[Troy Welch]

Hi Ed, I admin a couple of mid-size WP multisites and a couple of smaller CBox ones.

I am running both Multisite Enhancements and Multisite Plugin Manager on our two mid-size servers. They seem to function just fine. There was one small issue with Multisite Enhancements involving favicons. If I recall it was initially sorted with some developer code that turned the feature off and/or/possibly with some patch code on the github for the plugin.

The main thing I find useful about Multisite Enhancements is that it tells you which subsites are using a theme or plugin. (column in the admin themes/plugin columns).

I use the Multisite Plugin Manager for a few purposes:

-keeping administrator/dangerous/security risk plugins out of the hands of individual users (Query Monitor, anything that writes custom code (be it JS, PHP or CSS) into pages, or advanced plugins that might require special oversight)

-this also leaves users with a less overwhelming plugin list

-we also use it for soft deprecation of plugins. As you know plugins/themes are a source of technical debt in the WordPress realm. The Plugin Manager has a functionality where if you turn a plugin off for general use it will remain active on subsites where it is already active but will disappear from the list once deactivated.

Both of these plugins come in handy for soft deprecation. When we are wanting to get rid of a plugin or theme ME gives us a small list of blog owners we need to contact. We generally give them a couple of weeks to make other arrangements and typically I try to find something that replaces the functionality. (For older servers it will often be the Gutenberg Block editor that replaces plugin/theme functionality.) I won’t rant about themes that contain code that belongs in plugin.

In any event, both of these plugins are still useful imho.

Cheers

[Troy Welch]

Thanks Ray, that points me in the (well several) right direction(s).

[Troy Welch]

And then just after posting this an example came through from this forum in this thread:

https://commonsinabox.org/groups/openlab-help-support/forum/topic/how-to-add-an-allowed-file-type/#post-8826

Possible it is related to the attributes in the html tags.

[Troy Welch]

Hi Bree, I didn’t specifically check About, but I’m talking about anything created with the WP default Page post type.

We currently (based on 1.1x builds) have the curriculum content for a course in a set of hierarchical pages that are linked from the Course group. It is these pages I’m specifically referring to.

Troy

[Troy Welch]

Thanks Ray. This sounds great. Some updating/work on our child theme is on my project list for the next couple of months, so this will fit nicely.

Troy

[Troy Welch]

Thanks Boone, I’ll give this a shot. It should fit the use case perfectly.

Probably scenario 1. We haven’t been running with a course site.

Troy

[Troy Welch]

Thanks Ed. It looks like they are running Elementor Pro plus some addons, it may be something associated with that. But you have given me some ideas to dig into.

Our installation is program-specific with Site providing course content and the CBox set of functionality. Students each have a portfolio sub-site on the installation that they use to do assignments which typically manifest as blog posts on their portfolio site for one or more courses.

While I’m not keen on filling up the main site with posts derived from RSS feeds, what would work well is an RSS feed stream driven by just the students in the given class. What the faculty are after (also of use to participants to access each other’s work) is notification that a student has work ready and a convenience link back to their portfolios.

RSS would work wonderfully for that. I’m planning a rework of our child theme following the completion of this term. The more recent versions of OpenLab provide better customization access to the side bar and the potential to add widget areas. A perfect spot for such a feed.

Thanks again,

Troy

[Troy Welch]

Thanks for the heads up Bree, we’ll get that in. Also thanks to the whole team for their work on CBox and Openlab.

 

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[Troy Welch]

Thanks Ray, will do.

[Troy Welch]

Thanks Ray, I appreciate the update. I’ll likely get that in early Monday morning. We have a class going on at the moment, so early monday is a slow time to sort it out.

Cheers

[Troy Welch]

Certainly, thanks for the follow up Bree.

The console in this case is only showing a couple of JQMIGRATE warnings that actually appear on every page.

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[Troy Welch]

Hi Boone, here’s the scoop:

Url checks out fine

I am using a child theme, no BP template overrides just the following so far:

• A hack to add sidebar area to /lib/sidebar-funcs.php
• A copy of page.php which adds a sidebar area. This is implemented as a page template.

Running the bundled version of Invite Anyone

The #create-group-form element is present (I’ve include the code from that area below in case it is helpful.

I think I have changed plugin settings, but I’m not sure what the defaults were. I’ve attached screen caps of the general and access tabs of the IA settings.

Thanks,

Troy

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<div id="single-course-body" class="course-create">
	<div id="openlab-main-content"></div>
		<form action="https://eddl.tru.ca/groups/create/step/invite-anyone/" method="post" id="create-group-form" class="standard-form form-panel" enctype="multipart/form-data">
			<input type="hidden" id="new-group-type" value="course">
			<input class="btn btn-primary prev-btn btn-margin btn-margin-top" type="button" value=" Previous Step" id="group-creation-previous" name="previous" onclick="location.href = 'https://eddl.tru.ca/groups/create/step/site-details/'">
			<input class="btn btn-primary btn-margin btn-margin-top" type="submit" value="Finish " id="group-creation-finish" name="save">
			<input type="hidden" name="group_id" id="group_id" value="0">
		</form>
	</div>
</div>

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[Troy Welch]

Thanks for this Bree.

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[Troy Welch]

Hi Bree, we are still in development, but there are about a half dozen users on the installation. The majority have admin/super admin permissions if that makes a difference. I have attached screen caps.

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[Troy Welch]

Hi Bree, I was specifically thinking of courses (/groups/type/course/). There is a search box which lets you filter, but the default display is “last active”. It would be nice to have a configurable default.

Initially it would probably be better to display course alphabetically to users, but enable them to customize the default to something like last active once they are in the courses.

Thank you for putting those other feature requests in for me.

t

 

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