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Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Ashley
Date: October 26, 2025, 5:37 pm
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Do you have a test forum for your site where you mess about with
things before making it live on your real forum? As it's been a
while since I worked with smf, I created a test Forum alongside
this one so I can try out things and make sure I know how
something works before implementing it here so I know what to do
or how something works.
#Post#: 527--------------------------------------------------
Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Gizmo
Date: October 26, 2025, 9:09 pm
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I don't have a test forum per say but I do have my own private
staff forum on my forum where only I have access to where I can
post notes and to do lists and stuff.
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Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Ashley
Date: October 26, 2025, 9:41 pm
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--- Quote from: Gizmo link ---
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> I don't have a test forum per say but I do have my own private
staff forum on my forum where only I have access to where I can
post notes and to do lists and stuff.
>
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I needed something more than just to do lists and notes. I
needed something bigger for practicing adding mods, themes etc.
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Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Gizmo
Date: October 26, 2025, 10:05 pm
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--- Quote from: Ashley link ---
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> I needed something more than just to do lists and notes. I
needed something bigger for practicing adding mods, themes etc.
>
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Oh I get what you mean now you signed up for another forum on
createaforum for testing/development purposes?
No I haven't got anything like that at the moment.
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Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Ashley
Date: October 26, 2025, 10:51 pm
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--- Quote from: Gizmo link ---
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> Oh I get what you mean now you signed up for another forum on
createaforum for testing/development purposes?
>
> No I haven't got anything like that at the moment.
>
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Basically yeah. For example a member had trouble registering,
and I wasn't sure if admins could register member accounts for
people, so, using another one of my emails, my admin account on
the test forum, I tried my luck with registering another member
using another email and it worked, so I knew I was able to help
that member register here by registering for them
#Post#: 551--------------------------------------------------
Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: JWeb
Date: October 27, 2025, 11:16 am
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On my old forum I was using XenForo and since they allowed
having a separate test forum, I set one up to do as you
described, testing add-ons, modifying themes, trying out
features, etc.,
#Post#: 606--------------------------------------------------
Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Shawn
Date: October 29, 2025, 9:32 am
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No. Never had any sort of test site.
I always do it in the live environment.
But I am also very picky about adding plugins and such.
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Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Demon_skeith
Date: November 1, 2025, 2:58 am
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Oh yeah, I got so many addons for it, I need to make sure they
all upgrade fine and I've had my test site break a few times,
very badly. Glad I could wipe it and start over.
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Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Shawn
Date: November 3, 2025, 7:47 am
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--- Quote from: Demon_skeith link ---
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> Oh yeah, I got so many addons for it, I need to make sure they
all upgrade fine and I've had my test site break a few times,
very badly. Glad I could wipe it and start over.
>
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Do you ever get worried about using so many addons?
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Re: Test Forum for Your Site
DIR By: Ashley
Date: November 3, 2025, 3:04 pm
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--- Quote from: Demon_skeith link ---
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> Oh yeah, I got so many addons for it, I need to make sure they
all upgrade fine and I've had my test site break a few times,
very badly. Glad I could wipe it and start over.
>
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That's what I love about test sites. Unlike a live site you get
to play with ideas until they turn out how you want them
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