Flatboard Pro 🚀

The professional edition of Flatboard — everything in Community, plus an exclusive set of plugins and a fully-featured premium theme built for serious communities.

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🆚 Pro vs Community

Feature	Community	Pro
Core forum engine	✅	✅
EasyMDE editor plugin	✅	✅
Logger plugin	✅	✅
Default theme	✅	✅
Premium theme	❌	✅
Analytics dashboard	❌	✅
SQLite storage	❌	✅
Private RSS/Atom feeds	❌	✅
Dashboard widgets (Pro plugins)	❌	✅
TUI Editor plugin	❌	✅
Private Messaging plugin	❌	✅
FlatHome plugin	❌	✅
Forum Monitoring plugin	❌	✅
FlatModerationExtend plugin	❌	✅
Storage Migrator plugin	❌	✅
FlatSEO plugin	❌	✅
Priority support	❌	✅

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🎨 Premium Theme

A sophisticated, fully-customizable theme that demonstrates the full extent of Flatboard's theming capabilities. Designed for communities that want a polished, modern look without touching a line of CSS.

Visual & Layout

• 4 layout styles — Default, Centered, Wide, Compact
• 4 navbar styles — Default, Glass, Solid, Transparent
• 4 card styles — Default, Elevated, Bordered, Minimal
• Configurable border radius — 6 levels (0.5× to 2×)
• Avatar shape — Square, Rounded, or Round
• Sidebar position — Left or Right
• 4 animation levels — None, Subtle, Normal, High
• Parallax, gradients, shadows — individually togglable
• Custom Hero section with full HTML/CSS support
• Custom Footer with multi-column layout and social links

Typography & UX

• 6 font size scales and 6 spacing scales
• Sticky navbar, smooth scroll, lazy loading, back-to-top button
• Tooltips, user presence indicators, auto-refresh
• 5 notification badge animations — Pulse, Bounce, Shake, Glow, None

Color System — Twilight palette

Full dark/light mode support with a complete set of CSS variables:
primary, secondary, success, danger, warning, info — all overridable from the admin panel, no code editing required.

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📊 Built-in Pro Features

Analytics Dashboard

A dedicated analytics section in the admin panel, exclusive to Flatboard Pro.

Key features:

• Visit KPI cards — visits and unique visitors for 7-day and 30-day windows
• 30-day visit chart with total and unique visitors stacked
• Top pages ranking based on discussion view counts
• Traffic sources table with referrer domain, visit count, and share progress bar (90-day retention, no IP stored — GDPR-friendly)
• Growth comparison cards — new discussions / posts / members over 7 d vs 30 d with trend arrows
• Engagement ratio cards — avg posts/discussion, avg posts/member, avg discussions/member, peak activity day
• Member and content health indicators (active members, banned, pinned, locked discussions)

Private RSS & Atom Feeds

On members-only forums, feed readers have no way to authenticate. Every feed URL accepts a ?token= parameter. The token is the per-user API key found in profile security settings.

https://yourforum.com/feed/rss?token=your_api_key
https://yourforum.com/feed/atom/category/members-only?token=your_api_key

A valid token grants access to the same content the user sees when logged in — public boards plus any private categories their account can access. An invalid or missing token returns public content only. Nothing breaks for users who aren't using it.

Supported for all feed types: global, by category, by user, and by tag. Both RSS and Atom formats work identically.

On Flatboard Community, the ?token= parameter is silently ignored. Feed behavior is unchanged.

Admin Dashboard Widgets

Pro plugins add widgets to the admin dashboard, giving you key metrics at a glance:

• Forum Monitoring — Active members today, 7-day sparkline, delta vs yesterday
• FlatModerationExtend — Pending content count, active shadow bans, premod/shadowban status
• Private Messaging — Unread message count with link to inbox

Each widget is on by default and can be toggled from the plugin's settings.

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🔌 Pro Plugins

🏠 FlatHome

A complete CMS, homepage, and blog system for Flatboard.

Transforms any Flatboard installation into a full web platform — manage static pages, run a blog, build a custom navigation, and present a polished landing page, all without touching a template file. FlatHome replaces EasyPages starting with Flatboard Pro 5.3.0.

Key features:

• CMS page system — Markdown or WYSIWYG editor, PHP templates, draft/published status, multilingual menu labels
• Blog engine — forum discussions become blog articles with hero banners, author info, tags, estimated read time, and AJAX comments
• Landing page template (home) — hero section, dynamic accent band in theme primary colour, recent blog posts and recent forum discussions sections; fully generic and suitable for any site
• Contact form template (contact) — ready-to-use, CSRF-protected, rate-limited, translated in 5 languages
• Navigation builder — drag-and-drop reordering of all nav items, dropdown page groups, per-language labels
• Pure CMS mode — disable the forum and/or blog entirely; Flatboard runs as a standalone website
• Presence integration — the presence indicator correctly labels blog and CMS page visitors
• Page type column in admin list — icon + Bootstrap tooltip identifies editor, link, and discussion-type pages at a glance

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🔍 FlatSEO

A complete SEO toolkit for Flatboard, fully admin-driven.

