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RE: Automatically Saving Drafts
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10 Relevance |
7 years ago |
JDobbsy1987 |
How-to and Troubleshooting |
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@sofy
I understand but Roberts message was over 2 years ago, i thought 2 years might of got you closer to "near future"
Shame it's not on your roadmap, would be helpful. |
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RE: Reply has no title
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10 Relevance |
7 years ago |
Anonymous20 |
How-to and Troubleshooting |
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Well, wpForo is a free plugin, everybody is welcome to test and evaluate it. I did so, two years ago. Nobody forces anyone to use it.
Second, wpForo is lacking features compared to what ? wpForo is STILL a Wordpress plugin and not a standalone forum script.
Finally most PHP forums are 10 or 15 years old and wpForo is still young.
My view is that people spend their time with technical matters (SEO for example) and not how to promote their forums. I say that because i do know some prehistoric forums scripts that are used with huge success still today. |
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RE: Migrate2wpForo Notice: We can't find this board on this system
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10 Relevance |
7 years ago |
cmw14 |
phpBB |
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Hi Sofy.
Thanks for the response and advice, however I'm probably being stupid but I cannot see how I would use the go2wpforo tool to merge my two wpForo sites into one. The tool only has options for migrating from other platforms to wpForo ( see below) not wpforo to wpforo.
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Just to confirm what I'm trying to achieve.
I have two wordpress installations with two Wpforo forums, I need to merge them into one forum. Both exist on the same pro hosted server.
I would like the newly migrated site (site 1) merged into the one I started two years ago (site 2). Data below.
Details
Site 1 : This is the site was migrated yesterday from PHPbb3 to WpForowww.vrat.co.ukRunning on wordpress 4.9.8running Wpforo 1.5.3This site has 67.7K posts, 4,312 topics
Site 2 : This is the Wpforo site I've been running for the last two years. I want the site above merged into this one.www.Radios-TV.co.ukRunning on wordpress 4.9.8running Wpforo 1.5.3running wpforo plugins: advanced attachments, Ads manager, custom fields, cross posting, embeds and pollsThis site has 18.5K posts. 1.408 topics
Or are you saying I need to run the migration again? That I should install the go2wpforo tool on site 2 (www.radio-tv.co.uk) and migrate the phpbb3 forum directly into it. That it will not cause any problems with existing content.
Sorry If I'm not understanding, if you can help to explain a little further it would really help. |
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On migration from SP my Admin has lost all her posts
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10 Relevance |
8 years ago |
GraemeT |
Simple:Press |
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Hi Team
We have had Simple:Press installed for over 7 years and it's time to freshen it up! So we migrated to WPForo, which looks stunning.
However there a few problems:
1. My main forum moderator/admin is an expert in her field and has made over 6,000 post replies to topic questions. But these posts seem to have been assigned to other people. I am an admin too, and I seem to have inherited over 3,000 posts, which I did not make. I need her to look like the authority she is, and have all her posts assigned to her, especially all the replies she made (she has replied to 99% of the topics created.)
2. My second expert moderator cannot even be found when I search Members. He has made over 3,300 posts, but none are credited to him.
3. My highest posting member is nowhere to be found.
3. There are no views on any of the 12,000+ topics. Why are there no views?
4. The last reply my expert moderator made was just a few days ago, but I can't find any posts from her that are newer than "2 years ago".
So I followed this advice of yours:
Please try to delete User cache, navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Dashboard admin page, click on [Update Users Statistic] button then [Delete Users Cache] button
But it didn't change anything.
We have no caching plugins.
Please advise.
Thanks, Graeme |
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SimplePress Migration
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10 Relevance |
9 years ago |
Alias79 |
Simple:Press |
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For almost four years I was using SimplePress years until it was completely unstable. A year ago I turn off it, and installed phpBB with a premium bridge, but still have not activated because it has some big problems with user management, integration with my WordPress theme, etc.
And then, the miracle happened and you have launched this fantastic plugin forums 🙂 I want to get to migration, but I have a couple of questions.
Will it work well with tens of thousands of imported from SimplePress messages? I've seen that sometimes goes a little slower these support forums, especially I want to offer my users speed.
I have seen that a user had a problem update, we recommended erase everything and reinstall. Do you think I should wait for a more stable serves or advanced version?
I use W3 Total Cache, any special configuration must be performed?
Crossposting be activated in the future as addon? I'm very interested.
Thanks!!! |
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Delay in wpForo
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5 Relevance |
4 weeks ago |
KFJ1972 |
General Discussions |
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Hi gVectors,
I am using wpForo on my website where I publish various news and related content. Unfortunately, I have a few individuals who, over the course of several years, have systematically copied everything I publish and reposted it on their own copy-website.
