The Old Man

It would be nice to be able embed X timelines again! I tried it with CNN and it doesn't work. The light and dark checkbox seems to make a difference on posts though on their preview page. They don't have Invision Community! They are missing out.

I would love to see Unsplash added as an integration. Their images are much nicer, better choice and better quality than Pixabay and they have an API. Have suggested this before in the feedback forum for IPS4.

When I read Editor QoL Improvements, I became very excited! This is it! Finally! But sadly no.... 🥹

Stupid Apple. 🤐 I uploaded the video to my iCloud Drive and it plays fine in the Files app. So I don’t think it’s the video my iPad doesn’t like.

Thanks, perhaps something to do with this site/server or the video codec itself as I can play mp4 video elsewhere such as all the demos on the Mozilla html video page. I’m running iPadOS 16.7.11 but html video has been supported a long time. Out of interest, I looked at the video properties for clues but I'm none the wiser.

Re the Spoiler: I just test it in 5.0.11 and its kind of annoying that the word spoiler isn't being automatically added for users. I was sure that was going to be added following the spoiler feedback. It should ideally be done automatically and using a lang string so its translation ready.

I finally got Matt's workaround working. What was missing was that you have to call the new HTML template containing your CSS Variables and PHP Template Tags into another template first (using the its unique key), such as before the opening HEAD tag of the HTML front/front/globalTemplate. Then the CSS root vars will get loaded into the page. Having said that, I wonder what is the point of all this when you can still use PHP template tags in the front CSS sheet to access the theme settings to alter the CSS sheet? Are IPS going to remove that capability in the future of IC5?

Thanks Ehren. Although it was fixed before 16.7, out of interest I looked and I do have color-mix enabled in the Safari Experimental Settings although I can't remember enabling this, it may have been one of the ones on by default. Either way, however it was fixed and I browse the site in DuckDuckGo also, and my iPad loves you now!

I gave it a try as previous post but the browser says the CSS variables are not being set: <style type="text/css"> :root { /* Apply a custom uploaded background image to the header based on value of theme setting */ {{if cssvar.halmac_custom_header_bkgnd == TRUE}} --primary-bgd-url: url({theme="halmac_custom_header_bkgnd"}); /* Or apply the chosen background image to the header */ {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'moonlight-night-horror-full-moon-703553' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/moonlight-night-horror-full-moon-703553-2000.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'moon-703538' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/moon-703538-2000.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); --primary-bgd-pos: center -38vh; {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'freestocks-kVv8AvoKJ7g-unsplash' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/freestocks-kVv8AvoKJ7g-unsplash-3840.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'mark-rall-s8x0cFmUtNM-unsplash' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/mark-rall-s8x0cFmUtNM-unsplash-3000.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); --primary-bgd-pos: center -39vh; {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'witchs-house-712259' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/witchs-house-712259-2000.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); --primary-bgd-pos: center -34vh; {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'castle-castle-ruins-moonlight-2103364' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/castle-castle-ruins-moonlight-2103364-2731.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); --primary-bgd-pos: center -12vh; {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'moon-night-full-703537' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/moon-night-full-703537-2000.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); --primary-bgd-pos: center -76vh; {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'ghost-spirit-2874344' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/ghost-spirit-2874344-2400.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); --primary-bgd-pos: center -41vh; {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'landscape-862771' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/landscape-862771-2000.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); --primary-bgd-pos: center -40vh; {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'pumpkins-5675502' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/pumpkins-5675502-2400.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); {{elseif cssvar.halmac_header_bkgnd == 'tombstone-703900' }} --primary-bgd-url: url( '{resource="custom/tombstone-703900-2000.webp" app="core" location="front"}' ); --primary-bgd-pos: center bottom; {{endif}} } </style>CSS: .ipsHeader__primary { position: relative; /* z-index: 0; breaks nav menu */ background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background-image: var(--primary-bgd-url); background-position: var(--primary-bgd-pos); }

Thanks Matt. Trying to wrap my head around how this will work with the theme settings. Currently if the CSS is in the front-end custom CSS form, I use PHP template logic in the custom CSS style sheet to display the background image based on the value of the CSS variable, which in turn is set by the admin using a theme setting (dropdown list of image names), and it displays everything fine. So instead, if I want to switch to using the back-end AdminCP Theme CSS area, I should instead do the PHP processing in a new custom template for the purpose of defining the root CSS variables?

Hi @Matt , if I did that my themes wouldn’t work. We were always able to utilise the PHP IF/Else template tags to make use of the theme settings in v4, this has been treated as a bug until now if it’s no longer the case, please could you provide a supported working alternative for IC5 themes? The only other way around it (besides complicated JS) is not to be able to use the backend AdminCP for our CSS (if we still want to make use of theme settings to change background images, colors etc) which makes having it pretty pointless for theme designers that would prefer not to put their CSS on the front end.

