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Hello, Its been a long while since I've worked on themes or have updated do I sort of forgot the process. Today I updated our forum to Invision Community v4.6.4 and now need to update the MD Panel theme. Our custom version has a few pages that were customized and a complete change of colors and most images. I didn't create it as a child theme (guess that was my first mistake), so now it just says "customized" instead allowing an option to update. Can you please explain how best to proceed? Thank you

Any Invision staff looking at this thread?

Anything? Hate to say it, but almost ready to move on to another forum system. The support desk is an important part of how we use this forum and why we paid for the commerce part of it. Its become essentially useless because we have hundreds of pages of spam we can't get rid of.

Looping back to this topic since there's been a couple updates... I'm running the current forum software ands still same issue. I have about 645 pages of straight spam and am stuck deleting them 25 at a time. Any solutions?

Awesome that worked, thank you! Still getting used to this new interface and features. Have two more questions... 1. Is there a guide of some sort so we know what color variables in the theme section of admin affect what areas on teh front end? Obviously its broken down into tabs which respresent sections and the names themselves are somewhat descriptive, but wondering if there's any sort of map or guide for this? 2. Likewise, I'm confused about the Light / Dark mode works. How do we create the two versions? In other words, how do a make all the color tweaks to the theme and then how do we add that to the section for Light / Dark mode? Thanks again.

Hello, I seem to be having some pretty major issues after upgrading IPB and the forum. I'm not trying to install a clean copy of the mdPanel theme but its not allowing me because it says I already have it installed and that it is up to date. I do not want to delete the old versions of it since I'd like a reference for the changes I made. What can I do? Thanks

Yeah, I'll vote for selections spanning across pages as well, but does anyone have any solution to this? Hate to say it, but really starting to get bummed out on this software.

I tried that but "select all" only works for the page your on. In my case, it selects 25 out of the 7,511 in the filtered result. Is there a way to truly select all?

Still can't seem to figure out a solution short of running a MySQL query. Anyone happen to know if this is possible?

Hello, Seems someone spammed the heck out of my Support Requests (IPB Commerce). Is there a way to simply wipe out all requests by a certain user or perhaps certain email? Can't seem to find anything obvious and nothing on this topic came up when I searched the forum. Thank you!

Actually, I think I just found this. Default feature that is in the Admin CP under Forums in the dropdown to the far right of each configured forum in the list.

Hello, Maybe a dumb question but I'm trying to organize a fairly large forum (5+ million posts). I do not want to archive older topics, since this means they are no longer searchable. Also as mentioned by IPS, its not such a big deal anymore with the advancements made with the forum software and MySQL. I'm mainly doing this because our forum is pretty old and we've only hosted uploads for the last couple years. As such we have a lot of topics with broken images with no solution to fix. The conversation / posts still hold value, so I would rather not delete and do now want to archive as they'd no longer be searchable. So my solution is to create an 'archive' category and mirror the basic forum structure. Then run something that allows me to initiate a mass move, between a specific target and with a specific destination, any thread with latest activity that is equal to or greater than [input date]. Going to assume this feature probably doesn't exist, but wanted to verify it after a fruitless search on here. Maybe there's a plugin or some other similar feature? Any advice / suggestion? Thanks!

Hello, Just a note that the plugin is now broken as of yesterdays IPB update. Would love to get an update so we can reactivate your plugin. Seems to cause a ton of javascript errors that make the forum unusable. Thanks

Yes indeed, an out of date plugin. Sorry about that... Since its months between times when I dig through the technical side of the forum on top of all the software platforms I deal with, I overlooked the obvious. Issue is resolved, thank you.

Follow up... This is a huge one but my forum is not allowing new posts. *Edit: I just tested with the IPB default theme and see the same issues so seems to be a forum issue. Will follow up with them.

Hello, Suddenly seeing some issues after upgrading IPB today. Noticed there was an mdPanel update so I Installed that as well, but didn't seem to fix the issues. I have yet to do a thorough audit, but here's the obvious issues I spotted: Main menu is no longer functional on mobile Manage blocks menu no longer functional on mobile Our Picks (renamed on my site as 'Spotlights') is no longer displaying on the forum index (was set to be the first content block above forum listing) and is displaying incorrectly on the actual Our Picks page. Even the menu in the Admin section is acting a bit weird. Not seeing tabs for the theme but rather all is displayed on a super long page. Link: https://forum.12ozprophet.com/ Appreciate any help. Please contact me if you need access. Thank you.

Going to bump this. Recently I had an expert come in and evaluate my site (shop, forum, etc) and they brought up a very interesting point regarding the sort order of posts. The younger generation that grew up on social media and often represent the most active users online, grew up only seeing content in reverse chronological order. Though I personally like reading things in order and have always viewed it that way, the younger generation has not. They've grown up on social media where the newest content is presented first and you can then dig deeper for the older content. Admittedly this makes conversation a bit odd in my opinion, but we're seeing so many of our Instagram followers dropping off that platform and / or expressing discontent with it and reading so many articles talking about the decline across most demographics on that platform, that I believe there is a real opportunity for a resurgence with forums. People are just fed up with Facebook and Instagram and want something else. I know in most cases its ludicrous for a forum owner to think they can actually compete with platforms like that, but reality is we have a real chance at growing significant market share, if we can provide a compelling alternative. I believe that starts with an easy transition and it would seem that allowing for reverse chronological ordering (or better yet an option for a user to set this preference at the account level), would be a great step in the right direction. Anyhow, might loop back to this over arching topic in a new thread to keep it clean, but the specific request here is hoping I might compel the forum developers to strongly consider implementing this.

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Thanks @TAMAN, For some reason when uploading an image, its not showing up. Any suggestions?

Hello @TAMAN, Wondering if you can please post the default Swiper Slider code and / or links to any instructions on the code you can enter for this that calls the default classes? Accidentally deleted the sample code and can't seem to figure out the formatting / markup you used for the demo. Thanks!

Hello @TAMAN, As you know via DM, I've recently upgraded my forum and MD Panel theme. Shortly after I got a few complaints regarding a change that occurred within the thread pages and wondering if there's a setting that might affect this or if it was a change to either the forum or theme? At the bottom of threads, where it says "go to topic listing" it used to also have the forum section name. Then on the other side where it says "go to next unread thread" it would have the thread name underneath. Honestly its been so long since I dove deep into code or templates that I can't remember if this was somehow coded in after. Also, its not a feature I use so am only going off what a bunch of our forum users have said as they really seem to miss this after the upgrade. Thanks for any help on this.

Just an update in case anyone has an issue in the future regarding support status badge colors... I just heard back from IPS Support and the option to edit the badge color can be found in AdminCP > Commerce > Support > Settings > Statuses. You can change the color and other settings for each status. In regards to the signature of outgoing support ticket emails... You can set a signature by clicking the 'my preferences' ticket at the top of the support requests pages in the AdminCP (Where you're looking at the list of support tickets).

Nice! I'll give that a go. I did open an IPS support ticket to ask about it.

Hi @TAMAN But if both the active and resolved tickets have the same class then this badge is the same color. I noticed on teh actual IPS support system that the status' are different colors to make them easy to identify in the ticket list. Possible? Will ask regarding the signature. Thanks!

Hello @TAMAN, I have two additional questions before I think I'm done tweaking my theme... The first is a theme question, the second is a general question. Hoping you might have the answers to both. How do I edit the CSS for custom colors on the support ticket status? Seems both "In Progress" and "Resolved" status use the same class: .cNexusSupportBadge How do I create a default signature for the support desk replies? Would like to add some helpful links and a note to all outgoing support desk emails. Thank you!