Documentation - Infinite - Blog & Magazine Script

Infinite - Blog & Magazine Script v4.0.2 by Codingest

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Introduction

Infinite is a multi-purpose blog-magazine script. It has clean, responsive and user-friendly design. You can manage your posts, custom pages, categories, user comments, advanced settings and contact messages with its powerful Admin panel. Also it has a useful ad management system. You can manage your ad spaces with this system. It is secured, seo optimized, fast and easy to use.

The technologies used:

Codeigniter
HTML 5
CSS 3 (Bootstrap)
JQUERY
AJAX

Key Features:

Clean and Responsive Design
Built Using Bootstrap
Totally Secure System
Multilingual System (New Languages Can be Added Easily)
RTL Support
SEO Optimized & SEO-Friendly URL
Multi-Author System
Theme Options (With Dark Mode)
10 Layout Colors
Cache System
Editable & Sortable Navigation
Responsive & Sortable Slider (Enable & Disable Option)
Responsive Ad Spaces for Any Kind of Ad Codes (Including Adsense)
Adding Unlimited Fully Editable Pages
Page Descripton, Show Page, Show Page Title, Show Breadcrumb, Show Right Column Options for Pages
Contact Page
Search in Site
Add, Delete, Update Unlimited Categories
Add, Delete, Update Unlimited Posts
Video Post Option
Gif Support
Emoji Reactions
Save as Draft Option for Posts
Reading List Page (Add & Remove from List)
Lazy Image Loading
Add Multiple Images to a Post
Add & Remove Posts from Slider
Advanced Post Options
Downloadable Files for Posts
Dynamic Tag System
Ajax Comment System
Pageview Counts (Enable & Disable Option)
Rich Text Editor (Image and Video Can Be Added)
Voting Poll (Add, Delete Unlimited Poll)
Gallery Page (Enable & Disable Option)
Gallery Albums
Gallery Categories
Add, Delete Unlimited Photos
Newsletter (Send Html Email to All Registered Emails)
Different Email Libraries (Swift Mailer, PHP Mailer, CodeIgniter Mail)
Social Login (Facebook & Google)
Social Sharing
Social Media Links
Widget: Popular Posts
Widget: Our Picks
Widget: Categories
Widget: Random Posts Slider
Widget: Tags
Widget: Related Posts
Manage Registered Emails
Manage Comments
Enable & Disable Comment System
Comment Approval System
Enable & Disable Comment Approval System
Manage Contact Messages
Sitemap.xml Generator
RSS Aggregator System (Auto Update with Cron Job) (Doesn’t support full-text RSS)
RSS (With different channels)
Maintenance Mode
Font Settings (New Google Fonts Can be Added Easily)
Membership System with 3 Roles (Admin, Author, User)
Enable & Disable Membership System
Manage Registered Users
User Profile Page
Secure Authentication
Follow & Unfollow Users
Google Analytics
Cookie Notice for GDPR
Password Reset
Advanced Settings Options
Change Logo, Favicon, Site Title, Site Description, etc. from Admin Panel
Easy Installation Using Installation Wizard
Detailed Documentation
Runs on PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

Security:
Infinite is a secure system. There are various mechanisms to secure application. These mechanisms are:

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Prevention
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Prevention
Password Hashing
Avoiding SQL Injection

Requirements:
There are some requirements for Infinite to work on your server. These requirements are:

PHP >= 5.6+
cURL PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension

Files

a) CSS Files

AdminLTE.min.css and _all-skins.min.css: Contains general css codes for admin panel.
bootstrap-toggle.min.css: Contains bootstrap toggle css codes.
custom.css: Contains css fixes for admin panel.
style.css: Contains main css codes.
responsive.css: Contains reponsive css fixes.
Style.css file is separated into sections using:

/* ============ 1. General layout CSS styles ============ */
code
/* ============ 2. Header ============ */
code
/* ============ 3. Slider ============ */
code
etc, etc.

b) JavaScript Files

jquery-1.12.4.min.js: Javascript library
app.min.js: This file contains general dashboard script codes.
bootstrap-toggle.min.js: Contains bootstrap toggle javascript codes.
custom.js: Contains custom script codes. There are custom functions and ajax post functions
theme.js: Contains javascript functions for front-end.

