First of all we apologize for the lateness of wpForo update. Our main staff was away on vacation. We're back and are ready to work even harder on wpForo improvement and updates.
Today we release wpForo 1.6.2 version. This is mostly bag-fix version, but it also includes lots of small but very useful changes and features.
Important update notes
- To load your customized colors please refresh (press Ctrl+F5) forum front-end page twice.
- If you have a Cache Plugin, please delete all caches after wpForo update.
- If you use CDN and found some issue please purge it.
- Forum template files are modified. If you have an old customized copies of forum template files in your WP theme /wpforo/ folder please update those.
New Features
Multi-quotes by selecting certain content from different posts
Option to change user rating in Dashboard > Edit User admin page
Toolbar button to create spoilers (hidden, expandable content) in editor
Changelog:
- Added: Multi-quotes by selecting certain content from different posts
- Added: Option to change user rating in Dashboard > Edit User admin page
- Added: Auto-grow (autoresize) feature for topic/post editors
- Added: Reply button automatically adds post author @nickname in editor
- Added: Prevent closing window or tab if topic/post editor is not empty
- Added: New shortcode [post_author_name] in email templates.
- Added: Option to create spoilers (hidden, expandable content) in editor
- Added: Option to limit search result count, optimizing database usage
- Added: Option to set max/min characters number in topic/post editor
- Added: Ctrl + Enter to submit topic/post editor
- Added: wpForo SEO optimization, Twitter Image SEO Tag
- Added: Display category (top parent forum) description in category page
- Added: Display Secondary Usergroups with user information and in profile
- Added: Enabled Subscribe Manager in all users Profile > Subscription tab
- Added: Redirect to login page if a visitor has no access to current topic
- Added: Compatible with Rank Math SEO plugin
- Added: Filter hook 'wpforo_search_results_body_length'
- Fixed Bug: Wrong last info on parent forums
- Fixed Bug: Attachment button issue in Threaded Layout topic editor
- Fixed Bug: Problem using WordPress date-time type in forum
- Fixed Bug: Problem with reset password URL
- Fixed Bug: Problem with style customization using Custom CSS Codes option
- Fixed Bug: Forum meta description doesn't work
- Fixed Bug: 404 Not Found error on Microsoft Servers
- Fixed Bug: BuddyPress integration issues with Profile URL
- Fixed Bug: Ultimate Member integration issues with Profile URL
- Fixed Bug: Can't delete reply in large Threaded Layout topic
- Fixed Bug: Can't see own replies in private topics
- Fixed Bug: No breadcrumb home icon in category pages
- Fixed Bug: Breadcrumb structured data error
- Fixed Bug: Issue with deleting Q&A layout answer
- Fixed Bug: "jQuery is not defined" on non-forum pages
- Fixed Bug: Database error with some topic tags
- Fixed Bug: Timezone issues on some servers
- Fixed Bug: Database error "Duplicate entry" on post liking
- Fixed Bug: Approved posts counting issue for guests
- Fixed Bug: Remove inaccessible content from search result
- Fixed Bug: Dozens of other small bugs
- Optimization: Better performance, lower database queries...
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Thank you for the update. Noticed that square brackets are being stripped from topic titles prior to saving them in the DB. Can this be reinstated or a pointer to where the culprit code is so can self-fix? I use brackets in topic titles for field of data.
Any reason why your opening post is repeated here? Looks like some post replies have also disappeared. Those could be serious bugs.
EDIT: Just rolled back to 1.6.1 until these issues are resolved.
Noticed that square brackets are being stripped from topic titles prior to saving them in the DB. Can this be reinstated or a pointer to where the culprit code is so can self-fix? I use brackets in topic titles for field of data.
Ok, thank you for letting us know.
Any reason why your opening post is repeated here? Looks like some post replies have also disappeared. Those could be serious bugs.
It seems you've not read the whole Change-log of 1.6.0 version. We've added an option to keep first (starter) post on top of all pages. here we use this option so you see first post on all pages.
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Noticed that square brackets are being stripped from topic titles prior to saving them in the DB. Can this be reinstated or a pointer to where the culprit code is so can self-fix? I use brackets in topic titles for field of data.
