Commons In A Box | Matthew K Gold | Friends Activity https://commonsinabox.org/members/mkgold/activity/friends Activity feed for Matthew K Gold's friends. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:54:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9d0258791f79815215c4875d888ed61e Paul Schacht replied to the topic Invitations not working in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/invitations-not-working#post-9251 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 01:15:00 -0400 Fix applied. Thanks again, Ray!

]]> 5281b3d4f7a8f4980d364322e6b4902d Paul Schacht replied to the topic Invitations not working in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/invitations-not-working#post-9249 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:09:01 -0400 Thanks, Ray! I was able to implement this fix on both of my CBOX Classic installations. “Send Invites” is working again. As always, appreciate your help!

]]> 907401232e21edf4c90a9c745d3a12c6 Paul Schacht started the topic Invitations not working in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/invitations-not-working/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:06:52 -0400 On both of the CBOX Classic installations I maintain, “Send Invites” for Groups no longer functions. When I go to the page to invite new members, all that displays is the name of the group, its description, a button to leave the group (if I’m not the sole admin) and my email settings. This has been the case for a while.

]]> 8d6016e55e903f455b0986e78453faa2 Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-blog-links-redirect-to-login-page/page/2#post-9231 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:06:49 -0500 The redirect snippet did the trick! Thank you both so much!

]]> efdb744593a4014f7c38d0a9fe3353ad Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-blog-links-redirect-to-login-page#post-9228 Sun, 03 Mar 2024 13:09:01 -0500 Thanks, Ray. I debugged as you suggested, and indeed the URL that’s outputted to the browser is the URL for the blog e.g.,
https://dh.sunygeneseoenglish.org
so BP Groupblog is behaving as it should.

I’m not running any must-use plugins and don’t have a bp-custom.php file. I’m using a child theme but haven’t made any recent changes to it.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

]]> f37703eb1794dafc2f58a4a6b494eb8f Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-blog-links-redirect-to-login-page#post-9225 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:22:26 -0500 I’ve deactivated each plugin in turn (except CBOX), and none of the plugins appears to be the cause of the problem.

The problem happens with all groups, whether public or private. The “Blog” link in the left navigation for the group redirects to https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/wp-admin/

]]> e43dffbba525d18e6983e183b2a59581 Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-blog-links-redirect-to-login-page#post-9223 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:01:09 -0500 I deactivated WordFence, but the behavior persists. I think the general behavior you were observing earlier — “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” — was caused by this line in wp-co…[Read more]

]]> e9cdb7dfc57164024cd2ff73ca8d0fd4 Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-blog-links-redirect-to-login-page#post-9219 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:37:32 -0500 Hi Ray,

Plugins, in addition to CBOX and its bundled plugins, are

  • Akismet
  • BP Classic
  • Classic Editor
  • Collapse-o-Matic
  • CommentPress Core
  • Markup Markdown
  • PDF Embedder
  • Post Type Switcher
  • WordFence

Thanks,
Paul

]]> 2a2ef6bea1c73f90936c21449ad6ff23 Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-blog-links-redirect-to-login-page#post-9217 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:11:11 -0500 I’m running BP 11.4.0 and letting CBOX manage my plugins. I’ve sometimes managed them independently in order to stay abreast of updates, but I knew from some of your messages in the GitHub repo that 12 has significant differences, so I’ve held back.

]]> 5550d285c1270bb7c7fc49b0972c1b0c Paul Schacht replied to the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-blog-links-redirect-to-login-page#post-9213 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:13:01 -0500 Thanks for the reply, Boone! Redirect is set as it should be under GroupBlog Setup. I’m seeing this behavior on blogs associated with public groups that anyone can join. A logged in user who’s a member of the group gets directed to the Dashboard of the main site, English @ SUNY Geneseo. Ditto for a logged in user who isn’t a member of the group. A…[Read more]

]]> bba7a1d93f348dd7a57ccb8a1701b5d2 Paul Schacht started the topic Group Blog Links Redirect to Login Page in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-blog-links-redirect-to-login-page/ Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:30:22 -0500 At https://sunygeneseoenglish.org, the “Blog” link in the left navigation of each group’s home page redirects to the main site’s login page (when logged out) or to the main site’s dashboard (when logged in,  for a user with access to the main site’s dashboard).