Replaces Flatboard's native SEO layer with a comprehensive toolbox — meta tags, structured data, sitemap, redirections, analytics, and more — all controllable from the admin panel without touching any template or core file.

Key features:

• Title format control with separator — global template and per-page override
• Open Graph & Twitter/X Cards with per-page image override
• JSON-LD structured data — WebSite, Organization, BreadcrumbList, DiscussionForumPosting, QAPage, ProfilePage
• XML sitemap with per-type priority, changefreq, image sitemap support, and live cache invalidation on discussion create/update
• Full robots.txt editor synced to the public file
• 301/302 redirect manager — add, edit and delete URL redirections from the admin panel
• Google Analytics 4 & Google Tag Manager injection
• Search engine verification — Google Search Console, Bing, Yandex, Pinterest
• Global noindex controls for search pages, user profiles and tag pages
• Per-page SEO overrides — title, description, canonical, OG image, robots directive
• SEO audit tab with per-discussion scoring; cache auto-invalidated on override saves
• Breadcrumbs — fully translated, automatically inserted on all public pages

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✍️ TUI Editor

A modern Markdown/WYSIWYG editor powered by Toast UI Editor.

A powerful alternative to EasyMDE with a dual-mode interface: write in pure Markdown or switch to WYSIWYG at any time. Context-aware toolbars adapt to each editing surface (discussions, replies, private messages, pages, settings).

Key features:

• Markdown & WYSIWYG modes switchable at any time
• Side-by-side or tabbed preview
• Image upload, YouTube & TikTok embeds
• Visual table editor
• Syntax highlighting (via CodeMirror)
• Emoji picker
• Autosave with configurable delay
• Spell checker toggle
• Per-context toolbar configuration (discussion, reply, PM, page, settings…)
• Fullscreen mode

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💬 Private Messaging

A full-featured direct messaging system between members.

Brings private, real-time conversations to your forum — complete with inbox management, read receipts, and rich message composition.

Key features:

• Inbox, Sent, Drafts views
• Read receipts & typing indicator
• Emoji picker in message composer
• Full-text message search
• File attachments (optional)
• Email notifications on new messages
• Configurable limits — max message length (up to 50,000 chars), max messages per user, max recipients, messages per page
• Auto-delete old messages after a configurable number of days (1–365)
• User block list
• Customizable welcome/rules message (Markdown)
• Relative or absolute date display
• Admin dashboard widget — unread message count with inbox link

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📊 Forum Monitoring

Real-time health monitoring and analytics for your forum.

Gives administrators a dedicated dashboard to track activity, detect anomalies, and stay informed about their community's health — without needing external tools.

Key features:

• Activity chart — configurable window from 7 to 365 days
• Active members today — 7-day bar sparkline, delta vs yesterday, list of today's active members with last-seen time
• Top users and top discussions leaderboards (up to 100 entries)
• Anomaly detection — flags unusual spikes or suspicious patterns
• Spam scoring — configurable threshold (1–10)
• Email alerts when anomalies are detected
• Admin dashboard widget

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🛡️ FlatModerationExtend

Advanced moderation tools beyond the core feature set.

Key features:

• Shadow ban — silently hide content from a user without notifying them
• Pre-moderation queue — hold new accounts' content for review before it goes live
• Discussion merge with automatic 301 redirects
• Bulk actions — hide, lock, pin, delete across multiple discussions at once
• Admin dashboard widget — pending content count, active shadow bans, premod/shadowban ON/OFF status

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🔄 Storage Migrator

Zero-downtime migration between JSON and SQLite storage backends.

Flatboard supports two storage engines — flat JSON files and SQLite. The Storage Migrator lets you switch between them at any time through a guided admin interface, without manual database work.

Key features:

• Migrate from JSON → SQLite or SQLite → JSON
• Safe, atomic migration process
• Rollback-friendly — original data is preserved until migration is confirmed
• Smart quick-switch — if the target storage already contains matching data, the migration is skipped and only the config is updated
• Dedicated admin panel section

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⚙️ Requirements

Requirement	Minimum
PHP	8.0+
Extensions	pdo, pdo_sqlite (if using SQLite), json, mbstring, fileinfo
Web server	Apache 2.4+ or Nginx
Storage	JSON files (default) or SQLite
Disk space	~20 MB (base install)

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🔒 Security

• CSRF protection on all state-changing requests
• Two-factor authentication (2FA) support
• Configurable Content Security Policy (CSP)
• Rate limiting on API endpoints
• IP-based ban system
• Audit log (via Logger plugin)
• Debug mode triggers an admin notification when active — a reminder to disable it before going live

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📜 License

Flatboard Pro is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.

The Pro license grants you the right to use, modify, and self-host Flatboard Pro on any number of personal or commercial projects. Redistribution of the Pro edition as a standalone product is not permitted.

→ https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0

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🔗 Links

Resource	URL
🌐 Website	flatboard.org
📖 Documentation	docs.flatboard.org
🐛 Bug Reports	flatboard.org/f/bug-reports
💬 Community	flatboard.org
🛒 Pro License	flatboard.org/resources

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🪶 Flatboard Pro — Because Simple is Better, and Better can still be Pro.