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Thank you @Stuart Silvester! After your help, I was able to click Update and everything seems to be working now, at least at first look.

Hey guys, Yesterday I bought from the marketplace the Videos plugin I still have an old version of the plugin bought 8 years and available in my AdminCP as an app but disabled. The AdminCP did not allow me to renew it, so I just proceeded to buy it. However, it does not allow me to install it. When I click install, I get this message: An application is already installed that uses the same Application Key, this application cannot be installed unless the other is removed, Well, I do not want to uninstall the old app and install the new version again because I have 620+ records in the DB that I do not like to loose. Please, advise how to solve this. I want to keep my old records and continue manage the app renewals via AdminCP marketplace. Let me know.

I love what you say on the crap stuff! This is how it should be. However, what I meant is that I have more than 2 times less pageviews per day (as measured by Google analytics). Is this expected after this change? How can I investigate what could be the reason for this?

Hello guys, I recently upgraded from 4.6.7 to 4.6.8. I was very excited because of this article: SEO: Improving crawling efficiency I was hoping and expecting that I will have more visits after the upgrade. Actually quite the opposite happened. Approximately 3-4 days after the upgrade, the community visits (pageviews per day in Google Analytics) dropped more than 2 times and they remain like this todate. This is quite a big drop for a small community! After the upgrade I did the following changes in the AdminCP: - System -> SEO -> Crawl Management. I chose: Invision Community optimized - System -> SEO -> SiteMap. I chose: Use recommended settings (it was custom before) I did not touch anything else. I noticed though that there is no robots.txt automatically generated in my community main folder. So, not sure if the recommended settings actually worked. After some reading I found this IPS official guide: SEO - Robots.txt. I noticed this one: "If your community is inside a directory, you will need to apply it to the root of your site manually." My community is located in /my_community/ subfolder. So, I assumed that this will only work if I create a robots.txt manually and put it in the main folder. So, I created this robots.txt and put it in the main folder. User-Agent: * # Block pages with no unique content Disallow: /my_community/startTopic/ Disallow: /my_community/*?do=add Disallow: /my_community/*?do=submit Disallow: /my_community/discover/unread/ Disallow: /my_community/markallread/ Disallow: /my_community/staff/ Disallow: /my_community/online/ Disallow: /my_community/discover/ Disallow: /my_community/leadermy_community/ Disallow: /my_community/search/ Disallow: /my_community/*?advancedSearchForm= Disallow: /my_community/register/ Disallow: /my_community/lostpassword/ Disallow: /my_community/login/ # Block faceted pages and 301 redirect pages Disallow: /my_community/*?sortby= Disallow: /my_community/*?filter= Disallow: /my_community/*?tab=comments Disallow: /my_community/*?do=findComment Disallow: /my_community/*?do=getLastComment Disallow: /my_community/*?do=getNewComment # Block profile pages as these have little unique value, consume a lot of crawl time and contain hundreds of 301 links Disallow: /profile/ # Sitemap URL Sitemap: https://beinsadouno.com/my_community/sitemap.php Some questions for you: 1. How can I further analyze what is the reason for the drop? Any tools, tips or recommendations? Some google tool to use maybe? 2. Are my assumptions above correct? 3. Is the robots.txt syntax above correct? I was not sure if the syntax should be /my_community/startTopic/ or my_community/startTopic/. Did I do it correctly? 4. What changes in my AdminCP would you recommend to make things better? Any other recommendations, tips and ideas? Let me know please.

Got it. Thank you very much!

Hi guys, Can you please let me know where is the announcements feature in the admin panel? I can not seem to be able to find it. I mean this one:

I did not, because I'm still not clear what is making the permissions change that is blocking me to do the steps you guys recommended. This is self-managed VPS, so this makes things a bit harder. Are you guys very sure it is a server/permissions problem and not a software problem? Any recommendations first things to check on the server?

Thank you very much for your reply, @Matt! Can you provide some further guidence for this? Any sample code? Anything I can simply copy/paste + eventually do small modifications to make it work?

