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I bought lot's of plugins an applications, but now (since 4.5 here) I always get this message:
"Sorry, you aren't permitted to download this file."
What's wrong?

I bought lot's of plugins an applications, but now (since 4.5 here) I always get this message:
"Sorry, you aren't permitted to download this file."
What's wrong?

With 4.5 you can access to install files only through your website ACP.

We still need WhatsApp share button as long as the hook is not working anymore.

Yes, this would be great and very helpful

I think it will be better to have the header bar (menu, notifications) in a sticky header.
Like that we don't have to scroll scroll scroll to the top to go to our notification or menu. Mobile need that more than desktop.

Hello,
Yes

What's new in v1.0.3
added some additional options to the 'Which post(s)?' plugin setting. Now includes: First post only All posts First post on each page only Last post on each page only First and last post on each page

I'll put out an update later this week to add some options to the 'Which posts?' setting.

No, you have to add the code after the line:
After:
$data = array( 'url' => $node->url() ); if (get_class($node) === 'IPS\forums\Forum' && isset($node->last_post)) { $data['lastmod'] = $node->last_post; }

There are a few problems in indexing pages:
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/442742-large-community-you-have-a-problems-with-sitemap/?page=0
is the same as
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/442742-large-community-you-have-a-problems-with-sitemap/?page=1
and the same as
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/442742-large-community-you-have-a-problems-with-sitemap/
 

I’m planning some changes to this app for 4.3. Will give some thought in the proper time. 

104.000 topics - 2.8 Mio posts
Indexed are only topics / 10 posts per page
So it is ok, right?

So many misconceptions.
If @daveoh were to share his site, you would see it's very clean, well organized, has high quality content and a glance shows his backlink profile is strong. He also has little to no apparent ads.
@Nesa while I understand your concerns and understand your frustration, the sitemap itself is not the cause of your issues. This was posted earlier today and was already indexed by Google hours ago. I've checked some of our larger enterprise sites and their content from today is also being indexed in a timely fashion. I just searched the topic you referenced and it too is listed. There's no magic bullet in 4.3 or even other software that's going to put you on the front page of Google or instantaneously push new content directly to Google.
The big algorithm update of 2017 targeted a lot of sites with some losing as much as 90% of their traffic. Some of these sites flew under the radar with what Google considers low quality content and in Google's eyes, they were righting the scale. There are many factors that influence your position in Google, your index rate and frankly, whether or not Google just likes or hates you.
Ads
If your site has ads that detract from the user experience and content on your site, Google WILL penalize you and that was the single most biggest hit in the "Fred" update. An ad in the header and footer are ok. An affiliate link or "sponsored content" that is appropriately placed and blends with content is ok. Ads all over the page and in the sidebar are obnoxious to users and Google agrees and doesn't want to subject us to it (for which I'm, as a user, appreciative.)
Backlinks
Backlinks can account for up to 1/3 of your overall standing with Google -- that is, quality backlinks; not "hey, link to me and I'll link you back."
Content Freshness/Quality
You may very well have 15 million posts, but if they're all from 2003 and you get very little new content, your old content is going to have less value to Google and they may drop it. Keep it fresh, keep users engaged.
Google has gotten very intelligent and can distinguish rehashing the same musings over fresh information. General discussion sites with loose/generic content won't likely fare as well as those with unique, relevant content. Pages with thin content (such as picture threads, a bunch of "lols", etc.) are likely to get hit by Google.
 
Again, Google cleaned house in 2017 - many sites got hit, including those using Wordpress, vB, etc. There's just too many variables to get all up in arms over one component: a sitemap. A sitemap, even the complete absence of a sitemap is not going to cause your indexed pages to drop. If this has happened to you, it's because Google penalized you and dropped your content. A sitemap is also not a magic wand and Google will not consider it the be-all for indexed content. A sitemap is a good gap filler and provides Google additional insight, but most content is still indexed organically through links.
4.3 will provide for the mentioned improvements to the sitemap. Given 4.3 is so close, I'm sorry, but it would not be worth re-engineering those improvements for 4.2 and again, it's not going to be the magic solution you believe it to be. Unfortunately, I can only suggest focusing on the above list as one or more of those items is the likely culprit for your site being dropped.

IPS Sitemap generator using special database table source for refreshing - core_sitemap.
Primary search engine source of sitemap is url https://example.com/sitemap.php which is list of sub-sitemap files. You can see list of that files proceed for this link.
Each of that file contain no more than 1000 urls to specail pages (profile status, topic (without number of pages or comment) and other elements, with supported sitemap as core extension).
One of our case is forum with more than 100k topics, more than 4.2kk posts and more than 6kk users. So with simply math we have 5214 sitemap files (you can simply count number of that files with command 
select count(*) from core_sitemap; // 5214 Sitemap generator task run by default once per 15 minuts and update only one oldest element from that big list. With simple math we can try to answer question 'how many time we need for update everything?' (because users can post not only in newest and may post in some old topics... but.. new created topic will add to sitemap file only when ALL older files will newer than current file with new topic inside). So, how much time we need for update?
5214*15 = 78210 minuts = 1303 hours = 54 days! 54! days! Search engine will add your newest content after 54 days after them posted. Incredible thing. Not believe? Or want to know this lag for your community? You can simple know your lag time with that sql:
select FROM_UNIXTIME(updated,'%a %b %d %H:%i:%s UTC %Y') from core_sitemap order by updated asc limit 1; // Wed Nov 01 14:13:49 UTC 2017 Yep.. In our case oldest file last updated in 1 November...
What we should do for fix it? Very fast solution - create a temp file, like a 'mycustomsitemapupdater.php' with this content:
<?php require 'init.php'; $generator = new \IPS\Sitemap; $generator->buildNextSitemap(); $last = \IPS\Db::i()->select('FROM_UNIXTIME(updated, "%a %b %d %H:%i:%s UTC %Y")', 'core_sitemap', null, 'updated asc', 1)->first(); print_r('Oldest time now: ' . $last . PHP_EOL); And run it via web or cli so times, what you want (before oldest time not be so old).
Solution for a longer time - add this script to the cron and run it every minute or, which better - change task 'sitemap generator' run time from 15 mins to one minute (but it may be not solve you special problem, if you need to update it faster - do it with smart).
Better solution - wait for IPS updating of that system.
Thanks for attension!
P.S. If you read my text with negative speach - it's wrong. I love IPS and just want to make attension for that problem and help others with their large communities. 

First of all, the quizzes application is really great!
 
An improvement suggestion that many of my members have:
There is a graded mode and a study mode. In the study mode there is a button that shows an explanation of the correct answer. It would be very helpful and an improvement, if in the graded mode at the end of the quiz also a button with explanations of the correct answer would be displayed. Because many members want to know why an answer is right.
 

First of all, the quizzes application is really great!
 
An improvement suggestion that many of my members have:
There is a graded mode and a study mode. In the study mode there is a button that shows an explanation of the correct answer. It would be very helpful and an improvement, if in the graded mode at the end of the quiz also a button with explanations of the correct answer would be displayed. Because many members want to know why an answer is right.
 

What's New in Version 1.2.5.1:
Enhancement:
Uses the quiz image when promoting the Quiz

The plugin doesn't work with 4.1.18.2 ... ?!