The “Blog” link in every group’s left navigation has the form…[Read more]

]]> 50c9a2b5bbb6322a22580b0305dee3f5 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Updating default avatar in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/updating-default-avatar#post-9078 Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:17:35 -0400 Having a bit of trouble as well, Im going to default to Bree & Ray on this.

]]> 32444b4d4e3dc65c02eb80f85a3e844d Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Updating default avatar in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/updating-default-avatar#post-9077 Mon, 01 Nov 2021 18:54:11 -0400 Hi S.G, – Im taking a peek at this now – back soon – Ryan

]]> 4ad0e661ac00cf908f9653a0845b26f2 Scott Voth replied to the topic Header Image Big in Mobile in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/header-image-big-in-mobile#post-9071 Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:34:42 -0400 In either snippet, make sure to set margin-left: 0px;

]]> 5c6cc67da64e9d31af4d49a26c826dcf Scott Voth replied to the topic Header Image Big in Mobile in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/header-image-big-in-mobile#post-9070 Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:31:04 -0400 Hi Greg – when you log in to your site, your should see the “Customize” option on the top toolbar. If you don’t see it there, go to Appearance>>Customize on your dashboard.

In Customize, the last option is “Custom CSS.” Here you can override the CSS settings on your site.

Try adding either of the snippets that I provided above.

]]> d3069a877c4742c3223230b5b26f5a7f Scott Voth replied to the topic Header Image Big in Mobile in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/header-image-big-in-mobile#post-9068 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:58:22 -0400 Hi Greg – Sorry for the late response. For your header image issue, the image is spilling over into the left background. I think that is why it is not minimizing correctly on mobile devices. I see this CSS:

div#icext-16f6e2e3 a, h1#icext-16f6e2e3 a {
top: 15px;
width: 512px;
height: 92px;
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -256px;
}

If…[Read more]

]]> f4134bcb0b3a5785e99168b540593670 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Commons In A Box 1.3.1 in the forum OpenLab Help & Support via email https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/commons-in-a-box-1-3-1#post-9067 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:23:45 -0400 Thanks Bree! ;))

Ryanseslow.com
@ryanseslow

On Oct 22, 2021, at 11:41 AM, Bree <noreply@commonsinabox.org> wrote:



]]> c5c04fabb97b21ae9b4894f5c49a5759 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Invite New Members by Email restricted to non-OL members in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/invite-new-members-by-email-restricted-to-non-ol-members#post-9009 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:53:59 -0400 Super helpful thread here! Thank you!

]]> d33294535aacb4305f8f17369c671142 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Interest in Download CSV button for Reckoning in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/interest-is-download-csv-button-for-reckoning#post-8995 Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:00:03 -0400 Thanks Bree, I am also not too familiar with the Reckoning plug-in and will default to @r-a-y as well!

]]> 761dc271096a2b7390a8f83a63e6e356 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Help Videos Show Too Small in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/help-videos-show-too-small#post-8988 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:11:35 -0400 Thanks so much Ray!

]]> e000e5283b1a0fa8496649391e67ad73 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Help Videos Show Too Small in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/help-videos-show-too-small#post-8986 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:52:15 -0400 Hello – Thanks for sharing, Im going to take a peek at this, back at you soon.

Ryan

]]> f4e354a7c6a7ce6f952dc8a6be3772b9 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Long Group Names Cut off in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/long-group-names-cut-off#post-8876 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:23:38 -0400 Hi Syelle!

I see, OK, when I open the URL link directly and expand my web browser window to maximum things look better than the screen shot that you sent (see my screen shot of that here – via desktop that is ) – a quick fix may be removing the “Course Hub” part from the title and adding it to the course description section instead (if that is an…[Read more]

]]> 3439e6c91789aefb3e2cd461de3443ce Scott Voth replied to the topic BuddyPress 4.2 compatibility in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/buddypress-4-2-compatibility#post-8869 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 20:25:08 -0400 Thanks Ray – This helps a lot. They are at BP 2.9.3 now and want to cautiously climb up to the current version of BP (and CBOX).

