Glad that worked! I also noticed some styling inconsistencies on the Send Invites pages. I’ve added a fix here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/commit/d099118ed8912b78f9d42dafe6a6b7a2322abfa6.

If you want to add this change, overwrite the /wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/assets/css/buddypress.css file on the server with…[Read more]

Thanks for the report. I was able to duplicate the issue with the group “Send Invites” tab.

The problem is due to an issue with the Invite Anyone plugin. I have updated CBOX Classic to use the latest version of Invite Anyone in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/commit/3da2bd9818368ac6423ff1151b64ab3325eb5e29.

In…[Read more]

Regarding:

However, there is no way to do this through the Dashboard and when I try to update via CPANEL it knocks out my site. Most of the errors seem to be with the CBOX theme.

About the problem with CBOX Theme, are you able to access your server’s PHP error log? If you are able to, can you post the entries related to CBOX…[Read more]

BuddyPress 12.0 is a major release that has breaking changes for older BuddyPress plugins such as bbPress.

BP Classic is required so BuddyPress backward compatibility is maintained. Hence CBOX requires BP Classic until all our recommended BuddyPress plugins have updated their codebases to support BuddyPress 12. You can keep track of…[Read more]

Can you try the following code snippet? https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/bc390ceb5d1872044e05b3aed35431c1

Save to /wp-content/mu-plugins/wpmu-subdomain-redirects.php. WordPress, by default, has strict redirect rules and for some reason, does not allow subdomain redirects even on the same domain. The code snippet should bypass this…[Read more]

Like the NOBLOGREDIRECT line, do you have any other code snippets in wp-config.php, wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php, wp-content/themes/cbox-child, or in wp-content/mu-plugins?

If not and you feel adventurous, you can try some…[Read more]

Some other potential things to check: Do you have any 3rd-party plugins running on the groupblog that might be causing the redirect? What is the privacy option set to for the groupblog in question?

WordFence could be the culprit. Can you try temporarily disabling WordFence and then trying to check the groupblog link?

I notice that 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. I’m guessing a plugin is causing this behavior, which in turn is affecting the groupblog redirect.

It’s possible that a plugin is responsible…[Read more]

Glad you were able to switch to a subdirectory set up for your multisite configuration.

It sounds like you might need to reconfigure wildcard subdomains on Bluehost. Check out the “Setting up Wildcard Subdomains” section of this article: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-multisite-network/#wildcard

Can you verify that you have set up wildcard subdomains on your Bluehost cPanel…[Read more]

Can you take a look?

Thanks for finding this bug. I can confirm the problem.

I have created a new issue with a fix:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/375

In the meantime, before the next release, you will need to override the /wp-content/themes/openlab-theme/sidebar-help.php file with the…[Read more]

I just posted a guide here: https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/what-is-the-correct-way-to-translate-all-cbox-openlab-texts#post-9090

Currently, it requires patching a core CBOX file due to a bug, but then you can use a plugin to easily update the various text strings used across your CBOX site.

So I thought I would take a closer look at the Loco Translate plugin.

Loco Translate works quite well, but there is currently a bug in CBOX that prevents Loco Translate from…[Read more]

You can also access the “Contact Us” page through the “Brand Settings” page as well: https://commonsinabox.org/copy

Let us know if that is what you mean.

So this cannot be modified unless you create a child theme to override the sidebar-help.php template.

Can you tell us what you are trying to modify?

This is where OpenLab sets the default avatar:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-openlab-core/blob/27913ac024f96dd31eac6887423650581e49820f/includes/brand-settings.php#L158-L179

So…[Read more]

Since CBOX OpenLab is a WordPress plugin, the backup process would be the same as backing up your WordPress installation.

Check out the WordPress support article on backups here: https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-backups/.

If you have any other questions after reading that article, let us know.

The text strings you mentioned like “You are here” are a part of CBOX, not BuddyPress.

How are you doing the translations at the moment? If you are translating with help from a plugin like Loco Translate, you’ll need to translate for the commons-in-a-box textdomain as well.

You can also help out with the Spanish translation for CBOX…[Read more]

For deleting users, have you tried going to the “Network Admin > Users” page to delete the users? It should be available at example.com/wp-admin/network/users.php. Check out the WordPress support article here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin_Users_Screen.

About installing themes, CBOX OpenLab comes bundled with the OpenLab…[Read more]

Since CBOX OpenLab is built on WordPress, you can either use a WordPress plugin to handle domain mapping or you can natively set custom domains on a per site basis.

Domain mapping can be quite tricky to set up. If you’re interested in the built-in method that comes with WordPress, check out this guide:…[Read more]

We do not provide these types of policies with CBOX because the types of sites using CBOX can vary, but it’s a good question to ask.

WordPress ships with a default privacy policy template. You could probably start with that: https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-privacy-screen/#using-privacy-settings-tool

If you need more…[Read more]

I’ve filed an issue here with some code to address this: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/371

Once the code is merged, you will not need to use your videowrapper DIV workaround.

