Hi Mary,

We’ve had a few people encounter this issue.

Some have had success with the following guide:
https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-group-email-subscription/wiki/Migrating-to-3.9.0

In particular, the “If WP-CLI is unavailable” section will probably apply to you if you do not have access to the WP-CLI command-line tool.

Let us know…[Read more]

Second snippet in that post might work. But it doesn’t perform well because it will query the main site each time to load the main site’s CSS.

I would go with what I suggested. Write an external .css file and load it manually in a plugin.

Should be really simple. Something like this in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php or in wp-content/mu-plugins/…[Read more]

Hi Ed,

That plugin only unlocks the CSS customizer for regular site administrators. It is still limited to the current site and will not apply across all your subdomains.

Hi Ed,

For option 1, the customizer only takes effect for the main site, so that’s why you wouldn’t see the changes on subdomain sites.

For option 2, you’d need to write a plugin to specifically add the different color scheme. Probably doesn’t make sense to do this as this doesn’t solve the problem you want to solve.

For option 3, creating a…[Read more]

Hi Jan,

I’m guessing you had some custom work done to your site where a developer added the plugin to your site and added a custom list-bpdocs shortcode.

The warning is coming from the shortcode-exec-php plugin, which doesn’t come bundled with CBOX and is no longer available on the wordpress.org repository.

If you still want to keep the shortcod…[Read more]

Hi shanebp,

I’m not too familiar with VVV, but do other subdomain sites resolve in VVV? If other sites resolve, then it might be a bug with OpenLab perhaps during the installation phase?

Hi shanebp,

Nice to see you over here! Thanks for the report.

We’ve fixed this internally for the cbox-openlab-core plugin here:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-openlab-core/commit/42d363dac6e0288880e560e592bbc53d71a15dcc

We’ve just started the process for making a new release. It should be released sometime this month, so the fix…[Read more]

Hi Chris,

It looks like there are two copies of ‘cbox-openlab-core’ in the wp-content/plugins/ directory, particularly one with a ‘-1.1.1’ suffix.

I’m guessing either the installation script failed to rename the ‘cbox-openlab-core’ plugin properly or it was manually downloaded from Github.

Do you have server access to your install? If so, is it…[Read more]

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]