These individuals have not registered as users on my website or in the forum, but I have identified their IP addresses. I would like to emphasize that I do not want to restrict the content so that it is only available to logged-in members, as this would have a significant negative impact on my website.
Of course, I could simply block the unwanted IP addresses, but that would only be a temporary solution. They would just continue using other IP addresses.
My idea is therefore to solve this challenge in a different way: by allowing me, in the wpForo admin area, to enter unwanted IP addresses and assign an optional delay to them—so that these visitors can only see forum posts after a specified time delay. Such a delay could, for example, be measured in hours or days.
Would it be possible for you to implement such a feature either directly in the forum or as an add-on?Ideally, this functionality should apply consistently across the forum itself, forum listings, widgets, and RSS feeds.
Thank you very much in advance—and thank you especially for a great forum.
Kind regards
KFJ1972 |
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RE: Congratulations to the Wpforo team
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5 Relevance |
4 weeks ago |
marsm |
General Discussions |
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I agree. Ours has been running for five years, with a decent sized community and it’s scaring nicely:
We’ve also purchased quite a few add ons as we’ve grown to improve the user experience.
highly recommended, and looking for 3.0. |
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Nickname and Login privacy troubleshooting
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5 Relevance |
1 month ago |
Dum |
How-to and Troubleshooting |
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Hi there!
You have created a really good add-on, and I would like to work with gVectors in the future to purchase its extended functionality, but I have encountered a question that is causing me some confusion.
When registering on the forum, the user's Login is used by default as their Nickname.
In turn, the user's Nickname is used as the default URL Address Identifier.
For example: I registered on this forum with the username “Dum.” My nickname automatically became @dum.
Now, when you go to my profile page, the URL Identifier will be displayed in the address bar, which means that my Nickname will be displayed in the address bar and, consequently, my Login will also be displayed there.
In addition, my nickname and login will be displayed in the forum footer, in the “Our newest member” line.
I am attaching screenshots.
I am not allowed to change my Nickname after registration. This means that all users will still be able to find out my Login by simply going to my profile page, as my Login will be displayed in the address bar.
Okay! To avoid a similar situation on my forum, I added an additional “Nickname” field to the registration form so that users could immediately set a Nickname for themselves during registration that is different from their Login. But wpForo still sets a Nickname that's the same as the Login. And again, any user can see my Login in the address bar when they go to my profile page.
However, I encountered another problem.
Everything goes fine during registration. A new Nickname, which differs from the Login, is set directly in WordPress, but it is not set in wpForo.
Okay! I decide to check if I can change the user's nickname on the profile page in vpForo. I change the nickname and it changes in WordPress. Everything is fine.
Then I decide to check if I can change the forum user's Nickname using the WordPress dashboard. I change the Nickname in WordPress and... the Nickname does not change on the wpForo profile page.
I reread several times all the similar topics on your forum that I could find.
I cleared the cache as described here
I don't have any caching plugins installed.
I deleted user caches. I synchronized users, updated their statistics, and flushed permalinks. Nothing helped.
!! The reason why wpForo does not respond to nickname changes in the WordPress dashboard is as follows:
When changing the nickname in the WordPress panel, an entry is made in the table $wpdb->usermeta with the meta key "nickname".
In turn, when changing the nickname on the wpForo profile page, changes are made to the table $wpdb->users with the meta key "user_nicename".
WordPress table relations allow to replace the "nickname" metakey when the "user_nicename" metakey changes.
As a result, when changing the nickname in the WordPress dashboard, only the value of the usermeta table changes, while the users table retains the value set by wpForo.
In this thread, @robert says that
all WordPress plugins (e.g. BuddyPress) and even the WordPress use Nicknames in user profile URLs? So, please let me know if this is a security issue why thousands of plugins and the WordPress use the nickname in public places, in the user @mentioning and in User URLs? If you click on Article Author link on a regular WordPress article you'll go to WordPress user page. Just take a look on the URL, it consists of your nickname. So the nickname is already public, even disabling wpForo will not help you make nicknames private (unless you use custom solutions).
Indeed, nicknames are used for display in user URLs, and there is no problem with this, PROVIDED that the nickname is not equal to the Login.
This thread provides a good example of users mistakenly entering their email address in the “login” field, making it accessible to all other users.
Usually, when people register an account somewhere, they expect that their login will be known only to them and will not be displayed publicly. So, the fact that the email was displayed in the address bar in this case is definitely not a user error.
So yes, it's a real security vulnerability.
This raises several questions:
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Are you planning to change anything with the algorithms for displaying user URLs?
Although you claim that there are no problems with this, the forum has quite a lot of topics with complaints about the display of Logins in the address bar and requests to fix this. However, you have been ignoring this for several years. Do you really think that displaying the login in the address bar is normal?
