[Bowe Frankema]

Hi @stevedtj,

I’m part of the CBOX development team and recently started a new venture focused on development and maintenance for all BuddyPress/CBOX communities. I’ve sent you an email with my contact details so we could discuss your needs further 🙂

Have a good Sunday,
Bowe from WeFoster

[Bowe Frankema]

Interesting question, and something I have to do for a project in the near future as well. So far I only aware of the “Recent Networkwide Posts” widget that shows recent blogs from across the network.

If you want to have something more robust or flexible I don’t have a clear answer yet. I’ve done a little bit of research but have not found the perfect solution yet.

That being said this plugin seems very interesting: https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/post-indexer/.

I think that would allow you to build a custom template showing recent/featured posts from across your network.

Good luck Dale 🙂

[Bowe Frankema]

I’ll take a look at the templates again and see if I can track down why this happens to some of you.

[Bowe Frankema]

Hi guys,

This should all be fixed in the most recent release. Including a nice icon for the notifications menu item. Are you positive that you have the most recent version of the CBOX theme? Could you make sure that you have the following files in your CBOX theme:

cbox/members/single/notifications.php
cbox/members/single/notifications/

And are you using a child theme that has made any template changes?

[Bowe Frankema]

@sepidpooy I’ll commit the code for the Members Tour to my CBOX Fork on GitHub (. You can then see how I’ve done it exactly https://github.com/BoweFrankema/cbox-theme. I’ll then advise you to create a CBOX Child Theme like @mkgold advised. Follow the tutorial here: https://commonsinabox.org/archives/3324

If you could then post the changes you made back to me, so I can include the group tour in the next version of CBOX as well. We would then have tours for the activity stream, the members page and the groups page. 🙂

[Bowe Frankema]

@sepidpooy & @scottvoth this is cool! I think it would be nice to add a guided tour to the Groups page. I recently also made a tour for the Members page (for a client) so that can be added as well. @sepidpooy could you maybe send me your modifications through a zip file (email them at bowe@presscrew.com)?

Thanks!

[Bowe Frankema]

Hi @helenef,

Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation 🙂 In this case I’m afraid I don’t have the answer you’re looking for. Upscaling and/or stretching an image that is less then the height/width you’ve set is not currently possible. I understand that you might have used this in the old version of the slider, but upscaling images is something that is considered bad practice.

That being said there is a “hack” you could use which might solve your issue. Although I can not guarantee that this works across all browsers. Add the following snippet to style.css of your CBOX Child Theme:

.bx-wrapper img {
   width: 100%;
}

Hope this solves your issue 🙂

[Bowe Frankema]

Hi Dale,

Sorry to hear you’re having issues with the slider to behave. You’re not the only one who’s ran into issues with the slider, and we’ve been hard at work on completely re-doing it. This is pretty much done and has been tested by some of our community members. You can find the latest build here: https://github.com/BoweFrankema/cbox-theme/archive/slider.zip

Follow the installation instructions here: https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/site-feature-slider-fail-after-upgrade-to-wp-3-6-cbox-1-0-5/#post-3490

With this build (which should be pretty much identical to the next official release) you can control the text in the slider in much more detail. This will fix the issue with images showing up inside the excerpt and give you full control over what the slider will show!

Hope this helps Dale!

edit: I just noticed that you’re using Featured Categories instead of the “Featured Slides”. This means some of the slider options are not yet enabled. I will look into this today and see how to handle this. I’ll update this post later today 🙂

[Bowe Frankema]

@geoffreysfmac-com: If you made any changes to the slider template file yes!

@visionsynergy: I’ll get in touch with Boone and Ray and see if we can get it into this release. It’s been tested so I think it’s ready 🙂

[Bowe Frankema]

Hi Jason,

Could you make a screenshot and show me which content you mean exactly? The WIKI page should be completely customisable.

[Bowe Frankema]

yep that’s the way to do it! Add your snippet to style.css of your child theme and that’s it 🙂

[Bowe Frankema]

@nguyendam I understand that you want to make changes to your site but the support questions you are asking all are about customising your community and/or using 3rd party plugins. We (the dev team) are often more focused on squashing bugs or adding new features to CBOX, we simply can’t help you with all of these customisation requests. When our community grows and we have more people using CBOX, the chances that our community can help you out will increase. Until that time some of your questions might remain unanswered, I hope you understand that.

There is a lot of information available about both CBOX in our documentation and on the various WordPress resources on the web. Learning WordPress (theming) is fun and will allow you to make more changes yourself. If you get stuck you can hire a developer to do this for you and point him to our documentation.

Good luck!

[Bowe Frankema]

I think in this case it would be easier to create a new sidebar file. So do something like:

• create *posttype-archive.php* in your Child Theme
• create new-sidebar.php in your Child Theme
• Replace infinity_get_sidebar(); in the *posttype-archive.php* with infinity_get_template_part( 'new-sidebar' );
• Register the new sidebar widget in functions.php of your child theme
• Modify the new-sidebar file so that it calls the new widget

Does this make sense?

Greetings,
Bowe

[Bowe Frankema]

Check out this post for updates and how to test the new slider! https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/site-feature-slider-fail-after-upgrade-to-wp-3-6-cbox-1-0-5/#post-3490

[Bowe Frankema]

Check out this post for updates and how to test the new slider! https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/site-feature-slider-fail-after-upgrade-to-wp-3-6-cbox-1-0-5/#post-3490

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