Meddysong

I must be missing something obvious.

With some of my sites, I can create a local version using WAMP, which is handy for testing and trying out upgrades.

With other sites, however, the local installation doesn't work. Instead, attempting to access the local version downloads a copy of index.php. I thought the .htaccess file might be the cause, so deleted that but I still have the same problem. I deliberately put incorrect database credentials into conf_global.php to try to get an error message but nothing changed. If I try to access the site by adding /index.php to the address, then it does load if I remove .htaccess... but I can't log in because /login produces a 404. 

Does anybody have a suggestion as to what the cause is? I don't understand why it seems to be these specific sites. One difference which might help is that these sites come from a VPS; my others are on a separate shared hosting server.

You haven't got anything wrong. Members can't create categories in Blogs, Forums etc. That sort of infrastructure is created only by admins.

There are built-in translation tools:

Something for you, @Adriano Faria?

Is the post above referring to your Links Directory, @Adriano Faria?

Is your language the default en_US? If so, edit it and change the locale to en_GB (or pretty much any other choice other than the US). (Customization > Languages)

Does that work?

41 minutes ago, Alfonso Moreno said:

I was wondering how this is done. Is it some kind of custom page?

Yes, it's custom coding using Pages.

I suppose that this is only a duplication on page 1 of a topic. It stops being so on subsequent pages. Perhaps removing this from page one only is a refinement which could be considered.

It doesn't seem to be quite fixed, @Matt. Pagination is resulting in broken pages. For example, https://invisioncommunity.com/news/page/2/ is giving me

Same here (UK user):

1 minute ago, Joy Rex said:

Wasn't there a major change in licensing from FA4 to FA5 that might be behind why IPS hasn't updated it in their commercial product? Someone from IPS can chime in if that's not the case.

Yes, I'm sure Matt or Charles dropped a line at the time explaining that it would cost IPS a fortune to license FA5.

It's been requested several times but I don't think it will return. Fortunately. there's a free plugin for people who want this functionality.

Pit it in the h2 tag at the beginning 🙂

Read this for info. You're looking for CP_DIRECTORY.

You remove the Support menu item using the Menu Manager in the ACP. There are a couple of in-built tools for editing language strings. The easiest is the Visual Language Editor:

I suppose that if you haven't yet created any CSS or JS, the tab logically won't appear. You need to create the file first: Pages -- Templates -- Add CSS. (Or something similar.)

19 hours ago, Matteo Russo said:

Hey there,

I need to remove the breadcrumb only on a specific custom page which is not the forum but one created by me with Pages. Is this possible? 

 

Thanks 🙂

You could create a special CSS template which you'll use with that page, and which contains:

#ipsLayout_contentWrapper > nav.ipsBreadcrumb.ipsBreadcrumb_top.ipsFaded_withHover {
  display: none;
}
#ipsLayout_contentWrapper > nav.ipsBreadcrumb.ipsBreadcrumb_bottom.ipsFaded_withHover {
  display: none;
}

When you edit that Page in the ACP, add this CSS file to it using the tab Page Includes.

If you do that, this new CSS template you've created will be used on that Page and so hide your breadcrumbs, but it won't be called on any other pages.

Something similar has happened to me a couple of times. The solution in both cases was to create a totally fresh database and import into it. It wasn't enough to empty the previous one or use the old one's name for the new one; it needed to be a totally new database with a different name.

1 hour ago, Miss_B said:

What you described can be done by renaming the community folder to forums. Like that it will show as  domain.com/forums. 

That won't solve his problem: /forums/ will still appear in the name for all other apps as before, because that's where the IC installation is placed: domain.com/forums/blog, domain.com/forums/store etc.

One thing you could consider is removing your community to a subdomain. That would give you community.domain.com as one of the apps (say Forums, and the app-specific /forums would still work too), community.domain.com/blogs, community.domain.com/store etc.

Another solution would be to still run your own script but within Pages. Your IC installation would be at domain.com and the default app would be Pages, with the default page your own custom one.

The main editor of a news site I volunteer for has written to me with a request. She knows that she needs to set a future publish date with her Pages articles if she doesn't want them to show immediately. Sometimes she forgets, meaning that subscribers immediately get a notification.

Quite often, she saves unfinished posts, making this situation even more unfortunate. I've explained to her that she should simply set her posts to hidden as soon as she starts working on them, which will prevent these problems. Unfortunately, she quite often forgets (she's around 70 and new to tech).

I think one thing I could do is amend the database form so that there's a big warning banner at the top which shows just to her, or to move the status options to the top of the post. It would be better, though, if I could make it so that all posts in a particular database are set to be hidden by default.

I presume there's no option for this so will have to think of something else. Is there anything I could do without having to commission a plugin?

16 minutes ago, Chris027 said:

Not sure why the little link / arrow is gone from the quote, but it is and I can't change that. 

I've just popped by your site and it's definitely there:

There's no reason, outside of customisation, that it shouldn't be there for you too. Perhaps you've not seen it; it's faded unless you hover over it. I confess, though, that I can't make it out in your screenshot.

I should refine that for clarity: the field which contains the article text should be viewable to everybody other than guests. The title etc should be viewable to all, of course.

With Pages you could create a field viewable only to guests in which you would post only a snippet of the article. The whole article would be viewable to everybody except for guests.

Why do you consistently give your topics unhelpful titles like 'Question'? You might get more engagement if people were given an indication of why it might be worth clicking, besides the obvious point that this community would break down if everybody took your approach.