Hi Greg,

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.

Create a file at /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php.

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

Hi Greg,

By default, WordPress does not list categories with no posts attached to them.

Once you have written a post and have attached one of your missing categories, the category will show up in the dropdown list.

You can force WordPress to show empty categories, but you’ll have to use a code snippet like this one: https://www.isitwp.com/force-…[Read more]

Hi Greg,

The first issue is caused by having too many items in the main menu. Navigate to “Appearance > Menus” in the admin dashboard and under “Select a menu to edit”, select “Main Menu” and remove some links.

For your second issue, I believe the text portion of the slider is meant to take up half the slide width. However, I’m not experienced…[Read more]

Hi Mary,

For the debug log, I meant site ID 62, not 66 (was a typo). I think what happened was a site that was connected to a group, was later manually deleted. For some reason, the group connected to the removed site is still referencing the deleted site. The group could be either from a course, project or portfolio.

I’m going to consult with @c…[Read more]

Hi Mary,

Looks like most of the pages are working now. About the Calendar page and other broken pages, can you check if those pages were published? https://unewhavendh.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page

About the “page not found” page not rendering fully, I was able to duplicate this problem locally. It’s due to a missing call to output the…[Read more]

Hi Mary,

Thanks for the info and the screenshots.

About permalinks, I should have been more specific! Your screenshots were taken from the Network Admin area. Can you go to the main site’s admin dashboard instead? Specifically: https://unewhavendh.org/wp-admin/options-permalink.php.

Regarding WP_DEBUG, that looks good. Is there a debug log…[Read more]

Hi Mary,

About the missing Help and Calendar pages, one weird thing I found is I can navigate to only one post on your site:

https://unewhavendh.org/2019/07/07/hello-world/

or:

https://unewhavendh.org/?p=1

The rest of your WordPress pages like “About” do not resolve. The Help page should show up at https://unewhavendh.org/?p=44 from your help…[Read more]

Hi Amanda and Ed,

Since the last CBOX release, WordPress 5.5 was released and BuddyPress made a compatibility update.

Can you manually update BuddyPress to the latest version?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/

This should address the fatal error that Ed mentioned above.

If you want to update BuddyPress through the WordPress admin…[Read more]

Hi Ed,

I can confirm both bugs.

For the first issue, you can temporarily patch page.php with the following: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/openlab-theme/pull/294/files

For the second issue, you can temporarily patch sidebar-help.php with the following: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/openlab-theme/pull/295/files

For your…[Read more]

The BuddyPress Docs plugin does not come with a bundled shortcode.

Outside of writing custom code, perhaps you can link to the documents directory page instead?

If you’re okay with that, you can find the document directory page at example.com/docs/ by default. For example: https://demo.commonsinabox.org/docs

Replace example.com with your site.…[Read more]

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]