Js files are separated into sections using:
//ajax post delete image
code
//Agreement datatable function
code
etc, etc.

c) Plugins Plugins used in application:

jQuery
jQuery is a Javascript library that greatly reduces the amount of code that you must write.
jQueryUI
jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library.
TinyMCE
TinyMCE is a browser-based WYSIWYG content editor.
Datatables
DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, and will add
advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.
ICheck
Highly customizable checkboxes and radio buttons.
Pace
Automatic page load progress bar.
Tagsinput
jQuery plugin providing a Twitter Bootstrap user interface for managing tags
Gallery
Jquery Gallery plugin
Owl-Carousel
Responsive jquery slider plugin
Jquery-confirm
Jquery-confirm plugin

Installation

Please check your PHP version before start installation. Your PHP version should be 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3.

cURL PHP extension should be enabled in your server. If you get "cURL is not available on your server! Please enable cURL to continue the installation" error during installation, you need to enable cURL on your server. You can enable it by adding extension=php_curl.dll line to your php.ini file. If you cannot access your php.ini file, please contact your host service.

You can install the script by watching this video.

Or you can follow these steps to install the script:

1. Create a new Database with user that has all permissions.

Go to cPanel and Click MySQL® Databases

Create New Database

Add New User

Add User To Database

Set User Permissions

2. Upload script files to your hosting (FTP).

Open your cPanel and go to File Manager section.
Go to main directory of your site. Most of the time this folder will be public_html.
Open this folder and upload codecanyon-infinite-blog-magazine-script.zip file to this directory.
Rigth click the .zip file and select Extract option.
Move all files that in the "infinite-v.." folder to main directory.
Delete unnecessary files/folders: "documentation", "infinite-v.." and "codecanyon-infinite-blog-magazine-script.zip".

Make sure that the .htaccess file exists in this directory. If you cannot see it, click Settings button at the top right corner and select Show Hidden Files (dotfiles) option. Also, cPanel can automatically change the content of this file. Please open this file and make sure the content of this file is like .htaccess below.

.htaccess:
```
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
```

3. You will see this page after uploading all files to your FTP. Click "Install" to proceed. If you cannot see this page, you can access install page by entering this link to your browser address bar: http://yourdomain.com/install

4. Click "Go to Support System" button and generate your license code. Enter your license code and then click Next.

5. Check system requirements. If one of these extensions is not enabled, you must enable it from your server settings. If all requirements are provided, click Next.

6. Check folder permissions. If all folders are writable, click Next.

7. Enter your database credentials. Click next.

If you want to change your database credentials later, you can edit application/config/database.php

8. Enter your admin credentials and select your Timezone. Click finish.

8. Delete the install folder.

After installation, if you see "404 Not Found" error or if you can not login to your site, please check your main directory. There should be a .htaccess file. If you don't have this file, none of your links will work. You can find this file in the main directory of script files. Depending on the operating system you are using, such setting files may be hidden in your computer. In this case, you may not see this file. If you can't see this file, you can create a new file named .htaccess in the main directory of your site and you can paste the following codes to your .htaccess file.

.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

File Upload Settings

If you want to upload large files, you may need to make some settings on your server. Also, Infinite performs image optimization while uploading images. This optimization uses memory.

If you try to upload large files without doing some settings on your server, you can get an error.

If you can't upload large files, you need to set these PHP values. These are recommended minimum values.

php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
php_value post_max_size 32M
php_value memory_limit 256M

To set these values follow the steps:

Go to your cPanel and click "Select PHP Version"
Then click "Switch to PHP Options"
Then set the values "upload_max_filesize", "post_max_size" and "memory_limit" as you see in the picture.

