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

Bree 🙂

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

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!

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

Sure, that makes sense!

Before I reach out to the rest of the team, could I ask you to try one more thing?  Could you go to the Dashboard of your main site > Settings > Permalinks, and then click ‘Save Changes’. Then try to see if you can view the blog posts?

Thanks!

Bree

Glad that worked for the avatars!

For the blog, it looks to me like you have the correct value (1) entered for ‘Blog Public’, so I’m not sure why you can’t view the post. I can reach out to the rest of the team to ask if anyone has suggestions.

However, the CBOX OpenLab theme wasn’t built for use with a blog on the main site, so it…[Read more]

Thanks for the screenshots! In your screenshot 2.png, I believe the value should be 1 to enable avatars.

Can you try that and let me know if it works?

Thanks!

Bree

Thanks for reaching out!

We don’t have an option for enabling or disabling avatars during installation, so you should still be able to upload avatars. However, you will only be able to change your own avatar – not the avatars of other users. They can upload their own avatars by going to My Profile > Change Avatar. (You’ll see the…[Read more]

Thanks for the additional feedback, and good to know that the bulk adding feature would be helpful!

I’ll be sure to keep you updated as we look towards bringing this functionality to CBOX OpenLab.

Bree 🙂

The email address you used to test invites on the City Tech OpenLab is not the one associated with my account, so what you did there was send an invite to join the OpenLab with that email. If you go to ‘Invite new members by email’ and use the email associated with my account, you will get the same error.

However, you should still be…[Read more]

I’m not familiar with that plugin or the work that Ray did to modify it. But I think he’ll be able to answer your question better.  Thanks @r-a-y!

Bree 🙂

I’ve put in a ticket for this: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/367

Bree 🙂

I just wanted to follow up here to say that we’ll look at incorporating this into the template chooser when we can begin work on it, but we’re still waiting to hear about funding.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Bree

And thanks for the suggestion! I can put in a feature request, which we’d have to evaluate based on fut…[Read more]

I wanted to let everyone here know that Commons In A Box version 1.3.0 has been released. You’ll see an update available in your CBOX OpenLab Dashboard, which you can complete at any time. For more details, please see Boone Gorges’s post.

Documentation for the new features is coming soon, but in the meantime if you have any questions abo…[Read more]

I was able to reproduce the issues and have put in a ticket: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/362

Thanks for the additional details!

Each group has one template that is associated only with that group type, so if I understand your question correctly, there’s no way to change which site is used as the template for a group (at least through the dashboard).

There is some documentation about templates at the bottom of this…[Read more]

Thanks for reaching out! I just have a few questions to try to better understand your request.

Are you referring to configuring the different site templates for different group types? And could you say a little more about what kind of documentation you’re looking for? Are there specific things your developer is trying to do where…[Read more]

I put in a ticket for this issue: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/350

Thanks for the detailed report!

I was able to reproduce this on our dev site and will put in a ticket.

Bree 🙂

Thanks for bringing this discussion over to the forum!

I was actually just responding to the related ticket about this that Boone opened (Better control over toolbar display on subsites) to say that we think it’s a good idea to go ahead with this change, in absence of a full rewrite, which isn’t possible now.

However, we would also like…[Read more]

Glad to hear it, and thanks for letting us know!

Bree 🙂

The only thing that comes to mind is whether you also have Google Doc Embedder plugin installed, in addition to the PDF embedder? And if so, is it activated on this site? We did have some issues with that plugin on the OpenLab, and ended up retiring it.

Otherwise, I’m afraid I don’t have any suggestions beyond what it sounds like…[Read more]

Thanks!

Bree

‘Open’ and ‘Clone’ are not technically badges, in that they’re not added to a group by an admin, but more like labels that are added automatically depending on a group’s status. This is why they’re not included…[Read more]

Sorry to miss this. Are you still experiencing the issue? I’m not familiar with the Multisite Clone Duplicator plugin, so I’m unsure how that could potentially affect your PDF embedder plugin. I also didn’t see the embedding issue on the site you linked to.  It’s hard to tell what’s happening, but it’s likely a plugin issue rather tha…[Read more]

Apologies for missing this! I just wanted to check in and see if you’re still not able to see these settings.

It’s not a CBOX OpenLab issue, but the first thing I’d check is whether your page is and public (not private or draft). If that’s not the problem, I’d check to make sure it’s not a plugin or theme issue. Are you able to see the…[Read more]

I just wanted to post a quick note that we’ll be doing a release tomorrow. Once that’s live you should see a notice that an update is available.

This update should fix, among other things, jQuery problems associated with version 5.6+ of WordPress.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Bree

I can’t answer your question myself, but I’ll reach out to our developer to see if he has any thoughts.

Best,

Bree

@cbox_admin would you mind taking a look? Thanks!

Happy New Year!

There was another report of this issue via GitHub (https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/326). We’re working on addressing it in the upcoming release at the end of the month (exact day TBA, but we’ll post and update on the forum with more details). In the meantime, can you try installing this…[Read more]

Bree 🙂

We are aware that the plugin hasn’t been updated, but we haven’t had an issue with it. That said, we should probably look for an alternative before it does actually become a problem. 🙂

If we find a replacement I’ll let you know.

And FWIW, we like the approach Ed and his team took with creating help as a separate site using a…[Read more]

This is something we’ll have to look at for a future release, depending on resources. I can update here again once I know more.

Thanks!
Bree

Just wanted to follow up to say that we’ll include a fix for this bug in the next release.

Thanks!
Bree

I still can’t reproduce the issue, on an iPhone, iPad or when resizing my browser window. But, Ed noticed an issue with the top menu on medium-sized screen widths, so perhaps this is related. I’ve put in a ticket, and will post again once I have more information.

And thanks again to @beckej for the troubleshooting help!

I think the Help link problem is not related, but I’ve put in a ticket for the issue you found: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/321

This appears to be something specific to your site setup. I can’t reproduce this on our dev site, and it doesn’t appear to be an issue on other installs.

I’ll reach out about this separately in another message.

Thanks!

Yes, that appears to be what’s happening here. Thanks for the report!

I’ve put in a ticket: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/320

Thanks for the detailed report! I’m able to reproduce this, and have put in a ticket:

https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/319

I still can’t reproduce the issue you’re experiencing, whether on mobile or when I narrow my browser window. I’ve attached a screenshot of what you should see.

Can you please let me know what browser you’re using?

Thanks!

Bree