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I'm having a similar issue where someone is trying to create an account and keeps getting error code ex0. They've made 2 trouble tickets already but I can't figure out what the problem is. Anyone know what error code ex0 means?

When you click the promote button at the top of the thread the window you're presented with is almost impossible to figure out just by looking at it. There's no way but trial and error to figure out how it works, and it doesn't work particularly well once understood. I attached a screenshot of the window, so I can describe the problems with it. To be fair, before I start in, I'm only using this tool to promote internally which is a wonderful feature when I can endure the tedium required to get it to do what I want. I don't use it to promote to FB or Twitter or anything like that. ------------------------------ FIRST WINDOW The first window titled Full Link is easy enough. Works fine except that you can't delete the link, so it's confusing as to why its in an input box. If it's just for copying and pasting into the other 2 dialog boxes, it should probably be at the bottom of the window. ------------------------------ SECOND WINDOW The second window I'm assuming is the text that gets sent to the platforms you're set up to promote to. This box is initially populated with only the text content of the post you're promoting. No images, no post title. If you click "Show original content" underneath the text box it does nothing but change the text bog to a long form text input box which can only be resized horizontally, not vertically...? Why? And it can't be changed back once you click it, not that I understand why you would want to. How this should work: This should start as a resizable long text input box that's resizable vertically, not horizontally, and the pointless "show original content" button should instead be named "restore original content" and serve to restore the original text when clicked (undoable of course), and it shouldn't disappear once its clicked. ------------------------------ THIRD WINDOW The third window, despite having a "close window X" in the top right, will automatically stop the content from being promoted internally if left blank. This took me a few tries to figure out, seeing as I wanted to promote the thread with the title only, and no description. I figured the X was the toggle for "share internally" but apparently the lack of text is a secondary toggle, even if you do input a custom title. In order to get the threads title I had to open a new window, re-navigate back to the topic, copy the title, and manually paste it into the "Set a custom 'Our Picks' title" input. You can imagine the annoyance of having to do this 3 times before realizing that the blank, poorly labeled text box above was preventing internal promotion. How this should work: There should be 2 input fields. A top short input field which auto-fills with the topics title, but is changeable. The second input, the main text box, should not cancel the internal promotion if left blank. Even if the title is blank as well. (At that point the only text in the promoted item in the Our Picks window would be "So-and-so posted a topic in Some-Forum on whatever date". That's sufficient.) The text underneath the box should read "Promote this content on this community" followed by a toggle switch, and the X in the upper right should be removed. ------------------------------ UPLOAD IMAGE WINDOW As it stands, if I want to add an image that's already in the post I have to re-navigate back to the post in a new window, download the image from the post, and then upload it into the promoted content window... ------------------------------ IT GETS WORSE On your Manage Promotions window, if you edit a an internally shared item and delete all the text in the description, when you return to the Manage Promotions window, the edit icon will be gone for this item. ------------------------------ Thank you for coming to my Ted talk on your Promotions window :)

In the Admin CP > Social Media Promotion > Auto Schedule it would be wonderful if this menu included the ability to pick a day of the week. Currently it's just time of day, but this way you could set up batch promotions to go out on Saturdays, for example. I'm aware that the current promote topic menu has the ability to select a specific day and time, but the problem with it is when you have staff from all over the world trying to promote at noon on Saturday and everyone is in a different time-zone its tough to coordinate. If you had an auto-scheduled time that respected the time zone of the person who created it, that would allow everyone to sync up easily. i.e. just putting the calendar select option on the menu below would allow an admin to pick a day of the week or month that's consistent, and didn't need to be re-figured out every single time someone wants to promote something. Another nice toggle that would extremely convenient on this menu would be "Remove previously existing promoted content when promoting a new batch".

I think it would be nice to see the automatic Group Promotions expanded on a little bit. Namely the options to promote people for the following: 1) Starting a chosen number of posts within a chosen forum(s) 2) Commenting a chosen number of times within a chosen forum(s) 3) Providing answers to a chosen number of questions within a chosen forum(s) 4) Having a chosen amount of answers selected as "best answer" within a chosen forum(s) Thanks for considering!

Oh, that makes sense. I see now why it wasn't working. Thank you.

There seems to be some glitch right now which is making it impossible to merge threads properly. My goal is to simple take thread A and merge it into thread B while keeping the original top post and author of thread B. As far as I can tell this is 100% impossible right now. If I check topic A, select merge and give it the URL for topic B, it keeps the top post and author from topic A. If I check topic B, select merge and give it the URL for topic A, it keeps the top post and author from topic A. If I check all the individual posts in topic A, select split to existing thread and input the URL for topic B, it makes the author of the first comment in topic A the NEW author of topic B. There is literally no way I can find to create a new topic (would be topic B in the examples) and just merge other content onto it. Every single avenue of approach results in a new author and new top post.