Taking into account the changes that have occurred in legislation on the protection of rights, the described problem does not make wpFor attractive.
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Please tell me where I can find the function that is responsible for relationship nicknames on the vpForo user page with wpdb->users -> "user_nicename". And can I use this function to change this relationship to a relationship with $wpdb->usermeta -> "nickname". Since there is currently no other solution than to hide user logins from public access without using custom solutions. And then at least by adding a new field to the registration form, it will be possible to achieve the desired result.
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Or perhaps you can suggest another way to solve this issue that could be implemented now?
Thanks!
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RE: wpForo hooks, where to get documentation?
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5 Relevance |
2 months ago |
COLAIAs Q? |
wpForo Integration |
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@robert Oh, thanks for replying back to me. I find this news rather upsetting as I spent quiet a lot of effort making the AI moderation plugin for wpForo over the past 3 months. Yesterday I did a major re-write of how the moderation will be handled with different hooks, which I haven't yet uploaded to github, because it would be without first testing it a bit. Perhaps will your team will be interested in contacting me, and look at how we did things differently? I was hoping to capitalize on the opportunity by creating a free plugin with a premium version. I did this after my website did not have any AI moderation features, and given that it has been 3 years since AI first became popularized, I reckoned that the AI moderation features were not in development. |
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RE: How to modify the Recent Posts widget? Go to unread vs most recent.
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5 Relevance |
4 months ago |
Jupiter |
How-to and Troubleshooting |
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Dang... I was really hoping there was something I could do on my end by tweaking and/or adding code. I think I am really wanting bits from both the RecentTopics.php and RecentPosts.php widget to display what I am looking for.
Recent Topics has the link to first unread built in, but will not show the most recent comment. I am also not fond of it showing the topic creator and when it was created. Especially when a topic could be 5 years old. The Recent Post widget shows all the info I want, but will not link to the first unread post. I currently use the shortcode, but using it entails a lot of hiding unwanted content within the CSS and with the behavior of jumping down the page to the most recent post even if there is content above it. A problem I describe earlier this year in THIS THREAD. So I have been investigating any option I may have to get the dates and behavior that I am wanting. But no success.
Has there been any thoughts of moving away from the Legacy Widgets for wpForo? The legacy widgets are getting more and more difficult to use along side of the newer Gutenburg Blocks. This I not just wpForo, there are still a tons of plugins that still use them and it gets harder and harder to work with them. I have noticed there are times when I save a wpForo widget and those changes do not actually save. Sometimes I have to go in to the backend and change the value in order to get something to save. So I just think that these Legacy Widgets are running out of time fast on Wordpress.
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Problem avatar on the home page
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5 Relevance |
4 months ago |
Pierre999 |
How-to and Troubleshooting |
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I have WPforo on my site, but the forum has been closed for years.
I just discovered a problem on the home page and can't find answers to my questions on Google.
I have some strange code on the home page that should display avatars, but instead I get this (see screenshot).
If anyone can help me solve this problem, thank you.
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RE: We need an official Wpforo dark mode!!
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5 Relevance |
4 months ago |
Jupiter |
General Discussions |
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I have been using WP Dark Mode by WPPool for a few years. It's great site wide but you are correct about the text box. I have never been able to get the text box to work and gave up a long time ago.
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RE: Edit post function not working
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5 Relevance |
4 months ago |
jeanne |
How-to and Troubleshooting |
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@wpforo-support Thank you for the suggestions. I will try these potential fixes.
Also do you know any developers who are very famiiar with wpforo problems? Over the years, about 99 percent of the problems I have on my website involve wpforo. That is expected, my forum is large and somewhat busy, so I am not blaming the app, which I love. But most developers don't know how to figure out what is wrong. I
I need a developer who understands wpforo.com plugin and how it integrates with a wordpress website.
I would so appreciate finding someone who can help.
The "like" button also hadn't worked for at least a year. |
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WPFORO insertion into home page with NewsMash Pro theme
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5 Relevance |
6 months ago |
Mr Smith |
How-to and Troubleshooting |
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Hello,
To start off, im an extremely green newb when it comes to WP. Been a sys admin for over thirty years and built a couple of web sites but im really on a sever learning curve with this.
Im trying to insert the wpforo latest posts on my frontpage but I cant seem to make it work with the NewsMash theme. No matter what way I try to insert into the home page, it keeps coming up in a column and not the page width. Ive tried making it a widget and then inserting it, I tried to edit a new template, I even got desperate that I tried using an ad inserter to put the code in and each time I end up making the site a mess. Can someone give me some pointers on doing this and make no assumptions I will know how to do everything so I can make this work? I would really appreciate it. Screen shot of the site attached.
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