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Re: Menu at top
The easiest way would be to copy the keystone theme (I assume you are using that?) and then add {activity_link} right below {discussions_link} in "themes/your-new-theme/views/default.master.tpl"
R_J
Re: Can't get Vanilla installed or updated. Version 2021.009 Please help me install!
You have to config db in conf/conf.php
(Do not make changes in config-defaults.php)
$Configuration['Database']['Host'] = 'dbhost';
$Configuration['Database']['Name'] = 'dbname';
$Configuration['Database']['User'] = 'dbuser';
$Configuration['Database']['Password'] = '';
Vanilla will ask for this info during its setup installation
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Wordpress should have Softaculous, that have always worked for me (it is some years since I have setup a forum though)
https://www.softaculous.com/apps/blogs/WordPress
This will create and setup db and db user and config vanilla to that.
Kaspar
Online demo
TiGR
Vanilla 2023.008 Open Source Release
2023.008 successfully built. Tested on php 7.4 and seems working php 8.1 (lot of warnings in log like previous releases). Permissions bugs with custom profile fields is gone 🤩
1) Go "/utility/update" to update database. Like previous releases "/utility/update" return sometime 'Something wrong...' but update status is ok in config.php. So check update status and date in config.php
2) You have to add "version.json" in root folder
3) If database error during upgrade (MariaDB / Cpanel...) removing ALGORITHM = INPLACE LOCK = NONE in: applications\vanilla\settings\structure.php & library\database\class.databasestructure.php
Please read previous OSS Custom builds threads for fixing various problems.
It's perfectly working on a php 7.4 install.
AstRuc
Re: Vanilla 2023.005 Open Source Release
2023.008 ->
https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39298/vanilla-2023-008-open-source-release#latest
AstRuc
Re: Where is the install documentation for jsconnect?
It's better to get a response to questions - You were the only person to at least respond to one question I had, so thanks. This has been a very frustrating experience and I don't think I've ever had a piece of software so difficult to work with in the last 29 years. Missing info in documentation or just won't work as described etc. I just deleted the database and vanilla form.
Where is the install documentation for jsconnect?
No readme file in the download zip, don't see an actual instruction piece in the docs (did I miss it??)
Re: I want to migrate the post and data of my Vanilla Forum to another forum (i.e. Discourse o Flarum)
Simple fact is, the SEO in the GPL suite is crap. It has been since day one. Let's face it though, most things GPL are. They hold back "the good stuff" for the pay versions which are so ridiculously overpriced they wont even list the price on their website at all. It's part of why this forum software, although full of potential, never went anywhere.
The GPL version has the same "SEO" features as the paid version.
SEO is not some kind of magical sauce like some people in the industry want you to believe. It hasn't been about technicalities for years now. Search engines have become really smart: Their job is to parse a website like a human would do, otherwise they would not suit their users needs. If your site is not doing good on search it either is a) very young or b) doesn't have the content users are looking and searching for. SEO nowadays is all about content. No software can really help you with that.
It is also not the responsibility of the software you are migrating from to convert to all possible formats but the other way around (like Vanilla has an Importer). With database structures always changing, everything else would be insane.
You can always just get an SQL dump. Your data is all there.
