Hi Mo,

There doesn’t appear to be a way to upload documents through BuddyPress Docs.

If the MS Word document is simple enough, maybe copy the contents of the Word doc into the editor? Or use another plugin that has a group files feature.

The MLAA has a fork of an older plugin, BuddyPress Group Documents, that you could…[Read more]

Hi Paul,

We’re doing some internal compatibility testing with bbPress since that’s a major upgrade. You should be okay to update to BuddyPress 5.1.2 though since the changes in BP shouldn’t be that disruptive.

We don’t have a set date for a release yet, but I’ll update this thread when we’re about to go through that process.

Hi Daniel,

Are you trying to output your custom fields in a template somewhere?

If so, you should be able to use the BuddyPress Profile Fields API functions to output the specific data.

For example, xprofile_get_field_data() might be the function that you are looking for. Let’s say I created a profile field called “Website” and I want to…[Read more]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the report.

Can you tell me what version of CBOX Theme you are using? You can find the version by navigating to the WP admin dashboard and clicking on the “Appearance > Themes” page, followed by “Commons In A Box”.

The current version should be 1.1.2. If you are not running that version, please update CBOX whenever you…[Read more]

Hi Paul,

BuddyPress doesn’t handle the forum functionality in CBOX, the bbPress plugin does. I know the two plugins are similarly named; other people have had the same problem making the distinction as well!

Anyway, if you have the Akismet plugin activated, you might want to try disabling Akismet support for forums under “Settings > Forums” in…[Read more]

Hi Paul,

We have a maintenance release scheduled for the end of the month that will include these plugin updates. It should arrive on wordpress.org then or watch our blog for updates.

Thanks for catching this bug, Troy. It looks like we missed this during initial implementation.

I’ve added an issue for this here:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/openlab-theme/issues/285

In the meantime, if you created a child theme, you can style the look and feel by creating an entry.php template and making sure the template matches…[Read more]

Hi Eva,

I do not think your issue is with all your images.

I’m only suggesting to remove the one, problematic image that is causing the problem on your Resources page because if you try and load the image URL that I linked to above, the whole browser tab will fail to load and will throw an error message (tested in Google Chrome).

Hi Eva,

It appears one of your images is causing the problem:
http://caac.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/photo.jpg

Try removing that photo from your Media Library and Resources page and it should load again.

Hope that helps.

Hi Duck,

Since this is WordPress functionality, you should feel free to check out the wordpress.org plugin repository:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Some have used Theme My Login in the past to some degree of success:

Theme My Login

Hope that helps! If you have any further questions regarding WordPress, you can…[Read more]

Hi Jack,

Can you walk through exactly the steps you are using to update the theme?

If you are updating manually by downloading the ZIP from GitHub:

• Extract the ZIP you downloaded from GitHub and place it in wp-content/themes on your server
• Rename the older cbox-theme on your server to cbox-theme-old.
• Rename the cbox-theme-1.1.1 folder…

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Hi Duck,

Thanks for the console messages. If you look at some of the notices, it says the following:

Blocked loading mixed active content “http://fnvdigitaal.nl/wp-json/cboxol/v1/item-type/36

This means that your site might be set up via regular HTTP, but you are attempting to load HTTPS content. Can you verify that you have either set up H…[Read more]

Hi Duck,

I am unable to replicate this on the latest version of CBOX.

If possible, can you enable your browser’s javascript console and reload the page? (On Windows, for most browsers, you can launch the browser’s console by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+I.) Next, attempt to save and see if any messages are printed in the console.

Also, if you can…[Read more]

Hi Duck,

Can you outline the exact steps you made to get the error? We need to be able to replicate the problem on our end.

For example, on what page were you editing Members or Groups and on what page are you seeing the error?

Thanks!

Hi Duck,

Glad that solved your issue with BP Group Documents!

FYI, I deleted some of your other posts in this thread because they contained sensitive information particular to your install.

Hi Duck,

I took a look at your error log and the problem is with BP Group Documents using the mb_convert_case() function.

You will need to compile PHP on your server with the mbstring extension:
http://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php

It would probably be good to notify the plugin authors about the need to enable mbstring for PHP in…[Read more]

Hi Troy,

Thanks for the report.

We’ve addressed this in the upcoming 1.1.1 maintenance release.

Specifically, here’s the fix:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/openlab-theme/commit/1f4a3548a3a98227e967ce6fd539ea3dca0c8ab3

The fix is contained within the wp-content/themes/openlab-theme directory. If you haven’t followed my previous…[Read more]

Hi Troy,

We have made a number of fixes for the upcoming 1.1.1 maintenance release that should fix the event calendar issues described above.

The only issue I could not duplicate was the console errors in your second screenshot.

If you want to test ahead of time, you can overwrite the /wp-content/themes/openlab-theme/ folder with the…[Read more]

Hi Paul,

For your group blog, can you check the “Search Engine Visibility” setting under “Settings > Reading” in the WP admin dashboard? Ensure “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” is unchecked and save.

Unfortunately, there isn’t an automated tool to backfill older blog posts and comments into the group activity stream. You can…[Read more]

Is the OpenLab theme amenable to child theming?

Glad you are starting up your new project with CBOX Openlab, Troy!

Yes, you can make any WordPress theme a parent theme, so you should have no trouble creating a child theme off of the OpenLab theme. If you encounter any problems, let us know.

I do see one issue with the CBOX installation process…[Read more]