags. Set meta tags for general use on all pages, and set category-specific meta tags to override the general ones for each category.
Encourage sites to trade links by offering them top position or a more eye-catching link.
Customization Features
WSN Links Basic Edition is fully customizable. All of the HTML which is displayed to your visitors (as well the admin panel HTML) can be customized through the templates. You may either edit your templates offline through the HTML editor of your choice, or make use of the online editor in the admin panel which allows you to preview changes, search for a string, et cetera.
Take advantage of CSS. Change the entire color scheme by editing a small stylesheet, so that you don't have to go through the templates individually. Optionally let your visitors choose the style they prefer, without needing to create separate template sets.
Translatable. With a multilingual install, you can choose from 7 existing languages or use the language system in your admin panel to quickly create your own. Current languages are English, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Polish, French, and German (informal). Since they were created for versions prior to the current release, there are spots in most of them which are still in English, but you can edit these through your languages section. Also note that the languages do not translate the administration panel, only visitor-viewable text.
Create a toplist. Anywhere you wish, list the top x links, categories, comments or members ordered by the field of your choice and filtered by a condition of your choice. Works in custom templates, so you can create new pages with toplist content.
Export data via javascript. Optionally use javascript to export a customizable toplist for use on html pages or for distribution to allow other websites to show your content.
Custom templates. Create as many new templates as you need, and use toplists or globally available template variables in them. Also make a custom template for specific links, categories, etc. by specifying the id number in the url.
Easily make a custom template for a special category by editing the category to specify the new template to use for it.
Easy template customization. Includes [INSERTFILE=yourtemplate] syntax to let you easily insert large amounts of text/HTML/PHP from another file into a particular spot in a template, thus making it easy for you to keep your customizations separate so that upgrading to future versions can be painless.
Simple conditionals syntax available in templates. Use the power of PHP without needing to learn PHP. Example: <IF {MEMBERLINKS} is greater than 10>You have submitted more than 10 links.<OTHERWISE>You have not yet submitted more than 10 links.</IF>
Multiple types. Create multiple types of categories, comments or links... each type can use different HTML to display it and may be positioned differently on the page.
E-mail Features
E-mail members. Send a mass e-mail to members who fit the conditions you specify, and user any member template variables in your message.
E-mail link submitters. Send a mass email for each link which meets the conditions you specify to the owner of the link, using an link template variables in your message.
Let members e-mail each other. These e-mails are processed through a form which does not reveal the address of the recipient.
Allow members to opt in or out. By choosing on registration or editing their profile, members can decide not to receive emails from other members or not to receive emails from the administrator.
E-mail notifications to admin. Get an email informing you of new submissions, containing details of the submission.
E-mail notifications to user. Let the submitter get an email notification of acceptance or rejection.
Subscriptions. Subscribe to be notified of new comments on a link, or subscribe to a category to be notified of new links in it.
Links-Specific Features
Visitors can rate each link. Cookies are used to prevent re-voting, and IPs are also stored to prevent the same IP address from voting again.
Remote voting code generator. Let link owners put a voting code on their site which will direct their visitors to you.
Visitors can report a link, email a link, or bookmark a link.
Track hits in and out. Set the amount of time between clicks needed to count as a unique hit.
Sort links by two levels of criteria -- a primary field, plus a secondary field to decide ties.
Copy or alias. Copy a link to another category, or create an alias of it so that the link functions as one single link in two categories at once.
Avoid URL duplication if you choose. Option to not allow a URL to be submitted when it already exists in the directory, and further sub-option to not allow multiple submissions with the same domain name. These are optional and so you only need turn them on if you're sure you want these submissions prevented.
Limit submissions by usergroup. Set how many links each usergroup can submit in total, and how many they can submit in each single day.
Comments/reviews system. Allow discussions of each link.
Rate comments. Visitors can rate a particular comment on a link as helpful or unhelpful.
Expire links. If you're indexing something which has an expiration date (such as coupons, for example), set links to automatically expire after a certain number of days.
Category-Specific Features
Unlimited levels of subcategories. If you need 1000 subcategories 100 levels deep, it's not a problem.
Related categories. Select related categories to link to from a particular category.
Customize categories. For each individual category, you may override the default link order and override the choice of mixing link types or not, as well as create a custom template for the category if desired or select usergroups to restrict from access to the category, and set unique meta tags or other header information for the category.
Moderators. Appoint moderators/editors to oversee specific categories. Choose if you wish to auto-approve submissions by moderators to their own categories. Moderator inherit all subcategories of their category.
Membership-Specific Features
Visitors can register an account either while submitting a link or from a separate registration screen.
Registration options. Use direct registration, require e-mail validation, or require manual validation of members by the admin.
Advanced usergroup permissions. Create custom usergroups, and specify the exact permissions of guests, registered members and administrators.
Allow usergroups to edit links they've submitted. Require validation of edits if you wish, based on usergroup.
Member list and profiles. View all members and various details, make this publicly available if you wish.
Custom permissions restrictions. Via a comment at the top of any template, quickly restrict the viewing of that page to particular usergroups. Or, just edit a category to quickly restrict it from being viewed by particular usergroups.
Administrative Features
Validation. Specify for each usergroup if the admin will have to validate their links, categories, comments, or link edits. When a link edit needs to be validated, the original link remains visible as it was until the changes are approved.
Backup and restore. Use the admin panel to download a quick backup of your WSN Links database content, and then easily restore backups through the admin panel. Have backups automatically generated for you every x days if you like.
Control behavior of redirects. Decide for yourself exactly which page you want the user sent to after they take a particular action...
Required fields. Select exactly which fields you wish to require the user to fill in. If it's not filled in, the user doesn't lose any data but has the chance to complete the missing field(s).
Restrictions
The basic edition lacks many of the powerful features listed on the full version feature list.
You must retain a "Powered by WSN Links" line in the footer at the bottom of all pages. If you prefer not to have this, buy the full version.
Do-it-yourself support. A users forum is provided but no official support is offered, though it may be given from time to time on the forum.
Source code is obscurified. If you wish to customize the source you are expected to purchase the full version.
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