CUNY Academic Commons

2018-11-29

07:39 PM Support #10766 (Rejected): Events Manager and Posts

Hi,
I am wondering if there is anyway to get events generated in events manager to appear automatically as posts s... Mark Webb

11:34 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?

I understand Luke's concerns. I think the JS warning will likely work for now.
For a later and more user friendly... Sonja Leix

2018-11-28

12:52 PM Support #10757: Child theme that we can edit the functions.php file or a featured image rss plugin

Thanks, Boone. I have a big request.
Could you add the following plugin previous to the release schedule?
SB-RSS_... Stephen Klein

2018-11-27

10:53 PM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

Chris,
Thanks for the additional info and yes, would love to get on a call with you to get more insight. Do you hav... Sonja Leix

01:45 PM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

so -- groups it is! thank you, Sonja, and thank you, Chris Matt Gold

09:53 AM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

I agree Groups is a good place to start.
While you’re looking at groups, and the Commons in general a few things ... Chris Stein

02:21 AM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

Thanks for sharing your feedback Matt and Boone.
Reviewing the suggested sections, I tend to lean towards Groups or... Sonja Leix

04:13 PM Support #10757 (Reporter Feedback): Child theme that we can edit the functions.php file or a featured image rss plugin

Hi Stephen - We can do child themes - see https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/hosting-partner-handbook/#custom-themes-and... Boone Gorges

04:02 PM Support #10757 (Resolved): Child theme that we can edit the functions.php file or a featured image rss plugin

We want to emphasize the post featured image from:
https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
on:
https://library.gc.c... Stephen Klein

12:37 PM Bug #10738: BP blogmeta update routine incorrectly overwrites 'post_title' for unrelated activities

Thanks, Ray! I'm going to bump this to the next release. Boone Gorges

04:15 AM Bug #10738 (In Progress): BP blogmeta update routine incorrectly overwrites 'post_title' for unrelated activities

Ugh. Thanks for uncovering this bug, Boone.
I've created a ticket on BP Trac with the fix "here":https://buddypre... Raymond Hoh

2018-11-26

03:22 PM Support #10749 (Duplicate): Plugin Request - H5P

Hi Scott - There is some discussion of this plugin in #9947. Briefly, there are some security implications to install... Boone Gorges

02:55 PM Support #10749 (Duplicate): Plugin Request - H5P

Requestor - Steven Rosegreen (York)
Plugin name - H5P https://wordpress.org/plugins/h5p/
Description - gives us... scott voth

03:21 PM Bug #10748 (Resolved): Visual Editor Missing

Thanks for confirming. Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/d8e76d77f70a4ec60375cc3ef78485f3c... Boone Gorges

02:48 PM Bug #10748: Visual Editor Missing

Yes, fixed. Thanks! Luke Waltzer

02:43 PM Bug #10748 (Reporter Feedback): Visual Editor Missing

Thanks for the report. This appears to be caused by a bug in FeedWordPress. I've just put a hotfix in place to verify... Boone Gorges

02:20 PM Bug #10748 (Resolved): Visual Editor Missing

The Visual Editor is missing from post/page editor on https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ (screenshot attached). Thought ... Luke Waltzer

01:58 PM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

Starting with single groups seem like the best approach to me. As Matt notes, they're heavily used. They also contain... Boone Gorges

2018-11-23

06:26 PM Bug #10743 (Resolved): "Simple CSS" metabox should not appear when creating Events on BP frontend

See screenshot. Probably safe to block it whenever we're not in the Dashboard. Boone Gorges

02:37 PM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

Thanks, Sonja. I see a few possibilities here:
1. The profile/portfolio section -- e.g. what you see when you go t... Matt Gold

2018-11-22

11:10 AM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

Matt and team,
which part of the Commons should I first focus on to review what styles exist and to start creating ... Sonja Leix

2018-11-21

03:32 PM Design/UX #10598: CUNY User Surveys

Thanks Stephen for sharing the link to text content of the 2016 User Survey:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EP... Sonja Leix

