Perhaps this option has been added to the admin dashboard in a subsequent release, because I came across it and updated our avatar.

Just leaving the path here in case others are interested: appearance, customize, logos, Default Profile Photo.

With apologies for cross-posting, a quick note for anyone who hasn’t yet joined the CBOX OpenLab Community Hub: our first Community meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Monday June 6 from 1pm-3pm US Eastern. It would be great to see you there for some or all of the time!

Here’s the agenda – we’ve sent Zoom info via email to those who a…[Read more]

Hope you’re all doing well! With apologies for cross-posting, we wanted to reach those of you who aren’t yet members of the new Community Hub (come join us there!) to let you know we’re running an online workshop at NYCDH Week tomorrow Thursday 2/10 8am-10am US Eastern (for the early birds!).

We’ve done this for the last couple of year…[Read more]

At the City Tech OpenLab we do this manually, but are interested in learning about plugins that others are using.

Bree 🙂

Thank you for your response. I really appreciate your experience and you taking the time to share that.

I am running both Multisite Enhancements and Multisite Plugin Manager on our two mid-size servers. They seem to function just fine. There was one small issue with Multisite Enhancements involving favicons. If I recall it was initially sorted with some developer…[Read more]

It’s one of those worst case scenario moments, and everything is fine now, but it got Amanda and I thinking and talking about Plugin Management…[Read more]

Can you take a look?

Thanks for reporting this!

@cbox_admin Boone, would you be able to take a look at this? I’m able to reproduce the issue when I try to update WP Grade Comments on openlabdev.org. I’ve attached a screenshot.

Thanks!

Bree

Our problem is that WP Grade Comments is breaking the upgrade process. When we went to the CBOX Dashboard and tried to upgrade plugins, all of the other plugins successfully upgraded themselves to the latest version except WP Grade Comments.

We got this error…[Read more]

Thanks for finding this bug. I can confirm the problem.

I have created a new issue with a fix:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/375

In the meantime, before the next release, you will need to override the /wp-content/themes/openlab-theme/sidebar-help.php file with the…[Read more]

And here is a clearer picture of why we wanted to change it, but it’s not high priority, in case you are overly busy; we just want to follow up:

Our Contact us…[Read more]

Chris says “It looks like the Openlab-Theme does not have a POT file. We would have to generate one to use Loco Translate. Does a POT file exist for the OpenLab theme? Is this something that the CBOX-OL team could check if we attempted to generate it?”

I just posted a guide here: https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/what-is-the-correct-way-to-translate-all-cbox-openlab-texts#post-9090

Currently, it requires patching a core CBOX file due to a bug, but then you can use a plugin to easily update the various text strings used across your CBOX site.

So I thought I would take a closer look at the Loco Translate plugin.

Loco Translate works quite well, but there is currently a bug in CBOX that prevents Loco Translate from…[Read more]

None of these can be changed in the Dashboard.

@cbox_admin or @r-a-y could probably provide you with more guidance about how to make the customizations.

Thanks!

I’ll try changing the page slug and let you know how it goes.

You can also access the “Contact Us” page through the “Brand Settings” page as well: https://commonsinabox.org/copy

Let us know if that is what you mean.

I hope it’s okay to ask in one post about updating wording in a few different places. We appreciate your input, and hope this text can be updated. We hope to find out:
-How do we update the five texts below?
-e.g., are they hard-coded in a file?
-or, somewhere else not obvious?
-or, would we need to try updating the text through Po…[Read more]

And that’s also what we want to modify again now: We need to update the contact page link we put in there last year.

So this cannot be modified unless you create a child theme to override the sidebar-help.php template.

Can you tell us what you are trying to modify?

This is where OpenLab sets the default avatar:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-openlab-core/blob/27913ac024f96dd31eac6887423650581e49820f/includes/brand-settings.php#L158-L179

So…[Read more]

To update the default/empty avatar placeholder from the cbox logo to our own OL logo, is there another way besides swapping the multiple files in the cbox OL core plugin?

Thanks!

Here is a link to the help area we are referring to…[Read more]

Ryanseslow.com
@ryanseslow

On Oct 22, 2021, at 11:41 AM, Bree <noreply@commonsinabox.org> wrote:



We did a maintenance release yesterday for Commons In A Box version 1.3.1. You’ll see an update available in your Network Admin Dashboard > Plugins, which you can complete at any time. For more details, please see Boone Gorges’s post.

If you have any questions about the update, please reach out here.

Thanks!

Bree

After submitting translated strings, one…[Read more]

Since CBOX OpenLab is a WordPress plugin, the backup process would be the same as backing up your WordPress installation.

Check out the WordPress support article on backups here: https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-backups/.

If you have any other questions after reading that article, let us know.

The text strings you mentioned like “You are here” are a part of CBOX, not BuddyPress.

How are you doing the translations at the moment? If you are translating with help from a plugin like Loco Translate, you’ll need to translate for the commons-in-a-box textdomain as well.

You can also help out with the Spanish translation for CBOX…[Read more]

For deleting users, have you tried going to the “Network Admin > Users” page to delete the users? It should be available at example.com/wp-admin/network/users.php. Check out the WordPress support article here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin_Users_Screen.

About installing themes, CBOX OpenLab comes bundled with the OpenLab…[Read more]

Since CBOX OpenLab is built on WordPress, you can either use a WordPress plugin to handle domain mapping or you can natively set custom domains on a per site basis.

Domain mapping can be quite tricky to set up. If you’re interested in the built-in method that comes with WordPress, check out this guide:…[Read more]

Delete users:
For testing purposes, create some profiles that I want to delete. I removed it from the “Users” section but I notice that they are still visible on the network. How can I remove them correctly?

Installing themes:
I have installed the…[Read more]

Are there any recommendations to keep in mind for this?

Thanks for your reply.

When starting the installation of wordpress multisite, I have chosen the option of folders instead of subdomains.

I would like to assign a custom domain name to the sites that I am creating on the net.

So, can I freely assign custom domain names to web sites without causing any inconvenience to CBOX OpenLab?

Thanks for your reply!