Carole Asselin

I have a VA who does a lot of things for me, and I am wondering if she can also do some posting in the forum while still assigning that post to me OTHER than having her log into my account? Is that possible?

I often schedule threads ahead of time and occasionally, I would like to have the first "reply" posted. For example, the OP is an intro to something, and I want the first post (after the OP) to be my contribution.

As an admin, is there a way to do that? When I have a scheduled post, I see " Comments are disabled for future topics.". Is that a typical behavior or is there somewhere I could change that?

58 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

Did you find the Statistics section in the ACP?

I did but can't see the kind of stats I am looking for. Maybe it is not there or maybe I am looking in the wrong place?

I would love to find out how many posts/threads/users were in the forum in 2023, and also how many new images were posted in the gallery in 2023.

Is that information available somewhere?

Thanks. That is what I was missing 🙂

I am not sure if I am missing a setting or what, but although I see the poll (as admin), and members see the poll too, they don't have a way to choose an answer. They only see the result, which obviously stays at 0 for all options.

What might I be missing?

12 minutes ago, teraßyte said:

Oh, sorry. I forgot the ACP now shows the simple theme editing page first.

Click on the button Use Advanced Theme Editing top-right, and then the search field I mentioned will appear. 🙂

Thank you!!! It seems to work now. If I click on the Sign In at the bottom of a thread, I am redirected to the login page that I have set up (not the WP one).

8 minutes ago, teraßyte said:

That's the correct place, indeed. For the Default theme, it's the first </> icon. For the other theme, you can find the same icon/option in the menu.

But where do I find the guestCommentTeaser ?

If I click on that </> icon, I get the Header, the Footer and the CSS and assuming I am editing the css, I could not find any data-ipsDialog.

1 hour ago, teraßyte said:

Go to ACP > Customization > APPEARANCE > Themes > [Theme row] > Edit HTML and CSS.

In the page that loads, enter the template's name guestCommentTeaser in the "Search templates..." input field, then open the template from the sidebar, search for the HTML above, and remove it.

There are 2 places with the same code, remove both.

I am not sure if it is not there, or if I am in the wrong place but here is what I have:

10 hours ago, DawPi said:

Look for guestCommentTeaser template bit in the theme manager in the ACP.

I will need a bit more clarification as to where to find that. I always have a bit of a hard time navigating the ACP.

17 minutes ago, teraßyte said:

Based on what you said, the link at the bottom has an ipsDialog attribute on the button, and when you click on it, it loads the login page in a popup (and since it ends up being a redirect it behaves like in the video).

 

You'd need to remove this code (or something similar) from that login button:

 data-ipsdialog data-ipsdialog-size="medium" data-ipsdialog-title="Sign In Now"

 

Removing data-ipsdialog alone would be enough, too.

Where would I remove that from?

I reached out to my programmer and here is what he found:

- if using the "Sign in" link on the top of the page, it redirects the correct login PAGE
- if using the "Sign in" link on the bottom of a thread, it tries to open in a different window (like a popup) and that is problematic
- if I right-click and open in a new tab, it works fine
- if I right-click and copy the link, it works fine

So it does not seem to be linked to a "registered page"

Here is a demonstration: https://www.loom.com/share/bce87d8ca03846f5bf136b2dde135cfe?sid=c555599d-5d90-47f4-8693-c86e2326a211 

Any explanation?

11 minutes ago, Robert Angle said:

Maybe try this...

AdminCP > Settings > Login & Registration >Registration > Standard Registration 

Choose "Redirect to an external site" and enter the URL of the other registration page?

This works perfectly. Thank you.

12 minutes ago, Robert Angle said:

I have no idea what's going on here. The pop-up appears for a second and then the page reloads.

Yes, that is what I see too.

I have installed the gallery in Sept 2022 and the forum in Jan 2023. I use the SSO plugin to connect the forum/gallery to the rest of my WP site. Everything works fine. However, I notice a little "break" in the flow for members to register or log in when they are on the forum/galley side.

So, here is the forum page. https://scrapbookcampus.com/invision/forums/

If someone needs to register and clicks on the Sign up on top, they are directed to this page: https://scrapbookcampus.com/wp-login.php?action=register
That is not wrong in itself, but I have a more custom page using my s2Member plugin, which is here: https://scrapbookcampus.com/register-to-the-campus that would also redirect them to the page they registered from.

QUESTION 1 - Is there a way to assign this registration page to the Sign up link on top?