If you can not reach these settings, please contact your host administrator and ask them to make these settings.

Quick Start

✓  Changing Admin Password: After login the system you will see your username in the top menu. Go over your username and a dropdown will open then click Settings / Change Password option. And fill in the form to change your password.

✓  Adding Category: Go to "Categories" section from navigation and click Categories. Then fill in the Add Category form and click Add Category button. To add subcategory, Go to "Categories" section and click Subcategories. Then fill in the Add Subcategory form and click Add Subcategory button.

✓  Adding Post: To add a post you should first add a category. After adding some categories go to "Posts" section from navigation and click Add Post. Then fill in the form and click Add Post button.

✓  Adding Page: Go to "Pages" section from navigation and click Add Page. Then fill in the form and click Add Page button. If you want to manage existing pages: Go to "Pages" section from navigation and click Pages. Then you will see all pages in your site. You can make any change by selecting edit option for each page.

✓  Adding Images to Gallery: To add images to gallery, first you should add some categories for images. Go to "Gallery" section from navigation and click Categories. Then fill in the Add Category form and click Add Category button. After addings some categories, go to "Gallery" section and click Images. Then fill in the Add Image form and click Add Image button.

✓  Sending Email to Registered Emails (Newsletter): To use newsletter feature you should first make your email settings. Go to "Settings" section from navigation and click Email Settings tab. Enter your mail server informations and click Save Changes button. Then go to "Newsletter" section from navigation and fill in the Send Email to Registered Emails form and click the Send Mail button.

✓  Running Ads: If you want to add your ad codes to your website, this is very easy in the Infinite. Go to "Ad Spaces" section and add your ad codes then click Save Changes button.

✓  Managing Users: Go to "Users" section from navigation. You will see all users registered. You can select Change User Role, Delete User and Ban User options for each users.

✓  Adding Author: Infinite is a multi-author system, so authors can add posts. To add an author to the system first user should register from register page. Then Admin should go to "Users" section from navigation and should set user role as Author. After this process user will became an Author and he can reach his own Panel to manage his posts.

Admin Panel

You can reach Admin panel from this link: yourdomain.com/admin

There are some counters in the Admin panel's home page. These counters:

Posts: Shows total post count
Pending Posts: Shows pending post count
Drafts: Shows draft count
Users: Shows registered user count

In addition to these, there are also sections where the last comments, last contact messages and last users are shown.

Themes

You can select a layout option from this section.

Navigation

Add Menu Link: You can add a new link to the navigation from this form. Also you can add a dropdown link to the navigation by selecting "Parent Link".

Navigation: You can see links on your navigation on this table and you can update or delete a link.

Menu Limit: You can set menu item count that will be appear on your navigation from this form.

Pages

You can add, update or delete your pages from this section.

Add Page: Go to "Pages" section from navigation and click Add Page. Then fill in the form.

Title: Your page title.
Slug: Slug for SEO friendly url. If your page title consists of special characters your title slug will not be generated. In this case you should add custom slug.
Description: You can add Description (Meta Tag) for page.
Keywords: You can add Keywords (Meta Tag) for page.
Parent Link: You can select parent link.
Menu Order: Your pages will order according to this value.
Location: You can select your page link location.
Visibility: You can hide or show your page.
Show Only to Registered Users: If you want to show page only to registered users you should select yes.
Show Title: You can hide or show your page title.
Show Breadcrumb: You can hide or show your page breadcrumb.
Show Right Column: You can hide or show sidebar on your page.
Content: Your page content. You can add image and video with text editor.

Update Page: Go to "Pages" section from navigation and click Pages. You will see page list and you can make changes on pages by selecting "Edit" option for each pages.

Delete Page: On the same list you can delete pages by selecting "Delete" option for each pages.

Posts

You can add, update or delete posts from this section.

