diff --git a/www/pages/BasePage.php b/www/pages/BasePage.php
index 1ab7b3b62..0fa583f17 100644
--- a/www/pages/BasePage.php
+++ b/www/pages/BasePage.php
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ class BasePage
 		$this->smarty->setCompileDir(SMARTY_DIR . 'templates_c/');
 		$this->smarty->setConfigDir(SMARTY_DIR . 'configs/');
 		$this->smarty->setCacheDir(SMARTY_DIR . 'cache/');
+		$this->smarty->setPluginsDir([
+			NN_WWW . 'plugins/',
+			SMARTY_DIR . 'plugins/',
+		]);
 		$this->smarty->error_reporting = ((NN_DEBUG ? E_ALL : E_ALL - E_NOTICE));
 
 		if (isset($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])) {
diff --git a/www/plugins/block.php.php b/www/plugins/block.php.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..4a0aa3dd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/block.php.php
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin to execute PHP code
+ *
+ * @package Smarty
+ * @subpackage PluginsBlock
+ * @author Uwe Tews
+ */
+/**
+ * Smarty {php}{/php} block plugin
+ *
+ * @param string $content contents of the block
+ * @param object $template template object
+ * @param boolean $ &$repeat repeat flag
+ * @return string content re-formatted
+ */
+function smarty_block_php($params, $content, $template, &$repeat)
+{
+	if (!$template->allow_php_tag) {
+		throw new SmartyException("{php} is deprecated, set allow_php_tag = true to enable");
+	}
+	eval($content);
+	return '';
+}
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/plugins/function.getcatval.php b/www/plugins/function.getcatval.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..89b7220fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/function.getcatval.php
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program (see LICENSE.txt in the base directory.  If
+ * not, see:
+ *
+ * @link      <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ * @author    niel
+ * @copyright 2016 nZEDb
+ */
+
+use newznab\Category;
+
+/**
+ * Returns the value of the specified Category constant.
+ * @usage {getcatval category=BOOKS_COMICS}
+ *
+ *@param string $category Name of constant whose value to return.
+ *
+ *@return Value of the specified Category constant.
+ */
+function smarty_function_getcatval($params)
+{
+	return Category::getCategoryValue($params['category']);
+}
+
+?>
diff --git a/www/plugins/function.html_options_multiple.php b/www/plugins/function.html_options_multiple.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3446dd9a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/function.html_options_multiple.php
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin
+ *
+ * @package Smarty
+ * @subpackage PluginsFunction
+ */
+/**
+ * Smarty {html_options_multiple} function plugin
+ *
+ * Type:     function<br>
+ * Name:     html_options_multiple<br>
+ * Purpose:  Prints the list of <option> tags generated from
+ *           the passed parameters<br>
+ * Params:
+ * <pre>
+ * - name       (optional) - string default "select"
+ * - values     (required) - if no options supplied) - array
+ * - options    (required) - if no values supplied) - associative array
+ * - selected   (optional) - string default not set
+ * - output     (required) - if not options supplied) - array
+ * - id         (optional) - string default not set
+ * - class      (optional) - string default not set
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * @link http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/language.function.html.options.php {html_image}
+ *      (Smarty online manual)
+ * @author Monte Ohrt <monte at ohrt dot com>
+ * @author Ralf Strehle (minor optimization) <ralf dot strehle at yahoo dot de>
+ * @param array                    $params   parameters
+ * @param Smarty_Internal_Template $template template object
+ * @return string
+ * @uses smarty_function_escape_special_chars()
+ */
+function smarty_function_html_options_multiple($params, $template)
+{
+	require_once(SMARTY_PLUGINS_DIR . 'shared.escape_special_chars.php');
+	$name = null;
+	$values = null;
+	$options = null;
+	$selected = null;
