aXenDev

Hi, I have a few suggestions for Pages App that I miss a lot after switching from Wordpress. The application itself works great and is very flexible, but it still lacks a lot of options, which I will try to describe below. 
First of all option which I miss on start is a Poll/Vote option, because I cannot add a poll with voting in any way to article, which is available only in the forum application. It would be great to see  possibility to adding a poll into our articles.
Tables - it is not possible to insert tables with a certain number of columns and rows. This option isn't available in any of the apps, but it would be nice to see one in Pages. For example, I am adding a table with 3 columns and 5 rows, e.g. for movies. The columns contain information such as the name of the film, Production Year and Genre, which can be sorted in ascending or descending order, while in the rows we complete the data related to the columns.
Author Box - as simply as the name suggests, adding the option to insert a small window about the author of the content and a short description of it, which would be added as a widget from the side panel in any selected place, e.g. under the content of an article in Pages.
 
These are all my suggestions so far, I hope one of them will be in a newer version of Pages.

What exactly is the “bug”? 
JQMIGRATE messages saying something is deprecated are not bugs. They are just hints which help developers with updating code to newer jQuery versions.  

Hey,
we have published the first article of a series about upcoming 4.6 changes.
We took the opportunity for some spring cleaning, so we have removed most of the deprecated methods!
They were all marked as deprecated for a while, so you should already be aware of these methods, but here’s a full list of the methods and the new approaches to make your life easier, so if you haven’t already, now it’s the best time to review your code and make sure that none of these methods is used.
Most of the changes can already be implemented while the 4.5.x lifecycle.
 

In IPS 4.6, probably May-June 2021. Looking at previous releases.

One more teaser 😉 

Happy Hump Day my Invision Community fam! 
 
Invision Community Achievements:
We wanted to kick off this special post with a preview of Achievements. It's Invision Community's take on gamification with our powerful platform. It's something we're really excited to rollout this year (which does not = December 31st lol). 
We don't want to give away too much about it yet, but feel free to weigh in/ask questions 🙂 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
Fix dump:
Here's what we accomplished in the past week (new changes since last Wednesday's Hump Day post):
- Fixed broken 3rd party ACP permissions on Cloud.
- Added a new Spam Defense option to allow registration but require moderator approval of all new posts.
- Fixed an issue where HTML logic of a page may be stored in the search index.
- Fixed chunk uploading when using Amazon S3 with some S3-compatible providers.
- Renewal invoice warning emails will now show tax included, if applicable.
- Fixed an issue with Member Filters happening when members where filtered by subscriptions and purchases.
- Fixed messenger link still displaying on profiles on mobile devices if the user does not have permission to access the messenger module.
- Fixed an issue converting some types of SMF profile photos.
- Fixed an issue where the width of the layout would stretch, caused by long strings of content.
- Fixed an issue where Member Sync onEmailChange may be called before validation when changing email via validating screen.
- Fixed a typo when flagging a member as a spammer.
- Fixed an issue where the DeleteImageProxyFiles task would never finish or not update its progress appropriately .
- Fixed an issue with the REST API where a GET request to records with a category parameter would result in a DB error.
Important Method Changes:
- Added a `$seperator` parameter to `\IPS\CustomField::displayValues` which can be used to define a custom seperator when displaying multiple values .
- Updated method signature for `\IPS\Node\Model::getLastCommentTime()`.
- Added a `$count` parameter to `\IPS\Content::definiteArticle/_definiteArticle()`. If an integer is passed, a pluralized phrase will be used, if available. You should add pluralized strings for any `__defart_*` strings you've already created. The key should be in the format `__defart_*_plural`.
 
Invision Community Live Streams
We've also been discussing doing some live Q&As and webinars for you all to participate in. It would give you the opportunity to ask questions in a live setting and visibly see us respond. Does that sound like something you'd be interested in? Before we dive too far into that rabbit hole, we wanted to gauge your reaction and see if you'd like that. Please reply and let us know what you think and also what times would be good for you! 🙏 
 
And in case you missed it...
 

