Commons In A Box | Giles Brennand | Activity https://commonsinabox.org/members/giles-brennand/activity Activity feed for Giles Brennand. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:54:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 5db59083f420d07210eeb021bdfffd47 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Can't install theme in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-install-theme/#post-3175 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:03:55 -0400 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 […]

]]> f42c505eac1de55d4380f48735a1ee55 Giles Brennand started the topic Can't install theme in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/cant-install-theme/ Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:47:12 -0400 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 […]

]]> 67ab776ada011c4b99c7d7c304c06ef4 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Help - Forums and multi-user account types in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/help-forums-and-multi-user-account-types/#post-2637 Fri, 10 May 2013 09:24:17 -0400 Sam

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

Bumping this up to see if we can get some help

]]> 6bea603a1b96ca44cd7abd1ff9145672 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Top menu background change not working in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/top-menu-background-change-not-working/#post-2493 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:36:47 -0400 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 […]

]]> fb9e88418c62af28b6b69e6abb548f3f Giles Brennand replied to the topic Plug-in Upgrades Not Showing in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/plug-in-upgrades-not-showing/#post-2491 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:37:05 -0400 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

]]> 4705f61003d419f34ec462458db84056 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Group Documents in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-documents/#post-2352 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:02:15 -0400 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 […]

]]> 36d211e0fec15eb63283a4fc0c397763 Giles Brennand posted an update: I want members to be able to create/revise/view a directory […] https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/1905 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:29:42 -0400 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]

]]> c6e034994a8282333451dae4a6f8d1ee Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki navigation - linking wiki to profiles in the forum CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/ciab-pioneers/forum/topic/wiki-navigation-linking-wiki-to-profiles/#post-2262 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:51:38 -0400 Oh! I clearly don’t understand the code tag

]]> 1c27ff3e8951350173fffa2fc71fa938 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki navigation - linking wiki to profiles in the forum CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/ciab-pioneers/forum/topic/wiki-navigation-linking-wiki-to-profiles/#post-2261 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:00:40 -0400 Sorry, I didn’t enclose the code in tags. Try again

]]> 5f94107471532c5d1f275ff409938b1a Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki navigation - linking wiki to profiles in the forum CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/ciab-pioneers/forum/topic/wiki-navigation-linking-wiki-to-profiles/#post-2260 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:59:02 -0400 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 […]

]]> 53d55b9557c26610d702a26a73c986aa Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki navigation - linking wiki to profiles in the forum CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/ciab-pioneers/forum/topic/wiki-navigation-linking-wiki-to-profiles/#post-2259 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:36:39 -0400 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 […]

]]> bb6a07eb6244e61a11d7231fac609df7 Giles Brennand started the topic Group Documents in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-documents/ Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:17:56 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0af4a9dc64d3d1852231e34ab56a7106 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Activate a buddy-press compatible theme in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/activate-a-buddy-press-compatible-theme/#post-2237 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:40:02 -0400 Ray

That worked.  Thanks.

Should be added to the CBOX instructions for setting up a child theme and the example style.css

]]> b3e703996f4f47e7e8b5c40e921e9df8 Giles Brennand started the topic Activate a buddy-press compatible theme in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/activate-a-buddy-press-compatible-theme/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:16:49 -0400 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 […]

]]> 2d18181b1be08c387569313d4155cec3 Giles Brennand joined the group CBOX Classic Support https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/1785 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:14:18 -0400 682e61087d8dc8ffd0992b8459af4fa5 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Multiple member types in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/multiple-member-types/#post-2222 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:13:50 -0400 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

]]> a7c3cce9d952eda7f2dfec4259742b0f Giles Brennand started the topic Multiple member types in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/multiple-member-types/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:52:57 -0500 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 […]

]]> 796d4b7e0589de25df8b33f866ee8855 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Wiki is a part of the CBOX theme? in the forum CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/groups/ciab-pioneers/forum/topic/wiki-is-a-part-of-the-cbox-theme/#post-1584 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:06:27 -0500 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 […]

]]> 9fdd6674c17a16405d2013eaedb8a32c Giles Brennand started the topic Adding new doc on a group page crashed WP in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/adding-new-doc-on-a-group-page-crashed-wp/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:54:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> dfabf109e609855194aaff55749ecfc2 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Slider - Photo Sizing, Caption Grey Box, Links in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/slider-photo-sizing-caption-grey-box-links/#post-1574 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:40:44 -0500 ‘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 […]

]]> 0f95b81a49e17fb43ad512a45f33d348 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Slider - Photo Sizing, Caption Grey Box, Links in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/slider-photo-sizing-caption-grey-box-links/#post-1564 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:54:37 -0500 Found it!

 

]]> 9918f95028f8696910f0582b3c420051 Giles Brennand replied to the topic Slider - Photo Sizing, Caption Grey Box, Links in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/slider-photo-sizing-caption-grey-box-links/#post-1563 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:44:29 -0500 Where do I find homepage>>slider setup?

 

]]> 5d70ae41782e396110913f63b28a388a Giles Brennand joined the group CBOX Pioneers https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/716 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:08:55 -0500 28bf29767f4e782a5bb98b2e858d50d4 Giles Brennand became a registered member https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/715 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:00:08 -0500