2018-11-20

09:39 PM Bug #10738 (Resolved): BP blogmeta update routine incorrectly overwrites 'post_title' for unrelated activities

I'm pretty sure this is a BP bug but I want to open it here first, to get a sanity check from Ray. Also, we'll need t... Boone Gorges

2018-11-19

04:01 PM Bug #10605 (Resolved): cac-onboarding email sending routine can cause near-infinite db requests

Boone Gorges

03:07 PM Feature #10728 (Resolved): Cache primary nav menu

Ray, would you mind doing a bit of research into caching the primary nav menu? I'm unsure whether we can use an HTML ... Boone Gorges

03:04 PM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?

Thanks. I'll see what I can do for the next release. Boone Gorges

02:41 PM Bug #10721 (Resolved): Site template description not visible on iOS

Thanks for the ticket. Before and after screenshots attached. https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac-site-templ... Boone Gorges

02:32 PM Bug #10722: StatPress performance & migrate to per-site Google Analytics

Thanks, Scott. I'm going to research this a bit more. I think our best path forward may be to allow users to enter th... Boone Gorges

01:44 PM Bug #10720: GES email queue triggers many failed user lookups

Added in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/c68b96bd636800d76d68c0ab008f6b7119bba0aa. Though do we e... Boone Gorges

11:20 AM Bug #10720: GES email queue triggers many failed user lookups

> It turned out we already had a get_user_by() function, for a different reason that no longer applies. See #842 (!).... Raymond Hoh

11:03 AM Bug #10720 (Resolved): GES email queue triggers many failed user lookups

Thanks for the feedback, Ray! I hadn't even thought of the pluggable get_user_by(). You're right that it's the best o... Boone Gorges

10:00 AM Bug #10720: GES email queue triggers many failed user lookups

Thanks again for another well-researched post, Boone.
I think the easiest way to fix this without hacking BuddyPre... Raymond Hoh

10:06 AM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

Agreed. Thanks for putting in the work into our CircleCI integration, Boone!
And for all the subsequent manual fi... Raymond Hoh

2018-11-18

01:31 PM Bug #10722: StatPress performance & migrate to per-site Google Analytics

Hi Boone - We have 49 views right now on Google Analytics. It doesn't take too long to set up the view, create a rep... scott voth

2018-11-17

06:05 PM Bug #10722 (Resolved): StatPress performance & migrate to per-site Google Analytics

We disabled StatPress for new users some time ago, but for existing users, it's a true beast. The database tables are... Boone Gorges

05:59 PM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check

I've run the scripts on the following tables:
- postmeta https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/976af... Boone Gorges

10:41 AM Bug #10721 (Resolved): Site template description not visible on iOS

Using iPhone, only see template screenshots in selector, no descriptive text or links to demos. Lots of white space b... Luke Waltzer

10:39 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?

Think js warning plus instruction on how to open in new window would do the trick Luke Waltzer

10:33 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?

We could add one of those "you are about to leave the page" JS warnings if someone has entered something into the for... Boone Gorges

10:31 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?

Yes— I’m aware of accessibility issues and best practices here... but are we asking people to enter information (site... Luke Waltzer

10:13 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?

I agree that we should not open links in new windows. I was a big fan of target="_blank" in the early days of the web... Matt Gold

08:20 AM Bug #10720: GES email queue triggers many failed user lookups

adding Ray as a watcher Boone Gorges

08:17 AM Bug #10720 (Resolved): GES email queue triggers many failed user lookups

When BP sends emails, it sets the From and Reply-To field using the BP_Email_Recipient class. We (in RBE and in bp-cu... Boone Gorges

2018-11-16

10:06 AM Feature #9943: Site templates

Luke - I've opened #10712 to discuss it. Boone Gorges

09:57 AM Feature #9943: Site templates

Boone-- did we discuss opening links to Demo sites via the Site Template picker in a new window? Might make sense in ... Luke Waltzer

10:06 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?

From https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/9943#note-30:
> did we discuss opening links to Demo sites via the Site Te... Boone Gorges

10:03 AM Feature #10712 (Resolved): Open Site Template demo links in new window?