Also, if an existing user clicks the Sign in link, they are directed to this page: https://scrapbookcampus.com/login/ which is that custom page, and that is correct and they are then redirected to the page where they signed in from.
However, if they click the Sign in link at the bottom of a thread (like this one for example), it is not going anywhere and there is no option for the user to actually log in. The only way is to go to the WP side (like go to the Blog) and there, click on the Login link, log in, and go back to the forum/gallery (or use the Sign in link on the top of the page but if they are trying to reply to a thread, they are at the bottom of it).

QUESTION 2 - Why would the Sign in link not work at the bottom and how do I fix that?

Thank you.

Hum... what do I do with that file? What do I edit? @Adriano Faria

2 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Nope. You can probably edit the template to remove it.

How/where would I do that? It is totally new to me.

I noticed that when I do "recommend" a post, it does add a frame around it. I like that. However, it also adds a copy of a snippet of that post at the beginning of the thread. Is there a way to make that optional only? I think that for my need, the frame around the post is enough and it sits well in the conversation, unlike the copy at the beginning.

Well, just before I purchased the plugin, someone in my community pointed out that by simply highlighting the text in the other language, one could right-click and get the option to translate, right there and then. 

Thanks for the suggestions though.

1 minute ago, Nathan Explosion said:

It allows whichever group you provide permission to.

However - in this day, you may not even need it as native browser functionality is become more prevalent:

https://www.deepl.com/en/chrome-extension

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/

So this is something that each user would have to install, correct?

1 minute ago, Randy Calvert said:

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2020/05/google-translates-website-translator

You want the website translator.  Once the widget is on your site, a user would just pick a language from the drop-down and the page is translated. 

Hum, this particular page it states that "that usage will be restricted to government, non-profit, and/or non-commercial websites (for example, academic institutions) that focus on COVID-19 response. For all other websites, we recommend using the Google Cloud Translation API."

And Google Cloud Translation API seems like an overkill for the occasional post.

I guess I was hoping for something similar to what is on Facebook where a link "Translate" is available under any non-English posts.

2 minutes ago, DawPi said:

You can use that app instead:

Does that allow any user to translate the particular post? Or just admins?

I am not sure what I am looking for, whether it is a widget, a module, or something else. It is possibly not something native to Invision and if so, maybe point me to a possible option.

I have an active community mostly in English, however, once in a while a poster will post in Dutch. I am wondering if there is something that can be used to translate only that post when it happens. I know I can highlight, copy and paste the post into Google Translate to read it, but I wonder if there is something that can be added so a single click on the post, could get it translated.

Maybe there is nothing, but i think it is worth asking.

1 minute ago, Jim M said:

Well, if you have an example of what those posts contained or if a topic what the title was, we can see if we can find it. The only way it would not be present completely anymore would be if it was deleted. That is the only case where you would not see it as an administrator/moderator who has permission to view hidden topics/posts.

I'll pay attention for the next time it happens as right now, I have no information to share. But knowing what kind of data you would need, i'll keep track of it.

Thanks.

5 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

If running Invision 4.7.3 (I think) or earlier, then PHP 7.4 is all good.

I THINK i had updated to the latest version, which would then explain the issue. Where do I see the version if I can't access it?

Since my site worked fine before that tech person messed up with the PHP, I decided to reset it to 8.0. 

Now, everything works fine. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Just now, Jim M said:

If you are unsure, please provide an example topic/post and we can take a look

That would be hard to show since they are "missing".

One member emailed me, asking me to check the spam folder, since that is how it happened in the past, with bbpress, but this time, I was stumped.

I also do one looooooooong post every day when I host a workshop, and twice in the past, the post no longer was showing up the next day when I was to add the next post.

In both instances, they are in regular public threads, with regular members posting, so those questions really don't apply.

I had a little issue on my WP site and when I contacted my host (they have always been very helpful until last night), the tech person who tried to "help", simply deactivated everything on my site (plugins, theme), upgraded WP to 6.1.3, and reverted PHP to 7.4 then, asked me to just check if everything was fixed before disconnecting. Duh!

So I had to reactivate all the plugins to try to find a culprit, which I didn't, but in the process, now my Forum and Gallery are no longer available. I am not sure where to re-enable them or what I should do. All I get is a 500 error, with the message "We're sorry, but a temporary technical error has occurred which means we cannot display this site right now."

I hope that tech didn't delete anything in the process!

Maybe it is a simple setting? I hope!