Add Post: Go to "Posts" section from navigation and click Add Post. Then fill in the form.

Title: Your post title.
Slug: Slug for SEO friendly url. If your page title consists of special characters your title slug will not be generated. In this case you should add custom slug.
Keywords: You can add Keywords (Meta Tag) for post.
Summary: You can add short description about post.
Category: You should select a category for post.
Subcategory: You can select a subcategory for post.
Visibility: You can hide or show your post.
Add to Slider: You can add post to the index slider.
Add to Our Picks: You can add post to the our picks.
Show Only to Registered Users: If you want to show post only to the registered users you can select this option.
Tags: Tags for post.
Optional Url: If you enter a url here there will be a button in your post page to access this url.
Main Image: Image for post.
Additional Images: If you want to add more than one image to the posts you can select multiple images from here.
Content: Post content. You can add image and video with text editor.

Update Post: Go to "Posts" section from navigation and click Posts. You will see post list and you can make changes on posts by selecting "Edit" option for each posts.

Delete Post: On the same list you can delete posts by selecting "Delete" option for each posts.

Additional Images: If you want to add more than one main image to your post, you can select more images from this section. If you select an image from here, the slider will be active (There will be a slider in post details page).

Files: If you want to add downloadable files to your posts (PDF, ZIP, DOC .. etc), you can add them from this section.

Drafts

Posts can be saved as a draft instead of publishing directly. You can see your drafts in this section.

RSS Feeds

You can add, update or delete RSS Feeds from this section.

Import RSS Feed

Go to "RSS Feeds" section from navigation and click Import RSS Feed. Then fill out the form.

Feed Name: Feed name.
Feed URL: You should enter a valid RSS Feed URL to this field.
Number of Posts to Import: You can define posts count that you want to add your site.
Category: Posts will be added to category that you selected.
Subcategory: Posts will be added to subcategory that you selected.
Images: If you want to download the images to your server, you need to select "Download Images to My Server" option. If you don't want to download the images, you need to select "Show Images from Original Source" option
Generate Keywords from Title: When this option is selected, the title will be divided into words for meta:keywords tag.
Auto Update: You can select this option if you want to update with Cron Job.
Show Read More Button: You can hide or show Read More button with this option.
Add Posts as Draft: You can add your posts as draft by selecting this option.
Read More Button Text: You can add a text for the Read More button.

Update Feed

Go to "RSS Feeds" section from navigation and click RSS Feeds. You will see RSS feeds list and you can make changes on RSS feed by selecting "Edit" option for each RSS feeds.

Delete Feed

On the same list you can delete RSS feeds by selecting "Delete" option for each RSS feeds.

Cron Job

You need to create a cron job function to automatically add posts from your RSS feed. Read this section to see how you can add a cron job function in your server: Cron Job

This is the URL that you need to run with your cron job function: http://domain.com/cron/update-feeds
**Do not forget to change "domain.com" with your domain name.

Polls

Infinite has poll feature. You can add unlimited polls and you can manage these polls from this section.

Add Poll: Go to "Polls" section from navigation and click Add Poll. Then fill in the form.

Question: Poll question.
Options: Options for your question.
Status: You can enabled or disabled a poll.

Update Poll: Go to "Polls" section from navigation and click Polls. On the poll list you can make changes on polls by selecting "Edit" option for each polls.

Delete Poll: On the same list you can delete poll by selecting "Delete" option for each polls.

Gallery

You can add or delete photos to gallery from this section.
Before adding new images you should add albums for gallery.
To add a new image, select your image from Add New Image form and then click Add Image button.
If you want to delete a image from gallery, click the Select an option button and click delete.

Comments

Infinite has comment approval system. Only approved comments will be published in the site. If you want to disable this system and publish directly all the comments, you can disable this system from Settings section in the Admin panel.

Pending Comments: You can see and approve the pending comments from this section.

