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Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:26:58 -0500

Commons In A Box 1.7.1Commons In A Box 1.7.1 is now available. This update includes a few plugin updates, compatibility with the latest WordPress, and a number of minor fixes […]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:51:43 -0400

Commons In A Box 1.7.0Commons In A Box 1.7.0 is now available. This release improves compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress, and updates all […]

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Invitations not working in the forum Help & Support

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 01:15:00 -0400

Fix applied. Thanks again, Ray!

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Invitations not working in the forum Help & Support

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:09:01 -0400

Thanks, Ray! I was able to implement this fix on both of my CBOX Classic installations. “Send Invites” is working again. As always, appreciate your help!

Paul Schacht started the topic Invitations not working in the forum Help & Support

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:06:52 -0400

On both of the CBOX Classic installations I maintain, “Send Invites” for Groups no longer functions. When I go to the page to invite new members, all that displays is the name of the group, its description, a button to leave the group (if I’m not the sole admin) and my email settings. This has been the case for a while.

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:19:14 -0400

Commons In A Box 1.6.0Commons In A Box 1.6.0 is now available! Both the Classic and OpenLab packages now enjoy greater compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress […]

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:06:49 -0500

The redirect snippet did the trick! Thank you both so much!

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:04:18 -0500

Very peculiar. Paul, if you’re comfortable with it, you could try (temporarily) running this small redirect logger that I’ve written: https://gist.github.com/boonebgorges/83ad69a81052c5ce43001d7c7523a586 Put it in wp-content/mu-plugins/redirect-log.php. Then, trigger the redirect. You should see a redirect-log.txt file at wp-content/uploads/.…[Read more]

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 13:09:01 -0500

Thanks, Ray. I debugged as you suggested, and indeed the URL that’s outputted to the browser is the URL for the blog e.g.,
https://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org
so BP Groupblog is behaving as it should.

I’m not running any must-use plugins and don’t have a bp-custom.php file. I’m using a child theme but haven’t made any recent changes to it.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:22:26 -0500

I’ve deactivated each plugin in turn (except CBOX), and none of the plugins appears to be the cause of the problem.

The problem happens with all groups, whether public or private. The “Blog” link in the left navigation for the group redirects to https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/wp-admin/

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:01:09 -0500

I deactivated WordFence, but the behavior persists. I think the general behavior you were observing earlier — “if I attempt to visit a page that doesn’t exist on your site (https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/WHATEVER), the URL will redirect back to the homepage instead of landing on the 404 page” — was caused by this line in wp-co…[Read more]

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:37:32 -0500

Hi Ray,

Plugins, in addition to CBOX and its bundled plugins, are

Akismet
BP Classic
Classic Editor
Collapse-o-Matic
CommentPress Core
Markup Markdown
PDF Embedder
Post Type Switcher
WordFence

Thanks,
Paul

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:11:11 -0500

I’m running BP 11.4.0 and letting CBOX manage my plugins. I’ve sometimes managed them independently in order to stay abreast of updates, but I knew from some of your messages in the GitHub repo that 12 has significant differences, so I’ve held back.

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:21:20 -0500

For reference, here’s where the redirect happens: https://github.com/boonebgorges/bp-groupblog/blob/565b256ede1f2a8c89c480e78b97753d3257afbe/bp-groupblog.php#L1881

I suspect that $blog_id is incorrectly returning 1, and/or get_home_url() is doing something strange.

Have you by any chance updated BP to version 12.0+? You would have to have done…[Read more]

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:13:01 -0500

Thanks for the reply, Boone! Redirect is set as it should be under GroupBlog Setup. I’m seeing this behavior on blogs associated with public groups that anyone can join. A logged in user who’s a member of the group gets directed to the Dashboard of the main site, English @ SUNY Geneseo. Ditto for a logged in user who isn’t a member of the group. A…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:39:07 -0500

Hi Paul – It’s normal for the href attribute of the links to point to /groups/name-of-group/blog. But once you load that page, you ought to be redirected to the group blog’s home page, ie to name-of-blog.sunygeneseoenglish.org.

A few things to check:

– Go to Dashboard > Network Admin > Settings > GroupBlog Setup > Redirect. Ensure that ‘Redirect…[Read more]

Paul Schacht started the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:30:22 -0500

At https://sunygeneseoenglish.org, the “Blog” link in the left navigation of each group’s home page redirects to the main site’s login page (when logged out) or to the main site’s dashboard (when logged in, for a user with access to the main site’s dashboard).