Boone Gorges

2018-11-15

04:47 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

I feel like the Commons has just gotten a really good scrubbing with a hard-bristle brush. Thank you so much for clea... Matt Gold

12:31 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

Quick follow-up related to the update_metadata() issue - I tracked it down to pressforward. More details https://gith... Boone Gorges

12:11 PM Bug #10564 (Resolved): PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

I have fixed many more instances. See https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/search?q=10564&type=Commits.
Lo... Boone Gorges

01:52 PM Support #10709 (Resolved): PressForward theme activation

Sure thing. I've enabled the theme for that site, but have *not* activated it - I'll leave that for you to do yoursel... Boone Gorges

01:50 PM Support #10709 (Resolved): PressForward theme activation

Can the pressforward theme be activated for this website:
sejungsageyim.commons.gc.cuny.edu Paul Hebert

12:04 PM Bug #10705 (Resolved): SimplePie throws many errors on PHP 7.2

Added in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/ba4a86493c88e73d210d46041e6b126ad0437f7b. Seems to be wo... Boone Gorges

11:47 AM Bug #10702: Plugin Package tag appearing incorrectly at top of plugins.php

Awesome - thanks, Ray! Boone Gorges

12:40 AM Bug #10702 (Resolved): Plugin Package tag appearing incorrectly at top of plugins.php

Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/427d3217e28fe97a0171c175a0e789cbced7eec0
The problem ... Raymond Hoh

12:15 AM Bug #10702: Plugin Package tag appearing incorrectly at top of plugins.php

Hi Boone, can you see if you pulled the latest changes from the @cac-plugin-packages@ submodule on production?
I f... Raymond Hoh

11:43 AM Bug #10706 (Resolved): bp-multiple-forum-post triggers query loop on AJAX heartbeat

https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/bp-multiple-forum-post/commit/74b7c368b682d30733a88eca69fc7b0e4417835a looks... Boone Gorges

11:39 AM Bug #10706 (Resolved): bp-multiple-forum-post triggers query loop on AJAX heartbeat

Previously: #6746
Something about the way that BP's AJAX heartbeat activity query works causes bp-multiple-forum-p... Boone Gorges

12:54 AM Feature #10659: Post to multiple groups via email

> One thing I wonder about -- to what extent should we be worried about the spam issue? should there be some mechanis... Raymond Hoh

2018-11-14

11:10 PM Bug #10705 (Resolved): SimplePie throws many errors on PHP 7.2

See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36669. This will likely never be fixed in WP, so I'm going to put in place... Boone Gorges

11:04 PM Bug #10704 (Resolved): the-events-calendar filling error log due to bad database queries

https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/902df21471cfdb34abc5f049d5ad6a8576162d0f This seems to solve it. ... Boone Gorges

11:02 PM Bug #10704 (Resolved): the-events-calendar filling error log due to bad database queries

I've opened a support issue describing it: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-due-to-incorrect-postme... Boone Gorges

07:00 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

A number of themes have been completely removed as part of this initiative in conjunction with #10034. See https://re... Boone Gorges

06:58 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

I've completed the process for themes:
- arras-theme https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/623b5f78d... Boone Gorges

03:19 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

Thank you, Boone! Matt Gold

03:00 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

A bunch more updates. Some are hotfixes (as in the case of abandoned plugins). Some are cases where I've determined t... Boone Gorges

03:53 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items

Things seem to have cleared up for me as well. Apologies for the delay, and thanks, Paul for checking your feeds. Man... Lisa Rhody

12:55 PM Bug #9068 (Resolved): PHP 7.2 compatibility

Closing in favor of #10564 Boone Gorges

12:55 PM Bug #10701: Site creation performance

I've verified the wp_installing() change - it cuts the number of queries in half - and pushed it to production https:... Boone Gorges

11:32 AM Bug #10701 (Resolved): Site creation performance

Performance during site creation is abysmally slow. This is largely because of database i/o: large numbers of tables ... Boone Gorges

