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…[Read more]

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…[Read more]

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…[Read more]

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…[Read more]

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…[Read more]

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…[Read more]

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?

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

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…[Read more]

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

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…[Read more]

At the City Tech OpenLab we do this manually, but are interested in learning about plugins that others are using.

Bree 🙂

Can you take a look?

Thanks for reporting this!

@cbox_admin Boone, would you be able to take a look at this? I’m able to reproduce the issue when I try to update WP Grade Comments on openlabdev.org. I’ve attached a screenshot.

Thanks!

Bree

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…[Read more]

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.

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…[Read more]

None of these can be changed in the Dashboard.

@cbox_admin or @r-a-y could probably provide you with more guidance about how to make the customizations.

Thanks!

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.

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?

This is where OpenLab sets the default avatar:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-openlab-core/blob/27913ac024f96dd31eac6887423650581e49820f/includes/brand-settings.php#L158-L179

So…[Read more]

In Customize, the last option is “Custom CSS.” Here you can override the CSS settings on your site.

Try adding either of the snippets that I provided above.

div#icext-16f6e2e3 a, h1#icext-16f6e2e3 a {
top: 15px;
width: 512px;
height: 92px;
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -256px;
}

If…[Read more]

We did a maintenance release yesterday for Commons In A Box version 1.3.1. You’ll see an update available in your Network Admin Dashboard > Plugins, which you can complete at any time. For more details, please see Boone Gorges’s post.

If you have any questions about the update, please reach out here.

Thanks!

Bree

Since CBOX OpenLab is a WordPress plugin, the backup process would be the same as backing up your WordPress installation.

Check out the WordPress support article on backups here: https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-backups/.

If you have any other questions after reading that article, let us know.

The text strings you mentioned like “You are here” are a part of CBOX, not BuddyPress.

How are you doing the translations at the moment? If you are translating with help from a plugin like Loco Translate, you’ll need to translate for the commons-in-a-box textdomain as well.

You can also help out with the Spanish translation for CBOX…[Read more]

For deleting users, have you tried going to the “Network Admin > Users” page to delete the users? It should be available at example.com/wp-admin/network/users.php. Check out the WordPress support article here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin_Users_Screen.

About installing themes, CBOX OpenLab comes bundled with the OpenLab…[Read more]

Since CBOX OpenLab is built on WordPress, you can either use a WordPress plugin to handle domain mapping or you can natively set custom domains on a per site basis.

Domain mapping can be quite tricky to set up. If you’re interested in the built-in method that comes with WordPress, check out this guide:…[Read more]

We do not provide these types of policies with CBOX because the types of sites using CBOX can vary, but it’s a good question to ask.

WordPress ships with a default privacy policy template. You could probably start with that: https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-privacy-screen/#using-privacy-settings-tool

If you need more…[Read more]

Sure, that makes sense!

Before I reach out to the rest of the team, could I ask you to try one more thing?  Could you go to the Dashboard of your main site > Settings > Permalinks, and then click ‘Save Changes’. Then try to see if you can view the blog posts?

Thanks!

Bree

Glad that worked for the avatars!

For the blog, it looks to me like you have the correct value (1) entered for ‘Blog Public’, so I’m not sure why you can’t view the post. I can reach out to the rest of the team to ask if anyone has suggestions.

However, the CBOX OpenLab theme wasn’t built for use with a blog on the main site, so it…[Read more]

Thanks for the screenshots! In your screenshot 2.png, I believe the value should be 1 to enable avatars.

Can you try that and let me know if it works?

Thanks!

Bree

Thanks for reaching out!

We don’t have an option for enabling or disabling avatars during installation, so you should still be able to upload avatars. However, you will only be able to change your own avatar – not the avatars of other users. They can upload their own avatars by going to My Profile > Change Avatar. (You’ll see the…[Read more]

I’ve filed an issue here with some code to address this: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/371

Once the code is merged, you will not need to use your videowrapper DIV workaround.

Thanks for the additional feedback, and good to know that the bulk adding feature would be helpful!

I’ll be sure to keep you updated as we look towards bringing this functionality to CBOX OpenLab.

Bree 🙂

The email address you used to test invites on the City Tech OpenLab is not the one associated with my account, so what you did there was send an invite to join the OpenLab with that email. If you go to ‘Invite new members by email’ and use the email associated with my account, you will get the same error.

However, you should still be…[Read more]

You don’t need the videowrapper DIV anymore in your post editor because the width of the video should be 500px or higher. If the video’s width is not at least 500px, let us know.…[Read more]

To install, extract the ZIP contents to /wp-content/mu-plugins/ and the “Download CSV” button should show up on the “Users > User Summary” admin page.

If you prefer to activate the code on a per-site basis, extract…[Read more]

I’m not familiar with that plugin or the work that Ray did to modify it. But I think he’ll be able to answer your question better.  Thanks @r-a-y!

Bree 🙂

I’ve put in a ticket for this: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/367

Bree 🙂

It looks like the bug stems from the OpenLab theme stripping the width and height attributes in post content. I’ve filed a bug here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/openlab-theme/issues/305

I just wanted to follow up here to say that we’ll look at incorporating this into the template chooser when we can begin work on it, but we’re still waiting to hear about funding.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Bree

To be sure you have the right snippet, here’s the code:
https://pastebin.com/raw/CEpSch4z

You can save it to a file like /wp-content/mu-plugins/co-authors-plus.php.