In IPS 4.6, probably May-June 2021. Looking at previous releases.

bumping for the incredible tip. This drastically reduces page load times and should be integrated with the lazy load feature in IPS 4.5 or 4.6 when it comes out. Really simple change to the templates made a major difference.

jQuery is obviously not needed in 2021 - I'd love to do away with it. In reality, we have many thousands of lines of JS and the cost/benefit of rewriting everything for that reason alone isn't really there. Plus, we'd likely end up with a lot of helper methods that are essentially reimplementing some of jQuery's helper methods. We use some of the more advanced jQuery features too, so it wouldn't be as simple as updating .find to .querySelectorAll.
So, the answer is: yes, I agree, but it isn't as simple as saying "let's do that".
Also, in reality, if we were going to take the opportunity to redo our entire frontend codebase, we'd likely move to a reactive framework to build a better frontend, rather than simply rewriting what we have now but without jQuery. This will happen in time - we can't stay with the same code forever - but again it's about finding the right balance.

Loving the theme, the options with the theme settings are plentiful. Crisp and clean but there is a lot of questions that I have, suggestions and feedback. 
I have bought the theme with the soul intention of switching over to this in due course but I'm in two minds at the moment for a few reasons. Mainly usability.
Switching from dark to light is very snappy, however, when in dark mode and switching page, it auto loads the light style before quickly loading the dark style - which is the default we have set. Is there anyway to stop this at all? I noticed a previous post on this topic referring to it and an update released?
I just bought and installed this yesterday and from within ACP marketplace and it's still doing it (see below).

db5481eb367bc08aed53cf13dd3edccd.mp4 If we have 2 menu items from pages, then the code for fontawesome is inserted as per guide
nav .ipsNavBar_primary li[data-navext="Pages"] a::before {content: "\f03d" !important;} However, every page receives this, as all Pages are the same navext with seperate id's, this is also the same for customitem (link to the page). Unless I'm missing some obvious? So they end up having the exact same font awesome.
Also I have two menu items
nav .ipsNavBar_primary li[data-navext="Videos"] a::before {content: "\f03d" !important;} If I use f167 (YouTube), it "will not" show the fontawesome but fo3d "will" show without issue? No change to the code other than the unicode.
nav .ipsNavBar_primary li[data-navext="Pages"] a::before {content: "\f518" !important;} The above works fine and shows an open book but if I use f266 (wikipedia) it will not show?
Not sure what all the options are within theme settings, an explanation of all the settings, and what they do would be great. The PDF guide is great but lacks a lot of information on all the different options. For example, what does "Enable shrink forum names?" do exactly?
For the life of me, I'm struggling to understand why the footer is within language translation? That is really strange. It should be within the theme settings for footer (all other themes have it there).
Same feedback for Highlight block in profile and slider, these should all be within theme settings, without the need to go into languages and translation. Everything theme related, should be editable within the theme and not having to go elsewhere to edit.
I don't seem to be able to find a setting for ipsbox ipspad? It seems to have been removed? If you have no background image, you can select the background colour and it looks OK. However, if you have a background image and as there is no class="ipsBox ipsPad. The it is simple text on the background (whether colour or image background) and it doesn't look good.
Example, current theme

Your theme 

 
Page built using page builder (current theme)

Your theme

Just not as sleek imho.
Topics, and inserting internal links on dark theme, all embeds are from the light version of the theme and not dark. This may be intentional but doesn't suit a dark theme.

I was looking at copyright removal and I don't mind paying to remove it, $30/$40 is about the going rate but no other theme supplier is charging a copyright renewal fee every 6 months, to maintain the removal that I'm aware of?
Actually makes me not want to purchase copyright removal, resulting in you losing out on revenue.

The renewal is $14.99 every 6 months, and then 199.99pln for copyright removal (roughly $54) then every 6 months 99.99pln ($27.00 at current exchange rate) for copyright removal totalling $41.99 every 6 months.
That is more than IPS are charging for renewal of forum and pages.
Not being negative, just supplying honest and constructive feedback/criticism. I'm a Scotsman and quite forward with my wording at times, it's not intended how it can come across at times but on this occasion, it seems to me to be taken the ****.

There's a lot right with the theme and there's a lot wrong with it, especially for what you're charging.