11:44 AM Bug #10702 (Resolved): Plugin Package tag appearing incorrectly at top of plugins.php

At https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s I'm seeing a "Plugin Packages: Mu... Boone Gorges

10:35 AM Bug #9235 (Resolved): Better RBE error messaging when duplicate content is detected

Boone Gorges

10:34 AM Design/UX #4350 (Resolved): Option to exit 'Create a Group' setup

Boone Gorges

10:34 AM Feature #9942 (Resolved): Plugin Packages

Boone Gorges

10:34 AM Feature #9940 (Resolved): CUNY OneSearch widget

Boone Gorges

10:34 AM Feature #9939 (Resolved): Campus branding widget

Boone Gorges

10:34 AM Feature #9938 (Resolved): License widget

Boone Gorges

10:34 AM Design/UX #9651 (Resolved): Leaving site w/ multiple users

Boone Gorges

10:34 AM Feature #7112 (Resolved): Add Copyright option/question to users on blog creation wizard

Boone Gorges

2018-11-13

05:42 PM Bug #10700: White screen: page not loading/rendering

Awesome, thanks Boone! Laurie Hurson

05:37 PM Bug #10700 (Resolved): White screen: page not loading/rendering

Thanks for the report. It looks like there was an error in this morning's release that led to some Anthologize files ... Boone Gorges

05:25 PM Bug #10700 (Resolved): White screen: page not loading/rendering

Hi Boone,
One of the faculty members I worked with in the past emailed me this afternoon asking if her site was do... Laurie Hurson

05:32 PM Bug #10560 (Resolved): PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items

Thanks, Paul. Not sure what I can do about the slowness of fetching. Latency is likely due to the slowness of fetchin... Boone Gorges

03:32 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items

It looks like it's working for me.
It's still incredibly slow, though. Paul Hebert

11:15 AM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items

Lisa, could you please check to see whether importing is working properly, and report back when you get a chance? Boone Gorges

03:05 PM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

Thanks for sharing the initial research, Sonja! I've added Ray as a watcher, as he may have opinions regarding implem... Boone Gorges

09:07 AM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons

For this project I'm looking to create a living style guide (incl. pattern library) – it will be driven by design, bu... Sonja Leix

02:30 PM Feature #9943: Site templates

One more post-release todo for me that I forgot to mention: changing the privacy level of the demo sites, so that the... Boone Gorges

02:28 PM Feature #9943 (Resolved): Site templates

Thanks, Luke - this is great.
The "Site Layout" section on cdev's https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/sites/create/ now re... Boone Gorges

02:15 PM Feature #9801: Add courses item to main Commons nav

Boone Gorges wrote:
> In Anna's case, the issue is likely that the groups are hidden. The Courses directory, in this... Matt Gold

02:13 PM Feature #9801 (Resolved): Add courses item to main Commons nav

Marking resolved in advance of tomorrow's release. Boone Gorges

02:12 PM Feature #9801: Add courses item to main Commons nav

In Anna's case, the issue is likely that the groups are hidden. The Courses directory, in this iteration, won't show ... Boone Gorges

11:44 AM Bug #10675 (Resolved): NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o

Tentatively closing. Boone Gorges

11:16 AM Bug #10332 (Rejected): Dropped from Commons group

Unfortunately, we only recently started adding the kind of logging info we'd need to be able to debug this further. G... Boone Gorges

11:10 AM Design/UX #10658: Condense sitewide footer

Tentatively putting into 1.15 but we may consider moving back, depending on implementation details. Boone Gorges

11:04 AM Bug #10581 (Rejected): Commons seems quite slow today

Thanks, Raffi. We're undergoing a process of identifying latency issues. See eg #10684 and related performance tickets. Boone Gorges

11:02 AM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

I've integrated into the CircleCI setup. https://circleci.com/gh/cuny-academic-commons/cac/tree/1%2E13%2Ex (I had to ... Boone Gorges

10:51 AM Feature #9942: Plugin Packages

> I just noticed that the Plug In Package picker has Lorem Ipsum text in the description field immediately below the ... Raymond Hoh

