Ray can correct me if I am wrong, but it appears to me that the image Ray identified as problematic is very, very large. Perhaps if you were to resize it and make it smaller, and then to upload that smaller image, that would help?

A few thoughts:

1. What do you mean by “pull tweets into CBOX”? Are you thinking of something like what we have on the CUNY Academic Commons ( https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/twitter/ ), which pulls tweets from hashtags, user accounts, and lists onto a page, or are you hoping to have tweets feed into group feeds and notifications? I…[Read more]

I absolutely love that fellow CBOX users are giving each other advice!! That’s how we know there is a real community developing here. Thank you so much for being an active part of it.

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Matt

You might find this plugin — written by the Commons/CBOX team — useful —

BP Restrict Signup by Email Domain

I’ve used it on several CBOX sites to good effect to restrict registration to particular domains, such as .edu and .org

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Matt

No, CBOX is not a “dead architecture,” nor is it “junk.” Two people have replied to your message here, but the people on this forum represent a fraction of the developers who could potentially help you. Since CBOX is built on WordPress and BuddyPress, you might see if you can find a BuddyPress developer to hire for your project. Keep…[Read more]

When you go to the Dashboard and go to the Users tab, do you see a Forum role for this user? If so, what does it say?

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Matt

Yes, you can use CBOX in commercial contexts. You just can’t sell the code
that powers the software, as it is protected under a GPL license.

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Matt

The CBOX team would love to hear about any accessibility issues. Please
post your thoughts here or email us at commons@gc.cuny.edu and we will see
what we can do to address any issues you find. As always, we also encourage
other developers to join us in improving CBOX!

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Matt

You might look into some BbPress plugins for additional forum functionality

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Matt

Can you confirm that you are not logged in when checking those links to BP activity pages on a password-protected site?

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Matt

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Please visit http://supportdetails.com/ from the computer in question and
let us know what it says

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Matt

Apologies for the spam forum posts that have come in over the past few days; we’re working to address the issue.

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Matt

I hope that Ray’s tips have been helpful. I just wanted to note that unfortunately, as a DIY free software project, we are unable to provide private one-on-one support. We encourage you to continue posting here as needed

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Matt
Project Director, Commons In A Box

Dear Colleague,
At one point in the not-too-distant […]

At…[Read more]

The PM plugins you linked to provide some opportunities and some
complications. CBOX depends heavily on BuddyPress…[Read more]

I’ve used WordFence on a few CBOX sites. @r-a-y has also created a plugin
that restricts registration to .org and .edu addresses, with others
required to email site admins to request account registration.

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Matt

Are you able to access your site via FTP? Also, did you install any
specific spam-blocking plugins on your site?

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Matt

Did you by any chance copy and paste the text for your post into the
WordPress visual editor from a Microsoft Word document? If so, try to use
the “Paste from Word” feature in the toolbar. And you can edit the
gobbledly-gook code from post itself using the WP post text editor (instead
of the visual editor)

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Matt

I’ve experienced something similar in the past. Have you regenerated your
.htaccess file after changing the permalink structure? If so, and if that
didn’t fix things, try adding the following line to the .htaccess file at
the top:

Options +FollowSymlinks

If that still doesn’t work, contact your systems administrator and ask them
to…[Read more]

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Matt

I would advise waiting, as part of what we offer through CBOX is the
stability of the system through various component upgrades. It does take us
time to ensure that everything is working correctly, of course, but the
benefit is that new versions of CBOX should not break your site!

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Matt

This is not a perfect solution, but one thing you might do is add important
links to the group description so that they always show up on the homepage
of the group. This won’t accomplish what you are asking for, but it is one
simple workaround.

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Matt

Regarding your second question, this post from my CUNY colleague Luke
Waltzer may be helpful — may be helpful
http://lukewaltzer.com/integrating-with-active-directory-or-why-it-aint-all-bad-being-official/.

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We are not using Active Directory or LDAP for the CUNY Academic Commons;
roles are chose by users upon sign-up, though we do require an
institutional email address. I will forward your inquiry to some people I
know who are using Active Directory with a WP multisite/BuddyPress install

Matt

As a first step, can you try setting WP_DEBUG to ‘true’ per the
instructions here? http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

That will give us some info on what is happening. Please report back with
the errors you are seeing. Thanks!

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Matt

I know that Ray is working on a new version of RBE that may help avoid
these problems in the future. As a first trouble-shooting step, you might
try disabling and then re-enabling the RBE plugin — that has worked on
some of our installs in the past to get RBE working again. Ray will
hopefully be able to chime in here soon with other…[Read more]