[Michael Scott]

Hi Ray,

Thanks for your message.  I applied the stop-gap fix and it’s worked fine.

Thanks again, an best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Thanks for that Scott.  I’ll create a condensed version of my slides and will expand it once the new version is out.

Thanks very much, and best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Scott,

I must have been at the mercy of a cached page … the .flex-caption change worked.

Thanks, and best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Scott,

I made the change, but it had no affect … the slider title is still appearing as per the screen shot I included in my original post.

Best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for your response.

I have to say that I’m now confused about the changes I made.  As the only location where setup-cbox.php and sidebars-cbox.php existed in was /public_html/wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/engine/includes/, I had made the changes there (to the existing files in the parent theme).

So a few moments ago I reversed the changes and restored the original setup-cbox.php and sidebars-cbox.php files which I had kept a copy of and move the modified files across to my child theme at /public_html/wp-content/themes/causeaustralia/engine/includes/.

But now my causeaustralia subsite has no Site Feature option in the dashboard which had been resolved in an earlier fix … so I’m now plain confused as to what I should do.

I didn’t get an answer to my question a while ago as to whether I should modify the parent theme’s setup-cbox.php and sidebars-cbox.php files or establish new ones in the child theme, and, because I was able to access the Site Feature in my causeaustralia subsite I though the fix was a good one and assumed that I had done the right thing.

It looks to me now that I need to go back to what I originally did … modify the setup-cbox.php and sidebars-cbox.php in the /public_html/wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/engine/includes/directory … but I might wait in case I get further directions.

Thanks, and best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Ray,

I don’t know if the issue I’m having is associated with the most recent fix that removed the restriction that only the main site could utilize the homepage widgets and slider (thank you!).

On my main subsite I don’t seem to have the ability to set up the CBOX Slider.  I have tried both approaches – using Option 1 (Show Site Features) and Option 2 (Show Featured Posts by Category) – as per the CBOX documentation, and neither appear in the slider area of the Home page even though I’ve created a relevant Feature/Page as per the instructions.  As well, I’ve changed the call-out text that get’s shown below the slider and that doesn’t appear either.

Could this somehow be related to the recent fix, or is it related to my newbieness?

Here are my Slider Settings:

Slider Setup

If you enable the slider you can choose what type of content you want to display. You can choose between displaying images or videos that you have added through the Site Features custom post type or showing images/videos from posts from a category of your choosing. If you choose the latter, there are some options you can set at the bottom of this page

Current setting – Show Featured Post from a Category

Slider Header

The call-out text that get’s shown below the slider

Current setting – “Test.”

Slider Configuration

The amount of time in seconds each slide shows

Time in seconds: 5

Transition time

The transition speed in milliseconds

Duration in milliseconds: 600

Featured Slider Category

From which category do you want to show posts? This ONLY works when your slider is set to to show Featured Posts

Current setting – Slider (a category I created)

Number of posts

How many posts do you want to feature?

Current setting – 4

 

Please let me know if I’ve made a mistake or am missing something.

Thanks, and best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi folks,

My name is Michael Scott and I’m the founder of non-profit organisation Cause Australia and we’re in the early construction phase of the site but are running very, very quickly.

causeaustralia.com.au is a multifaceted website (incorporating facilities for online fundraising, crowdfunding, auctions and donations plus a whole lot more) as well as providing a community networking platform for Australia’s 600,000+ non-profit organisations that we’ll host via BuddyPress.

We are running with WordPress Multisite and are using BP Multi Network which means that each of the sites in the network (headed by causeinternational.com) have their own separate BuddyPress network, the first of which is located at causeaustralia.com.au (mapped to australia.causeinternational.com via the Domain Mapping plugin).

I’m thrilled to be using CBOX although I am fearful of my newbie-ness in working with all of the theme options and plugins including the 100+ other plugins that we’ll be using beyond those included with CBOX.

I’m very appreciative of what has been done to get CBOX to the point that it’s at now and I’ve also appreciated the help that I’ve been given already by the CBOX support team(s).

Thanks, and best regards … Michael Scott

[Michael Scott]

Hi Ray,

My newbie-ness showed up again.  I’ve applied the changes to the PHP files in the parent theme and all is well with the world again – at least for the moment.

Thanks, and best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Ray,

One question:  I have the parent CBOX theme (untouched) installed on my web server with a template child theme (with parent_theme = “cbox-theme”) that I want to use in my primary site as well as the main subsite that I’m focussing on.

So, with the changes to setup-cbox.php and sidebars-cbox.php detailed at https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/commit/181f6662a1e005b037f466c7727892dbe8ca948d, do I make the changes in the parent CBOX theme or the template child theme, or both?  I’m assuming that I should make the changes to the parent CBOX theme, but I’ll wait to hear from you before making any changes.

Thanks again, and best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Ray,

Thanks very much for the fix.  As I’m on a tight deadline to complete the website content for an early-July launch, I’ll apply the code changes.  Luckily, while I’m in no way a web developer, I have written 1million+ lines of code in my life so I’m comfortable cutting and pasting the PHP code that’s been supplied.

Thanks again, and best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Boone and others,

I am encountering the situation with wanting to use the home page slider, but I have so Site Features entry/option available to me on my subsite’s dashboard.

Is there a way that I’m meant to activate it?  I’ve selected Show Site Features in the Slider Setup, but there’s no Site Features available for me to set up the slider content.

Sorry if this is a result of my newbie-ness.

Thanks … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Christian,

I take my last post/comment back.  I followed the trail and modified base.js as per suggestions:

dropShadows: false,   onShow: function() {
$(this).css(‘overflow’,’visible’);
}
And the lower-level menus now appear in Chrome and IE.

Thanks very much!

Best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Hi Christian,

The second-level (and beyond) menus only appear for me with Firefox and not Chrome or IE.  It’s a big concern for me with som many connected page that naturally have a cascading relationship.

It’ll be good to know when deeper level menus will be supported in the other browsers – assuming it’s a browser issue.

Best regards … Michael

[Michael Scott]

Sorry Boone,

Yep … I’ve confirmed that I’m a newbie … BuddyPress activation/deactivation appears on the Other Network Plugins list, not with the CBOX Network Plugins list! Got it!

Sorry … and thanks again.

One more question.  The BP Multi Network plugin installation instructions refer to http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/ for the modification of the bb-config.php file.  On that web page it says to “install the latest version of BuddyPress trunk “.  The support guys at WPMU Dev have suggested to me that this might not be required as the tutorial was written back in May, 2011.  So would you please tell me if I still need to install the BuddyPress trunk (and how on earth do you install a trunk)?

Apologies again for my newbie-ness.

Thanks, and best regards … Michael

 

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