I don’t know what the fix was related to but huge thank you because now I can definitely view topics using my iPad running 16.7 on this IC5 site without them getting stuck in a never ending loop. I posted about it here for example in this thread that by coincidence wouldn’t load for me in any iPad browser but now this works just fine and I couldn’t find any topics in the last 60 mins that wouldn’t load properly. The only other issue is video not playing, I’ve not seen this happen on other sites so I don’t know what format the video is loading via the iPad here:

Hi, The video in this topic isn’t playable using my iPad. I tried Safari, Firefox and DuckDuckGo browsers. I get the play icon but no video after clicking on it,

Re the CSS background images using theme resources bug, it has actually got worse in 5.0.11 than it was in 5.0.10 and prior. Previously the URL to the image wouldn't show up in the CSS as per this example: now, you get the uncompiled code from the AdminCP Core CSS/JS in the CSS sheet:

Just tried upgrading to 5.0.11 Beta 2 via the AdminCP upgrader and it installed nicely, however CSS background images using uploaded theme resource images are still broken when the CSS is housed in the AdminCP. 😭

#5472 Prevent iOS 16.4 and 16.5 from crashingHoly cow! Does that mean I can use my iPad 5th gen 2017 128MB with 16.7.11 to use this community?! I realise 16.7 is not 16.4 or 16.5 but it is less than 10 years old! 🤔

I've always been dissapointed with the archive feature and don't use it simply because the content may as well not exist; it doesn't show up in the search results so its only any good for browsing and finding via an external search tool like Google etc. If you move the content to dedicated archive forum area and lock it, it still counts as member content and is searchable and shows up via tags. Basically the feature was crippled when they discounted archived content from internal search, which I only learnt some time after using it and then having to reverse it. Strangely it doesn't warn you clearly this side effect will happen in the AdminCP archive settings page first or at least it didn't when I use it.

Sure... https://invisioncommunity.com/invision-community-5-bug-tracker/v509-theme-resource-tags-not-working-in-admincp-theme-css-template-r1162/ https://invisioncommunity.com/invision-community-5-bug-tracker/5010-beta-1-template-logic-within-the-js-template-still-isnt-parsed-r1204/

I have just upgraded to beta 4 and these 2 bugs are still present: the CSS one: and the JS one seems to be partially fixed after coming out of the Enable Theme Designer Mode with the theme setting disabled, the script dissapeared. but if I toggle the setting back on in the front end theme settings, the Javascript code doesn't come back.

I've not yet tried Beta 4 but I tested Beta 3 and noticed Javascript in AdminCP Theme Settings was still appearing in the page source even when PHP tags wrapped around it were set not to show it (depending upon a theme setting value). This may have been under PHP not being processed rather than JS not being processed though. I hope they don't release 5.0.10 until the issue preventing theme resource images from showing in the CSS is fixed, as it was still waiting on a fix in beta 3.

Thanks for the link, sorry I missed your reply!

The cheapest Cloud package seems to have come down a lot in price, its slightly cheaper than my VPS but only provides 1 community and not all of the apps and I would still need hosting for my websites. I wonder why the huge increase in cost to get the full Pages app? Shouldn't the basic Cloud package have all the standard Invision Community apps?

Hi, did you mean Beta 2? It is still broken in Beta 1. Many thanks.

Thanks for your thoughts, although I didn't comment on Support. I was going to write in my original post that the cost is of course relative. For me, when I last checked and I had 3 (originally 4) IPS communities running off my 1 VPS, it was always less expensive. I wasn't with an el cheapo hosting company either, but nothing like your monolith server! In terms of reliability, IPS are now making a more public point that this site is used to test and patch on the fly, so yes it will appear to have more downtime. Fair enough, but its an visceral advertisment for their product. This site is my only experience with Cloud hosted. Yesterday it took over half a minute to do a simple search of the Bug Tracker. Things like that are frustrating and can stick in the back of your mind (like Matt said), but I've also experienced this site down for hours at a time, fortunately not often. That's the point though, we don't all have massive communities. I pay minimal amount to Cloudflare for domains, server bandwidth is free and I can run several communities and Wordpress installs on my little 8GB VPS. I wouldn't miss paying extra for CPanel with Cloud hosted though!

The website is great though! Good news on the documentation, thank you! https://invisioncommunity.com/invision-community-5-bug-tracker/v509-theme-resource-tags-not-working-in-admincp-theme-css-template-r1162/ https://invisioncommunity.com/invision-community-5-bug-tracker/5010-beta-1-template-logic-within-the-js-template-still-isnt-parsed-r1204/