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Re: How Do I Make A Custom Page as Homepage?
Take a look at my forum: https://belajarastro.id
I created my own custom homepage with the Custom Pages plugin (download here).
To make the page a full page, you can add this code:
.MainContent {
width: 100%;
margin: auto;
}
.Panel-main {
display: none;
}
.Breadcrumbs {
display: none;
}
Hope it helps your forum to have a more attractive appearance!
Re: Performance concerning categories
If you make a "Flat" category (under Display As when creating a category) you should be able to put thousands of categories under it it.
There's a scaling bottleneck with the other, hierarchical category types because of data needing to "bubble up" from child categories that creates a lot of overhead. I wouldn't exceed ~200 non-Flat categories unless you have memcached and a lot of memory.
Flat categories was made for exactly your use case, I believe.
Linc
Re: Difference between Business and Open Source
There is a difference
A few points
https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/115-addon-master-list
(I might not be right on all as some plugins gets added to OSS version from time to time)
Advanced Search
Badges
Badgify Comments
Hosted Tours
Keyword blocker
Knowledge
Online
Polls
Ranks
Reactions
Reporting
Resolved
Role titles
Salesforce
Troll Management
Advanced analytics
Walk trough
Warnings
Zendesk
Groups and Events
(a few of these are however available in OSS community made plugins with similar functionality)
also
Update and fixes release frequence
Kaspar
Re: Forum stats not showing on the dashboard
After digging deeper into this issue, I found that the statistics server itself was missing data after august 24th. The analytics requests the forum was sending was giving the error message 'Data too long for column 'LastIP' at row 1|Gdn_Database|Query|insert into GDN_RemoteSite'. Some more digging reveals that LastIP is not something sent along with the outgoing request, so I assume this is generated on the analytic server side (which makes sense).
This lead me to examine my network configuration closer, and I realized that I had IPv6 enabled on the server. And even though the forum is currently served over IPv4 only (and the hostname only resolves to a v4 address), apparently this background transmission to the analytics server happened over IPv6. And that seems to much for it to handle apparently.
I was in a position where disabling IPv6 wasn't a problem, and immediately upon disabling it, the statistics server started giving me status 200 instead of 500 on the requests. I also noticed that a bunch of data immediately populated in the graphs, although I am still missing some recent data, so I'll just keep an eye on it for now. The graph seems to be slowly populating. First up to september 8th, and a few minutes later to september 25th, so I guess the rest is forthcoming.
Of course, having to disable IPv6 is a poor workaround for many, since many servers rely on it, but I guess there might be a way to force PHP to stick to v4 one way or another. And I have no idea why it stopped working on the day it did. I've had IPv6 enabled on this server for many months, and checking my update history, there were no updates on or around that time period either. Did the analytic server DNS got updated to inlcude an IPv6 address for the domain name around this time? The time differences between me and @peterlu seems to be a bit long for DNS caching, but perhaps...
RMonsen
Re: moving Vanilla to new domain name (same server)
Just go ahead and change your domain name on the server to the new one, then delete all the files in the /cache folder except .htaccess and it should work fine. You don't need the importer as the files are already there.
Unlike other forum software, Vanilla doesn't ask for the domain name in the admin Cpanel or elsewhere.
ianw5555
New Embed System (Preview & Information)
One of my favourite parts of the Vanilla is the ability to embed external content. Unfortunately until now, it has been very difficult to create custom embeds with any amount of complexity.
In the last few weeks the team has been working on finalizing our new pluggable embed system. I held it back from the 3.1 release due to a need for additional testing, but it is available for testing on the master branch of Vanilla.
Our initial documentation is written, but it will be fleshed out significantly in time for the next release. In case anyone wants to start playing with it, here it is.
Docs
PHP CodeBase & Builtin Embeds
Frontend CodeBase & Builtin Embeds
User's profile pics are not aligned after reacting on a post.
It's not an issue, but a design flaw that does not look good.
It fixes itself when I refresh the page.
So is there any way to fix it so that it always displays aligned in a straight line without refreshing the page?
And is there any way to view the "13 other" people who reacted (Please check the pic) currently there is only plain text which does nothing on hover/click.
I hope someone will help as always 🙂
Kind Regards
testing3
Re: Disscussions dissapears after user loged in. only admin can see the articles
okay once you add that code hit your site and post back here the text that dumps to your screen. Once you have posted that text to here you can remove that code and its just used to dump that permissions array to the screen
MrCaspan
Re: Disscussions dissapears after user loged in. only admin can see the articles
Okay so the issue we found is that an older version of MySQL has INT values stored in the database but when they are returned they are string values which Vanilla has issues with when doing an absolute comparison.
So first thing to do is this to see if this is the same issue you are having
Changing line 888 in the file /applications/dashboard/models/class.permissionmodel.php and add var_dump($permissions);exit; to it
Original
887 $permissions = $sql->get()->resultArray(); 888 return $permissions;
To This
887 $permissions = $sql->get()->resultArray(); 888 var_dump($permissions);exit; 889 return $permissions;
This will then dump the array $permissions to your screen. Copy the text that gets dumped and paste it here in a code block.
It will either contain INT values or STRING values
MrCaspan