3 hours ago, SeNioR- said:

Maybe for you, and for people who have all the apps. But if customer X has only 'Forums', he will pay an additional $80 more for applications he will not use.

But this is also a chance to grow your site with pages, gallery, and commerce. 

Can you share your website url and the offending website's url?

7 hours ago, 700newtons said:

Thanks for the reply.

Yes - an automated process is definitely the way to go.

At the moment we are stuck with a separate site for our membership fees, with a payment system which is tricky to extract ourselves from. However, we will be looking at this for the next step.

One thing with your suggestion...

We run plan to run many regional Clubs. Although you can choose not to display Clubs to certain groups, it seems that once a member is in there there is no way to automatically remove them even if their membership is downgraded. Ideally we'd want non members to have the same rights as a guest, but it doesn't seem possible to downgrade a group rights quite this far.

Simon

Yeah, not automatically. You would need to set up an alert, maybe through Zapier or Make for when a member got downgraded and then you'd need to remove them from the club manually.  I agree there should be some sort of Permission set for Clubs.

25 minutes ago, 700newtons said:

Ah - they would be given a email address/phone number to arrange membership payment.

Its not an ideal model, but unless we do this then ex-club members will still have many of the rights that regular club members do (i.e. access to Clubs, notifications about events etc, ability to message other members).

I'd be interested in other suggestions - we are just migrating a site over from Drupal, so these things are in our mind.

Simon

So, rather than banning them, move them to a new group called "Inactive", and strip out the rights to do much of anything on your site. You can then make a block in Pages or a notice that only shows to that group that their membership has expired.  If you're using Commerce, you can have your membership packages in there and direct them to it for payment, and Commerce will automagically bump them back to the membership level you specify. 

Using Commerce, this whole process can be automatic. When they expire, it will bump them down to Inactive and when they pay, it will bump them back up.  You can manually process this too for your old memberships that you're carrying over.

On 7/23/2023 at 7:55 PM, Matt said:

We love updating things because Elon got bored. 

Too bored to call the Legal Department too, apparently.

Microsoft owns the trademark for X for anything software or game related.

Facebook-Meta owns the trademark for X for anything Social Media related.

This logo, 𝕏 , has been a part of Unicode since 2001 and in math textbooks since the 1970s.

So, good luck to Elon with the USPTO. But given his lack of diligence in even just getting a permit for the building sign change, it's probably not going to go well.

2 hours ago, 700newtons said:

Another question!

I plan to set our ex-members to 'banned' so that they can no longer have the rights of paying members but will change the language to something more polite e.g. 'account inactive'

However, once a member is banned they have no way to sign out of the site (that I can see). They could, of course, sign in on a different device, use private browsing, or delete cookies to gain guest access.

However, is there a link that I can insert on the 'account inactive/banned' page so that they can exit.

Thanks

Simon

 

What if they want to become members again?

1 hour ago, Adriano Faria said:

The date is also linked to the post.

It's not visually clear that it's there. Some sort of Share icon right after the date would be helpful to end users.

11 minutes ago, Gabriel Torres said:

The numbering of posts could be replaced with a more prominent way of linking to that post. Most of users are not well versed in forums in general, so they don't know that they need to click on the "three dots" and then on "Share" to get a link to a post. I belive a small "link" icon there could facilitate users learning how to link to individual posts.

This idea has good merit.

3 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

The title for the next unread topic was the one with the performance issue

I remember that one. On older forums with lots of threads in a single category it could get slow.

2 hours ago, HighlanderICT said:

another dozen registrations overnight. all had either not responded to validation email or needed admin validation. flagged them all. 

Installed the plugin from @CleanTalk and set it up, registered for free trial and within 5 minutes it blocked its first registration attempt. Will see how it helps me during free trial. At $12 per year it seems value for money if it does what it says on the tin.  

If you haven't already, in your CleanTalk account, set a block on countries that are unlikely to be visiting your site, plus Russia and China.  Of those that remain, you'll start to see a pattern of blocks in CleanTalk from other countries as well and you can zap those too.

I highly recommend the @CleanTalk plug-in.

19 hours ago, Fast Lane! said:

I'm curious (maybe for my education and others) what part of this sites logic is wrong?  https://metabox.io/load-google-fonts-faster-wordpress/

They walk through various option with pros and cons

What you're potentially setting yourself up for is a penalty on Cumulative Layout Shift. It won't be the entire penalty, but it will add to it.  Google has started to really pay attention to that.

Thank you, that seems to work nicely.  The labels for some don't seem to render correctly.

Given the instability of Twitter recently and some crankiness of Facebook in the past, I thought it would be a good suggestion to have a way to filter the member list by login method.  This way if we were to plan to disable a login method, we would be able to reach out to those members to ask them to pick another login method.

If it matters on a per-site basis, I'm getting them too.

I do see an e-mail now that the problem was found. Just nothing on what I should or shouldn't do.  I don't want to mess with things if I shouldn't be. If it's that optional patch, I can just run that and be fine?

It looks like someone from IPS was in and did some work, but I didn't get a ticket notice or instructions.  Should I leave things be? I see there is an optional patch that might resolve the issue, but it wipes out the modified file put on my site.

What do I need to do or not do?

On 5/5/2023 at 9:16 PM, Marco Junior said:

And the current values to become a customer (CLOUD) are unbelievable for less than 30 euros per month. I can have a server fully managed by me with cPanel and all the resources that you claim to have in your infrastructure.

I'm not a cloud fan, but 30 euros a month for a server in the EU with decent ram/power/ and over 500g of space doesn't seem like realistic pricing. One of those specs doesn't add up.  Maybe a VPS, but then you're not getting a lot of space and certainly not the performance. The cpanel license alone is 15 a month.

1 hour ago, Marc Stridgen said:

On first look, they dont appear to be our standard database templates there. Please could you confirm if this is the case?

The article section is OpenType's SuperBlocks, however, the same thing happens with a standard IPS block. The page is just a standard single column IPS page with some page builder blocks in it.

The block that holds the word "articles" is just another WYSIWYG block with a single word in it.

In Pages, if one adds a WYSIWYG block with a picture, right or left alignment is used, and the picture is taller than the text, the picture breaks out of its block into the block below.

Using picture alignment also breaks the formatting of other blocks blow it if the picture is too large.  In the picture below, "My Articles" and the first article should be aligned directly under my picture.

Reducing the size of the picture to the same height as the text fixes things.

I was trying something in Pages and created a new Database.  I didn't like how it turned out and decided to take another route, so I deleted the database.

Now I'm getting a task-locked error. When trying to run manually, I get:

Sorry, you do not have permission for that!

1S111/1 Table 'ddowdell_cng12013.ipb2cms_custom_database_8' doesn't exist

Which... true and correct.. but I don't see a way to fix it.

7 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

You can hear Charles mentioning Spam Protection Improvements at minute 11:55😇

 

But no details 😞

a corollary to this could be a check if the timezone doesn't match the timezone of the IP address, it might bump up the spam score a bit.

They might not be using a local VPN, but they could be on a VPS in the US that is running a script.

I bought SuperBlocks and LOVE it! It gave my front page a much needed face lift and I have some other ideas for it in future.

@opentype, I don't expect you to add this. My Pages database goes back to the beginning of time when the articles system, by default, included a teaser field.  We still use this.  Could you direct me to where in the code I could modify SuperBlocks to pull the teaser field instead of an excerpt from the body?

Thanks.

I don't see this in the Beta release notes for May.  Any update to the status?