Invision Power Board Tutorial  

Templates and skins in IPB

The Look & Feel tab in the admin panel allows you to fully customize your Invision forum. Skins must be chosen depending on your IPB version number. There are plenty of web sites on the Internet that provide free and paid skins / templates for Invision Power Boards. To name a few:

Invisionize.com
IPBSkinworks.com
Jasidog.com

Invisionize.com is probably the best place you can search for templates, skins, modules, etc.

The installation of a chosen IPB template requires a few steps.

• Click on Skin Import/Export and scroll down the page. "Importing..." section will allow you to import downloaded templates. For that purpose, you need to de-compress the files to your computer first. The folder with the de-compressed files will contain 2 important files that you need:

• Import ipb_images-listed-images.xml.gz under "Import Skin Images" section and ipb_skin-listed.xml.gz under "Import Skin Templates". File names may vary but the point here is to make sure that you are uploading .xml.* files.

• After you are done importing the files, click on Skin Tools -> Rebuild Skin Set Cache to rebuild the cache of the new template.

• Go to Skin Manager and select the newly installed skin:

Additional information can be found at NFH.org.uk