+	$output = null;
+	$id = null;
+	$class = null;
+	$extra = '';
+	foreach ($params as $_key => $_val) {
+		switch ($_key) {
+			case 'name':
+			case 'class':
+			case 'id':
+				$$_key = (string) $_val;
+				break;
+			case 'options':
+				$options = (array) $_val;
+				break;
+			case 'values':
+			case 'output':
+				$$_key = array_values((array) $_val);
+				break;
+			case 'selected':
+				if (is_array($_val)) {
+					$selected = array();
+					foreach ($_val as $_sel) {
+						if (is_object($_sel)) {
+							if (method_exists($_sel, "__toString")) {
+								$_sel = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $_sel->__toString());
+							} else {
+								trigger_error("html_options_multiple: selected attribute contains an object of class '". get_class($_sel) ."' without __toString() method", E_USER_NOTICE);
+								continue;
+							}
+						} else {
+							$_sel = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $_sel);
+						}
+						$selected[$_sel] = true;
+					}
+				} elseif (is_object($_val)) {
+					if (method_exists($_val, "__toString")) {
+						$selected = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $_val->__toString());
+					} else {
+						trigger_error("html_options_multiple: selected attribute is an object of class '". get_class($_val) ."' without __toString() method", E_USER_NOTICE);
+					}
+				} else {
+					$selected = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $_val);
+				}
+				break;
+			case 'strict': break;
+			case 'disabled':
+			case 'readonly':
+				if (!empty($params['strict'])) {
+					if (!is_scalar($_val)) {
+						trigger_error("html_options_multiple: $_key attribute must be a scalar, only boolean true or string '$_key' will actually add the attribute", E_USER_NOTICE);
+					}
+					if ($_val === true || $_val === $_key) {
+						$extra .= ' ' . $_key . '="' . smarty_function_escape_special_chars($_key) . '"';
+					}
+					break;
+				}
+				// omit break; to fall through!
+			default:
+				if (!is_array($_val)) {
+					$extra .= ' ' . $_key . '="' . smarty_function_escape_special_chars($_val) . '"';
+				} else {
+					trigger_error("html_options_multiple: extra attribute '$_key' cannot be an array", E_USER_NOTICE);
+				}
+				break;
+		}
+	}
+	if (!isset($options) && !isset($values)) {
+		/* raise error here? */
+		return '';
+	}
+	$_html_result = '';
+	$_idx = 0;
+	if (isset($options)) {
+		foreach ($options as $_key => $_val) {
+			$_html_result .= smarty_function_html_options_multiple_optoutput($_key, $_val, $selected, $id, $class, $_idx);
+		}
+	} else {
+		foreach ($values as $_i => $_key) {
+			$_val = isset($output[$_i]) ? $output[$_i] : '';
+			$_html_result .= smarty_function_html_options_multiple_optoutput($_key, $_val, $selected, $id, $class, $_idx);
+		}
+	}
+	if (!empty($name)) {
+		$_html_class = !empty($class) ? ' class="'.$class.'"' : '';
+		$_html_id = !empty($id) ? ' id="'.$id.'"' : '';
+		// the name needs to have [] added (this is html text [] not PHP, so that the return for the multiselect is an array
+		$_html_result = '<select multiple="multiple" name="' . $name . '[]"' . $_html_class . $_html_id . $extra . '>' . "\n" . $_html_result . '</select>' . "\n";
+	}
+	return $_html_result;
+}
+function smarty_function_html_options_multiple_optoutput($key, $value, $selected, $id, $class, &$idx)
+{
+	if (!is_array($value)) {
+		$_key = smarty_function_escape_special_chars($key);
+		$_html_result = '<option value="' . $_key . '"';
+		if (is_array($selected)) {
+			if (isset($selected[$_key])) {
+				$_html_result .= ' selected="selected"';
+			}
+		} elseif ($_key === $selected) {
+			$_html_result .= ' selected="selected"';
+		}
+		$_html_class = !empty($class) ? ' class="'.$class.' option"' : '';
+		$_html_id = !empty($id) ? ' id="'.$id.'-'.$idx.'"' : '';
+		if (is_object($value)) {
+			if (method_exists($value, "__toString")) {
+				$value = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $value->__toString());
+			} else {
+				trigger_error("html_options_multiple: value is an object of class '". get_class($value) ."' without __toString() method", E_USER_NOTICE);
