[Liz Brown]

I’ve read a basic upgrading wordpress document, which is useful, and I’m looking for guidance on compatibility and versions for the whole Commons shebang. I’m now attaching the current versions on my multisite installation, which might provide more context!

thanks!

Liz

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[Liz Brown]

ooooh! Nice! Love the way the active members looks as a vertical display, too.

[Liz Brown]

Ah, I am thinking you are right—it looks fine on my browser, but might not on other browsers! I don’t know if the feed gets refreshed—I don’t think it does. I don’t know how to edit it, but perhaps someone with knowledge of that might weigh in, that would be really helpful!

I will definitely remove that formatting, in the meantime, thanks!!

[Liz Brown]

Hmm I did copy and paste, but from another webpage.

I should say that the gobbledy-gook is not in the blog post itself (that looks fine) but in the widget area for network-wide blog posts. That’s where I’d like to either delete the post or edit. I changed it to just display the most recent blog post in the meantime so did get the weird code off the widget area that way. (but would prefer to fix the display so I can show the other blog posts again).

thanks for the tip about pasting from word! I’ll have to be careful about copying and pasting, even if the post itself looks fine.

 

[Liz Brown]

Hi, <span class=”user-nicename”>@iurie</span>, thanks for sharing this! I don’t know anything about CSS—-I would have to get someone else to help me with that—but perhaps I’ll give this a try and see if it might work for me. I need to keep some of my network blogs connected to the groups, so I made the decision to just not worry that people in the groups  wouldn’t see recent posts in the recent networkwide blog posts—-although it would be ideal for them to be able to.

I had trouble with “‘(BuddyPress) Recent Networkwide Posts” (can’t remember now what the problem was) but everything has been okay except the groupblogs with the recent networkwide posts widget.

[Liz Brown]

Hi, @r-a-y, thanks so much for this helpful answer! Now it all makes sense. Since the sites are going to be private, I am happy with them displaying from the My Sites in the toolbar so that the users can find the sites. (I am using a plugin that would allow me to remove the My Sites altogether, but what I think I need is something that would allow me to change the label to some different wording. Hmm).

But the most interesting thing was, I looked and realized that indeed, the user accounts that can see one of the blogs under “My Sites” in the site tracking directory are set as “Author” for that blog. I am really glad I discovered this, as I only intend everyone to be subscribers!

I’ll have to do some user education on the difference in the meaning of “My Sites” in the two places, but at least I know I’m not crazy and imagining weird things on my site. Thanks so much! This is SO helpful.

Liz

 

 

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[Liz Brown]

oh, and thanks also, Ray, for your response. This is good to keep in mind for the future.

[Liz Brown]

Hi, again, just want to report back that my sys admin fixed this for me, and it’s working! What a relief, and thanks again for verifying that it was an email system situation and not something I inadvertently had done somewhere in the settings.

–Liz

[Liz Brown]

Hi Boone, thank you so much! this makes a lot of sense (even to a not-tech person such as I). I was going to talk with my IT person this morning and now I’m armed with some good information and suggestions.

Liz

 

[Liz Brown]

thanks, Matt!

[Liz Brown]

I thought I had replied to this, but thanks so much for pointing me to the invite anyone plug in. I was thinking this plugin was not going to be that useful for me since I don’t want people to be inviting other people, but the ability to dump in a bunch of emails AND choose the appropriate groups seems exactly what I need.

The only downside is that once a user registers and activates, they receive a deluge of emails with all the various group invitations (plus a friend request from  me, as the admin!). Ideally users would get activated then see the different group invitations on the Commons itself, but I can probably warn people “ignore the barrage of emails!”

thanks!

 

[Liz Brown]

Hi, @mkgold, thanks so much for the lovely compliment! We would be really pleased to be added to the showcase.

Thank you!

[Liz Brown]

Hi, just to update, I installed the AG Custom Admin, which is really nice, but it only seems to apply to the admin bar once someone is logged in. I searched their support forum and others seem to have asked about this, so I think I am understanding correctly. I just wanted to report back on that since my situation is mainly to find something that changes the admin/toolbar for logged out users. I realize this is a holiday weekend for many but if anyone sees this and has a suggestion, I’m all ears! Otherwise, I’ll try searching for something else. Thanks again!!

[Liz Brown]

Hi, @ScottVoth, thanks! That premium plugin looks good plus I’ll search around for some others as well. And I’ll check on the settings you mentioned in BuddyPress.

Hi, @georges, thanks for the recommendation. If you end up using AG Custom Admin with CBOX, please let me know how that works for you.

–Liz

[Liz Brown]

Hi, Scott, thanks! I installed this last night and have been setting up blog avatars!! It’s these little things that can make a huge difference, I appreciate your help.

Liz

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