[Scott Voth]

In either snippet, make sure to set margin-left: 0px;

[Scott Voth]

Hi Greg – when you log in to your site, your should see the “Customize” option on the top toolbar. If you don’t see it there, go to Appearance>>Customize on your dashboard.

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.

[Scott Voth]

Hi Greg – Sorry for the late response. For your header image issue, the image is spilling over into the left background. I think that is why it is not minimizing correctly on mobile devices. I see this CSS:

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

If you remove the negative margin-left, it looks a lot better on mobile

You could also use some conditional CSS that would apply just to the mobile state. Something like this:

@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {

div#icext-16f6e2e3 a, h1#icext-16f6e2e3 a {
top: 15px;
width: 512px;
height: 92px;
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: 0px;
}

}

And play around with the CSS attributes until it looks good. This would retain your original design for non-mobile displays.

CBOX does not provide swiping functionality, but I did see this article that might help you out. https://css-tricks.com/simple-swipe-with-vanilla-javascript/

There is also a plugin that lets you swipe through members – https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-member-swipe/

 

 

 

[Scott Voth]

Thanks Ray – This helps a lot. They are at BP 2.9.3 now and want to cautiously climb up to the current version of BP (and CBOX).

[Scott Voth]

Hi Joanna – CBOX handles updates for all the plugins we package (https://commonsinabox.org/documentation/plugins), and we ensure every plugin is cooperating, but we can’t guarantee “independent” upgrades.  Sites are free to upgrade to new plugin versions, but it might be a better strategy to wait until we make sure everything is working well together.  That is the concept of CBOX – we handle compatibility.  We do not automatically upgrade your site to newest WP version –  you’ll need to do that.  But through the forum you should be able to check out when it is safe to upgrade to a new version of WP. (Sometimes it takes us a couple days to catch up.)  Other than that, I would recommend using CBOX to upgrade our plugins.  We’ve had some issues when members upgrade to newer versions of software that hasn’t been tested with our suite of plugins.

Plugins that are not included in our suite may pose issues too, so it is always good to test.

Hope this helps!

[Scott Voth]

Hi Michael – Did you update CBOX to the newest version?  We just released a new version to address this issue.  If that doesn’t help, let us know.  You can also look at this thread – https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/wordpress-4-7-and-bbpress/

 

[Scott Voth]

Hi Troy –

There are widgets that display Most Active wiki pages and Most Recently edited wiki pages, and ways to search the list of wiki pages by tag or content.  Wiki pages are essentially BuddyPress Docs pages that may or may not have associations with a group, so I don’t think a hierarchical display would be too difficult – but I am pinging @haystack to see what he thinks.  By hierarchical I am assuming you mean creating TOCs by groups?

[Scott Voth]

Hi Troy – Sorry for the late response.  Yes, we will continue to base our default theme on Infinity Theme Engine.  We are also planning to do some upgrades to CBOX, thanks to a grant.  We plan to make a new “flavor” of CBOX that focuses on teaching classes on the platform – but that is four months+ in the future.

I am not sure if that is your direction – but we can provide more info if it is…

[Scott Voth]

Hi Troy – Thanks for trying out CBOX and yes there is a new version coming out soon, but can’t at this point promise you a date.  I am pinging @haystack to see if he might have some insight on these warnings and the general “Application Error” message.  Thanks for reporting,

[Scott Voth]

Hi Doug – The Group Announcements text box is made possible with the BP Group Announcements plugin that comes with CBOX. (https://commonsinabox.org/documentation/plugins/bp-group-announcements).

You might want to open up an issue here – https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/bp-group-announcements/issues – so that the plugin authors are aware of the need.

It sounds like it might be a fairly straightforward change.

(If you are savvy with the way plugins work – you could do the coding yourself and then create a Git pull request and the team can look look at your enhancement and merge into the plugin’s code.)

[Scott Voth]

Hi Jesse –

It sounds like your hosting provider has PHP error reporting turned up too high. These kinds of minor warnings are not harmful to your site, and they should not be appearing on the front end.

You may consider contacting your host to ask about a lower error level, but in the meantime you should be able to hide the warning messages by opening your wp-config.php file in your FTP client, and adding the following lines just above “/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging */”:

ini_set( 'display_errors', 'Off' );
ini_set( 'error_reporting', E_NONE );

[Scott Voth]

Hi Tom – Under Users on your dashboard you can go to “Profile Fields” and add a new field called Biographical Info.  You can make it a “multi-line text area” and decide if you want it to be optional or required.

To display the bio info from the WP profile, I think you may need to do a little coding – this link may help: https://paulund.co.uk/how-to-display-author-bio-with-wordpress

get_the_author_meta('description');

[Scott Voth]

Hi Doug – CBOX does not have any built in social sharing functionality, but you can easily add any social BuddyPress compatible plugins to your site.  An example would be https://wordpress.org/plugins/oa-social-login/  Let us know if you need more examples and maybe others on this forum might suggest other plugins that they find effective.  Hope this helps.

[Scott Voth]

@cbox_admin or @r-a-y – can you guys take a look at this issue?  Thanks.

[Scott Voth]

Hi Erin – Can you check on your Settings>> General page and find the “WordPress URL” and the “Site URL” and see if they might have the “index.php” appended?  I am pinging @haystack if he can think of another cause.  The second issue may be with your .htaccess file – I don’t know if you have permissions to edit or not – @haystack – do you think Erin should contact her host admin for this?  You are best at giving directions 🙂

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