Approved Comments: You can see and delete the approved comments from this section.

Contact Messages

You can see the messages that users sent from the contact form on the site from this section.
If you want to delete a message from list, click the Select an option button and click delete.

Newsletter

The Newsletter allows you to share some updates and interesting things with the users.
You can see the all registered emails and you can send an email to these emails from this section.

Ad Spaces

If you want to run ads on the site, you can add your ad codes from this section.
Because the ad spaces are responsive, you need to enter the code at different metrics for each ad.
Also you can create your ad codes by uploading banner image and adding ad URL.

Our ad spaces are responsive. Each ad slot has 3 different sizes.

728x90 Banner: This ad slot will be shown on screens larger than 1140px.
468x60 Banner: This ad slot will be shown on screens larger than 540px and smaller than 1140px.
234x60 Banner: This ad slot will be shown on screens smaller than 540px.

Google Adsense Code: You can add your Google Adsense code from this section. This code will be added to footer of the site and it will be enabled for all pages. After adding this code, you can add your ad codes to ad spaces.

Users

You can manage registered user from this section.

Options:

Change User Role: If you want to change user role you can use "Change User Role" option.
Ban User: You can ban a user or remove ban for a user.
Delete: You can delete a user by selecting delete option.

There are 3 roles in the system:

Admin: System administrator.

Author: Authors can add, update and delete their posts. Authors can only see and process their own posts. If a post added or edited by an author, Admin approval is required. If Admin approves, the post will be published.

User: User can't access the Admin panel and they can't add posts.

Cache System

You can enable or disable cache system from this section.

Refresh Cache Files When Database Changes: If you select yes, the cache files will be refreshed, if there is a change in the database.
Cache Refresh Time (Minute) : Cache files will automatically refresh after this time.

Seo Tools

You can manege your site title, site keywords, site description etc. from this section.

Site Title: You site title.
Home Title: Your homepage title.
Site Description: Your site description.
Keywords: Your site keywords.
Google Analytics: You can add your Google Analytics code from here.

Generate Sitemap

You can generate a sitemap.xml file from this section.

Update Sitemap: This option will create a sitemap.xml file on your main directory. You can access this file with "http://domain.com/sitemap.xml" URL.

Download Sitemap: This option will download sitemap.xml file.

You need to create a cron job function to automatically update your sitemap. Read this section to see how you can add a cron job function in your server: Cron Job

This is the URL that you need to run with your cron job function: http://domain.com/cron/update-sitemap
**Do not forget to change "domain.com" with your domain name.

Cron Job

A cron job is a Linux command for scheduling a task to be executed sometime in the future. You can set a cron job to update your sitemap, scheduled posts or RSS feeds periodically.

Follow these steps to set up cron job:

Go to your cPanel and click cron jobs.
Select the time interval that the cron job will run and your command and create the cron job.

Commands
Update Sitemap:
```
wget -O /dev/null http://domain.com/cron/update-sitemap
```
Update RSS Feeds:
```
wget -O /dev/null http://domain.com/cron/update-feeds
```
You need to paste these commads to "Command" field and you need to create a different cron job for each task.
**Do not forget to change "domain.com" with your domain name.

These commands may not work if you do not have a management panel on your server or if you are using another panel instead of cPanel. Cron job can be added in different ways. If this command doesn't work, you need to contact your server provider and ask for help to create a cron job.

Social Login Settings

You can make your social login settings from this section.

If you want to use social login, you need to enable SSL on your site. In other words, all your URLs should be HTTPS. If SSL is enabled on your site and your server automatically redirects all of your URLs to HTTPS, you can set up your social login settings. If your site does not redirect automatically, read the "SSL and .htaccess" section.

