Troy,

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

Hi Bree!

Just wanted to chime in and say that looks like a really nice feature in development.

I like that it makes sure that the instructor doesn’t need to know who has an account or not, they can just bulk add a list of students, and then CBOX separates them into the two groups. “These users already have an account and are all set” “these…[Read more]

Do you need a separate bug report or issue on Github that this particular cron job isn’t working by default? Are there any other OpenLab cron jobs that are missing from this list?

For the short term, I will add it manually from WP Crontrol.

Hi Boone,

After installing WP Crontrol, there are only 12 cron jobs on my OpenLab site:

Hook, Recurrence

wp_privacy_delete_old_export_files,  Once Hourly

wp_version_check, Twice Daily

wp_update_plugins, Twice Daily

wp_update_themes, Twice Daily

update_netowrk_counts, Twice Daily

ass_digest_event, Once…[Read more]

Hi Boone,

I just wanted to let you know, that at least for external sites, that is not our experience at all. Specifically for external sites that are syncing through RSS, our lived experience is that until someone specifically visits that group, no emails or notifications go out.

For example:

geneseo.sunycreate.cloud is an OpenLab running the…[Read more]

If you look at this example:

About Me

I’m talking about the SUNY Oneonta logo that might not look as good on a shorter header. I also like the concept of a universal header, so it would be a bit of a bummer if my suggestion would be to turn off the header, but I also want a good fix for these students.

Ed

I spent some time thinking about your problem today Troy.

Our Commons in a Box Openlab is hosted on Reclaim Hosting. One thing that I noticed early on about their blog, was that they used 1 Wordpress blog as a hub, but that was really just an aggregator, and when you clicked on the link, you actually were brought to each one of the team members…[Read more]

The theme is iKnow: https://wordpress.org/themes/iknow/

Yes, we just copy and pasted content since it was shared with a creative commons license. I guess eventually we will be able to clone from site to site. I’m happy to share anything I can if it is helpful, like I could share a backup file of what we are using. It is still a work in progress though!

Are you able to do a database search?

Maybe you could try to search the database for the PDF embedder shortcode?

One of the things I learned from my exploration of the help pages was that City Tech uses a couple extra plugins on their server that seem to be required to make the OpenLab Help pages work properly.

For example. We couldn’t get the help pages to show up in the same order in the body and in the sidebar.

Later Bree comments on that…[Read more]

Hi Syelle,

This isn’t possible using the front end controls of OpenLab, but it could be possible to do in the database. I asked that exact question on github. Read BooneBGorges Aug 7th response:

https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/290

“There’s no place in the interface to change the ‘slug’ of a group type, because…[Read more]

Hi Bree,

I can reproduce a disappearing top menu on my site. Using the OpenLab theme:

The top menu does not always have graceful fallback for mobile responsive.

• On oneonta.sunycreate.cloud at Laptop Width (1024 px) the top menu is present at usable.
• When we drop down to iPad Width (768 px) the top menu disappears and is not usable.

…

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Why is the network administration link disabled for super admins anyway?

I mean, I know I just have to add /network when I am on the menu, but it is a little weird at first. The only reason I knew where to go is I have managed Multisites before.

Hi Greg,

You are locked into using a theme on the main site where you must use the OpenLab Theme.

However, on each subsite, you can use whatever themes you would like.

To do this, you have to install the themes and activate them from the network menu. For new admins this can be a little tricky, because OpenLab disables the link to the network…[Read more]

I can replicate on my site.

I’d echo what Bree said.

We whitelisted our IP address to make it easier.

If that isn’t an option, sometimes an SMTP mailer plugin can help, especially if you can get a dedicated email address like do-not-reply-commons@oneonta.edu