+				return '';
+			}
+		} else {
+			$value = smarty_function_escape_special_chars((string) $value);
+		}
+		$_html_result .= $_html_class . $_html_id . '>' . $value . '</option>' . "\n";
+		$idx++;
+	} else {
+		$_idx = 0;
+		$_html_result = smarty_function_html_options_multiple_optgroup($key, $value, $selected, !empty($id) ? ($id.'-'.$idx) : null, $class, $_idx);
+		$idx++;
+	}
+	return $_html_result;
+}
+function smarty_function_html_options_multiple_optgroup($key, $values, $selected, $id, $class, &$idx)
+{
+	$optgroup_html = '<optgroup label="' . smarty_function_escape_special_chars($key) . '">' . "\n";
+	foreach ($values as $key => $value) {
+		$optgroup_html .= smarty_function_html_options_multiple_optoutput($key, $value, $selected, $id, $class, $idx);
+	}
+	$optgroup_html .= "</optgroup>\n";
+	return $optgroup_html;
+}
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.daysago.php b/www/plugins/modifier.daysago.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..00053525f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/modifier.daysago.php
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin
+ * @package Smarty
+ * @subpackage plugins
+ */
+/**
+ * Smarty date modifier plugin
+ * Purpose:  converts unix timestamps or datetime strings to words
+ * Type:     modifier<br>
+ * Name:     daysAgo<br>
+ * @author   Stephan Otto
+ * @param string
+ * @return string
+ */
+function smarty_modifier_daysAgo($date)
+{
+	if ($date == "")
+		return "n/a";
+	$sec = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")) - (( strtotime($date)) ? strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date))) : strtotime(date("Y-m-d", $date)));
+	$min = $sec / 60;
+	$hrs = $min / 60;
+	$days = $sec/60/60/24;
+	if ( $hrs <= 24) return ' Today';
+	if ($days >= 365)
+	{
+		$years = round(($days/365), 1);
+		return $years.' Yr'.($years!=1?"s":"").' ago';
+	}
+	else if ($days >= 90)
+	{
+		return round($days/7).' Wks ago';
+	}
+	else if ($days <= 2)
+		return 'Yesterday';
+	else
+	{
+		return round($days, 0).'d ago';
+	}
+}
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.fsize_format.php b/www/plugins/modifier.fsize_format.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..78a7a5e42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/modifier.fsize_format.php
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+<?php
+/*
+* Smarty plugin
+* -------------------------------------------------------------
+* Type:    modifier
+* Name:    fsize_format
+* Version:    0.2
+* Date:    2003-05-15
+* Author:    Joscha Feth, joscha@feth.com
+* Purpose: formats a filesize (in bytes) to human-readable format
+* Usage:    In the template, use
+			{$filesize|fsize_format}    =>    123.45 B|KB|MB|GB|TB
+			or
+			{$filesize|fsize_format:"MB"}    =>    123.45 MB
+			or
+			{$filesize|fsize_format:"TB":4}    =>    0.0012 TB
+* Params:
+			int        size            the filesize in bytes
+			string    format            the format, the output shall be: B, KB, MB, GB or TB
+			int        precision        the rounding precision
+			string    dec_point        the decimal separator
+			string    thousands_sep    the thousands separator
+* Install: Drop into the plugin directory
+* Version:
+*            2007-05-24    Version 0.3    - added the peta, exa, zeta, and yeta byte magnitudes thanks to coreone (at) gmail (dot) com
+*            2003-05-15    Version 0.2    - added dec_point and thousands_sep thanks to Thomas Brandl, tbrandl@barff.de
+*                                    - made format always uppercase
+*                                    - count sizes "on-the-fly"
+*            2003-02-21    Version 0.1    - initial release
+* -------------------------------------------------------------
+*/
+function smarty_modifier_fsize_format($size,$format = '',$precision = 2, $dec_point = ".", $thousands_sep = ",")
+{
+	$format = strtoupper($format);
+	static $sizes = array();
+	if(!count($sizes)) {
+		$b = 1024;
+		$sizes["B"]        =    1;
+		$sizes["KB"]    =    $sizes["B"]  * $b;
+		$sizes["MB"]    =    $sizes["KB"] * $b;