Facebook Login

Go to https://developers.facebook.com/ URL.
Click "Add a New App" option.
Fill the form and click "Create App ID" button.
Select "Integrate Facebook Login" option and click "Confirm" button.
Click "Facebook Login > Settings" link from sidebar menu.
Enter redirect URL: "https://yourdomain.com/facebook-callback" and click "Save Changes" button.
Click "Settings > Basic" link from sidebar menu.
Enter your domain to "App Domains" and "Privacy Policy URL" fields.
Select a category for your application and click "Save Changes" button.
Change your APP Status to "Live".
Copy "App ID" and "App Secret" values from this page and enter these values from "Social Login Settings" section.

Google Login

Go to https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/sign-in URL.
Click "Configure a Project" button.
Select "+ Create a new project" option and enter your project name. Click Next.
Enter a display name for your app. Click Next.
Select "Web server" option and enter your redirect URL: "https://yourdomain.com/connect-with-google". Click Create.
Copy "Client ID" and "Client Secret" values and enter these values from "Social Login Settings"section. Click Done.

Email Settings

You can make your email settings from this section. To send emails, you must create a mail account on your server and you must enter your email account credentials to these fields. Also, you can use Gmail server to send emails.

Mail Library: Infinite has 3 different email libraries. You can select one of them to send emails.
Mail Protocol: Your mail protocol (SMTP or Mail). Default SMTP. But some mail servers use Mail protocol. In this case you should set this value to Mail.
Mail Title: Your email title
Mail Host: Your mail server (Exp: mail.example.com)
Mail Port: Your mail port (Default: 587)
Mail Username: Your username (Exp: mail@example.com)
Mail Password: Your password

Sending Email with SMTP:
If you want to send emails with SMTP, you can select one of the email libraries from "Mail Library" field. Also, you must select "SMTP" from "Mail Protocol" field.

Sending Email with PHP Mail Function:
If you want to send emails with PHP Mail Function, you must select "CodeIgniter Mail" from "Mail Library" field. Also, you must select "Mail" from "Mail Protocol" field.

Some servers may block sending emails with SMTP. In this case, you can try sending emails with the PHP Mail function by selecting "CodeIgniter Mail" library option and "Mail" protocol option.

Using Gmail Mail Server

1. Mail Library

If you select "Swift Mailer" and "PHP Mailer", you need to use these settings:

Mail Protocol: SMTP
Mail Host: smtp.gmail.com
Mail Port: 587
Mail Username: example@gmail.com (your email)
Mail Password: your email password If you select "CodeIgniter Mail", you should use these settings:

Mail Protocol: SMTP
Mail Host: ssl://smtp.googlemail.com
Mail Port: 465
Mail Username: example@domain.com (your email)
Mail Password: your email password
2. You have to allow less secure devices from this url: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

3. Go to settings in your Gmail account and click "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab.

4. Select Enable IMAP option.

After these settings you can use Gmail to send emails.

Some email libraries may not work on some servers. In this case, you need to try other email libraries. If you tried all possible email settings options (including sending email with PHP Mail function) and if none of them does not work on your server, please contact your hosting service. There could be a problem in mail functions in your servers. Also, please don't forget to check the spam box.

If you want to send contact messages to your email address, you can select "Yes" for "Send Contact Messages to Email Address" option and add your email to "Contact Messages" form.

Email Verification: You can enable or disable email verification from this section.

Email Options: You can select email sending options from this section.

Language Settings

Default Language: You can change your site default language from this form.

Add Language: You can add a new language from this form.

Languages: You can see your languages on this table and you can update or delete a language. Also you can edit all translations in your language. You can access this page with "Edit Phrases" button.

Font Settings

You can change your site fonts from this section.