Ok, thank you for letting us know.
Any ETA for a fix or a pointer to the offending code?
Found the splitted off topic: https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/cant-atatch-file-after-update-to-1-6-2-advanced-attachments-addons/
Since updating my Add topic button on the main page is not working but it works in the sub forum pages.
Does not work on this page
https://www.vinow.com/wwwtalk/
Works on this page
https://www.vinow.com/wwwtalk/virgin-islands-travel-forum/
Thanks
Since updating my Add topic button on the main page is not working but it works in the sub forum pages.
Does not work on this page
https://www.vinow.com/wwwtalk/Works on this page
https://www.vinow.com/wwwtalk/virgin-islands-travel-forum/Thanks
All is ok with wpForo 1.6.2. The issue is in old template files you use. You've customized template files and saved in your WP theme /wpforo/ folder. According to the Update Note you should also update old template files to fix this issue. I'm sorry but you should do the same customization again, this is required. You can't use old template files with current 1.6.2 version. The editor wrapper is changed and other lot's of changes have been made in current version template files.
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Noticed that square brackets are being stripped from topic titles prior to saving them in the DB. Can this be reinstated or a pointer to where the culprit code is so can self-fix? I use brackets in topic titles for field of data.
Any ETA for a fix or a pointer to the offending code?
Found the splitted off topic: https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/cant-atatch-file-after-update-to-1-6-2-advanced-attachments-addons/
This will be fixed in next version. I'm sorry but I have no ETA, it may take a few weeks.
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Thank you for the code, @robert! It's what I need.
I notice something else now.
After the update, the speed of the forum page on mobile is slower.
The Google PageSpeed Insights mobile score before the update was: ~57.
After the update is: ~36.Not enough information to follow your problem. If you can provide more details please open a separate support topic. We just tested and don't find any issue with speed. This is probably site specific issue.
The speed of my Forum page became slower after the update to 1.6.2. There is no other change on my site.
Your own page - wpforo.com/community/ - has Mobile Score: ~18 in Google PageSpeed Insights. This is a bad result according to Google.
The speed of my Forum page became slower after the update to 1.6.2. There is no other change on my site.
Your own page - wpforo.com/community/ - has Mobile Score: ~18 in Google PageSpeed Insights. This is a bad result according to Google.
I don't see any changes regarding the speed. I still get about the same in GT Metrix and i see a mobile 50 in Google mobile speed (and 78 in desktop).
Thanks that fixed it. The template files had the same version so I did not think anything had changed.
Also I noticed the login with Facebook is not showing on mobile but is showing on desktop. I'm not using any custom templates for the login.
Thanks
Thanks that fixed it. The template files had the same version so I did not think anything had changed.
Also I noticed the login with Facebook is not showing on mobile but is showing on desktop. I'm not using any custom templates for the login.
Thanks
Try this small CSS code. Put it in Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Styles > Custom CSS Code Textarea. Save it delete all caches, do Ctrl+F5 on forum front-end. Then test it on other mobile devices. Because mobile browsers have a hard cache, you'll not be able to see the change immediately.
.fb_iframe_widget iframe {
position: relative!important;
}
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Multi-quotes by selecting certain content from different posts
This is not working to me , is like before, if i quote a secong post is replacing the first one,
any advice ?
You should not click on "Quote" button, when you do multi-quote. Just select texts and click on Quote Icon each time, don't use the button, it'll remove all those. So it works fine, just don't reset editor using other buttons.
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@Robert, thank you for assurance posting isn't broken. Have reinstated 1.6.2 and patched it to fix the title brackets issue.
Hi @nando4,
If you want back the brackets in titles, please open this file: wp-content/plugins/wpforo/wpf-includes/functions.php
Find this line and remove it:
$text = preg_replace('#\[[^\]]+\]#', '', $text);
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The search widget throws a 404 if there is no search term entered, bit of a problem when it's menu only item on some setups.
Also, is there a way to limit output snippet to a defined character limit? At the moment a result for a given search term will output an entire post, even if that post is 2000 words, not ideal on mobile...