]]> 56480cd7e39eac07bfaaa272f4b2e187 Scott Voth started the topic BuddyPress 4.2 compatibility in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/buddypress-4-2-compatibility/ Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:05:22 -0400 Is there a way to figure out which versions of the CBOX plugins will work with an old version of BuddyPress – BP 4.2? The MLA for various reasons needs to stay at 4.2 but upgrade the CBOX plugins to the highest compatible versions.

]]> 1b111ddbf93a9c3e61ce755052c8d7ce Paul Schacht replied to the topic Subdomains not working after server migration in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/subdomains-not-working-after-server-migration#post-8866 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 16:25:30 -0400 Fixed it. In the settings for the new server, I had to set my multisite domain as the default.

]]> ab02ad06de9c9117a23be4ad298d01b2 Paul Schacht started the topic Subdomains not working after server migration in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/subdomains-not-working-after-server-migration/ Sun, 04 Apr 2021 16:23:05 -0400 Hi CBOX Community,

I’ve just migrated my CBOX Classic site to a new server with the same hosting provider. After lowering TTL for 24 hours, I used their “Point to another server” tool to move the DNS Zone file from the old server to the new.

The main site is located at https://sunygeneseoenglish.org

My multisite is configured to treat blogs as…[Read more]

]]> f4b03dece81f6b4d8eabfaace4ba4561 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic Replacing the Wordpress Cron in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/replacing-the-wordpress-cron#post-8853 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:53:38 -0400 Hi Ed,

Thanks for this! Wordpress certainly has a few e-mail related issues, this is the first that I have read about this particular issue, Im going to default to Bree and Boone on this but will also see what I can find in the interim –

Ryan

]]> 3bc7675010647b621354279faf708938 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic How to add an allowed file type in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-add-an-allowed-file-type#post-8851 Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:14:32 -0400 Happy to read this!

]]> d8e770a524b720faf482b110152f0c3a Ryan Seslow replied to the topic The Universal Header on Subsites in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/the-universal-header-on-subsites#post-8847 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:39:51 -0500 Catching up on this thread now, thanks All, indeed the most efficient UI and UX plays a role, thanks Bree for reposting this again – (Better control over toolbar display on subsites)

Helpful!

]]> c0eb315b4e0ba60606ff180f11116d2c Ryan Seslow replied to the topic How to add an allowed file type in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-add-an-allowed-file-type#post-8840 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:50:47 -0500 Thanks Ray! Will ask Chris and Boone about this plug in as it could be a good option as well! Thanks!

]]> 467015bed6ebee280423369e07b2858d Ryan Seslow and Ray are now friends https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/11277 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:51:40 -0500 d1bb91d7883e93b6b993326548b10923 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic How to add an allowed file type in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-add-an-allowed-file-type#post-8831 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:05:11 -0500 Thanks so much Ray! This is super helpful, as I was wondering how much ability one has to make those inputs themselves here versus reaching out to the DEV team to do it, or discovering an existing plug-in that converts things. Thank you!

]]> f2befb69f1a0c6d8ead65d5dad1a47c5 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic How to add an allowed file type in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-add-an-allowed-file-type#post-8827 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 03:13:01 -0500 Im digging into this and will be back in touch soon with info – in the meantime, did you already clear the web browser cache on your browser and also reboot the machine? The Wordpress media library will reject uploads from cached pages. Its always worth a try. 🙂

]]> ecbb5ca8b0ce03c1bc26bd4100a5444b Ryan Seslow replied to the topic How to add an allowed file type in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-add-an-allowed-file-type#post-8825 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:22:33 -0500 OK, by default the WP media library only allows a few file format types (for security purposes) the most common are –

  • Images like .png, .gif, .jpg
  • Documents such as .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf
  • Audio like .wav, .mp3, .mp4
  • Video like .mpg, .mov, .wmv

Im thinking, in the past you used a plug-in to add the LaTeX file or the plug-in converted it,…[Read more]

]]> 77a3fdb93218d86fbe8d88c28b203aa2 Ryan Seslow replied to the topic How to add an allowed file type in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-add-an-allowed-file-type#post-8823 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:55:13 -0500 Hi Syelle! Thanks for posting this, can you attach the LaTeX file here,

Have you posted this file formant in the past with out issues?