You don’t need the videowrapper DIV anymore in your post editor because the width of the video should be 500px or higher. If the video’s width is not at least 500px, let us know.…[Read more]

To install, extract the ZIP contents to /wp-content/mu-plugins/ and the “Download CSV” button should show up on the “Users > User Summary” admin page.

If you prefer to activate the code on a per-site basis, extract…[Read more]

It looks like the bug stems from the OpenLab theme stripping the width and height attributes in post content. I’ve filed a bug here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/openlab-theme/issues/305

To be sure you have the right snippet, here’s the code:
https://pastebin.com/raw/CEpSch4z

You can save it to a file like /wp-content/mu-plugins/co-authors-plus.php.

It looks like I didn’t share the code snippet in my previous post. If you still need it, let me know. Otherwise, glad to hear things are working for you.

Sorry that we missed this report. Another user reported the same bug just now and we’ve added a fix:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/commit/d54679cabc72a424fde7420c47bd76bb13661631

To address this temporarily before the next release, update the /cbox-theme/assets/js/superfish.js file with this…[Read more]

I tried creating a new topic and then editing the topic twice with a normal user account and I did not experience any issues.

The “you already said that” message appears when bbPress detects a duplicate post. This message only appears when creating a new post and not when editing. Since your initial…[Read more]

Akismet, our anti-spam plugin, mistakenly caught one of your new topics as spam. The topic isn’t lost, but it’s hidden from view.

We can reinstate the topic, but I see you’ve already created the same one here: https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/bugs-in-template/

In the future, when you get the spam…[Read more]

We’re going to be including a fix for this in the next maintenance release for CBOX. We’re aiming for early August for the next release.

See https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/358 for all the forum fixes that will be included.

This is not a problem with CBOX. It’s a problem with the Co-Authors Plus plugin and the Customizr theme. We have some specialized fixes on the Commons as outlined here.

It sounds like the problems in that ticket are the same as the ones you outlined. I can share those fixes with you in a code snippet if your developer is able to apply…[Read more]

Syelle, if you have access to your server, you can add the following snippet to wp-content/mu-plugins/ or wherever else you might store custom code as a temporary workaround:

// Allow pending group topics to be viewed.
add_action(…[Read more]

The following would work in your theme’s functions.php or in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

add_action( 'template_redirect', function() {
if ( ! is_user_logged_in() && function_exists( 'bpdw_is_wiki_home' ) && bpdw_is_wiki_home() )…[Read more]

For now, I would recommend that you do not use the “Pending” status option.

I’ll see if I can code a workaround, but I’ll be posting a bug report to bbPress Trac. Will update this thread once I find out more.

Are you sure the MLA requires such an older version of BuddyPress? BP 4.2 was released in December 2018.

If that is the case, CBOX 1.1.1 is the release where we bumped compatibility to BuddyPress 4.2. The plugin versions for CBOX 1.1.1 can be found in the plugin manifest…[Read more]

This is a bbPress issue when people copy and paste from other pieces of content into the Visual Editor.

You’ll have to open up the restrictions bbPress places on other HTML tags like , etc. The alternative is stripping those elements during pasting.

See:
– https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strip-html-tabs-from-forum/
-…[Read more]

You could give this plugin a shot:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-add-mime-types/

I haven’t tested it though, but looks like it should work.

Besides adding the latex and ltx file extensions to the uploaded file types, you also need to register the mime type for the file type with WordPress.

You can do this with the following snippet in /wp-content/mu-plugins/:

/**
* Add custom items to mime type array for uploads
*/
function my_mime_types( $types )…[Read more]

If you’re talking about adding an “Activity” tab to a group’s (course) sidebar nav next to the existing “Course Home” and “Discussion” items, it’s possible. However, it looks like OpenLab wasn’t designed to have an activity stream for a course.

If you want to enable the Activity page for a group (course), you’ll need to do the following…[Read more]

I’ve just reinstated it. Let me know if that is the right one.

The Akismet plugin actually marked your forum post as spam. They use an automated process that sometimes marks legitimate posts as spam. If you do not see your forum post, just keep letting us know so one of the team can approve your post.

I just…[Read more]

Try that one and see if it works for your site.

Akismet incorrectly marked your post as spam. I’ve just manually approved your last couple of replies.

There are two ways:

1. Write a script that will run across all your sites to search each post for the code containing the PDF and Google Doc Embedder. If you have an in-house developer, that person could write a WP-CLI script to do this.

2. If you do not have access to a developer, the alternative is doing a manual search on each…[Read more]

I can confirm your report about the empty category pages. I’ve created an issue here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/314.

I’ll update this topic when we’ve addressed this. Don’t have an ETA at the moment though.

Follow these instructions:
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-custom-php/

Then copy the code snippet from the previous link I mentioned for showing empty categories.

Your completed file should look like this: https://pastebin.com/W1AE4FAF