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  1. This typically happened because you applied the closing tag incorrectly. For example: FIRST BOX <span style="color:purple;font-weight:bold"> SECOND BOX </span> You would not want the close span included in the first box (as it would not apply anything to the group name itself. If you forget to include the close span in the second box, it will also break the HTML and not render correctly and possibly output like you described above. Another example would be something like IPS used to do for the Customer group by putting a red + mark in front of their name and making it italic. It might look something like: FIRST BOX <span style="color:red"><strong>+</strong></span> <i> SECOND BOX </i> And the output might look like + Randy Calvert
  2. Hi there! Click the Pencil icon next to your new theme. In the "General" tab will be "Default Front-end Theme?", set that to be enabled. Make sure Guests and other member groups that you want to access it are set in the "Available for" section. That should do it for you!
  3. Within forums, a moderator can reward a person for their post contributions with a badge and/or points. Is there a way to do something similar for gallery or blog contributions? I can't seem to find it if there is. If it's not possible, could this topic be moved to the Feature Suggestion forum for future consideration? Thanks!
  4. Well... still a 3rd party issue, but able to be fixed by IPS! They should technically not be calling the method that way even though it's "works". 😇
  5. Take a look at: Edit: @Adriano Faria beat me to the punch by mere SECONDS! 🤣
  6. How is the title of a topic going to describe a picture within that topic? What happens if there are multiple pictures in that topic?
  7. Randy Calvert replied to JMSetzler's post in a topic in Feedback
    No, this is not currently possible within forums. It only is supported within Pages and Blogs.
  8. Yes and yes. Now remember… it’s only supported currently by search engines like Bing and Yandex. It’s not supported (yet) by Google. So depending on how you get your traffic, it might or might not make a big difference.
  9. Just to understand the ask... what are you asking them exactly enter into the alt tag field? Easily understanding what the image means typically involves describing the contents of the image. For example... A caption might be "A Bored Cat". Now... if a user uploads an image, how is IPS going to know what the image is about for it to apply a proper caption. When a user adds an image, there is already a spot for them to describe the image... that's what the image title is for. Now... if they just added "User uploaded image" as the description, it puts something in the field, but it defeats the intended purpose of the field, which is to actually DESCRIBE the image. Just saying it's an uploaded image does not help an accessible user understand what is inside of the image.
  10. There is an optional patch that was released today that fixes most of the Dispatcher issues. Have you applied it yet?
  11. A lot of those errors look related to themes. I assume you’re using a custom theme. Most likely something in the theme is out of date. While it may not be breaking the site, it could still be throwing errors.
  12. It sounds like you're trying to do password reset activities through screen scraping. It might be better to look at doing this through the REST API. It would not be subject to CAPTCHA requests, etc. It's also designed to be interacted with in a programmatic way.
  13. If everything is working on your site for now, I would just keep going. You might want to consider sharing the error logs with the respective app authors so they can investigate and possibly provide an update.
  14. Randy Calvert replied to Wes Elrod's post in a topic in Technical Problems
    Are you a self hosted customer or cloud hosted? If self hosted, download a copy of your MySQL database and also download a copy of all of your site files. Your host might be able to generate a full backup of your account as well. So check with them too for guidance!
  15. Check out https://invisioncommunity.com/online Just add /online to your board address. There is also an online member widget to add this info to the homepage in the sidebar!
  16. It sounds like you don’t have a full upgrade package. Not being able to reply to posts sounds like a JS might be missing. Try downloading a full copy from the client area and uploading them. If the updater did. It run, hit yourdomain.com/admin/upgrade and see if it wants to do anything extra. Once that completes, clear your system cache from the support section of the ACP.
  17. Look at creating a stream. One of the default out of the box streams is just unread content. On this site an example is: https://invisioncommunity.com/discover/unread/ You can customize this to show only specific forums, show all content, content you started, content you participated in, etc. There are lots of ways to slice and dice the data. You can define new default streams in your AdminCP.
  18. Just make sure to keep up with the updates and they should be relatively painless. Your biggest risk is that with plugins breaking things. Make sure you’re familiar with recovery mode to disable plugins and you’ll be able to recover pretty quickly in the event you run into problems you did not see in a testing environment.
  19. The minor point upgrade will be SUPER easy. It literally took all of 2-3 minutes. These sub releases are generally pretty safe. Just to make sure to take a snapshot first in case you have to roll back. I literally have not had to roll back once in any of the point updates. By the way... upgrading from 3-4 is a BEAST. Once on 4 though, it's been super easy. As long as you keep up with the upgrades, it generally is smooth. It's when you get years out of date and versions of php/mysql change, etc that you encounter difficulty.
  20. Don't you love those moments of looking at the release notes and saying to yourself "yup... that was me!!"
  21. 4.6.10’s beta release notes don’t make any references to Zapier itself but it did add new web hooks which look like can be integrated with Zapier. From the screenshot posted by Daniel in the first post, there looks to be a lot of remove calls added.
  22. They should already be “friendly”. It should be: yourdomain.com/clubs/ID-NAME This is replacing the “real” path of index.php?app=core&module=clubs&controller=view IPS will tell you to not change it and leave it alone as customizing it is outside of their support. This is because you can break stuff super easy if you don’t know what you’re doing. With that said… In the Customize Friendly URLs section of the ACP, you’ll find the mapping and could technically change it. However you would still need the ID included. If you don’t include a sub folder and try to make it just yourdomain.com/club1 you run the risk of someone breaking your site if they create a club with a special name that’s already used such as messenger, topics, etc. You could MANUALLY define a single club to have a friendly name like that safely but it’s super risky to just let it get auto created. So the long answer here it’s possible but highly unrecommended.
  23. Before rushing to judgement, could it simply be their license is expired at the moment and they have not renewed it yet?
  24. Randy Calvert replied to stu_m's post in a topic in Technical Problems
    The CleanTalk anti spam plugin in the marketplace is 8 bucks a year, but has been very good at helping prevent spam registrations AND contact us spam messages. It’s not perfect but has reduced spam by around 90% for my community.