Jonathan | Commons In A Box

Jonathan replied to the topic Group Docs in the forum Help & Support 9 years, 7 months ago

If you’re brave, you could also try my fork of buddypress-docs. It fixes quite a few bugs (see the closed issues for a list), among which are a number of permissions-related issues. It also gives you a new theme which allows you to strip down some of the features which might be seen as unnecessary, like setting parent docs. However, it hasn’t been…[Read more]
Jonathan replied to the topic The new MLA Commons in the forum CBOX Pioneers 10 years, 3 months ago

@iurie, It should be fixed now. Give it a try, and let me know how it looks on your system.
Jonathan replied to the topic reloading child theme causes errors with loading infinity functions in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 3 months ago

@Ray, thanks! That solved the issue. It was just missing this header.
Jonathan replied to the topic The new MLA Commons in the forum CBOX Pioneers 10 years, 3 months ago

@iurie, I’m looking into that at the moment. That happens to us, too, if we change themes then change back to cbox-mla! Which is quite worrying. I just opened a thread about it here:

https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/reloading-child-theme-causes-errors-with-loading-infinity-functions/

I have a feeling it’s because the…[Read more]
Jonathan started the topic reloading child theme causes errors with loading infinity functions in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 3 months ago

I’m using a child theme of cbox-theme, and I’ve been getting some strange behavior when I reload my theme. When I select a different theme in the dashboard, then select my child theme again, I get a white screen of death. Debug.log shows the error:

Call to undefined function infinity_get_header() in…[Read more]
Jonathan started the topic The new MLA Commons in the forum CBOX Pioneers 10 years, 3 months ago

Hi everyone!

We at the Modern Language Association just launched a new minimalist theme for our CBOX-based website, MLA Commons. It’s a fairly major re-imagining of the CBOX theme. Here are a few of the things we did:

fixed a number of bugs, like the border around the text box I’m typing in right now
modernized the buttons to simple, flat…[Read more]
Jonathan joined the group CBOX Pioneers 10 years, 3 months ago
Jonathan replied to the topic Using LESS with a CBOX child theme? in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 4 months ago

Does this comment refer to a feature that no longer exists in CBOX?
Jonathan replied to the topic What does this button on the edit profile page do? in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 4 months ago

I just submitted cbox-theme issue #205 for this, and submitted a pull request that fixes it. I thought of submitting a pull request to BuddyPress for this (which would fix this issue directly in the function bp_profile_group_tabs, rather than just filtering the output), but since there also needed to be a check in the theme template to handle…[Read more]
Jonathan started the topic What does this button on the edit profile page do? in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 4 months ago

I noticed that on the profile edit page there’s a button that doesn’t appear to do anything. On our mla install, this button is called “Profile,” and on a vanilla CBOX install, this button is called “Base.” Clicking that button has no effect.

What does this button do? If it doesn’t do anything, wouldn’t it be safe to remove it?

Screenshot attached.
Jonathan replied to the topic What's the best way to install a new font in a CBOX child theme? in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 5 months ago

@haystack Out of curiosity, how are you enqueuing your own stylesheets? That may indeed be easier than debugging from dynamic.css, which for me involves a ridiculous amount of grepping.
Jonathan started the topic Using LESS with a CBOX child theme? in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 5 months ago

In the CBOX child theme’s style.css, there’s a comment line that reads:

CBOX combines all the stylesheets into one file called dynamic.css. You can also write CSS using LESS.

Yet I can’t find anything about using LESS with a CBOX theme. Writing LESS in style.css or in assets/css/ doesn’t seem to be compiled to CSS. How can I use LESS with a CBOX…[Read more]
Jonathan started the topic What's the best way to install a new font in a CBOX child theme? in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 6 months ago

I’d like to install a new font in my CBOX child theme, but I’m unsure of the best-practices way to do that. I know I can copy over assets/fonts/fonts.css and modify it, but then iconsweetsregular breaks, because the paths are relative to cbox-theme. I can change the paths for the iconsweetsregular font files to ../../../cbox-theme/assets/fonts/…[Read more]
Jonathan replied to the topic Scope of bbPress plugin and associated issues in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 6 months ago

Your code didn’t seem to disable forums on child sites in my install at least. Maybe something somewhere wasn’t taking. I didn’t see any relevant error messages in the debug.log, and I didn’t get the fatal error about the undefined function, so it’s a mystery to me.

But I really like if ( is_multisite() AND ! is_main_site() ) { so I went with…[Read more]
Jonathan replied to the topic Scope of bbPress plugin and associated issues in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 6 months ago

Thanks, Christian. I wasn’t able to get that code to work, but I did finally get it to work with this, however:

function mla_remove_forums_from_child_sites($plugins) { global $current_blog; if( $current_blog->blog_id != 1 ) { unset($plugins['bbpress/bbpress.php']); } return…[Read more]
Jonathan replied to the topic Scope of bbPress plugin and associated issues in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 6 months ago

Thanks very much for all the input. Using define( 'CBOX_OVERRIDE_PLUGINS', true );, I’m able to disable bbpress on the network and enable it on the root buddypress blog, but that unfortunately causes the issue where users lose capabilities. Instead, it looks like I’ll need to keep bbpress enabled network-wide, yet disable it for all child sites…[Read more]
Jonathan started the topic Scope of bbPress plugin and associated issues in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 6 months ago

We run CBOX on a multi-site wordpress install. On our CBOX install, we noticed that enabling bbPress network-wide caused each child site to have forums enabled in their dashboards, which we don’t want to do. Our solution was to disable bbPress network-wide, and just enable it for our main site. This was working fairly well, but recently we’ve seen…[Read more]
Jonathan started the topic Introduction in the forum CBOX Developers 10 years, 6 months ago

Hi everyone,

My name is Jonathan Reeve. I’m doing some freelance bugfixing and developing for the Modern Language Association. We use CBOX for the site MLA Commons, in conjunction with a few custom plugins. The theme we use is a custom child theme of the CBOX theme that I’m currently working on rennovating. I’ll be submitting pull requests to…[Read more]
Jonathan joined the group CBOX Developers 10 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan started the topic Cbox theme generates absolute CSS link URLs–can this be changed to relative? in the forum Help & Support 10 years, 6 months ago

Cbox-theme has been generating absolute CSS link URLs, i.e.

<link rel=”stylesheet” id=”@:dynamic-css” href=”http://example-domain.org/wp-content/uploads/exports/cbox-mla/dynamic.css?ver=3.8.2″ type=”text/css” media=”all”>

But what I’d like it to do is generate relative CSS link URLs, e.g.

<link rel=”stylesheet” id=”@:dynamic-css”…[Read more]
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