Giles Brennand | Commons In A Box

Giles Brennand replied to the topic Can't install theme in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 3 months ago

To answer my own question, I seem to have lost the style.css.

I’ll try an upload of that

(It probably got moved not copied to the child theme in an earlier installation. I copied over the cbox plugin rather […]
Giles Brennand started the topic Can't install theme in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 3 months ago

I started a new install.

I loaded the cbox plugin with no, apparent, problem.

I then loaded and used plugnedit plugin to develop a custom frontpage (essentially outside wordpress)

When I tried to change […]
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Help – Forums and multi-user account types in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 6 months ago

Sam

I have the same requirement. And the same difficulty. See xtrain.biz

Bumping this up to see if we can get some help
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Top menu background change not working in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 7 months ago

I am so grateful for this thread. I have spent hours and hours over the last four weeks trying to change the background on the top menu. And thinking that the problem was my understanding of Wordpress. Actually […]
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Plug-in Upgrades Not Showing in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 7 months ago

So when will CBOX be updated for Buddypress 1.7?

And is there likely to be any disadvantage to upgrading to 1.7 autonomously when CBOX does upgrade?

Thanks
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Group Documents in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 7 months ago

To answer my own question, this plugin does the trick …

GD bbPress Attachments
Settings | Deactivate | Edit

Implements attachments upload to the topics and replies in bbPress plugin through media […]
Giles Brennand posted an update 11 years, 7 months ago

I want members to be able to create/revise/view a directory of available courses using a standard template with five separate sections. At a later stage I may want to restrict access to some of the sections to certain classes of members – but I do not need that at this stage.

Of course, this been wordpress/buddypress/CBOX, there is more than one…[Read more]
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki navigation – linking wiki to profiles in the forum CBOX Pioneers 11 years, 8 months ago

Oh! I clearly don’t understand the code tag
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki navigation – linking wiki to profiles in the forum CBOX Pioneers 11 years, 8 months ago

Sorry, I didn’t enclose the code in tags. Try again
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki navigation – linking wiki to profiles in the forum CBOX Pioneers 11 years, 8 months ago

I created a simple mind map with omnigraffle (Which can create layout automatic from a hierarchy of topics), added links to three of the objects and exported it as html.

The html can be pasted into a page. The […]
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki navigation – linking wiki to profiles in the forum CBOX Pioneers 11 years, 8 months ago

Helene

I recall one putting links into various cells of an excel spreadsheet using an invisible font colour which was overlaid with a map of the world, so that clicking on different countries took you to other […]
Giles Brennand started the topic Group Documents in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 8 months ago

Within a Group page I can currently only create Buddypress Docs. I would also like to upload other documents e.g. PDFs. Is that possible?

Does it need an additional plugin?

Or, failing that, how I […]
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Activate a buddy-press compatible theme in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 8 months ago

Ray

That worked. Thanks.

Should be added to the CBOX instructions for setting up a child theme and the example style.css
Giles Brennand started the topic Activate a buddy-press compatible theme in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 8 months ago

You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress-compatible theme to take advantage of all of BuddyPress’s features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or update your […]
Giles Brennand joined the group CBOX Classic Support 11 years, 8 months ago
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Multiple member types in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 8 months ago

Thanks Dave. I will take a look.

I don’t quite understand why this isn’t a core functionality of buddypress and CBOX.

And suspect there is something I have missed
Giles Brennand started the topic Multiple member types in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 8 months ago

I would like to have on my home page log-in/registration option for two different types of members. Do I have to use a buddy press plug-in for this? If so, which one? And is it fully compatible with […]
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki is a part of the CBOX theme? in the forum CBOX Pioneers 11 years, 10 months ago

Matt

I would like to be able to force a structure on wiki pages. So for example a wiki about a company would have a section on its industry, its subsidiaries, number of employees.

I assume this could be done […]
Giles Brennand started the topic Adding new doc on a group page crashed WP in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 10 months ago

Error message

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home/xxxxxx/xxxxx.com/wp-includes/post.php on line 2996

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers […]
Giles Brennand replied to the topic Slider – Photo Sizing, Caption Grey Box, Links in the forum Help & Support 11 years, 10 months ago

‘Show site features’ now works as I expected in Safari.

But images do not show on iPad – just a ‘? in a box’.

Is this just a typical ipad issue or is there a specific file format to use for wider […]
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