Hi guys, I'm trying to create a quote of the day Pages block to show at the home page. I have a Pages database with many quotes already and I'm able to visualize on my home page one quote. However, the block refreshes whenever caching time is over and I want it to refresh the text and pull a random quote one time per 24 hours only. In previous versions of IPS it was possible to control the caching time per block, but now it is not as long as I see. Is this correct? How can I somehow make it refresh only one time per 24 hours / day? Any extra code to put in the template for the block or something? Or any other suggestions to make this work preferably via a block?

@opentype Thank you for your quick answer. This helps a bit. I'm still not fully clear though on these 2 points 1. I guess the other option I have here is to modify the template - superquote_randomquote. In the block I create, I can take it as a basis and modify it a bit. 2. Is it possible to put the caching time for the quote only for 24hours? It was to choose caching time for blocks in previous versions of IPS, but I do not see such an option now. Any workaround for this or further suggestions? This one is pretty critical for me in order to use the plugin as needed on my home page as a Quote of the Day.

Hey @opentype I just got the plugin and I really like it 🙂 Thank you! Few questions if you do not mind. I will be using the plugin mostly as a single quote at my home page. I already have an existing database with quotes. The fields I have are: Title, Content and few more. I created a block to show a quote reading from that database. All works fine but few questions: 1. The block shows the quote title with a nice font as per the settings. However, I do not need to show the quote Title but the quote Content from the database record. Actually I do not need the title at all. How can I fix this? 2. How can I make it that the quote changes one time per day? Like each day at midnight it should change randomly. Let me know please.

I found the code and the template, but not sure where to find and modify the CSS. As far as I can see, I need to modify: .ipsGrid_span9 and, .ipsGrid_span3, to 85% and 15% .ipsApp .ipsGrid > .ipsGrid_span9 { width: 85%; } .ipsApp .ipsGrid > .ipsGrid_span3 { width: 15%; } Can you guide me @opentype where in the admin panel I can find these to modify them?

@opentype I really love the plugin 🙂 Makes my articles section quite nice. Thank you! One question, when I see an individual record, on the left of the avatar there is quite of empty space. I like it in general, but I think it is too much empty space (for my laptop resolution or people with high resolution). Can I somehow control the ratio of this? Like instead of 60% of the space to be for the article itself and then on the left - avatar + empty space, can I change this to 80% of the space to be for the article content? Can I change this somewhere in the code maybe?

@opentypeI'm considering buying the plugin. I have a question though. Can blocks be added to a 2 columns page, like the one at https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/ ? Can I still have the SuperBlocks blocks appear on the left, and I can still have a right column with Latest Blog Posts etc as on the link above?

Well, I did the first step only: Moving everything in File Settings back to /uploads/ and wait for this to finish; ensure all images load correctly However, immediately after I started the process, I got this error in the admin panel: I checked the permissions of uploads/ before starting the process it was: 0777 Immediately after the process started, it seems the permission got changed to 0644 (if I remember correctly., or something not writable starting with 06) and thus the error appeared. I changed quickly the permissions to 0777 and the process continued and finished. The forums overall look good. However, I have 3 pages of system logs that basically say that the script can not create new directories (obviously because of the permission issues) and that some files can not be moved. I plan to move manually the files back from uploads2/ to uploads/ before starting the process again... to ensure there is no loss of files/images etc. So, questions for you @Mark H (or whoever is around and can answer), since this is happening for the second time. 1. Why immediately after the process starts the permissions of the folder (in this cases /uploads/) gets changed from 0777 to not writable and this bugs the process? Is this a bug in the software or some server permission issue maybe? Or something else? How I can ensure that this does not happen again after I do the process again? 2. Why some files did not move? Anything I could do to ensure all files will move? This could lead to potential loss of data when I start the process again, follow the steps and delete the content of uploads/ to ensure all unwanted files are deleted as well. But then I can loose files that are not copied/moved properly. Before I know more about the above 2 questions and there is some kind of plan, I think I should not continue further with doing the process again because I could have the same problem as before. Can you help somehow?