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WoltLab Suite 3.1 entered the beta phase last week, and it's time to introduce you to some of the new features and improvements in this version. This is the first part of a small series that outlines a selection of enhancements, a complete list of all changes and additions will be made available in the Release Candidate (RC) phase.

In the forums for reporting bugs as well as in the suggestions section we use labels, in this article we explain their meaning.

WoltLab Suite 3 enters the release candidate phase next and we will no longer add features, but instead focus on stability only. This allows us to finally deliver you the definite list of improvements and new features that ship with the upcoming WoltLab Suite 3.

Creating custom pages with WoltLab Suite 3 is already super easy and open up a lot of possibilities when it comes to providing the content for your site. Yet, there are cases in which you want your site to be more lively and provide a steady stream of content flowing in your site, attracting visitors and providing more value for existing users. Articles are exactly what you have been looking for!

Menus are the key of almost every website, they provide quick access to different sections or provide general information apart from the current content viewed by the visitor. WoltLab Suite Core 3.0 provides the ability to add and manage custom menus that can be placed anywhere on the page using the recently introduced box system.

WoltLab Community Framework 2.x introduced dashboard boxes as a unified way to place additional content on different pages. It did that job just fine, but there were still a few more things they could've done to provide more flexibility and comfort to the administrator. WoltLab Suite Core 3.0 replaces this with a top notch box system ready to ease your life as an administrator.

Creating and managing custom pages is among the major additions shipped with WoltLab Suite Core 3.0. We would like to provide a brief overview of the system's capabilities and what you can easily achieve in the most user-friendly way.

It's been about half a year since we shared our plans and ideas with you, and we've achieved a whole lot during this period.

In the past few months we've extensively evaluated the future of Community Framework and agreed on a list of changes and improvements that will take place. Despite its utter importance for all our products, it always had to take a step back and work in the background, revealing itself only through the administration control panel.

Last but not least we would like to dive into the minor but yet important changes to the overall user interface and usability of specific features. Continue reading to learn more about the upcoming changes of WoltLab Calendar 2.1.

Despite all these new and exciting features added to the Filebase with version 2.1, we also took the time to evaluate existing features to see if there is room for improvement. There have been a few changes that aim to improve the user experience and general handling of the Filebase. Potentially most interesting is the option to limit statistics to reflect only changes in a specific time frame to prevent statistics becoming almost static over the time.

WoltLab Filebase 2.1 adds a lot of useful features to file entries, including but not limited to labels and the ability to offer files for purchase. We want to provide an overview of some new features as well as a more detailed introduction for each one below.

Entries already offer a wide set of different input fields, but there are still some quite useful additions that will come along with WoltLab Filebase 2.1. Read ahead and take a glimpse of what is shipped with the upcoming version.

We have turned numerous suggestions from our customers into useful enhancements and new features that will be shipped with version 2.1 of WoltLab Gallery. They improve both the user experience and the abilities offered to uploading users - below is a list of the most important improvements we've made.

Events already feature the ability to comment on them and discuss certain aspects in beforehand. This is extended by using the optional Burning Board integration which causes threads to be automatically created when events are being created. We consider this to be an important aspect and would like to introduce you some of the efforts we've taken to improve this even further.

A beautiful and clean presentation of images is an important aspect of every gallery, it can even be considered the uttermost important one. Yet, one should pay equal attention to the uploading and editing capabilities, after all they're the road to add images in first place. We would like to dive into the improved interface of WoltLab Gallery 2.1 and present you the most important innovations.

A great software is not entirely based upon the big features, but also the little things that make you enjoy using it and helping you to accomplish your goals. We would like to introduce you some more useful tweaks and additions below.

WoltLab Blog 2.1 comes along with a handy set of features improving writing and managing articles, we would like to take the opportunity to show you some of them in this spotlight.

Blog 2.1 introduces user-blogs, a personalized blog covering a topic of your choice. Given the permissions users may create several own blogs each dedicated to different aspects and subjects. Users are given the choice to control the visibility of their blogs based on a set of different access levels, for example restrict a blog to be accessible by users they're following only. It is worth noting that moderators can be given the right to override these restrictions to allow checks for questionable content.

The first part already covered a bunch of changes and improvements to the administration control panel, mainly concerning the general usability and speeding up common processes. But wait, there's more.

In this article we introduce the possibility of setting up paid subscriptions in Burning Board 4.1.