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  1. Randy Calvert
    The idea is you disable ALL plugins and test. If it happens with ALL plugins disabled, you know it's not the plugins causing the problem. If it starts working, you turn on the plugins one by one, testing each until you find the one causing problems. You figure out which is broken by process of elimination.
  2. Randy Calvert
    You could create a rule which promotes anyone who has more than X content into a new member group. Then give that group permission to create clubs. Search the ACP for Group Promotion Rules for the area to set this up. I do something similar for new members. They actually can’t post links until they have more than 10 content items. Once they do, they’re moved from the default group (I call it Newbies) to the group “Members” which does have permission to post links.
  3. Randy Calvert
    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! I greatly appreciate all of the hard work from our marketplace developers and those who are smart enough to customize code so that I don’t have to try to slap some half-baked code together that might or might not have a million security holes in it.
  4. Randy Calvert
    IPS staff don’t generally spend much time in this forum as it’s meant for peer to peer assistance. If you can’t post in an officially supported forum, I would recommend using the Contact Us page and asking the Sales or Account staff to move the ticket to the appropriate place. https://invisioncommunity.com/contact-us/
  5. Randy Calvert
    Anytime. It was a learning experience for myself... so I appreciate the chance to pickup something new. Also for your own reference later... once you create the block, the embed code will give you two snippets you will need to use: The "boot loader" which will need to be added to your Wordpress global template in either in your <head> tag, or just before the </body> tag. (I would suggest putting this in the global template so that you only have to do it once and can embed IPB blocks on ANY page on your Wordpress site.) This handles loading the CSS and other template stuff needed. That code will look something like: <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM/applications/cms/interface/external/external.js' id='ipsWidgetLoader'></script> Wherever you want the block content itself to appear, add the embed block code that will look something like: <div id='block_SOME_MD5_HASH_PROVIDED_BY_IPB' data-blockID='YOUR_BLOCKNAME' class='ipsExternalWidget' data-inheritStyle='true'></div>
  6. Randy Calvert
    There are two scenarios that I've seen trigger this previously; mod_security blocking the request Using a WAF that is intercepting/blocking the request I would suggest start by checking if you're using a WAF first. If so, for testing purposes disable it long enough to confirm. If that does not do it, move onto checking mod_security. https://ubiq.co/tech-blog/how-to-disable-mod_security-in-apache-using-htaccess/ The above URL has some guidance on various ways of how to do this.
  7. Randy Calvert
    Ahhh I see now. I had to actually go back and do this myself. Once the block is defined, back at the main block selection screen in the drop down is an option for external embed. I learned something new today! Thank you very much!
  8. Randy Calvert
    Hey Mark... just to clarify... using blocks would allow a user to embed the code into a 3rd party system such as Wordpress? The way I was reading the OP's request... she wants to take the calendar or other areas from IPB and have it embedded into a Wordpress instance that obviously would be outside of IPB. The only way I could think to do that would be to export the IPB content via RSS and have Wordpress import the RSS feed. I was not aware of a way for the block system to be used outside of the IPS framework itself to display content in something like Wordpress or Joomla, etc.
  9. Randy Calvert
    The only time I saw this happen was with a browser cache issue. As a test, try making the change with a different browser. If that works, try popping the original browser cache.
  10. Randy Calvert
    IPB uses the default php mail function which should work with Sendmail. You should be fine. If you have problems with this, IPB also supports sending mail via other methods such as SMTP or with other big 3rd part mail delivery services.
  11. Randy Calvert
    One thing that I’ll point out is that disabling these functions is RECOMMENDED and not REQUIRED. These functions are not used by IPB, but they might be used in other scripts. In a shared hosting environment, each administrator must juggle what modules to support to balance security with functionality. Saying they have support for IPB means they meet all of the minimum requirements. They can meet that requirement list without those modules being disabled. Think of it as more of a good idea than “it must be done”.