@Joel RYou know, that is an excellent suggestion. Thank you.

I recently had an issue where a member had created an alternate account with which to downvote another member they didn't like. After finding out, I went into the alt's profile in the admin cp, and removed reputation given, and reputation received. This did not restore the original victims reputation for some reason. Furthermore, when I then tried to merge the alt account with the owners original account, it got real weird. The alt disappeared as expected. But ANOTHER not aforementioned account was then credited with downvoting the original victim. In other words, the original account that issued the downvotes was gone, but the downvotes were not. Instead they were now showing as having been issued from yet another account. This other mystery account appears (tho I can't be sure) to have the same name the alt account used to have before it's name was changed manually by the now ex-admin who created the alt. We think he created the alt. He may have just renamed an old abandoned account, it's tough to say. But by whatever means it came into existence, the alt, and the mystery account should've been the same account. Wow. Anyway, despite merging the alt, and the new mystery account both with the ex-admins account (and removing all rep given and received on both before doing so), the persons reputation was never restored.

----- THE ISSUES 1) On the admin cp when I navigate to Themes, click on the dropdown arrow next to a theme, and select "edit html and css" none of the html template or css files show up. The panel where there is normally a collapsing list of these files is empty. Furthermore, editing the custom.css file and clicking Save produces an error popup that reads "this file can not be saved!". Same thing when attempting to edit the global html file. These 2 files are the only 2 accessible, in that their contents actually do show up where they normally should, although their names do not show up in their respective side panels. I've tried downloading and re-uploading themes from the main build, and creating new themes on the dev build, both to no avail. 2) The second issue is that if I try to add a button to the editor toolbar, it will appear to work until I refresh the page at which point the button will be removed from the editor toolbar and placed back in the unused buttons panel. This behavior applies to both custom buttons and generic buttons. ----- SUSPECTED PROBLEMS My development build is on a subdomain. I also use Cloudflare as a CDN. I suspect that either of these things, or a combination of the two, is leading to some files not being accessed or saved in the proper locations. The strange thing regarding the themes is that the single theme I can access through Easy Editor mode allows me to save the custom css file when in EE mode. Note: This is in no way an urgent problem for me.

Thank you for that. I'll try implementing it, see how it goes. I get that. However the "online users" page shows what page the user is on, and some of the users were browsing specific pages. Given that admins and moderators are the only groups set to have access to the site when its offline, and the site is offline, this shouldn't have been possible. __________ After some messing around there are now almost always 5 other users present on the site, but I'm just hoping they're cloudflare's cdn network caching data.

Update. I changed the .htaccess file to deny all IP, and left it that way for a couple hours. Apache should've been denying all access during that time. After a couple hours I then switch it to only accept my IP, and logged in immediately. Upon doing so, then going to online users, it showed me, a guest with my IP and a 2nd guest who had been logged in for 10 minutes...

Hi all, I have my live dev build running on a subdomain. I just noticed this morning there are 12 guests browsing the dev build. I'm wondering what is the recommended way to prevent other people from accessing it is. I have the Guests' group setting "can access site" turned to off, along with all groups other than admins. I have the site set to offline. Somehow they're still browsing, as shown in the admin cp, the "Whos Online" widget, and the Online Users page. Unfortunately WayBackMachine apparently allows access to an older version of the dev version. If they were browsing an archived version of the dev version, would it show up in those places as them currently browsing the current dev version? How do I prevent this? Should I blacklist all IP addresses and whitelist my own in the htaccess file? Is there something on my hosts side I should do? Cloudflare maybe? Any help would be appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE 1 As of now I've rewritten the dev site's root folder's .htaccess file to the following: <RequireAll> Require ip xx.xx.xx.xx #<--my IP </RequireAll> There are still at least 2 guests who seem to be managing to bypass this somehow. Despite that, it still doesn't seem like this should be necessary. Like if the site is set to offline, guests group permissions for "can access site" are set to off, guests permissions to "can access site while offline" are set to off, how are they getting on there??? It doesn't seem like I should have to resort to whitelisting my IP and blocking all others. Surely there are many admins who wouldn't know to do that, and would just be stuck allowing guests to wander their dev build. I also like using VPN while browsing, and this prevents me from being able to do so on my own site, without even solving the problem completely. To boot, I can't even get the guests' IP to block them specifically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE 2 There is currently one guest online, and their IP address is showing up as the same as my own. Which means somehow they're mirroring my IP. I don't know how this is possible. Does that mean they have access to the admin cp? Or the .htaccess file? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE 3 I still don't know how they're using the same IP address as me. I added the following Cloudflare rules for all traffic on my dev subdomain: • Security settings to I'm Under Attack, which presents a Javascript challenge to the browser. • Set Cache Deception Armor to on. • Add IP Geolocation header to on. My browser automatically uses a VPN. So I have to ask google what my IP is every so often to update the .htaccess file... The instant I update the .htaccess file to a new IP, the guest's IP changes with it. Although it then shows a second guest still logged in with the previous IP address... How are they using the ONLY IP allowed to access the site??