+		$sizes["GB"]    =    $sizes["MB"] * $b;
+		$sizes["TB"]    =    $sizes["GB"] * $b;
+		$sizes["PB"]    =    $sizes["TB"] * $b;
+		$sizes["EB"]    =    $sizes["PB"] * $b;
+		$sizes["ZB"]    =    $sizes["EB"] * $b;
+		$sizes["YB"]    =    $sizes["ZB"] * $b;
+		$sizes = array_reverse($sizes,true);
+	}
+	//~ get "human" filesize
+	foreach($sizes    AS    $unit => $bytes) {
+		if($size > $bytes || $unit == $format) {
+			//~ return formatted size
+			return    number_format($size / $bytes,$precision,$dec_point,$thousands_sep)." ".$unit;
+		} //~ end if
+	} //~ end foreach
+} //~ end function
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.magicurl.php b/www/plugins/modifier.magicurl.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9b815c597
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/modifier.magicurl.php
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin
+ * @package Smarty
+ * @subpackage plugins
+ */
+/**
+ * Smarty magicurl modifier plugin
+ *
+ * Type:     modifier<br>
+ * Name:     magicurl<br>
+ * Purpose:  turn www addresses into hyperlinks
+ * @author   bb
+ * @param string
+ * @return string
+ */
+function smarty_modifier_magicurl($str, $dereferrer="") {
+	return preg_replace('/(https?):\/\/([A-Za-z0-9\._\-\/\?=&;%]+)/is', '<a href="'.$dereferrer.'$1://$2" target="_blank">$1://$2</a>', $str);
+}
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.nl2br.php b/www/plugins/modifier.nl2br.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d6dc55ca7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/modifier.nl2br.php
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin
+ * @package Smarty
+ * @subpackage plugins
+ */
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin
+ *
+ * Type:     modifier<br>
+ * Name:     nl2br<br>
+ * Date:     Feb 26, 2003
+ * Purpose:  convert \r\n, \r or \n to <<br>>
+ * Input:<br>
+ *         - contents = contents to replace
+ *         - preceed_test = if true, includes preceeding break tags
+ *           in replacement
+ * Example:  {$text|nl2br}
+ * @link http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.nl2br.php
+ *          nl2br (Smarty online manual)
+ * @version  1.0
+ * @author   Monte Ohrt <monte at ohrt dot com>
+ * @param string
+ * @return string
+ */
+function smarty_modifier_nl2br($string)
+{
+	return nl2br($string);
+}
+/* vim: set expandtab: */
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.parray.php b/www/plugins/modifier.parray.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..285a4e98d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/modifier.parray.php
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?php
+function smarty_modifier_parray ($string,$explode,$limit=NULL)
+{
+	if($limit == NULL)
+		return explode( $explode , $string );
+	else
+		return explode( $explode , $string , $limit);
+}
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.phpdate_format.php b/www/plugins/modifier.phpdate_format.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1aea14c97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/modifier.phpdate_format.php
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin
+ * phpdate_format plugin
+ * Sam Easterby-Smith
+ * Does exactly what the normal date_format plugin does - only it uses date() rather than strftime()
+ * It also supports the various php date constants for doing things like rfc822 dates
+ */
+/**
+ * Include the {@link shared.make_timestamp.php} plugin
+ */
+// Fix by nZEDb
+if (!isset($smarty)) {
+	$smarty = new Smarty();
+}
+switch (true) {
+	case is_string($smarty->plugins_dir) && is_dir($smarty->plugins_dir):
+		$plugins_dir = $smarty->plugins_dir;
+		break;
+	case is_array($smarty->plugins_dir):
+		$plugins_dir = '';
+		foreach ($smarty->plugins_dir as $dir) {
+			if (is_string($dir) && is_dir($dir)) {
+				$plugins_dir = $dir;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+		break;
+	default:
+		$plugins_dir = '';
+}
+if (!is_dir($plugins_dir)) {
+	exit('Fatal: Unable to find smarty plugins directory.' . PHP_EOL);
+}
+// End fix by nZEDb.
