JohnCourt

Just now, Jim M said:

Our Marketplace has been decommissioned so it would only be available if the author has their own website to sell/download it. 

Thanks sir Jim. 🙂 

On 4/12/2023 at 1:10 PM, TDBF said:

New version waiting for approval in the marketplace.

TDBF, has this been authorized yet? Is it available at your own shop? Thanks

Anyone know where I can find this extension?

On 2/28/2024 at 10:06 PM, Sonya* said:

We are going to pause our gallery with 39,000 images

That's actually a great idea, we have a ton of images now that have an arbitrary file name as the title, it looks ugly and as mentioned above, it's un searchable. I have reminded members to name their images appropriately, but not everyone gets the message, and some just flat out don't care.

Good day folks. I create custom blocks for a lot of things, temp blocks for an event I'd like to highlite for a time period, blocks for advertisers that have limited times of showing and no longer usable, blocks that at one time seemed like a good idea, and now they aren't.

As I was going through my blocks and cleaning house, I found it very difficult to actually determine which one went where and if it was being used or not. It would be nice to have a small blurb in the custom block "Details" where the block is being used, or not used at all.

Perhaps something like "used on acme page" or "not active" or something of the sorts. Thanks for your consideration.

13 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

and one generic preview may not nessesarily work

It could be a feature that can be turned on or off in admin? The hover preview would grab the first image (if there is one) of the article or record and some intro text from the first paragraph?

I know ya all know wikipedia, if you hover over a link at their website you'll see a handsome preview popup, I really love those. Just a wish added to your long long long list of wishes from us all 🙂

We already have previews on hover for our Forums. Can we extend that capability to hover article previews when an inline text link is provide for an article?

For example: I really love this helpful article on Spam Prevention, it is very helpful.

So, when you hover your cursor over "Spam Prevention" we'd have an article popup preview appear. Thanks for your consideration.

I have a pet peeve, images uploaded to our gallery display their file name as the title. For example a member uploads their image and doesn't change the title image, so it then displays something like DSC2849.jpg instead of for example "Oak Cabinet".

I have rules displayed for image uploading in each gallery, but they are apparently ignored. Is there any way to auto enforce changing the title of an image uploaded to our galleries? Our community is gallery and image heavy, visual arts. It drives me crazy that folks are lazy and just use their default image file title. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I've disable everything Facebook in our community, the only that is left is the social icon directing users to our FB page. It became such a hassle, login with FB, Promote to FB, just a PITA.

Daniel started to help me in the customer support email, and he stated something about the promotions appears to not be local. But I knew I only promote local, so his comment lead me to one thing after another and I tried to promote without the local promote box text, I'd delete the text but keep the box, thinking I could just have the image and caption displayed without introductory text, but it would not go through.

So, I added text, just a few words, and the promotion went through, it displays.

I did not delete the local promotion box, I just deleted the text from the box, and that was enough for it not to schedule and promote. Don't know if that's a bug or not.

7 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

No problem. Ive created a ticket on this one for you, so we can take a closer look. Someone will be in contact as soon as possible.

Thank you Marc 🙂

7 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Have you repromoted them?

Yes I did Mark. Cleared cache as well.

15 hours ago, Adlago said:

What time do you use in this setting?- Cache sidebar, header and footer blocks -???
Also - do you use cron? If yes - does it work correctly?
What makes an impression about your site is too heavy images...

Hey Adlago, sidebar is not cached, I don't use cron, my site is set to the default "Run tasks automatically".

Our community is heavy on images.

This morning issue still persists. Thanks for your input Adlago.

18 hours ago, Daniel F said:

Hab you applied the latest patch?

Patch applied and no change Daniel.

@Daniel F, no luck yet, hmmm, I am not sure at this point. Thanks for the suggestion Daniel.

24 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

Hab you applied the latest patch? The promotion works via background tasks and it’s possible that due to a bug the tasks stopped working. Applying the patch via the support page in your ACP will probably  resolve it. 

