themaManager - Tutorials

Where to start

01.

Add hosts you use.

In "HOSTS" tab. In more details with screenshots chapter 1.2

Configure hosts.

In "HOSTS" tab. In more details with screenshots chapter 1.3

Add needed websites (forums / blogs).

In "WEBSITES" tab. In more details with screenshots chapter 2.1

Add users for websites (forums / blogs).

In "WEBSITES" tab. In more details with screenshots chapter 2.2

Replacing dead links.

Replace dead links in all posts. In more details with screenshots chapter 3.1
Check links from specific post and replace them in all posts. In more details with screenshots chapter 3.2
Extract and replace links from specific posts (without checking). In more details with screenshots chapter 3.3

Editing posts.

Edit a single post. In more details with screenshots chapter 4.1
Replace specific text from post in all posts. In more details with screenshots chapter 4.2
Replace posts with new posts from .txt files In more details with screenshots chapter 4.3

What to see next

02.

What are hosts

01.

How to add your hosts

02.

Dead keywords. What are they? How to add

03.

How does link checking work

04.

How to add website

01.

How to add users for a website

02.

Website's action buttons

03.

Replace dead links in all posts

01.

Check links from specific post and replace them in all posts

02.

Extract and replace links from specific posts (without checking)

03.

How to ignore dead links

04.

Edit a single post

01.

Replace specific text from post in all posts

02.

Replace posts with new posts from .txt files

03.

Go to "POSTS" tab.
Select category.

Only if needed.

Select website.
Select user.
Select posts you want to replace.

Filter first if needed.
Use CTRL or SHIFT key to select multiple posts.
There will be option to search and replace the same posts in all websites later.

Press on "Replace posts with new posts from .txt files" button above the posts list.

New window for replacing posts will show up.

Press on column header to sort and change order of the posts before loading new posts if needed.

"Post ID" header can be used to sort by oldest the the top or latest at the top (default).

Press on "Load new posts from text file(s) for selected posts" button to load new posts.

All posts are selected by default.
You can select single post or few posts if needed.
To select all posts there is a button at the top or just CTRL+A.
You can provide new subject if needed with <new-subject> element anywhere inside .txt message text.

For example: <new-subject>New Subject</new-subject>

There are two options when loading new posts. Choose the one you need.

Subject preview is: subject or message's first line if subject is empty.

New posts will be loaded. You can compare the messages by selecting single posts if needed.

If you changed your mind or made a mistake you can re-load all posts or just select a single post and re-load it.
If you made a mistake and don't need to replace some post(s) you can select them and press "Remove" button at the top. Removes only from this table.

To replace the posts press on "Replace posts" button. You will see two options to replace posts in current website only or in all websites.

To view edits and background task progress switch to "STATUS" -> "EDITS".

About login and edit errors

04.

Post changes preview

05.

Posts tips

06.

Your posts for each website are shown in "POSTS" tab.

Each post is unique because:

Websites have different message formatting.
Websites have banned hosts and message might have different links because of that.
Some websites require to use "[code]", "[hide]", "[spoiler]", "[quote]", etc. so each message is different.

However when doing basic actions (replacing links, replacing text, replacing posts, etc.) program has options to search for the same posts in all websites and edit them all.

Above the posts list you can find buttons which can help with filtering or do some actions to posts.
posts_buttons

Hover mouse over any button for tool-tip to see what they do.
Use search and filter field or/and search button (at the bottom) to filter the posts.
Select any single post from a topic and press "Filter my posts from this topic" to quickly see all posts from specific topic.
Filter posts with duplicate subject by pressing "Filter posts with duplicate subject" button at the top.
For blogs (DLE blog / Wordpress) you might want to enable in "Main settings" -> "Posts" -> "Update post time to current time when editing for blogs".

