With apologies for cross-posting, a quick note for anyone who hasn’t yet joined the CBOX OpenLab Community Hub: our first Community meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Monday June 6 from 1pm-3pm US Eastern. It would be great to see you there for some or all of the time!

Here’s the agenda – we’ve sent Zoom info via email to those who a…[Read more]

Hope you’re all doing well! With apologies for cross-posting, we wanted to reach those of you who aren’t yet members of the new Community Hub (come join us there!) to let you know we’re running an online workshop at NYCDH Week tomorrow Thursday 2/10 8am-10am US Eastern (for the early birds!).

We’ve done this for the last couple of year…[Read more]

So sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this one! We had a little discussion about it with members of the OpenLab’s Community team. This is definitely an interesting question and approach!

The consensus within the group over here was that they have indeed evolved their course sites over time, though not perhaps to the extent y…[Read more]

Thanks for this discussion! As we mentioned in the other thread the City Tech OpenLab’s Help relies on customizations that don’t exist in CBOX OpenLab. (Unfortunately, creation of member-facing help was out of scope when CBOX OpenLab was developed.)

We really like Ed’s approach of using a standalone site with a knowledge base theme…[Read more]

Re the OpenLab for Students (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/openlabforstudents/), we just created it – along with Teaching with the OpenLab for faculty (http…[Read more]

– Charlie (Edwards; CBOX OpenLab Co-Project Director, in case we haven’t met before)

Ray can correct me if I am wrong, but it appears to me that the image Ray identified as problematic is very, very large. Perhaps if you were to resize it and make it smaller, and then to upload that smaller image, that would help?

A few thoughts:

1. What do you mean by “pull tweets into CBOX”? Are you thinking of something like what we have on the CUNY Academic Commons ( https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/twitter/ ), which pulls tweets from hashtags, user accounts, and lists onto a page, or are you hoping to have tweets feed into group feeds and notifications? I…[Read more]

I absolutely love that fellow CBOX users are giving each other advice!! That’s how we know there is a real community developing here. Thank you so much for being an active part of it.

Best,

Matt

You might find this plugin — written by the Commons/CBOX team — useful —

BP Restrict Signup by Email Domain

I’ve used it on several CBOX sites to good effect to restrict registration to particular domains, such as .edu and .org

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Matt

No, CBOX is not a “dead architecture,” nor is it “junk.” Two people have replied to your message here, but the people on this forum represent a fraction of the developers who could potentially help you. Since CBOX is built on WordPress and BuddyPress, you might see if you can find a BuddyPress developer to hire for your project. Keep…[Read more]

When you go to the Dashboard and go to the Users tab, do you see a Forum role for this user? If so, what does it say?

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Matt

Yes, you can use CBOX in commercial contexts. You just can’t sell the code
that powers the software, as it is protected under a GPL license.

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Matt

The CBOX team would love to hear about any accessibility issues. Please
post your thoughts here or email us at commons@gc.cuny.edu and we will see
what we can do to address any issues you find. As always, we also encourage
other developers to join us in improving CBOX!

Best,

Matt

You might look into some BbPress plugins for additional forum functionality

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Matt

Can you confirm that you are not logged in when checking those links to BP activity pages on a password-protected site?

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Matt

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Please visit http://supportdetails.com/ from the computer in question and
let us know what it says

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Matt

Apologies for the spam forum posts that have come in over the past few days; we’re working to address the issue.

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Matt

I hope that Ray’s tips have been helpful. I just wanted to note that unfortunately, as a DIY free software project, we are unable to provide private one-on-one support. We encourage you to continue posting here as needed

Best,

Matt
Project Director, Commons In A Box

Dear Colleague,
At one point in the not-too-distant […]

At…[Read more]

The PM plugins you linked to provide some opportunities and some
complications. CBOX depends heavily on BuddyPress…[Read more]

I’ve used WordFence on a few CBOX sites. @r-a-y has also created a plugin
that restricts registration to .org and .edu addresses, with others
required to email site admins to request account registration.

Best,

Matt

Are you able to access your site via FTP? Also, did you install any
specific spam-blocking plugins on your site?

Best,

Matt