Thanks!

Ryan

]]> 3c6639a57184e315ed4d832b1b0265c5 Ryan Seslow and Matthew K Gold are now friends https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/11259 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:33:40 -0500 c6fe50f718338898d858eda6acd07e58 Ryan Seslow's profile was updated https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/11258 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 19:48:00 -0500 bd9eff9a79078677e2de36e44a77de0a Ryan Seslow and Scott Voth are now friends https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/11256 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:55:06 -0500 01d5c5f783f33f0afdc55dded0140f89 Ryan Seslow and Bree are now friends https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/11255 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:57:18 -0500 f845115d94bed0cb147a0582c6d522e0 Ryan Seslow changed their profile picture https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/11254 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:07:08 -0500 714bd8240a0e7fdf9cb076c9d9512615 Ryan Seslow joined the group CBOX OpenLab Support https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/11253 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:05:10 -0500 06962797dbf5f5a8b61d571988fdd060 Ryan Seslow became a registered member https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/11249 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 23:59:39 -0500 db2afc3be0127dd4d0a9d5cae8f242a1 Paul Schacht replied to the topic Trouble inviting multiple members to a group in the forum OpenLab Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/trouble-inviting-multiple-members-to-a-group#post-8562 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:42:36 -0400 Just want to hop onto this thread for a moment to say that I’ve been working with Ed and Amanda on this project and couldn’t be more excited about it. At SUNY Geneseo, Amanda and I have taken the lead on building a new Center for Digital Learning, and we see multiple ways for CBOX-OL to help us accomplish some of the center’s goals. I’m a longtime…[Read more]

]]> 7d5ae1089fd370961cdea513c46c9b8e Paul Schacht joined the group CBOX OpenLab Support https://commonsinabox.org/activity/p/10822 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:25:17 -0400 4c549300f15e9a625753d71bc10feadb Paul Schacht replied to the topic BP and bbPress updates in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/bp-and-bbpress-updates/#post-8410 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 16:48:22 -0500 Thanks, Ray! I updated a week or so ago and have had no issues so far.

]]> 7df550d15209f7898a2e0010edfdeafb Paul Schacht started the topic BP and bbPress updates in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/bp-and-bbpress-updates/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 15:15:30 -0500 Updates to BuddyPress (5.1.2) and bbPress (2.6.3) have been available for a while now. Any known issues with updating these outside CBOX? Or is there another update of CBOX itself on the way?

Thanks as always!

]]> ea3a3b3a781deaa73fd152d116c757ae Paul Schacht started the topic Group Forum posts go to Spam in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/group-forum-posts-go-to-spam/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:31:37 -0400 I’ve been trying to troubleshoot a scenario where a group member posts a new topic to a forum and two things happen: (1) the post content is stripped out and (2) the topic is marked as spam and is hidden.

I thought that this might have been a result of posting copy-pasted content from a word-processed document in Google docs or Word, but I…[Read more]

]]> 7bf3f6b093de24493c5df89dd0f12982 Paul Schacht replied to the topic Update BP plugins? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/update-bp-plugins/#post-8328 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:37:41 -0400 Thanks, Ray!

]]> f6a7cfe107e6dba6676f769f775ed4ba Paul Schacht started the topic Update BP plugins? in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/update-bp-plugins/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:17:06 -0400 Hi!

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Docs, and BuddyPress Group Email Subscriptions all have updates available. If there’s a new CBOX release imminent, I’ll hold off on updating; but if not, I’d like to keep these plugins up to date. Any known issues with updating them independently?

Thanks as always for your generous assistance.

]]> eae9e3b484cfb22aee2da40b0307df81 Paul Schacht replied to the topic Missing Activity in Feed for Public Site in the forum Help & Support https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/missing-activity-in-feed-for-public-site/#post-8138 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:23:20 -0500 That did it, Ray! Thanks!!

I’m not concerned about backfilling at this point – just wanted to figure out what was blocking the activity from appearing. I’d noticed that setting and should have thought to try changing it. I see that it also affects email notifications.

Anyway, thanks again!

]]>