09:36 AM Feature #9942: Plugin Packages

I just noticed that the Plug In Package picker has Lorem Ipsum text in the description field immediately below the he... Stephen Real

10:50 AM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check

Thanks for the sanity check, Ray!
Last night, I ran the conversion script for _options tables, and then put https:... Boone Gorges

10:45 AM Bug #10682 (Resolved): DiRT Directory Client runs unneeded database queries

This seems to take care of the worst offenders. Boone Gorges

2018-11-12

11:02 AM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check

> Ray, could I ask you to do a review of what I've done so far?
Thanks for the well-researched post, Boone.
Th... Raymond Hoh

10:09 AM Feature #9943: Site templates

Scott was able to access the site and make the changes. Demos are now populated with content, visibility set to "Disc... Luke Waltzer

2018-11-11

10:08 PM Feature #9801: Add courses item to main Commons nav

Hi Boone,
One note. I spoke to a colleague Anna Akasoy, last week who told me that she is teaching a few courses o... Matt Gold

2018-11-10

12:56 PM Feature #9943: Site templates

Quick follow-up - there may have been a cloning issue with roles not being copied properly - please give another quic... Boone Gorges

12:52 PM Feature #9943: Site templates

Luke/Scott - Can you please let me know what you mean by "edit"? Exactly what are you doing, and exactly what are you... Boone Gorges

09:00 AM Feature #9943: Site templates

Boone: Scott is reporting that though he's an admin on https://academic-portfolio-template-demo.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ ... Luke Waltzer

2018-11-09

10:39 PM Bug #10675: NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o

https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/c9d582f4009ae8840dd48918b9f038725d3bf048 is a more permanent work... Boone Gorges

06:53 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items

Oh! sorry... my misunderstanding! Lisa Rhody

06:49 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items

Hi Lisa - I've already ported the change to the Commons (that's what I meant in comment 8 above). Please let us know ... Boone Gorges

06:38 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items

Thanks, Boone and Ray. We have a couple projects waiting on the fix, and I'm glad to hear that there's a short term s... Lisa Rhody

02:31 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items

I was seeing lots of instances of this fatal in the error logs, so I've applied the fix from the PressForward repo as... Boone Gorges

04:13 PM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check

wp_bp_activity is another high-impact place to make this change, since it's a single table, and is updated frequently. Boone Gorges

12:32 PM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check

Ray, could I ask you to do a review of what I've done so far? Two things:
1. I wrote a script that converts all op... Boone Gorges

04:07 PM Bug #10686 (Resolved): BuddyPress Docs should limit activity filtering to cases where activity scope includes Docs types

Implemented in https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs/issues/645 and merged into the Comons in https://githu... Boone Gorges

03:28 PM Feature #10687: Stop mirroring BP last_activity to usermeta

https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/c88ba8bddfff0fa32a847b2c7858201c9b29805b Boone Gorges

03:11 PM Feature #10687 (Resolved): Stop mirroring BP last_activity to usermeta

This was an easy win so I went ahead and implemented. Boone Gorges

02:38 PM Bug #10690 (Resolved): wp-post-to-pdf should use writeable cache location

Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/34e46ca7e85a6ba29c15330b46d22b709a63a1de Boone Gorges

02:38 PM Bug #10690 (Resolved): wp-post-to-pdf should use writeable cache location

The wp-post-to-pdf plugin (which has been abandoned for some time) uses tcpdf, which needs a cache location for thing... Boone Gorges

02:26 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

In https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/77ddf400f6dc9e81a8b85faef48970f59de9e7fc I added a composer se... Boone Gorges

02:22 PM Bug #10689 (Resolved): Featured Image Error

Hi Chloe - Thanks for the report. This is due to an incompatibility between the GalleryPress plugin and some recent s... Boone Gorges

12:00 PM Bug #10689 (Resolved): Featured Image Error

I get a HTTP error message when try to set a featured image for posts on the GC Art History Commons page. Screenshot ... Chloe Wyma