Add Font

If you want to add new fonts to your site, you can add them from this section. Follow these steps to add a new font:

Go to Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com
Click the red plus icon for the font that you want to add.
You will see "Family Selected" box at the right bottom of the page. Click on this box.
Copy the font URL and enter it to "URL" field.
E.g: <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
Copy the CSS rule and enter it to "Font Family" field.
E.g: font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;

Settings

Genaral Settings:

Timezone: Your timezone. You can see all available timezones from here: https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
Application Name: Your site name.
Admin Panel Link: You can change Admin panel link from this field.
Multilingual System: Your can enable or disable multilingual system in your site.
Registration System: Your can enable or disable registration system in your site.
Approve Posts Before Publishing: You can enable this option if you want to approve the authors' posts before they are published.
Comment System: Your can enable or disable comment system in your site.
Comment Approval System: You can enable this option if you want to approve the comments before they are published.
Slider: Your can enable or disable slider in your site.
Emoji Reactions: Your can enable or disable emoji reactions in your site.
Show Post View Count: Your can show or hide post page view count.
RSS: Your can enable or disable RSS in your site.
File Manager: Your can hide or show all uploaded files for users. If you select "Show Only Users Own Files" option, users will see their own uploaded files.
Number of Posts Per Page (Pagination): Your can set post count in each page from this field.
Post Optional Url Button Name: You can set a new name for your optional button.
Footer About Section: About your site. This will be shown in the footer.
Copyright: You can update copyright section from here.

Google reCAPTCHA
Infinite uses Google reCAPTCHA to protect website from spam and abuse.

Go to this link: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3beta.html
Click Admin Console button.
Click "+" button at the top menu.
Select "reCAPTCHA s2" and "I'm not a robot Checkbox" options and generate your API keys.

Maintenance Mode

If you want to prepere your site before going live or if you want to close your site to visitors, you can enable this mode. If you enable it, only Admin can access the site. Other visitors will see a "Coming Soon!" text.

Visual Settings:
You can change your site color, logo and favicon from this section.

Contact Settings:
Go to "Settings" section from navigation and click "Contact Settings" tab.

Address: Your address
Email Address: Your email address
Phone Number: Your phone number
Contact Text: You can add some text about contact.

Social Media Settings:
Go to "Settings" section from navigation and click "Social Media Settings" tab.
You can add your social media accounts from this section.

Facebook Comments:
If you want to use Facebook comment plugin you need to add your plugin code to this section.

How to Get This Code:

Go to https://developers.facebook.com and click Add a new app.
Click Settings and then click +Add platform.
Select website and enter your site url and click save changes.
Then go to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/ and click Get Code button.
Then copy the code in the "STEP 2" and paste to Facebook Comments field.

Custom CSS Codes

You can add custom CSS codes from this section. These codes will be added in the <head> tags of your site.

You need to add your CSS codes between <style></style> tags.
Example:

<style>

body {

    background-color: #00a65a;

}

</style>

Custom JavaScript Codes

You can add custom JavaScript codes from this section. These codes will be added to footer of your site.

You need to add your JavaScript codes between <script></script> tags.
Example:

<script>

alert('Hello!');
</script>

Author Panel

Infinite is a multi-author system. Every author has their own panel and they can manage their posts. If an author add or update a post, it will need Admin approval. The post will not be published on the site until Admin approve it. You can disable this approval system from General Settings section.

Password Reset

To use the Password Reset section, you need to set your Email Settings. The system will send a password reset link, so it is necessary to enter a working email server credentials to use email system. You can make read more about email settings from here.

If you have not set up your email settings yet and have forgotten your password, you can reset your password from your database.
To do this, open your database via phpMyAdmin. Click on the users table and find your account in this table. Paste the following code to your password column. Make sure there is no space at the beginning or the ending of the code.

$2a$08$drmgGpMVGzdyiv7q5LUt3eUne8xh05XKrJPgMKaR3RgRwCQKXZpdu After adding this code to your password column, you can login with "1234" password.

Update Guide

You can find all instructions to update your site from this section. If you don't know your current version, you can check it from the version.txt file in the main directory of your site.

