IPB Tutorial: Invision Board Skins

The Look & Feel tab in the admin panel allows you to fully customize your IPB forum. Skins must be chosen depending on your IPB version number. There are plenty of web sites on the Internet that provide free and commercial skins / templates for Invision Power Board forums. 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 an IPB template requires a few steps.

Step 1: Click on Skin Import/Export and scroll down the page.

The 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 decompressed files should contain 2 important files that you need:
ipb_images-listed-images.xml.gz
ipb_skin-listed.xml.gz

Step 2: Import ipb_images-listed-images.xml.gz under Import Skin Images section and ipb_skin-listed.xml.gz under Import Skin XML. File names may vary but the point here is to make sure that you are uploading .xml.* files.  

Step 3: After you are done importing the files, click on Skin Tools -> Rebuild Skin Set Cache to rebuild the cache of the new template. 

Step 4: Go to Skin Manager and select the newly installed skin: