[Ray]

Hi Paul,

Glad that worked! I also noticed some styling inconsistencies on the Send Invites pages. I’ve added a fix here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/commit/d099118ed8912b78f9d42dafe6a6b7a2322abfa6.

If you want to add this change, overwrite the /wp-content/themes/cbox-theme/assets/css/buddypress.css file on the server with the following: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/refs/heads/1.7.x/assets/css/buddypress.css

Then, navigate to the CBOX Theme Options admin page, click on “Options”, select any option and then click on the “Save all” button. This will regenerate the theme’s dynamic.css file.

You can always wait until the next maintenance release as well, which should take place sometime in the summer.

[Ray]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the report. I was able to duplicate the issue with the group “Send Invites” tab.

The problem is due to an issue with the Invite Anyone plugin. I have updated CBOX Classic to use the latest version of Invite Anyone in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/commit/3da2bd9818368ac6423ff1151b64ab3325eb5e29.

In the meantime, to address this issue for your CBOX Classic installs until the next release, try manually updating Invite Anyone to the latest version. You might need to enable CBOX’s Expert Mode temporarily so you can update plugins through the admin dashboard. Please view this page for more info: https://commonsinabox.org/cbox-classic-expert-mode . Then, only update Invite Anyone and turn off Expert Mode when you are done.

Let me know if you need any help with updating the Invite Anyone plugin.

[Ray]

Hi Jesse,

Regarding:

However, there is no way to do this through the Dashboard and when I try to update via CPANEL it knocks out my site. Most of the errors seem to be with the CBOX theme.

About the problem with CBOX Theme, are you able to access your server’s PHP error log? If you are able to, can you post the entries related to CBOX Theme?

Regarding the BuddyPress vulnerability, that is only specific to the “Take Webcam” photo functionality. Until the CBOX team is able to publish an update to upgrade BuddyPress for CBOX Classic, you can disable the “Take Webcam” functionality with the following code snippet in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php or in a wp-content/mu-plugins/ file (if you have one):

add_filter( 'bp_avatar_use_webcam', '_return_false' );

If you have any questions on how to apply this snippet, let me know.

[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.

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