  12. Randy Calvert
    Yea!! @SeNioR- make sure @Jordan Miller sends you a cookie! 😄
  13. Randy Calvert
    This depends on the settings of the community. Some individuals allow posting from guests, or have it so that someone can START posting a topic, but be forced to complete the registration before the post actually appears. As a result, it would not be good to just “default block” that path. 🙂
  14. Randy Calvert
    Ryan, is it possible to get limited access to the moderator logs to review edits? (You can limit it to a single person and to a defined time period if necessary!) 😄
  15. Randy Calvert
    The areas you are quoting look to be related to themes. For example, the button color. Those can be customized in your Theme settings. ACP > Customization > Themes > (Find the theme you want to modify) > (Click the Pencil icon). There will be a tab for button color which will specify the color for the various buttons on the site. (Button Class will change Primary Button, Secondary Button, Normal Button so you should not need to set it, just pick the right button color in that section.)
  16. Randy Calvert
    Yes, Daw does good work! I have a few enhancements applied to my own site! 🙂
  17. Randy Calvert
    ACP > System > Site Promotion > Advertisements One of the options there let’s you specify that you want to manually control where the ad goes and gives a link that explains how to manually add a placeholder for the ad code in your theme
  18. Randy Calvert
    Community Support is a peer to peer help forum. There is another spot for official IPS help. https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/forum/497-help-support Good luck. 🙂
  19. Randy Calvert
    Correct. It’s only in the widget if the user had permission to view the item at the time it generated. If the user lost permission to the item that change occurs immediately… however the old link in the widget won’t disappear until it rebuilds within a few min. If the content was never visible to the user (say an admin area) it wont show to normal users in the widgets.
  20. Randy Calvert
    If the topic is visible, it’s allowed to show in the widget. If you hide it, I the link/title of the hidden topic remain in the widget until the cache rebuilds. In the mean time if it’s actually clicked without permission to view they will get an error. This is similar to if someone copy’s a link to a post that is later hidden. If they access it via a bookmark, they get an error if they don’t have permission to view the content.
  21. Randy Calvert
    It depends on what your setting for retaining deleted posts is set to. In the ModeratorCP, look at the Deleted Content section. See if the post is there to restore. I had something similar happen so now I don’t have the deleted content purged until 90 days just to be safe and have plenty of time to catch problems.
  22. Randy Calvert
    Hi Deb, You would want to do the following: Make sure you save your FTP and a username/password for your forum in your Client Area. (This will save the IPS staff from needing to ask for it later.) If you have a problem, you would make a post here. (Just don’t include anything sensitive such as usernames/passwords in your post.) If it involves anything sensitive, you can make a post here and just ask for a staff member to create a ticket for you. They’ll take care of this for you and will trigger an email to you which you can use to interact privately with IPS staff. The good thing about posting here is that you can get official help from IPS staff here along with other customers who in in several cases have run into the same problem as you might have had and can provide help as well.
  23. Randy Calvert
    In that case, you’ll have to edit the email template to just hard code a message like “You have a new message on OURWEBSITE. Click here to read it.”
  24. Randy Calvert
    I would ask your host for more information about what they're saying is IPS traffic. They should be able to provide logs showing the traffic and it's source/destination. Let's figure out first if they're correct or not. It's highly unlikely that 300K+ hits is coming from IPS to your site, but let's dig into that more. Regarding the plugins... disabling ANY 3rd party plugin should not trigger an increase in traffic to your site. Most likely the disabling of the plugins simply coincided with that activity, but to make sure... re-enable plugins and disable them one by one. See if it happens again. If it DOES, you'll know specifically what plugin was problematic.
  25. Randy Calvert
    The email templates are going to be your best bet. It might take some work as there are multiple ones for each type of notification. If you only use one language it does not matter if you hard code language bits into the emails. But if you are a site that has multi language support, you would have to make sure you take language variables into consideration.
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