Aramaech

I had a member accidentally get Flagged as a Spammer and have all their content deleted. I have a backup databases that contains this lost content. Is it possible to do the following without causing problems? 1) upload my backup database to my server under a new name 2) take the site offline momentarily 3) use an SQL query to simply copy rows from the mebmers_posts table in my backup db into the active db, selecting by their post_id which do appear in the backup db, but do not appear in the active sites members_posts table? 4) rebuild the sitemap and search index ...Or is there some other variable, such as members_post_content somewhere that would no longer line up and cause problems?

On my local build, when I try to add a new widget block, I get the error "couldn't save block position". I've tried rebuilding the sitemap, rebuilding the search index, clearing the cache, disabling all 3rd party apps and plugins, disabling friendly urls and reinstalling all the plugins and apps. Anyone know how to solve this one?

That does work, but only if you don't have your Cloudflare set in Under DDoS attack mode. We leave that mode on, because there is a forum that shares the same fan base as mine which is run by some maniac who's well know for hacking other forums in the community, and has made attacks on our site. So turning it off isn't really an option. And of course that mode presents a javascript challenge to the browser, which does not bear the header the rss feed reader is expecting. Spot on tip tho, thanks.

The title pretty much says it. Within: AdminCP > Forums > Edit specific forum > Posting Settings It would be nice if there was a toggle switch or 2, something to the tune of: "Questions upvoted in this forum increase posters reputation" "Answers upvoted in this forum increase posters reputation"

@Paul E. Yea either would accomplish what I was hoping for. @AlexWebsites I pass the RSS to IFTTT which then outs it to Facebook and Twitter. I used to use it for Google+ before it shut down. For Discord I use Discordrss bot. Hope this helps. One major pain tho is that Cloudflare messes up your RSS feed. So ever since I started using Cloudflare I've been unable to automate my social media presence, which sucks. If anyone knows how to work around that, a solution would be greatly appreciated, albeit a little off topic.

Currently only the following values are outputted through the RSS feed: "title" "description" "link" "date" I think "author" should be added to that information. That way, for example if you're using RSS to output to Facebook or Discord or Twitter, and you're customizing the outgoing feed, you can include the author of the post. It looks a little weird when you just see some random post and have no idea who it's from, just appears to be from the site itself.

oooohhhh ok, so what I'm doing should actually be working then, it's just the message itself hanging around, which is easy. Awesome, thanks!

In my local development environment, I keep getting that good ol "background tasks are not running" warning. The go-to fix seems to be the cron job, which I'm capable of setting up, but the reason I haven't is that doing so requires giving terminal lots of permissions that I don't want to give it, out of general simplistic security concerns. Not that it's pivotal or anything but part of me thinks it would be nice to have the local dev build run as closely to the production environment as possible. So I've been tinkering with workarounds. First I wrote an Applescript that just pops open the local site in a minimized browser window and keeps refreshing it every 3 seconds over and over for some amount of time that you can choose when the script starts. I thought that would simulate traffic effectively enough, but it didn't seem to get rid of the warning message. So next I tried going to the AdminCP > Advanced Settings > Tasks field and clicked on "Use cron" which presents you with 2 cron tasks that you're supposed to set to run once a minute. So I tried making another Applescript that just ran those once a minute through the terminal in the background. No dice. Next I went back to the AdminCP > Advanced Settings > Tasks field and clicked on "Use web service". It gives you a URL that you're supposed to have Easycron or some comparable site send out every minute. Instead I just used another Applescript and had it pass that URL to a browser window once a minute. Still no go... Does anyone know how to properly simulate traffic, or a cron job, or an Easycron url? Are any of the things I'm doing supposed to work, and maybe just aren't because of an overlooked bug or misstep or something?

