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

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

Last week, one my pilot instructors told me that emails from OpenLab were being sent out late or not at all. This led me down a rabbithole that I wanted to share, but it also left an important question. Has anyone turned off WordPress’ Auto Cron Job, and instead created a real Cron job that runs on a schedule.

WordPress is designed…[Read more]

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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

The issue we are seeing is how different themes deal with headers and header menus. With the current implementation of the OpenLab header:

• There is often a small white spacer and black…

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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]

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!

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

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]

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]

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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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.

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]

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

It was so nice meeting everyone today. I sincerely appreciate it. If any of you would like to see the Pressbooks cloning features, how we use it, and what we have learned from it (I probably clone 2 Pressbooks a week for faculty through our OER initiative) I would be so happy to share.

There are several things (probably…[Read more]

I just want to explain why I am asking. Amanda and I are kind of bleeding edge people. We are testing out OpenLab basically on our own in our Universities with a small core of early adopters that are patient and understand that small issues may happen. Right now we do all the maintenance on the servers and quite…[Read more]

Can you give me a little more information about Commons in a Box’s upgrade strategy?

My limited understanding is that as a program that is meant for College and University settings, you have tried to make it so that Commons in a Box releases new major releases approximately according to the semester schedule, and does…[Read more]

Intermittent errors make me even more nervous than repeatable errors so I pulled the logs: Does this give you more information?
[09-Oct-2020 18:19:31 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class ‘PHPMailer’ not found in /home/sunycreate/geneseo.sunycreate.cloud/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/classes/class-bp-phpmailer.php:91
Stack…[Read more]

We ended up creating a subdomain. We felt like that gave us the possibility of using a theme that was designed to be a knowledgebase. Thanks for openly licensing your content! Our help pages are cloned from yours for now. (My student intern is working on this project, and I will continue to help her as she does this work,…[Read more]

I applied both patches and of course, they work just as you described. Thanks for the response and the fix.

Today I am struggling a little bit trying to…[Read more]

The text file from Thursday has the page source. Portfolio is listed in that CBOXOLAppConfig 90+ times doing a simple search.

I attached it as well in case you wanted to see any more details.

Ed

The only thing that we changed from core OpenLab is that we had renamed the “Club” group type “Organization.” We hadn’t done anything fancy to do this, just using the GUI and tools in OpenLab 1.1. We had done this back before we upgraded to the latest version.

Do you want me to start a separate thread about the portfolios disappearing form the back end? Bree can you see that on your dev site?

Ed

As for the other plugin, I installed it, activated it, and that hasn’t changed what I see on…[Read more]

I am also no longer seeing portfolios as a group type in the CBOX Group Type pages. Is this a related issue or something separate?

(See Screenshot)

I don’t see anything like that.

Openlab Theme 1.2.1
Commons in a Box 1.2.1
Wordpress 5.5
PHP 7.3.20

One thing that is slightly unique about my setup is we are using subdomains, which seems to be an outlier of commons in the box sites, but other than that, we haven’t done anything custom. While we have explored the possibility of doing a child theme, right now we are…[Read more]

Since updating to the latest OpenLab, the group type pages no longer filter portfolios, clubs, courses, and projects.

See Screenshot:

Now when I go https://oneonta.sunycreate.cloud/groups/type/course/ I see a list of all sites, not just courses. Is that a bug or intentional design?

When I go into customizer, I can edit the header of the middle block, however, no matter how many times I try, I can’t seem to edit the text in the middle column, so it remains stuck with the default text of customizing this footer.

I made a…[Read more]

I was assuming the errors were coming from 3rd party plugins, but if they are coming from openlab, I’m sure the developers will want to know.

Ed

I just had this problem. Are you on a hosting plan where you can access the files on your server?

You might want to turn debugging on, because it might give you a clue of what plugin is breaking everything.

You will need to copy and paste this into your WordPress config file.
define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true );
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Once you have figured out…[Read more]

https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/multisite-use-main-site-settings/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-custom-css/

Thanks for the reply.

My name is Ed Beck, and I work at SUNY Oneonta. I lead a cross SUNY collaboration called SUNY Create that uses Reclaim Hosting to build websites with students classes and projects.

SUNY Geneseo and SUNY Oneonta are kicking the tires on OpenLab for potential use, and we wanted to to further align our OpenLab websites to match our…[Read more]