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I'm having a policy warning from Google Adsense because a page is violating their policy. The report refers to this page: www.satellitefun.org/forum/index.php?action=login however, that is from my old SMF forum which does not exist anymore since I converted to Invision. So when visiting this page, it's automatically redirected to the same url, but the Invision forum is giving it's "page not found" notice: Errorcode: 1S160/2 I asked adsense for a review and they still say it's violating rules. I do not have -any- adds on error pages. So I don't know what they aer referring to or how to fix this. I have an .htaccess in place which looks like…
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Does anyone else automatically create topics when a file is uploaded to their downloads app? I just tried it for the first time and It works GREAT accept for Any ideas?
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Hi there, I've setup a private forum that members can post in and see their own topics, but not other users. Admins/staff can see everything in there. But I'm curious if there's a way to show like a pinned post in that forum. I've tried pinning a post and featuring it but no one can see it besides myself and other admins. Is this possible to do, and if so how would I go about this? Thank you!
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Hi there, I've uploaded an MP3 0audio file to the media library within Pages, but I can't work out how to add a button to play it. Is there an audio player built in to the community platform? If not, any recommendations which one to use? Thanks
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Here's what I have been trying to do for months: Set up a product (a class, for example) with a monthly or quarterly payment plan that automatically invoices and charges the customer. This is not a subscription. It's a payment plan, so I don't want my customers charged after they have paid off their product. I have recurring payments set up with some of my products, but I have found no way to set an end-date, which effectively makes them subscriptions. Is there any chance that an end-date will become a feature? Does anyone know a workaround? Right now, I am looking at using my Acuity scheduling app, which can not only schedule my clients for classes, bu…
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Hi there, I'm trying to add a Javascript snippet to insert an onboarding overlay to the homepage, but I can't seem to get it to work. Attached is a screenshot of the text to be added. Is anyone able to tell me exectly where I should add it? Thanks
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A bit like this https://invisioncommunity.com/news/ In fact exactly like that? I started to look at our pages – and I can't find how to limit the length of the page and then so that it automatically generates onto page 2, page 3, et cetera. I'm bringing a load of RSS feeds from various places – but the page is getting very long. Explanation in simple language please!
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Me again, I am getting my head around the ACP settings in IPS4.4. My groups go from guest (unregistered) into Restricted members (registered but not subscribed) I can make a group for called validating and would like all new registered users to go into this group until they validate their email, once this is done then they will be promoted to the registered members group. I don’t seem to be able to make this rule in the promotions or anywhere. Is it possible? I basically don’t want non validated members to be able to submit content for approval at all but can’t find the option for this.
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If I am trying to find out what hook2649 is, where in the ACP would I research that? Thank you 🙂
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Error: Call to a member function following() on null (0) #0 /home/admin/web/mysite.org/public_html/forum/system/Content/Content.php(1956): IPS\hook2649->send(Array) #1 /home/admin/web/mysite.org/public_html/forum/applications/core/extensions/core/Queue/Follow.php(60): IPS\_Content->sendNotificationsBatch(2070, Array, NULL) #2 /home/admin/web/mysite.org/public_html/forum/system/Task/Task.php(47): IPS\core\extensions\core\Queue\_Follow->run(Array, 2070) #3 /home/admin/web/mysite.org/public_html/forum/applications/core/tasks/queue.php(43): IPS\_Task::runQueue() #4 /home/admin/web/mysite.org/public_html/forum/system/Task/Task.php(356): IPS\core\tasks\_queue->IPS\c…
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Hello, How to change the mini RSS icon (rss-mini.png or feed.png) contained in the ... public / style_images / master directory? Is it one or the other RSS, rss-mini or feed icon? If I have to change it with a new icon, do I have to respect the image size, in pixels, but which one? Thank you in advance, Regards, Claude
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I've searched and could not find a way to remove "Forums" from the site title. How can I remove it?
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Hello, Can someone point me towards directions showing how I can display our product images on the front page at the top? I want to display our products with text under them and link to another page where they can see videos, images, then buy...... example below. The normal forum list will be under the products.
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Hi Invision Community. I was hoping is somebody could please explain the caching system in Invision? In the ACP it says... 1. For file system, is that were Invision saves a static HTML page to the disk and serves that to users? Why does Invision say MySQL is better when hitting a database is more intensive than hitting a static HTML file? 2. Also what is the difference between "Data Storage Method" and "Caching Method"? I've had a WordPress site in the past and often my CPU usage would spike to the point where the server would crash (thankfully W3TotalCache created static HTML files for caching purposes and that stopped that issue). Which caching …
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Hello guys, I created a new custom block and I need to truncate the record title becasue it's too long. I noticed that for truncating the content it works like that: The title tho I have this code {$record->_title} and I don't know whic variant should I use. Anyone can help me? Thanks 🙂
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As an Admin, when I choose the moderator option of "feature" a topic, what happens? Iv'e had Invisio on three of my forums and I cant see that anything gets featured anywhere.
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Hi guys, I posted in The peer to peer technical section then realised it may be the wrong area but can’t delete it. Basically, I have taken over the task of running the forum we have for our car club, as the person who helped set it up left our club a few years ago. We have to shift the whole site and forum over to a new server. I have a cloud server so I am trying to shift it to that. I have tried to follow some guides, and others posts people have made but keep hitting a wall. I have transferred the webspace contents to the new server. I have made new Databases and uploaded the contents of them to the new server. I have edited the conf.global.…
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I am having problems moving my site and forum over to another server, posted in the server section. I have taken over the forum and site management as we had no-one else to do it. As a result the PHP side of it all, and the amount of files dotted around in PHP5.4 is nuts. I am wondering if it is possible to do a complete new install my server that we are moving this too, but still use all of the old database info. I ask this as the current install is IPB 3.4, I am unable to upgrade this on the current server due to the PHP issue and I don't yet have the knowledge to upgrade it. Is what I am thinking possible? We have a lot of posts and topics that we really do…
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I looked around but couldn't find out how to do this or if it was possible. Currently, I can see the number of downloads of a particular file, but I'm looking to know who downloaded and when - so basically a log. Ideally some notifications around downloads would be good as well. Does this feature exist? Thank you, Bryon
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I archived a fair number of site topics a few years ago when I needed to be careful with my site resources. I'd now like to unarchive everything. Is there a simple way to mass unarchive? Running 4.4.10 Many thanks for any info.
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Hello, How to remove group with all members inside it? Thank you.
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A few years ago I set up the Our Picks page as the default home page for my site. It has been working well there and I like it a lot. However, I would like to make some changes, specifically to the page title (that shows up in the browser tab) and for the life of me I can't remember where this is done. I must have done it before because it is specific to my site. Help!
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Hey guys, Cause many of the articles posted in my pages are quiet long I need to split them into multiple pages. The internal feature of Next Page works very well but it would be amazing if I could also name the pages and create an Index of them, for example like Wikipedia. is it possible or? Thanks 🙂
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Is there a way to name the files linked by URL, if multiple links are added. Say that I have a book and each chapter has its own link. Right now it just shows the word file. Is there a way to make it where you can name each link, such as Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc. instead of file for each one?
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Hi there, Is it possible to wrap text around a video embedded within a Blog post? Many thanks
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