I was actually, lol... (feeling a little dumb right now) But I was referring to the admin cp specifically, where for some reason that option doesn't seem to be a possibility. I guess the only real ease that would be added by my suggestion then, would be that whoever is doing the promotions wouldn't have to remember and enter the next date each time. They would just be able to use the Auto Schedule option in the menu you posted, which only be a very slight improvement in ease. In order to really get the effect I was initially hoping for, I think it would be necessary to add a "repeat, and how often" option to the auto scheduler. So like you could then set up an auto scheduler event that repeats every 1 week, or every 3 months or whatever. *everything beyond here is past the point* Kinda like a calendar event....Which is an interesting thought. One way might be to somehow integrate calendar events into the auto scheduler, so that... either you could select from upcoming calendar events (including repeating ones) in the auto scheduler. Or even on the promote button menu you posted in your comment if there were a drop down of upcoming calendar events you could pick from? I don't know I'm just thinking out loud at this point.

For people who run a weekly or monthly or maybe even semiannual newsletter, or events, or something with which they'd like their Our Picks to correlate to, the ability to schedule at a bit broader of a time range than just daily would be really really nice. For example, my site currently does a weekly news kind of thing which requires 2 staff members, and if I could schedule Our Picks to launch weekly, I could make their jobs a million times easier. Just a thought, doesn't seem like it would be that hard to implement, and it seems like a lot of people would be able to take advantage of it in different ways. Thanks for reading.

Does the widget support Javascript in when it's in processing HTML? Also, not sure if it's possible but a "forums select" option in the widgets edit menu that lets you choose which forums the widget is visible on, would be fantastic. Issue being that if you add it on the a specific topics page, it will be visible in every topic. Or if you add it to a forum in the topics list section, it will be visible in all forums topics list sections. The ability to select where specifically, on what forums these widgets appear could be nice.

Yes, yet another vote for this feature please. Kevin's Rules app is Great, but bulk moving topics as a means of just basic organization seems like a common sense feature that should just be built into the software.

A feature in the admin cp somewhere that lists all active widget blocks giving each a drop-down forums selector to check off which sub-forums the block would be visible on, would be very convenient. It would allow for completely custom block and page layouts per sub-forum, increasing the software's layout versatility substantially with a relatively small addition.

It's currently not possible auto-embed a YouTube live channel into a post. The editor returns the error: Could not embed because there is no video at this location. Embedding the current live stream is possible, but the url changes after each stream. Making all possible embedding of a live stream impermanent. This can amount to quite the pain depending on how often the live stream is used. The current method for permanently embedding a YouTube live channel, rather than a specific video (the url of which will change after each live stream) is described neatly here: http://www.codeprocedures.com/question/how-to-embed-youtube-live-chat-with-url-permanent/ As is some suggested php to get the current live chat (the url of which also changes with each live stream, also making it an impermanent embed only). The ability to embed a YouTube live channel would be useful for anything from gaming to conference calling. And not having to change the link after each stream in order to do so would be wonderful, but having a permanently embeddable live chat would be the piece de resistance

The most recent version. 4.1.17.1

This plugin doesn't seem to be working properly for me. I copied the css from the example, changes tag-testtag to tag-stage in both places, and it produced a replica of the tag after it with no formatting, just text. Hope this helps

Yes, this worked beautifully. Thank you Nathan. In this instance it's only admins that need to be able to post html, so this was perfect.

I'm trying to figure out how to embed iframe based widgets (namely Discord and Youtube Direct Lite) into a post, essentiually. Specifically the "Rules" section of a particular sub-board, which is essentially a bunch of text (or whatever you put into the editor) that shows up at the top of the sub board. I've tried adding codemirror to my ckeditor to allow source editing (for admins only of course) and pasting the iframe in source mode. That does allow me to paste the iframe in the body of the post, where it shows up as the app itself, exactly as it should in the final post. Problem is when I go to post it, nothing shows up except a blank space the size of the app. I've tried installing the editors iframe dialogue plugin also to no avail. Does anyone have experience doing this kind of thing successfully, or know how I could do it?