Optional Features

interests-findsim

The “Find Users by Similar Interests” feature.

directory

The user Directory, which houses some of the largest and slowest database queries.

stats-recentupdates

Logs the ten most recent updates to the stats.bml page.

stats-postsbyday

The statistic gathering and graph generation portions of the maintenance jobs genstats and genstatspics. By default this is on. This option is to resolve errors people get because genstats was partially disabled for LiveJournal.com, which would cause problems when the images attempted to be generated.

stats-newjournals

Logs the ten most recently created journals to the stats.bml page.

show-talkleft

Show the received and posted comment counts for each account on the userinfo.bml page.

memories

Show the “Add to Memories” button on comment pages.

feedster_search

Search public RSS entries using a link from the userinfo.bml page to an off-site search engine.

community-logins

Allows users to log-in to a community account. When community logins are disabled, all community maintenance is operated through the user account maintaining the community.

tellafriend

Show the “Tell a Friend” button on comment pages.

clientversionlog

Show client usage statistics, for the last thirty days, on the stats.bml page.

userinfo_clientusage

Show the clients a user has used, on their userinfo.bml page.

force_pass_change

Re-direct a user to changepassword.bml on key actions if the badpassword userprop, used to mark an account as having a poor password, is set. If used, the re-direct is not done.

commentmanage

Enable AJAX comment management ([un]freeze, [un]screen) through a pop-up box.

interests-popular

Enable “Popular Interests” link at interests.bml.

ljmaint_tasks

Enable running of maintenance tasks by ljmaint.pl.

meme

Enable the meme-tracking feature for users to view a list of URLs referenced in journal entries.

nudge

Enable the “Nudge a Friend” button on userinfo.bml, for users to “nudge” a friend to update again.

portal

Show the “Portal”, which acts as a one-stop-shop of features, for users.

qbufferd_jobs

Enable query buffering for high-load sites, by qbufferd.pl.

recaptcha

Use older CAPTCHAs method, which automated tools may find easier to guess, for human checks instead of using reCAPTCHA.

richtext

Enable the FCKeditor-based rich text interface at update.bml.

schools

Enable the Schools and Schools Directory feature.

tags

Enable entry tagging for users to categorize and label entries.

update_draft

Prompt users to restore from a saved draft at update.bml. It is cleared after a successful post.

userpicfactory

Enable the “Userpic Factory”, which lets users re-size/edit their userpics as they upload them.

userpicselect

Enable the userpic selector, allowing users (with the userpicselect cap) to browse and select a userpic to use when commenting, from an AJAX-based pop-up menu.

web_current_location

Let users enter their current location into a box on the update.bml page.

css_cleaner

Enable cleaning of possibly hazardous CSS from user styling, to prevent cross-site scripting.

active_user_tracking

Enable tracking of types of user activity on a per-hour basis, such as “$u had login activity during this hour”. Active user is a user who has hit a LiveJournal page while logged-in, within the specified time period. The feature requires memcached.

blockwatch

Enable the event timing system (backend feature).

edit_comments

Enable ability for users (with edit_comments usercap) to edit their comments. A comment cannot be edited if it has been replied to or frozen.

eventlogrecord

Enable logging/action when an event occurs on the site (backend feature); integrates with other tools like TheSchwartz.

faquses

Enable tracking of viewings of the individual FAQs from logged-in users.

friendchange-schwartz

Use TheSchwartz to notify users when a friends change event occurs (like somebody removes them from their friends list).

friendspopwithfriends

Enable the “Popular with Friends” feature (for those with friendspopwithfriends usercap).

ignore_htaccess

Enable ignoring of Apache .htaccess files by Apache / mod_perl.

graphviz_dot

Show friends in a graph format at friends/graph.bml?user=exampleusername.

control_strip_propcheck

Enable the hook that checks for whether a user has opted to view the control strip or “navigation strip” on-site.

embed_module

Embed media into entries using update.bml.

embedmodule-cleancontent

Clean potentially harmful JavaScript out of embedded media content.

esn

Enable ESN for users to get notifications on “events”, like a new entry posted to a particular community, or comments in any thread/journal.

esn_ajax

Enable an AJAX user-interface on ESN feature options.

inbox_update_poll

Poll the servers at intervals for updates to user ESN inboxes.

esn-userevents

Fire ESN events under UserNew*. These relate to user-actions, such as a new comment posted on a particular entry.

last_fm

Allows users to set their Last.fm username and have the 'Current Music' field automatically filled in from Last.fm, when posting a new entry.

user_messaging

Display the ESN compose new user-to-user message form on /inbox/index.bml.

mass_privacy

Enable ability for users (with mass_privacy usercap) to edit entries en masse, at editprivacy.bml.

user_transitions

Transitioning of users from one account type to another, perhaps to a site-specific type after creating an account.

esn_archive

Display the Archive folder, for archived ESN messages, at /inbox/index.bml.

content_flag

Let a user flag potentially inappropriate content by re-directing the user to a form at tools/content_flag.bml, to submit the details to site/abuse-prevention administrators.

safe_search

Let users filter adult concepts and/or explicit adult content from appearing in search results.

officialpost_esn

Allow subscribing to official site communication events, such as an entry in one of the official communities on-site.

ljtalk

Display the LJTalk Jabber icon on userinfo.bml.

infoshow_migrate

Enable privacy defaults for minors that override or disable regular privacy setting options; used with userprops like opt_showbday.

module_reload

Automatically re-load changed library files without stopping/starting Apache if the machine is set up as a development server. You could disable automatic re-loading to better simulate a live, production server.

interests-community

Enable community interest lists.

community_themes

Show brief description of a community beneath the community name on interests.bml search results. Users can write the description (up to 100 characters) at the /manage/settings/index.bml page.

memcache_reluser

Use memcached for reluser relationships information, through the LJ::_get_rel_memcache function.

memkwcnt_memcaching

Cache Memories keyword counts in memcached.

named_permalinks

Enable named permalinks, that is: http://example.com/this_is_a_named_uri.html (not yet implemented).

offsite_journal_search

Allow custom-defined offsite journal search, created through a hook of the same name. This is in addition to “feedster_search”, which can still be separately disabled.

portal_fade

Use a fade-in/fade-out effect on Portal boxes.

rte_buttons

Continue to show buttons on the rich text editor that have been disabled.

s2quickreply

Allow QuickReply to be built in to S2 layers.

sms

Global flag to enable the SMS messaging feature (and its user-interface) for users.

sms_post_auto_subscribe

Show the “Subscribe me to my SMS posts via SMS” button to users.

sms_quota_check

Enable checking for how many SMS messages a user has sent out of their quota.

sms_ui

Enable SMS user-interface for users. This enables links and management pages.

syncitems

Enable the syncitems client protocol mode, without restarting Apache.

weblogs_com

Show option on /manage/settings/index.bml (formerly editinfo.bml) to ping weblogs.com each time the user posts a new entry to their journal (if they have the weblogscom usercap).

template_files

Use ESN e-mail templates mechanism.