[Ray]

Hi Jesse,

BuddyPress 12.0 is a major release that has breaking changes for older BuddyPress plugins such as bbPress.

BP Classic is required so BuddyPress backward compatibility is maintained. Hence CBOX requires BP Classic until all our recommended BuddyPress plugins have updated their codebases to support BuddyPress 12. You can keep track of this issue here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/458.

In the meantime, BP Classic should not interfere with the workings of CBOX and BuddyPress.

Hope that answers your questions, Jesse.

[Ray]

Hi Paul,

Can you try the following code snippet? https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/bc390ceb5d1872044e05b3aed35431c1

Save to /wp-content/mu-plugins/wpmu-subdomain-redirects.php. WordPress, by default, has strict redirect rules and for some reason, does not allow subdomain redirects even on the same domain. The code snippet should bypass this restriction. Boone, we should probably add this to CBOX by default for subdomain network installs.

[Ray]

On my local installation of CBOX with BP Groupblog enabled, I am not running into the groupblog redirect issue.

Like the NOBLOGREDIRECT line, do you have any other code snippets in wp-config.php, wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php, wp-content/themes/cbox-child, or in wp-content/mu-plugins?

If not and you feel adventurous, you can try some debugging to see if the groupblog redirect URL is what is expected. After this line in bp-groupblog.php, add the following debug statement:

var_dump( $home_url ); die();

Then go to a sample groupblog URL like https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/blog/ and see which URL is outputted in the browser. If it matches the groupblog URL, then BP Groupblog is not the culprit. If you are still getting redirected to the main site, then another piece of code is doing a redirect somewhere.

[Ray]

The other plugins seem fine to me, but if you want, you can disable them one at a time to see if one of them might be causing the redirect.

Some other potential things to check: Do you have any 3rd-party plugins running on the groupblog that might be causing the redirect? What is the privacy option set to for the groupblog in question?

[Ray]

Hi Paul,

WordFence could be the culprit. Can you try temporarily disabling WordFence and then trying to check the groupblog link?

[Ray]

Hi Paul,

I notice that 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. I’m guessing a plugin is causing this behavior, which in turn is affecting the groupblog redirect.

It’s possible that a plugin is responsible for this. Can you list the non-CBOX plugins you are using on your site?

[Ray]

Hi Steven,

Glad you were able to switch to a subdirectory set up for your multisite configuration.

[Ray]

Hi Steven,

It sounds like you might need to reconfigure wildcard subdomains on Bluehost. Check out the “Setting up Wildcard Subdomains” section of this article: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-multisite-network/#wildcard

Can you verify that you have set up wildcard subdomains on your Bluehost cPanel dashboard correctly?

[Ray]

@cbox_admin – It looks like WP Grade Comments 1.4.4 was not tagged on wp.org’s SVN, so the referenced download for CBOX OpenLab does not exist: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/blob/9c92ebb5bd410eeff8bc6859b7ece90bd8d160e2/includes/openlab/plugins.php#L362.

Can you take a look?

[Ray]

Hi Syelle,

Thanks for finding this bug. I can confirm the problem.

I have created a new issue with a fix:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/375

In the meantime, before the next release, you will need to override the /wp-content/themes/openlab-theme/sidebar-help.php file with the following:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cuny-academic-commons/openlab-theme/1.3.x/sidebar-help.php

[Ray]

The OpenLab theme’s strings are covered by the commons-in-a-box plugin, so you only need to translate the strings from the commons-in-a-box plugin.

[Ray]

Hi Syelle,

I just posted a guide here: https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/what-is-the-correct-way-to-translate-all-cbox-openlab-texts#post-9090

Currently, it requires patching a core CBOX file due to a bug, but then you can use a plugin to easily update the various text strings used across your CBOX site.

[Ray]

There was a new forum topic about customizing various strings in CBOX:
https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-update-cbox-ol-wording/

So I thought I would take a closer look at the Loco Translate plugin.

Loco Translate works quite well, but there is currently a bug in CBOX that prevents Loco Translate from loading their custom translations: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/374

In the meantime, before the next CBOX release, you will need to manually replace the /wp-content/plugins/commons-in-a-box/loader.php file with this one:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/1.3.x/loader.php

Then you can use Loco Translate to modify the various strings for the commons-in-a-box plugin and they should be applied across your CBOX site.

If you need a guide to use Loco Translate, check out:
https://localise.biz/wordpress/plugin/beginners

The guide references translating a theme, but you can use the same approach to plugins. If you need any further help, feel free to reply to this thread.

[Ray]

Okay, so you just want to change the URL to the “Contact Us” page? You should be able to just edit the “Contact Us” page directly from the “Pages” dashboard page and changing the page slug.

You can also access the “Contact Us” page through the “Brand Settings” page as well: https://commonsinabox.org/copy

Let us know if that is what you mean.

[Ray]

The “Our Support Team” widget is currently hardcoded: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/openlab-theme/blob/cc97bf7f84bd10fd8eb6dea3c1173377c1797c0c/sidebar-help.php#L34.

So this cannot be modified unless you create a child theme to override the sidebar-help.php template.

Can you tell us what you are trying to modify?

[Author]

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