Randy Calvert

Yes. The plugin is free to install, but for protection to work... you need an activation key that you get from purchasing on their site. In terms of settings... it's pretty simple: There is one other field below this space for your registration key and that's it. Their website portal shows all of the activity such as blocks/allows, etc.

Nah… you’re not a fool at all! There are literally THOUSANDS of options/settings available. The software is super powerful and has lots of options. It’s great that it gives us a tremendous amount of control, but at the same time it does create a slightly higher level of difficultly in finding everything. I learn a LOT of things from the community here so it’s great to give a little back as well!

It sounds like your member group needs to have permission to access it. ACP > Members > Members > Groups Select the group that should have access to the Source button. Enable "Can post HTML".

I’m sorry if the reply was seen as sarcastic. Testing the product without a third party in front of it is important. You’re using Sucuri in front of the site which puts a proxy between your users and the IPB software. This can potentially cause session issues which would match the problem you’re describing. In order to eliminate that as a possibility, it’s important to test without the tool being in the request flow. If it’s still happening with it disabled, the staff can help you you troubleshoot further. But in many cases… that is the cause of the problem.

Are you using the optimized robots.txt setting in ACP? Have you confirmed your site map is configured and submitted to Google? What does the Google webmaster search console say? Also… recent versions of IPB software has improved SEO by telling Google not to crawl certain low value pages such as profiles etc. That way more crawl budget can be spent on valuable content such as topics.

It looks like you’re using a cloud proxy (Sucuri). Does this still happen with the proxy disabled?

Welcome back! Taking some time away is a great way to come back refreshed/recharged. Hopefully you were able to do something fun with the time away!

This is not possible. If the content is moved somewhere where the OP does not have access to, there is no built in permission to override this. You might be able to have a developer create this logic however!

There has not been anything mentioned on this in the latest beta version or within the IPS blog.

It does not need to be disabled but you would need to evaluate what mod_security rules were blocking the request and tune the rules to not block IPB. Blocking a legitimate request is known as a “false positive”. IPS cannot assist with the tuning of your firewall (mod_security in this case). Instead that’s something you would have to do yourself or with your hosting provider.

The -200 error shows up generally when a PHP error occurred. It means typically some sort of limit was hit. (such as "out of memory" or "max execution time exceeded") PHP ends up exiting and printing out the core PHP error, and the uploader shows the "-200" error as a result. So you would need to check your server and try increasing your PHP limits.

I can confirm this from my iPad as well.

Unfortunately not.

Yes…. Notice how you’re viewing the INVOICE? Clicking the track button will track that invoice. It does not matter what the product is…. You’re not tracking “Gift Card”. You are tracking invoice 1554. The invoice is paid now, but if it gets refunded for example…. In most cases though, there is not a lot of value in tracking a paid invoice. Most people use it for unpaid invoices.

The beta is available now. IPS does not give exact dates and instead just notes when it’s ready. But I would imagine within a few weeks based on past releases.

Look at the CleanTalk plugin. It’s done a great job of reducing spam registrations and Contact Us spam messages.

I’m flying right now but just wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed, especially @Martin A. I can’t wait to try this out and report back. I originally had put this in the theme which does work but I’ve been intentionally trying to avoid updates to the raw HTML as it means it does not get updated automatically on upgrade. I’ve also recently added more themes so it means touching multiple themes each time as well. This would let me avoid the work all together on each update.

Coming from experience… within a few months if you ever make a change again, they’ll complain saying they liked the old version better. It always ends up working out like that. 🙂

If they follow the post and choose to receive email notifications. They can subscribe to an RSS feed of forum posts. No. This may be somewhat of an adjustment but it’s going to end up a better experience for them.

I’ve seen something happen with password reset emails which I assume is the same root cause with Sendgrid. It does not seem to happen with ALL e-mails but rather on some percentage of them.

If you cannot even load the checker script, it sounds like a host issue. The checker script can stand alone and does not have any requirements to execute. If it is not able to display, it’s a config issue at the server end or the files were not uploaded right.

It's possible you're running multiple versions of PHP. Load a phpinfo script and see what it reports. I'm betting you'll find your web server is returning a version that is not compatible even though the default CLI version might be 7.4.

What are you confused about? We'll be happy to help provide more guidance. Are you confused by the directions that @Sonya* provided on how to access the Quick Start? Or now that you can access it, you still don't know how to get rolling?

That's the correct area. Change the select option to "Custom" and paste the two lines that I gave you there. As bots re-crawl the site, they will see that entry and receive your instruction to not crawl it.

If you don't want search engines crawling your site at all, use the robots.txt code I gave you above. It says regardless of user agent (meaning Google, Bing, or anything at all that references robots.txt), disallow the root. If it disallows the root, it won't crawl the rest of the site. And remember... that code does not remove anything that is already crawled. It stops new crawls. So you might need to use Google webmaster tools to request anything already there be removed.