We keep the theme updated as often as possible, so it would be the prior version number to the current one.  I did manage to get this issue fixed by disabling rocketloader, so we'll be okay for now.  I'm not noticing any slow page speeds, just a little odd that it started struggling with making sure the stored settings loaded with the page.
 

I realise this ship has probably long since sailed, but we're 3 months into 4.5.4, and there's a decent pile of bugs, including a currently unpatched security related one, that have piled up in that time. Is there any chance we can have a 4.5.5 release to fix some of those bugs, rather than watching 4.6 stretch further and further out? I pushed for the features to be included in 4.6 rather than 4.5.5, but I did not intend for that to be at the expense of the timely release of other changes. (I also recognise wanting to give staff a break etc, but we're well into 2021 now, and surely having more bugs fixed would reduce their load anyway?)

Lol I know just joshin 🐒 

@aXenDev The toggle already fixed, thank you very much for your support and help

IPS for delayed loading images uses data-src in java script.
I apply the following for a user photo on my site - in a template userPhoto
I replace this
<img src='{$member->photo}' alt='{$member->name}'> with
<img src="data:image/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=" data-src='{$member->photo}' alt='{$member->name}'>
For react like in a template  reactionOverview
I replace
<img src='{$reaction->_icon->url}' alt="{lang="reaction_title_{$reaction->id}" escape="true"}"> with
<img src="data:image/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=" data-src='{$reaction->_icon->url}' alt="{lang="reaction_title_{$reaction->id}" escape="true"}"> This works well on my site.

@mark2012
 

you can change the content in translations, once your in there search for aXenProfilePro_Text_1 and so on, you can then type in your new content to the right and hit save.
acp-customization-languages- click translate on the right hand side 👍

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PHP 8.0.0 has been released. Some bugs that I've found in a couple of minutes of testing:
There are a bunch of deprecation warnings for required parameters following optional parameters - from my search with the regex function\s*\w+\s*\([^=)]*=[^)]*,\s*\$[^,)=]*[,)] there are 47 instances of this in the suite. It should be safe to remove all of the offending default parameters, since they can never be utilised. The cms lang key can_edit_item_message_record is invalid - it contains %S rather than %s, which causes the page to (randomly?) 500. Fatal error: Cannot make static method XMLReader::open() non static in class IPS\Xml\_XMLReader in .../system/Xml/XMLReader.php on line 34 (this might be a fun one to fix - it's a PHP 8 change that isn't compatible in either direction - https://www.php.net/manual/en/xmlreader.open.php#refsect1-xmlreader.open-changelog - you probably have to make a new method that delegates instead) TypeError: method_exists(): Argument #1 ($object_or_class) must be of type object|string, null given from statusContainer.phtml:133 (when viewing a feed containing status updates) PHP Fatal error:  Unparenthesized `a ? b : c ? d : e` is not supported. Use either `(a ? b : c) ? d : e` or `a ? b : (c ? d : e)` in .../applications/calendar/widgets/upcomingEvents.php on line 153 If I come across any more issues, I'll add them in this topic, and encourage others to do the same.

Any chance make moods 1.2 work with your theme 
Best Regards Chris

Hello Guys,
First of all I would like to apologise to everyone who has been waiting for the update. I had actually submitted an update but it was denied ( email attached ).
This is an email to remind you that your request (#66770) has been pending for 3 days and awaits your feedback.
 
Daniel Fatkic (Invision Community)
Sep 11, 2020, 8:08 AM EDT
Hi,

Your update has been rejected for the following reasons

1. Most of the extensions aren't implemented correctly and contain almost all the none functional skeleton code.
2. Your Admin Controllers are missing the proper protection ( CSRF Protection )
  Regards,
Daniel Fatkic
Invision Power Services, Inc.
After this, I was dealing with some IRL situation with covid and family members so didn't have the time to resubmit with the feedback given for the first update disapproval.
I have now made a new request and hopefully it should be approved within the next few days. Again apologies for the wait, hope you guys can understand.
Thanks,
David G. (devu4) 

Correct

@kmk If the problem is still not solved, create a new topic. This is topic support theme, not IPS script.

Correct

@kmk If the problem is still not solved, create a new topic. This is topic support theme, not IPS script.

You can fix in ACP - Groups - Social (and enable posting of status updates)

Great message! It will save me writing additional code. Thanks!