+require_once ($plugins_dir . 'shared.make_timestamp.php');
+/**
+ * Smarty phpdate_format modifier plugin
+ *
+ * Type:     modifier<br>
+ * Name:     date_format<br>
+ * Purpose:  format datestamps via date()<br>
+ * Input:<br>
+ *         - string: input date string
+ *         - format: strftime format for output
+ *         - default_date: default date if $string is empty
+ * @link http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.date.format.php
+ *          date_format (Smarty online manual)
+ * @param string
+ * @param string
+ * @param string
+ * @return string|void
+ * @uses smarty_make_timestamp()
+ */
+function smarty_modifier_phpdate_format($string, $format="Y/m/d H:i:s", $default_date=null)
+{
+  /*  if (substr(PHP_OS,0,3) == 'WIN') {
+		   $_win_from = array ('%e',  '%T',       '%D');
+		   $_win_to   = array ('%#d', '%H:%M:%S', '%m/%d/%y');
+		   $format = str_replace($_win_from, $_win_to, $format);
+	}*/
+	if (substr($format,0,5)=='DATE_'){
+		switch ($format){
+			case 'DATE_ATOM': $nformat=DATE_ATOM; break;
+			case 'DATE_COOKIE': $nformat=DATE_COOKIE; break;
+			case 'DATE_ISO8601': $nformat=DATE_ISO8601; break;
+			case 'DATE_RFC822': $nformat="D, d M y H:i:s O"; break; //The php constant is not quite right - as the time-zone comes out with invalid values like "UTC"...
+			case 'DATE_RFC850': $nformat=DATE_RFC850; break;
+			case 'DATE_RFC1036': $nformat=DATE_RFC1036; break;
+			case 'DATE_RFC1123': $nformat=DATE_RFC1123; break;
+			case 'DATE_RFC2822': $nformat=DATE_RFC2822; break;
+			case 'DATE_RFC3339': $nformat=DATE_RFC3339; break;
+			case 'DATE_RSS': $nformat="D, d M Y H:i:s O"; break; //as rfc822 ...
+			case 'DATE_W3C': $nformat=DATE_W3C; break;
+		}
+	} else {
+		$nformat=$format;
+	}
+	if($string != '') {
+		return date($nformat, smarty_make_timestamp($string));
+	} elseif (isset($default_date) && $default_date != '') {
+		return date($nformat, smarty_make_timestamp($default_date));
+	} else {
+		return;
+	}
+}
+/* vim: set expandtab: */
+?>
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diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.strtotime.php b/www/plugins/modifier.strtotime.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..16c9c39c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/modifier.strtotime.php
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?php
+function smarty_modifier_strtotime($date)
+{
+	return strtotime($date);
+}
+?>
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diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.timeago.php b/www/plugins/modifier.timeago.php
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..686b1b0e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/plugins/modifier.timeago.php
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin
+ * @package Smarty
+ * @subpackage plugins
+ */
+/**
+ * Smarty date modifier plugin
+ * Purpose:  converts unix timestamps or datetime strings to words
+ * Type:     modifier<br>
+ * Name:     timeAgo<br>
+ * @author   Stephan Otto
+ * @param string
+ * @return string
+ */
+function smarty_modifier_timeAgo( $date)
+{
+	if ($date == "")
+		return "n/a";
+	  $timeStrings = array(   'now',      // 0
+						'Sec', 'Secs',    // 1,1
+						'Min','Mins',     // 3,3
+						'Hour', 'Hrs',  // 5,5
+						'Day', 'Days');
+	  $sec = time() - (( !is_numeric($date) && strtotime($date)) ? strtotime($date) : $date);
+	  if ( $sec <= 0) return $timeStrings[0];
+	  if ( $sec < 2) return $sec." ".$timeStrings[1];
+	  if ( $sec < 60) return $sec." ".$timeStrings[2];
+	  $min = $sec / 60;
+	  if ( floor($min+0.5) < 2) return floor($min+0.5)." ".$timeStrings[3];
+	  if ( $min < 60) return floor($min+0.5)." ".$timeStrings[4];
+	  $hrs = $min / 60;
+	  if ( floor($hrs+0.5) < 2) return floor($hrs+0.5)." ".$timeStrings[5];
+	  if ( $hrs < 24) return floor($hrs+0.5)." ".$timeStrings[6];
+	  $days = $sec/60/60/24;
+	  if ($days > 365)
+	  {
+		return round(($days/365), 1).' Yrs';
+	  }
+	  else if ($days > 90)
+	  {
+		return round($days/7).' Wks';
+	  }
+	  else
+	  {
+		return round($days, 1).'d';
+	  }
+}
+?>
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