The Old Man

Thank you very much indeed Jim, much appreciated. Sorry for the delayed response, I didn’t get an email reply notification for some reason.

Hi, On one of my sites which is using the lastest version of IPS4 4.7.18, guests are seeing "Error Subscriptions are not available" instead of the usual options to Register/Sign-Up. In Commerce Settings -> Subscription Plans it says Enable on the button, so they are off. In Store Settings -> Purchase Settings the setting for Force users to make a purchase when registering? is off. On the Member Settings -> Log In and Registration -> Registration page the settings are on Recommended. I'm using Standard and Google options only. Any thoughts on what could be causing this? I checked with Support Tool which reports everything is okay. Many thanks!

Hi @Marc Stridgen Thanks, yes they are Custom Theme Settings (the software platform provides them) and I’m the author of the themes. I’m going to have remove them all which should fix the problem, but ideally I’m looking for some reassurance; why did it happen and how do I prevent it from happening again? No update has caused this previously before, so I’m assuming there’s something awry with the updater that is duplicating certain custom theme settings on child themes? Many thanks.

This seems limited to my child themes only for some reason. All parent themes were unaffected.

I just updated my site to 4.17.7 from the previous version and I noticed my themes were looking different. Upon closer inspection I found that the upgrader duplicated some but not all of my custom theme settings, but excluded the values they were actually set to, meaning that whatever the original setting was set to, the duplicate was overriding it with a default value, hence overriding the original version of the setting. Example: Super annoying.

The problem that first occurred to me (apart from concerns with impacting on site SEO and human search-ability in terms of finding existing content), is that it creates a lot of duplicated content, which goes against the grain in terms of maximising crawl time budget. Matt started to reduce impact on limited SEO bot resources a couple of years back, by overhauling the robots.txt feature for the good bots that comply with it. Do you see a featured content area as kind of a pseudo site map or should it be marked as not indexed to avoid further duplication? 60k of tags is kinda crazy and unmanageable! Tags used to ideally be used to group related content. A tag with only one piece of content is fairly pointless because the search feature should pick that up anyway. Perhaps that’s not the case with tags any more though.

Thank you much appreciated. Will keep an eye out for those updates and announcements. 🙂

Re: Tables, I never had any issue with them in CKEditor4. There is a great plugin available for tables by the CKEditor creators. https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addons/search/plugins/table Also a plug in for semantic headings h1, h2, h3 etc. Question: Is there a way to change the UI toolbar colour in the new editor to match custom theme? Many thanks.

Yes! Thank you. Editing a Terms of Use policy, Community Rules or Privacy Policy in the AdminCP is a pain without this, especially when using an iPad!

Hi @Matt Off the top of my head, for one site (link) I used Source mode HTML editing in the AdminCP with Pages Blocks. I wanted to create some Custom Blocks that I can quickly add on the first of each month to my Pages home page, with monthly gardening tips. Each black has an image and a link to a Calendar Event. Simply embedding a calendar event link wasn't the best option, for a few reasons, they always show the original event creation date for example:-

Awesome thanks for the reassurance Matt.

Hi, I've never seen this before, just attempted to downloaded the latest DevTools for 4.7.17 and a virus warning showed up in Firefox v1.26.01 on Windows 11. I searched and found some people have issues/false positives when installing it but not by simply downloading it. Has it been checked? Many thanks.

But when I go to the page editor there is no block there. There's only one which is a list of topics. 🤪

That's done!

Thanks Marc! Not showing in available blocks on this site, link to the topic: https://millennium-thisiswhoweare.net/tiwwa/topic/28627-interesting-activity-at-the-yellow-house-on-google-maps-2011/ Widget block was available on this site, example topic: https://invisionary.tech/topic/19-how-to-manually-install-a-theme-in-your-invision-community/