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Anyone who has got this error 500 Fatal error: Class 'IPS\Helpers\hook169' not found in /init.php(466) : eval()'d code on line 1 Who can fix it ?
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Hi guys, I can't find how to give a permission to members edit your own Calendar Event.
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Hello, I was curious what happens to theme changes outside of the visual styler (such as modifying and adding code snippets to header templates, userpane etc directly) if I were to update IPB software? I'm used to WordPress and using a child theme to avoid things like that. Does IPB do anything like this?
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We have 2 types of members who can access our memberpress site Paying members and non-paying members. We allow the non-paying members to access a very limited section of the site, but they can see all the resources (not content) they are missing out on by not being a member. We have a menu link to our Community Forum in our memberpress site. Because a free non-paying member has been given a login access to the site, they can see the menu link AND they can see all of the boards. I have tried so many workarounds by assigning user roles that then talk to groups but the fact they have a login is giving them access to the board. It is driving me insane! Is …
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I would like to add a plugin block to encourage visitors to register right after the main menu to all IPS pages (forum software and all pages databases). Is it possible? Thanks.
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Is it possible to give different permissions to product categories in Commerce? E.g. to make category A available to everyone but category B only available to Member group X? It doesn't seem possible from what I see in Commerce, but maybe I'm missing something. It seems like it would be a useful function however.
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I don't know why it's doing it, and not sure how to explain the problem, so please see screenshots log in as this person, sees forum exactly how I want them to then if I log out as that user, the admin defaults his group to something different then when I log in again as him, the forum has of course opened up to him How do I stop it from changing his first group? It's not happening to any other groups??
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Hi All, My board seems to be having a bit of an issue with safari and chrome browsers after the update to 4.2.5 The sidebar drops to the bottom of the page with Ads enabled. I have tried to use both the inbuilt ad feature, and manually inputting into the <head> tag Note this does happen on the standard theme too. Any ideas?
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Hello, how can I add a HTML description at forums? I want to add an iFrame.
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Hello, maybe the Menu Manager is to clunky or I am too stupid. Can somebody please explain me how to make a third level menu item? E.g. like Browse - App - Function of App. It seems it is possible seens some like Stream is working that way, but I do not find out how to select a specific file/page once I made a new menu item. - Marian
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I've done a conversion from XF. My members are all set to follow a given forum in a digest format of one email per day. Not all members are getting those digest emails. Is there something that would prevent them getting that notification if they have not logged in since the conversion, or is there a limit to the number of people that can follow a forum or calendar?
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Hello, im looking for options on what to do with members with invalid mail address, where emails are bouncing, is there any option (button/code/SQL,etc) to force this users to re-set their email, or at least completli disabling (mail) notifications?
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I have an odd problem with one of my sites...I have an ad with the location as sidebar. The ad is showing everywhere, topics, leaderboard, etc., when there are no other blocks. I just updated from 4.1.9 to 4.2.5 and can't seem to figure this out. I disabled all plugins to see and it still shows. I also checked the default theme to make sure it wasn't theme related and it shows there also. I tested my theme on another site of mine that is already on 4.2.5 before I upgraded this one. It's driving me crazy, is there sidebar setting I'm missing somewhere? I'm about to look at the database to see if there are some rogue blocks listed and not showing causing the advertisement …
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As the title says, when sending an immediate notification the user gets the content of the post in the email. This means that they read the site offline and don't bother visiting. What do I edit in the template to remove the content element? Or truncate it?
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Hello Forum, I am just in the phase to set up a new community and in the future, I also want to have paid memberships. The problem is that I am dealing mainly with business people. As we are based in Germany, Europe, we need a way to decide whether Reverse Charge is applicable (no Sales Tax added) or not (Sales Tax added). Is there an option in IP.Commerce or a plugin featuring this? Could not find something yet. Best Marian
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I would like my current user base to follow all of my forums, calendars and download categories by default, with a notification of email daily digest. I understand there is some limitation here in the current setup, but could someone advise me of a sql query that could be run to perform this on my current user base please?
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Having just purchased Commerce, I'm in the process of setting up payment methods. Of course, everyone alive today knows that PayPal is the industry standard online payment gateway, but their fees seem considerably higher than the other payment methods accepted by Commerce such as Stripe and 2Checkout. As a newcomer to this area of IPS I wanted to ask those here who have experience with different payment gateways: would it be dooming oneself not to go with PayPal, even though there are issues with Billing Agreements which (potentially) take power out of the site owner's hands? Also, I notice that 2Checkout's website says it can accept PayPal payments; are there any …
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Is there a way for the user/member to select a font for themselves (that retains) when posting, etc?
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This is the number one support ticket I get. We are a large site and this takes time. I'd like the option to have it clear their profile and personal data but keep their posts (just make their user name set to something random).
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Hello, the articles itself (Pages) and the reaction to them appear in the activity stream, but I'm missing comments which where added to these articles. I've already searched for a setting in the streams and in the pages, but couldn't find anything related. Have I overlooked something? And another question about the comments. If I activate Post Topics and Use Forum for Comments, and use search or the Similar Content widget, I get the doubled findings there (the comment and the corresponding post in a topic), which is kind of logical, but still irretating for the user. Is it possible to prevent it? Thanks in advance!
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Hi, after the update to v4.2.5 i got 2 default theme. What theme should I use on the frontend? What theme is the newest? I have Default and IPS default
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Hello, Just one question: when migrating from a vBulletin to IPB is the old database still usable by vBulletin? This is to know if I can, for a few days have both vBulletin and IPB that work in // Or is the old database vampirized by IPB during migration? Thank you
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Vodafone is closing its email service, affecting 250,000 customers. How do I best implement all my members with vodafone email addresses to reset their registration emails? Multiple domains are affected including vodafone.net.nz vodafone.co.nz ihug.co.nz wave.co.nz quik.co.nz pcconnect.co.nz paradise.net.nz clear.net.nz es.co.nz
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I am trying to find the optimal image size settings for my gallery, but it seems different image sizes are all over the place. This maybe is partiallly my fault for not researching this better, but it also seems that IPS is at fault too. OK, so we have 4 image sizes: thumbnail - 100x100 for me small - 300x300 for me medium - 1200x900 for me large - 2000x1900 for me My intention is to have the thumbnail size where, well, I need to list thumbnails and I don't care much if the picture is totally visible or not, so I fugured 100x100 is enough. I want to have small images in widgets, Pages blocks, etc. I want to have medium when the image is open in the g…
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Has anyone been successful at getting approval from Facebook for the promotion feature? I've tried submitting 'publish_pages' and 'manage_pages' options twice already and they denied it. Here's what they are saying I really have no clue what they want me to do here because I've uploaded two different screen casts. Is this the result of lazy Millennials? lol Mike
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