The “Blog” link in every group’s left navigation has the form…[Read more]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:09:04 -0500

Commons In A Box 1.5.1 is now available! This release includes a number of important plugin updates, and also fixes a few bugs with mobile layout and site menus. Visit […]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:23:35 -0400

Commons In A Box 1.5.0 is now available. This update includes compatibility fixes for the latest versions of WordPress, BuddyPress, and PHP. It also includes a number of new features for the OpenLab package, […]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:23:12 -0500

Commons In A Box 1.4.0 is now available!

This major update includes improved compatibility with the latest versions of WP and PHP, and the following features in the OpenLab package:

A “template chooser” […]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:43:11 -0500

Commons In A Box 1.3.4 is now available. With the PHP 7.x series nearing the end of security support, the CBOX 1.3.4 maintenance focuses on ensuring compatibility with PHP 8+.

Download the latest Commons In A […]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 23:59:54 -0400

Commons In A Box 1.3.3 is now available!

This maintenance release fixes a number of issues in the OpenLab package, including some accessibility fixes. The release also brings plugins up to date, and provides […]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:41:34 -0500

Commons In A Box 1.3.2 is now available. This maintenance release includes updates to BuddyPress and a few other plugins, as well as fixes for some minor localization bugs.

Update via Dashboard > Plugins, or […]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic WP Grade Posts breaking upgrade in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:17:55 -0500

Sorry for the error. I’ve created the tag and you should now be able to complete the upgrade via the CBOX upgrade panel.

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:15:05 -0400

Commons In A Box 1.3.1 is now available! This maintenance release includes a number of plugin stability updates, as well as some styling and permissions fixes for the OpenLab package. For complete details, view […]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic What is the correct way to translate all CBOX OpenLab texts? in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 21:29:09 -0400

Thanks for the ping. @r-a-y is correct that the best way to contribute translations is through https://translate.wordpress.org. The Getting Started section in the handbook is a good place to start https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/translating/glotpress-translate-wordpress-org/#getting-started

After submitting translated strings, one…[Read more]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:16:25 -0400

Commons In A Box 1.3.0 is now available!

This major release includes compatibility with the latest WordPress and BuddyPress, as well as a host of other plugin updates.

On the OpenLab side, CBOX 1.3.0 […]

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Subdomains not working after server migration in the forum Help & Support

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 16:25:30 -0400

Fixed it. In the settings for the new server, I had to set my multisite domain as the default.

Paul Schacht started the topic Subdomains not working after server migration in the forum Help & Support

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 16:23:05 -0400

Hi CBOX Community,

I’ve just migrated my CBOX Classic site to a new server with the same hosting provider. After lowering TTL for 24 hours, I used their “Point to another server” tool to move the DNS Zone file from the old server to the new.

The main site is located at https://sunygeneseoenglish.org

My multisite is configured to treat blogs as…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Replacing the Wordpress Cron in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:17:13 -0400

Thanks, Ed. I’ve created a ticket to track the issue. https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/347

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Replacing the Wordpress Cron in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:07:55 -0400

Thanks, Ed. It looks like the cron job is not scheduled. It would be called bp_groupblogs_cron. If you want to create it manually using wp-crontrol, it should work. /wp-admin/tools.php?page=crontrol_admin_manage_page&action=new-cron. Set it to ‘hourly’.

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Replacing the Wordpress Cron in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:23:16 -0400

> for a very busy site (like a mature Commons in a Box OpenLab) the cron might be running too often!

This isn’t quite true. WP’s pseudo-cron is throttled in such a way that it can’t be run “too often”, and in any case, the individual jobs will only be run on schedule. But your general point is correct: on low-traffic sites, certain jobs may not…[Read more]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:20:40 -0500

Commons In A Box 1.2.4 is now available. This release is focused on compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress, and also includes a number of fixes to functionality in the OpenLab package.

Visit […]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Activity Stream on Individual Courses (Groups) in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:52:58 -0500

Hi all – CBOX OpenLab is specifically designed so that each site (aside from the primary site) is associated with one group, and each group, in turn, cannot be linked to more than one site. As such, it’s not possible at the moment to pursue the most natural solution, which would be to link more than one site to a group (thus pulling all of the…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Happy New Year! Help bringing back home page features? in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:31:50 -0500

Excellent! Happy new year!