Update from v4.0.1 to v4.0.2

Open your FTP (this is usually the "public_html" folder on your server) and replace these files with the files in the version 4.0.2:
application/models/Settings_model.php
application/models/Rss_model.php
application/controllers/Cron_controller.php
application/views/partials/_nav.php
application/views/admin/includes/_footer.php

Update from v4.0 to v4.0.2

Open your FTP (this is usually the "public_html" folder on your server) and replace these files with the files in the version 4.0.2:
application/controllers/Cron_controller.php

application/models/Upload_model.php
application/models/Post_admin_model.php
application/models/Sitemap_model.php

application/models/Settings_model.php
application/models/Rss_model.php
application/views/partials/_nav.php
application/views/admin/includes/_header.php
application/views/admin/includes/_footer.php
application/views/admin/login.php
application/views/admin/post/pending_posts.php

application/helpers/custom_helper.php
assets/admin/css/custom.css

Update from v3.9 to v4.0.2

You can update your site by watching this video.

Or you can follow these steps to install the script:

Follow all steps in the Updating FTP Files (Click Here) section.
Follow all steps in the Updating Database (Click Here) section. You can find update_database.php file in the "documentation/updates/Update from v3.9 to v4.0.2" folder.
Clear your browser cache. This is important. If you do not clear, your browser may continue to run old codes.

Update from v3.8.x to v4.0.2

Follow all steps in the Updating FTP Files (Click Here) section.
Follow all steps in the Updating Database (Click Here) section. You can find update_database.php file in the "documentation/updates/Update from v3.8.x to v4.0.2" folder.
Clear your browser cache. This is important. If you do not clear, your browser may continue to run old codes.

Update from v3.7.x to v4.0.2

Follow all steps in the Updating FTP Files (Click Here) section.
Follow all steps in the Updating Database (Click Here) section. You can find update_database.php file in the "documentation/updates/Update from v3.7.x to v4.0.2" folder.
Clear your browser cache. This is important. If you do not clear, your browser may continue to run old codes.

Updating FTP Files

Open your cPanel and go to File Manager section.
Go to main directory of your site.
Create a new folder named "old". You can use another name. It won't make any differences.
Move all of your files to this folder.
Upload "codecanyon-infinite-blog-magazine-script.zip" file to this directory.
Rigth click the .zip file and select "Extract" option.
Rigth click the .zip file and select "Extract" option.
Move all files that in the "infinite-v.." folder to main directory.
Delete unnecessary files/folders: "documentation", "uploads", "infinite-v..", "install" and "codecanyon-infinite-blog-magazine-script.zip".
Copy old/uploads folder to main directory.
Open application/config/database.php file and enter your database credentials.

Updating Database

Upload update_database.php file to your main directory.
Open your browser and enter this URL: yourdomain.com/update_database.php
When you go to this URL, you will see an update wizard. Enter your license code and Click Update My Database button.

If you have forgotten your license code, you can get your license code from our support system: Get License Code
After you see the success message, close this page and delete "update_database.php" file.

Infinite - Blog & Magazine Script v4.0.2 by Codingest

Introduction

Files

Installation

You can install the script by watching this video.

Or you can follow these steps to install the script:

File Upload Settings

Quick Start

Admin Panel

Themes

Navigation

Pages

Posts

Drafts

RSS Feeds

Import RSS Feed

Update Feed

Delete Feed

Cron Job

Categories

Polls

Gallery

Comments

Contact Messages

Newsletter

Ad Spaces

Users

Cache System

Seo Tools

Generate Sitemap

Cron Job

Commands

Social Login Settings

Facebook Login

Google Login

Email Settings

Using Gmail Mail Server

Language Settings

Font Settings

Add Font

Settings

Author Panel

Password Reset

Update Guide

Update from v4.0.1 to v4.0.2

Update from v4.0 to v4.0.2

Update from v3.9 to v4.0.2

You can update your site by watching this video.

Or you can follow these steps to install the script:

Update from v3.8.x to v4.0.2

Update from v3.7.x to v4.0.2

Updating FTP Files

Updating Database