T3 ModCP

1 : What is the T3 Modcp plugin ?

T3 Modcp is an easy tool to manage your site's content and members. This plugin isn't created to replace your moderators actions, it will mainly help you to do this job.

Features :
-- Easy management of the reports & warnings reasons.
-- Ability to add custom reasons for warnings.
-- Posts, Pages, Comments and Users reports.
-- Automatically generated item snapshot during report.
-- Easy and smart navigation in the backend with paginated results. (sedplus inc)
-- Open, close, delete reports.
-- Activate, archive, edit, delete warnings.
-- Active and total warnings counter for each user.
-- Users can't report themselves.
-- Auto notify warned users.
-- Full logging of the mods actions with the seditio logs system.
-- Cached header notices.
-- Display active warnings in user's profile.
-- Ability to sort warnings and reports by the warned and the reporter.

2 : What's new ?

Version 1.00
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First stable release

3 : How to install ?

1. Backup your database.
2. Run the install/new_install.sql through phpmyadmin
     Run the update.sql if you are updating from a previous version.
3. Unpack and upload the files into the folder : /plugins/modcp/
4. Go into the administration panel, then the tab "Plugins", click the name of the new plugin, and at bottom of the plugin properties, select "Install all".
5. Make sure you edit the plugin rights to assign the correct rights for each usergroup on your site. (See also the plugin rights notes)

Add these tags to your skin files.
page.tpl: {PAGE_REPORT},{PAGE_WARN}
comments.tpl: {COMMENTS_ROW_REPORT},{COMMENTS_ROW_WARN}inside the COMMENTS_ROW block
forum.posts.tpl: {FORUMS_POSTS_ROW_REPORT},{FORUMS_POSTS_ROW_WARN}inside the FORUMS_POSTS_ROW block
users.details.tpl: {USERS_DETAILS_REPORT}, {USERS_DETAILS_WARN}, {USERS_DETAILS_WARNINGS_HISTORY}, {USERS_DETAILS_REPORTS_HISTORY}, {USERS_DETAILS_WARNINGS_COUNT}, {USERS_DETAILS_ALL_WARNINGS_COUNT}, {USERS_DETAILS_WARNINGS}

The tags *_WARN and *_REPORT are the links to report items and to warn authors.

{USERS_DETAILS_WARNINGS_HISTORY} --> Link to view the complete warnings history of the user.
{USERS_DETAILS_REPORTS_HISTORY} --> Link to view the complete report history of the user.
{USERS_DETAILS_WARNINGS} --> Display in user profile the active user warnings.
{USERS_DETAILS_ALL_WARNINGS_COUNT} --> Display the total warnings count of the user.
{USERS_DETAILS_WARNINGS_COUNT} --> Display the active warnings count of the user.

4 : How to use ?

If you have installed the plugin and the necessary tags properly under posts, comments, pages and user profiles you will see these two icon links:

-- Report Item
-- Warn Author

The first icon link can be viewed and accessed only by the usergroups who have write access to the plugin. The second icon link can be viewed and accessed only by the usergroups who have admin access to the plugin. After the installation of the plugin make sure you edit the plugin's rights to configure the rights as you want.

Admin Part
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You can access the admin panel of the plug by accessing this link plug.php?e=modcp. In the main page you can see the 5 most recent reports and warnings as long with some quick stats. In the left side there is a basic menu to navigate in the subareas.

Reasons Area
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Here you can add, edit, delete reporting/warning reasons. These will appear in a select box during the report and during the warn process.

Reports Area
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Here there are listed all the reports. The reports can have 2 statuses:
-- Open (This means there is need for moderation)
-- Closed (This means, some moderator has already acted)

Make sure you change the status of each report with caution, you don't want the other mods to mess around which can lead to multi assigned warns.

When you view a report you will notice a "snapshot link". By following this link you will see the reported item's data which was taken during the report. Notice that you won't see information like user passwords and some other personal info for security reasons.

Warnings Area
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Here there are listed all the warnings. The reports can have 2 statuses:
-- Active (This warning will be showed under user's profile)
-- Archived (This warning will not be showed under user's profile)

During the warning you can select between the plugin's reasons list and a custom one . The moderator's log isn't necessary but you should obligate your mods to use it. When the warning is issued the warned user will be notified by pm for the reason.

Every user will have two extra fields. A user active warnings count and the archived warnings count. Basically the active/all counters. Archiving or deleting a warning will reduce by 1 the user's active warning count.

5 : Improtant Notes

-- Users can't report themselves
-- Users will be notified in case they try to report an already reported item.
-- This plugin isn't an auto-pilot you will be the admin, consider this plugin as a tool to help you do this job.
-- You can change the report/warn icons to text by changing the lang phrases $L['modcp_report_img'] and $L['modcp_warn_img']
-- If you want to reset the warnings counter you have to do manually or just wait for the next release.
-- During all actions the plugin will log everything. The plugin uses the default seditio logs system and you can prune it through the seditio admin panel.