Yes I meant IPS, sry. I tried clearing the sites cache, and Cloudflares cache. Didn't work. Would SSL interfere with this? Does it matter that it's on a subdomain (my live dev version)?

lol yea I know Widgetbot is like that, but it's working fine on my local ide. I just inspected the button and no the Javascript is not showing up there... Is it possible that IPE maybe removing the Javascript code segment? ...would it still do that if the JS is directly in the html template? If it's cloudflare... which I agree, sounds like the likely culprit, do you know how to get around that?

Hi all! I'm trying to install Widgetbot IO on my site. Widgetbot is a Discord bot, and installing it adds a Discord icon in the corner of your site which can be clicked and expands into a small chat window containing your Discord server. It requires pasting a small chunk of Javascript code ideally before the closing body tag. An example looks like this: <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@widgetbot/crate@3" async defer> new Crate({ server: '299881420891881473', channel: '355719584830980096' }) </script> Given that I no longer have a manual theme, but an easy mode editor theme, I opted to paste the code inside of a custom widget, using this plugin: Advanced Custom Widgets. • THE PROBLEM The result is that the button appears in the lower right corner, but clicking it to expand the Discord server results in an empty widget, as picture in the attached image. I've tried switching the theme to manual mode and pasting the script directly before the closing body tag, and it produces the same results. I use Cloudflare for a CDN and creating a page rule is an option. I've seen a couple IPS sites use this widget, so I know it's possible. I'm just wondering what's preventing it from working in my instance. Any help appreciated, thanks!

Thank you!

It doesn't look like the "log in anonymously" option is still even available at log in, and I haven't seen it there for quite a while. I think I was logged in anonymously when I upgraded to the version that did away with it. Now every time I log in I'm logged in anonymously and I can't figure out how to get around it XD

Yes editing the conf_global file, and the rewrites in the .htacess file did the trick. Thanks!

Yep, I've done the usual cache clear, on both my site and Cloudflare. I don't know what you mean about updating the sit url to load assets in https tho...

Steps: • Through my host's cPanel I enabled LetsEncrypt successfully. • My site uses Cloudflare, so I also had to enable SSL in Cloudflare. • Now that that's finally all set up, I'm getting 2 new errors. _____/ FIRST I am unable to embed images in posts. If I paste an image link into the ckeditor, 1 of 2 things will happen, I don't know what causes it to be which one. 1) Returns an error at the bottom of the text editing area: Unable to embed image unknown error. 2) Returns the following at the bottom of the text editing area: Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Either way, the post will not include the image, just the link to it. _____/ SECOND - People are reporting that when they try to add links they get these types of error messages (see images) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to make an app in Google App Script, and then embed the app in an iframe on my IPB site. I want to have my site's Chatbox in the Google App. This means I have to embed it in an iframe. Doing that requires that seems to require I whitelist Google to be able to embed my site. Is that so? And if so how / where exactly do I do that? Is this even possible? (Rough to be asking at this point, I'm already dozens of hours into developing this app, and should've seen this coming. Learning lessons lol)

@Miss_B Right, given that the menu shown in PPlanet's screenshot, I kind of figured these posts have been completely deleted. As in their data has been removed from the database. It was an interesting consideration to check the Moderator Panel and the data rows, but alas, all of that left us where we started. Which is my original question: Is it possible to simply get the deleted posts from a backup of the database, and copy their data rows into the forums_posts table and forums_topics tables? That is the question. That and "Or is there some other variable, such as members_post_content somewhere that would no longer line up and cause problems?"... meaning if you think the answer is no, why do you think that? What prevents it? "unfortunately they can not be reassigned" is a barely sufficient answer, but enough to offer resolve because you're not specifying how you came to that conclusion. How do you know they can not be "reassigned"? What information lead you to that? Or is it just a personal suspicion, an er on the side of caution etc?

Search by either author_name or author_id returns no posts.

Good timing, I was just checking, but I was using the author's name. I'll get their ID and try searching that way.

Oh thank you! The member is still registered, their account was not deleted, only banned, and then unbanned. I didn't realize the members posts would still be preserved in the database, I don't know why I thought the row would've just been removed from the table.