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Happy New Year! Help bringing back home page features? in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:28:32 -0500

Hello – Try selecting the ‘Legacy’ option from the ‘jQuery Version’ dropdown.

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Upgrade to 1.2.3 - what to expect in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:57:35 -0500

Great, thanks for reporting back!

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Upgrade to 1.2.3 - what to expect in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:43:05 -0500

Hi Sally – The error I’m seeing suggests that BuddyPress was not properly updated. This could happen for a number of reasons, most likely that there a momentary glitch on your server while WordPress was in the process of unzipping the plugin files and then moving them to their proper location.

Here’s what I recommend:

1. Download a fresh copy of…[Read more]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:10:22 -0500

Version 1.2.3 of Commons In A Box is now available! This release fixes a number of bugs, with a focus on the OpenLab package. Fixes include:

a fix for the ‘sort’ tool in member directoriesimproved scroll […]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Creating Course Site versus Course Home in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:57:37 -0500

By the looks of it, there’s something wrong with your Multisite setup, which is causing requests to URLs like http://mycommstories.com/school-1/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js?ver=5.5.3 not to redirect properly (should load the file at http://mycommstories.com/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js?ver=5.5.3). This is likely related to your webserver…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Help Page displaying "Page not found" in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:33:49 -0500

Hi @r-a-y – Thanks for the ping. I’ve confirmed the behavior and put a fix in place. https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/313

Paul Schacht replied to the topic Trouble inviting multiple members to a group in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:42:36 -0400

Just want to hop onto this thread for a moment to say that I’ve been working with Ed and Amanda on this project and couldn’t be more excited about it. At SUNY Geneseo, Amanda and I have taken the lead on building a new Center for Digital Learning, and we see multiple ways for CBOX-OL to help us accomplish some of the center’s goals. I’m a longtime…[Read more]

Paul Schacht joined the group CBOX OpenLab Support

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:25:17 -0400

Boone Gorges replied to the topic Trouble inviting multiple members to a group in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:29:17 -0400

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

You’re correct that we try to keep university schedules in mind. We are unlikely, for example, to push major new features or other large changes in September; we’d instead try to get this kind of release out during the summer, to give users time to plan.

Apart f…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic OpenLab 1.2.2 Course Contact Not Showing in Courses in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:11:05 -0400

Thanks for the report. The issue is now fixed in the bleeding-edge version of the openlab-theme repository and will be part of the CBOX 1.2.3 release.

Boone Gorges replied to the topic OpenLab 1.2.1- Group Type pages no longer filter in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:41:06 -0400

Thanks, Ed. This confirms that the Portfolio group type is indeed registered and also showing up in the JSON report. It must be that there’s something in the administrative UI JavaScript that’s causing it not to appear. I’ll dig in to see if I can reproduce. See https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/283

In the meantime,…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic OpenLab 1.2.1- Group Type pages no longer filter in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 21:40:27 -0400

Thanks, Ed. CBOX 1.2.2 fixes this problem.

Here or a new thread is fine for the ‘portfolios’ issue. I don’t have a sense of how this problem would come about, though. I guess one thing to look at is this: When you load CBOX OpenLab > Group Settings > Types, view the page source and look for the CBOXOLAppConfig variable. Maybe dump the value…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic OpenLab 1.2.1- Group Type pages no longer filter in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:22:16 -0400

Ed – Can you confirm whether you were able to resolve the Search Results problem with the plugin above?

The Portfolios issue seems to be unrelated. I see that groups of the type still exist, and the type itself seems to be valid for BP and for CBOX, since I’m able to visit the directory https://oneonta.sunycreate.cloud/groups/type/portfolio/ and…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic OpenLab 1.2.1- Group Type pages no longer filter in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:24:04 -0400

Thanks for confirming, Ed.

I’ll fix this in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/282 and release CBOX 1.2.2 with the fix in the next day or so.

In the meantime, I’ve written a small plugin that will fix the problem on existing installations, before CBOX 1.2.2 is ready.…[Read more]

Boone Gorges replied to the topic OpenLab 1.2.1- Group Type pages no longer filter in the forum OpenLab Help & Support

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:38:53 -0400

Thanks, Ed. Did you have a chance to check the Brand Settings page for ‘Search Results’? I have a feeling that this is the key to the issue, but I’d like your verification first.