Message tips:

Preview your formatted post before editing click on the eye button.
Use ALT+X shortcut for quick message preview.
Spell checker is supported (English only), but disabled by default due to more RAM (memory) usage. You can enable it if needed from "bin" folder, open file "config.properties" (in any text editor). Change the value for "SPELL_CHECKER" from "false" to "true".
Replace text window can be accessed via right click -> "Replace" or CTRL+H shortcut. You can pre-select some text which will be pre-filled in "Search for" field.
Zoom (change font) of text area with shortcut "CTRL + mouse wheel".
Open in browser - right click option on text fields / areas. Opens the selected text in browser. If selected text is or has URL - opens URL. If selected text doesn't have URL - opens Google search with that text. Selected text can have multiple URLs if needed (each URL will be opened). Can also have BBCode tags around URL(s), BBCode will be ignored.
There are some special tags <forumName>, <postSubject>, <editTime> which can be inserted to message text if needed.

Known posts related problems and solutions

07.

Some "vBulletin 3.x / 4.x" type forums use "Enhanced Interface" editors which will cause problems when editing (message becomes in HTML format) and posts are also fetched incorrectly in HTML format.

You must change the default editor in forum's settings (via browser) to "Standard Editor".

Do this only if you see incorrectly fetched posts: go to forum (via browser) -> login if needed -> go to "User CP" -> "Edit options" (usually located at this kind of URL: http://domain/profile.php?do=editoptions) -> at the bottom, change the "Message Editor Interface" from "Enhanced Interface" to "Standard Editor" -> press "Save changes" button at the bottom.

After that remove the user from themaManager and add the user again in order to re-fetch all posts correctly.

Some "vBulletin 3.x / 4.x" type forums have a delay time after which your newly posted posts appear in "Find my latest posts" search result.

If you just posted a post and themaManager is not fetching it, it's the problem with vBulletin forum since it doesn't update the "Find latest posts" page immediately after the post is created.

They should get fetched eventually and it really doesn't matter that much because the new posts will have new links which won't just die so fast.

If you really need some posts you could always use "Topic fetch" feature which is supported for vBulletin, but it's not really worth it.

Some types of forums (especially vBulletin 3.x / 4.x) limit the number of posts you can fetch for user. Usually latest between 150 and 1000 are fetched.

For all other types all posts are fetched when adding user. Please note that all latest posts are being fetch fine periodically automatically.

The only wait to deal with this issue is to fetch old posts with "Topic fetch" feature.

Cloudflare related issues and solutions

08.

Meaning of the rectangular at the bottom

01.

Tips on selecting your websites / hosts/ posts / statuses and items from other lists

02.

Websites / hosts / posts / statuses / etc. are displayed in the simple list.
list

To select a single item just click on the name.
There are few ways to select multiple items:

Hold down CTRL key and click on items you want to select.
Hold down SHIFT key to select a range of items.
Press on single item, then press CTRL+A to select all items.
Use the "select all" button (bottom left in the screenshot) to select all items.
Use special search and filter field at the bottom:

Just type the name or part of the name you want to filter and all items containing the searched string will be filtered.
In some lists you can also use it for filtering by specific website's type.
For example: type in 'phpBB' and all websites of type phpBB will be filtered from current list view.
There is special search and filter keyword "NOT". Must written at the start all uppercase. Will filter everything not containing words after it.
There is special search and filter keyword "OR". For example: text1 OR text2.
You can also enable in "Settings" -> "List search as selector" and then all filtered items will be automatically selected.

Let's take a look at search and filter possibilities in all lists

List	You can filter by	Special filter terms
Websites	URL, category, type	-
Hosts	URL	-
Categories	name	-
Users	username, password	-
Dead keywords	keyword	-
Host links	dead link, new link	-
Users	username, password	-
Posts	subject, post id, topic id	with dead links, without dead links
Posts status	status message, username, website URL, website category, website type	-
Edit status	status message, subject, username, website URL, website category, website type	-
Link status	status message, dead link, new link, subject	-

General settings

03.

What do numbers in "Status" -> "Links" at the bottom mean

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Other tips

05.

License information

06.

Tutorials

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