When you first install Jamroom, the “default” footer for email messages sent from Jamroom looks like:

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Jamroom - the Musicians Website Manager
http://www.jamroom.net
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To remove this, or modify it with a custom message of your own choosing, go into the Admin Menu → Tools → Edit Templates section and choose the “email/email_footer.tpl” template to modify.

Modify that template to suit your own needs and you are all set.

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Why is the "Members" section of the "Community" page in the Cobalt Skin blank?

If you are looking at the "Community" Page of your Jamroom, and you are using the (default) Cobalt Jamroom Skin, and your "Newest Members" section is blank, follow these steps to fix it:

• log in to your Jamroom as the Master Admin
• Click on "Browse Quotas" and select the 'Member Quota"
• Scroll down to the "Additional Features" section and make sure the "Allow Ranking" option is set to "yes"
• Save the Jamroom Quota

That's it - your members will now show on the Community page.

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I am using the Jamroom Friendly URLs, but the Artist/Member Site still shows a number when I'm forwarded there

The Jamroom Friendly URLs rely on Apache mod_rewrite for the functionality of forwarding a visitor to the correct Artist Page.  For example, if you enter:

http://example.com/band_name

you will end up being redirected to the location of the Artist/Member Page:

http://example.com/members/1

Due to the way that mod_rewrite works in conjunction with Jamroom, there is no way to "hide" the Artist Profile ID in the URL using the standard Jamroom Friendly URLs.  The only way that you can make it so the URL does NOT change when the user is redirected to the Artist/Member Page, is to manually create an entry in the .htaccess file in your Jamroom directory that "maps" the real URL to the rewritten URL.  The entries must be placed ABOVE the RewriteRule entry for the friendly.php script:

RewriteRule ^band_name$ http://example.com/members/1 RewriteRule (^[-_A-Za-z0-9 +]*$) friendly.php?search_string=$1 [NE]

You will need to manually place an entry in the .htaccess file for EACH artist that you want to work this way (make sure and replace "band_name" with the actual name of the artist profile).  This is only recommended for smaller Jamroom sites (say up to 100 artist accounts) - larger Jamroom sites would see a performance decrease as each call into their Jamroom directory would incur the overhead of all of the mod_rewrite rules.
 

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Why don't the Band Members entered in Modify Artist appear on my Artist site?

If the field is not empty, they don't appear because code to display them isn't in your theme template, but can easily be added. Note that the Band Members field is different to linking multiple User accounts to an Artist, which is explained here.

Open artist_bio.tpl (Cobalt) or in whichever template you want the band members list to appear. Add the following code:

{if $BAND_MEMBERS} 
 <span class="small-txt-3">Members:</span>&nbsp;
 <span class="small-txt-1"> {$BAND_MEMBERS}</span><br> 
{/if}

Save and rebuild your artist site, your band members will now appear.

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How do I change my Jamroom to use my logos and branding in place of "Jamroom"?

The following steps will walk you through "rebranding" Jamroom to your own site logo and name.  Note that the following examples use the "Cobalt3" Jamroom Skin, Profile Theme and Control Panel style as an example.  If you are using the "Sage" Jamroom 3.1 skin/theme/style, the files to modify are the same, just in the respective "Sage" directory.

 Note that to remove the Jamroom branding from your install, a vaild Jamroom License is required.

• Replace main Jamroom Skin logo - our first step is to replace the main "Jamroom" logo on the front page of your Jamroom.  This logo file is called "logo.png" and is located in the jamroom/skins/Cobalt3/images directory. The Image size is 285 x 45 pixels, so you would want to create a PNG image of comparable size, and then simply overwrite the logo.png file with your new image.  If you need to modify the HTML surrounding the logo, the file to edit is called "jr_overall_header.tpl" and is located in the jamroom/skins/Cobalt3 directory.

• Replace "Powered By" Jamroom Skin icon - next, we can replace the "Powered By Jamroom" icon in the footer of the main skin.  This file is called "powered.png' and is located in the same directory as the logo - jamroom/skins/Cobalt3/images.  You can replace it with an image of your own, or remove it by modifying the "jr_overall_footer.tpl" file located in the jamroom/skins/Cobalt3 directory.

• Replace main Jamroom Profile Theme logo - next, we can change the main logo in the Profile Theme (artist/member site pages).  This logo file is called "logo.png" and is located in the jamroom/themes/Cobalt3/images directory. The Image size is 285 x 45 pixels, so you would want to create a PNG image of comparable size, and then simply overwrite the logo.png file with your new image.  If you need to modify the HTML surrounding the logo, the file to edit is called "theme_header.tpl" and is located in the jamroom/themes/Cobalt3 directory.

• Replace "Powered By" Jamroom icon in Profile Theme footer - This file is called "powered.png' and is located in the same directory as the Profile Theme logo - jamroom/themes/Cobalt3/images.  You can replace it with an image of your own, or remove it by modifying the "theme_footer.tpl" file located in the jamroom/themes/Cobalt3 directory.

• Replace Control Panel image - Lastly, we can change the small "Jamroom" header image in the Control Panel left-hand (artist , member and admin) menu.  This file is called "admin_header.gif" and is located in the jamroom/styles/Cobalt3 directory.  It is 150 x 25 pixels in size, and can be replaced with a GIF image of your choosing.

That's it - your new logos should show through Jamroom (make sure and refresh your browser a few times if you continue to see the old images, since your browser has likely cached the images and it may take a couple of refreshes for the new logos to show).

Note: You may only alter the Powered by Jamroom and Footer information if you are a Registered Jamroom User. Please read this FAQ for clarification on this.
 

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How do I change the front page of Jamroom so only the Admin Blog entries are shown?

If you would prefer to have it so only the Blog entries from the Master Admin are shown on the front page of your Jamroom, the key is to modify the main index template of your active skin and add band_id="0" to the {jr_ranking} function call.

As an example, if you are using the Cobalt3 Skin, you would want to modify the jamroom/skins/Cobalt3/jr_index.tpl and change this:

{jr_ranking mode="blog" row_template="jr_index_blog.tpl" show="4" cache_time=$smarty.config.blog_cache_time}

to this:

{jr_ranking mode="blog" row_template="jr_index_blog.tpl" band_id="0" show="4" cache_time=$smarty.config.blog_cache_time}

The key is the addition of the band_id="0" part - this will make it so only the admin's blog entries show.