Thank you Daniel, I'll give it a try, I guess I overlooked the patch.

Any help or direction is appreciated, I cleared cache, disabled customizations, yet at least two items I promoted are not showing in the Our Picks block.

Here are the two items:

https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/forums/topic/39972-mwtca-january-2024-whats-it-project-193-2/

https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/forums/topic/39974-mwtca-february-2024-whats-it-project-2-2024/

and here is where they are supposed to display right column down a bit:

https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/

I promoted them early yesterday and they are not displaying, I know I promoted them because each topic is showing the button "Re-Promote". This happened in the past but it was due to the Twitter login and or share turned on for promotions, I don't have any of the social media shares turned on for promotions. Thanks again for any help 🙂

9 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

You should be using 8 rather than 8.1

Thanks for that Marc, I can rest easy then, nothing for me to do just now 🙂

It is a tad confusing, because in the admin for issues to fix, it is recommended to switch to 8.1.

7 hours ago, teraßyte said:

Have you used the requirements checker after switching to PHP 8.1? It's possible that some required modules are not enabled.

terabyte, I sure have not, but I will now, thanks for the lead.

3 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Im not seeing your site in mid upgrade there. Did you manage to resolve this one, John?

Kind of sort of Marc, I switched back to php8.0 and everything worked fine, thus why you're not seeing my issue. But after reading terabyte's suggestion above, I'll give that a whirl and see if that'll fix my problem for going to php8.1.

2 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

You probably have some 3rd-party app/plugin outdated, that’s why it doesn’t work on 8.1.

I would disable all 3rd-party resources and enable PHP 8.1 just to make a test. 

Adriano, a couple applications needed updating, so I did, and updated php to 8.1 and site became inaccessible. I renabled 8.0 and went back into admin and disabled all plugins and customization's and enabled 8.1 and site became inaccessible again.  I am not sure what to do at this point, for now 8.0 works fine, but eventually I am going to have to dig in and figure this out, thanks for the tip Adriano. 🙂

So, here is what happened. At the server requirement check, I received the message at the bottom of the page that my php version 8.0 is supported but recommend php8.1 is preferred, paraphrasing of course.

So I went into my server and changed to php8.1 and the started the upgrade and it was stuck on the page as shown in screenshot above. I could not even access my admin.

So I changed back to php8.0 and I was able to access admin and start the upgrade over again and it completed, so changing to php8.1 seemed to be the issue.

Howdy folks, hoping to get some help here soon, I attempted the latest upgrade and my site went to this page: https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/main/

Screenshot below, showing where it's stuck at, it's been this way for about 5 minutes, any help is greatly appreciated 🙂

I tried visiting the upgrade process again but to no avail.

3 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

https://www.ynwa.tv/files/file/2-ne-highlight-changes-in-edit-history/

Thanks Nathan, so from what I gather finding my way to your original request this has not been implemented yet?

A minor suggestion, and a convenience.

When I "see edit history" in our forums, displayed is the history of the content, it would be valuable as a time saver if the edited text was highlighted for comparison within the versions of the post. At this point in time, it all looks the same between versions, I have to read the entire post versions which can be a lengthy read at times and try to discover what was edited.

Thanks for the consideration

May I ask what you guys have for hosting? Thank you 🙂

25 minutes ago, rnorth6920 said:

Having a host with hard limits on things such as number of files or processes running is usually the one's you should avoid.  Is this a shared hosting server or VPS? I'd look into a different host if I were you. 

I'm moving in that direction. My current host is A2 Hosting, things were humming along just fine for the 7 years I've been with them, then all the sudden a few weeks ago it starts falling apart. It's a managed VPS.

I am talking with sales now at A2, and asking them if they can get to the bottom of all of this or move me to another server that's not plagued. A few more things are happening since I posted this topic, now I get 500 errors when trying to access my whm or cpanel, just weird things.

Thanks!