10:28 AM Feature #9943: Site templates

Thanks, Luke.
I've cloned all content and settings in the following cases:
teaching-template -> teaching-template... Boone Gorges

09:19 AM Feature #9943: Site templates

Ok, Teaching Template is done. Please clone https://teaching-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ to https://teaching-templ... Luke Waltzer

2018-11-08

10:45 PM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check

I've done some thinking and research about how this might be best effected, and I have a couple notes to jot down.
... Boone Gorges

05:42 PM Feature #10684 (Resolved): We should short-circuit wpdb charset check

Looking over the processlist log, I see that there is some correspondence between (a) moments when there are many 'sl... Boone Gorges

09:06 PM Feature #10687 (Resolved): Stop mirroring BP last_activity to usermeta

Our usermeta table is bloated, and writing to it takes a (relatively) long time. Let's implement https://buddypress.t... Boone Gorges

05:55 PM Bug #10686 (Resolved): BuddyPress Docs should limit activity filtering to cases where activity scope includes Docs types

See #10685. The same is true of Docs. See bp_docs_access_protection_for_activity_feed(). Boone Gorges

05:50 PM Bug #10685 (Resolved): Social Paper activity filter should only apply when activity scope includes SP types

Social Paper filters activity queries to ensure that items related to private SPs are not included in activity stream... Boone Gorges

05:43 PM Bug #10679 (Rejected): Site response time

Thanks, Scott. This is part of ongoing performance issues, which we're monitoring and attempting to debug. Nothing to... Boone Gorges

02:37 PM Bug #10679: Site response time

Response time is now much better. Nov 8 - 2:30 PM scott voth

01:54 PM Bug #10679 (Rejected): Site response time

I have noticed both yesterday and today that the site has long response times. For example, Nov. 8th from 1:30 to 2:0... scott voth

05:13 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

wordpress-thread-comment: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/40af153b040305b0ce528bbb47dc9d6980ab0a3b Boone Gorges

05:11 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems

Here's one from bdpress: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/ffd40d2d9c0100f23e92456b9ba81be7ed2daa90 Boone Gorges

04:07 PM Bug #10682: DiRT Directory Client runs unneeded database queries

DDC hides the user tab when the displayed user has no tools. https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/0fe5... Boone Gorges

04:03 PM Bug #10682 (Resolved): DiRT Directory Client runs unneeded database queries

I'll see if I can narrow some down and eliminate. Boone Gorges

04:07 PM Feature #9943: Site templates

Boone-- https://academic-portfolio-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu is ready for cloning to https://academic-portfolio-te... Luke Waltzer

03:54 PM Feature #10681 (Resolved): Avoid domain mapping database query for *.commons.gc.cuny.edu domains

Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/db8399518d6a00b897a594f721bbc3b1e1ba155a Boone Gorges

03:52 PM Feature #10681 (Resolved): Avoid domain mapping database query for *.commons.gc.cuny.edu domains

The very first database query run on every pageload is to the domain mapping table, which determines whether the curr... Boone Gorges

03:36 PM Bug #10680 (Resolved): wp_bp_activity table has extra 'component' index

Looking into some other issues, I see that the wp_bp_activity table has a component_name index (which is provided by ... Boone Gorges

01:19 PM Support #10657: child theme problems

Thanks, Marilyn. I've created her account and added her as a watcher here. Boone Gorges

12:12 PM Support #10657: child theme problems

She would like to be added to Redmine. I let Matt know on the ZD ticket, and here's her contact info in case you'd li... Marilyn Weber

11:30 AM Bug #10678: Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newsletters

Hi Mark - Thanks very much for the additional info, which helps me narrow down what's happening.
We do not use WP'... Boone Gorges

07:23 AM Bug #10678: Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newsletters

When I say "again" I am simply referring to the fact that my last bug report was in reference to the same plugin.
... Mark Webb

10:21 AM Support #10663: Access "Trash"

Hi Kristen - Thanks fo the follow-up. I still don't see anything in the database indicating a page called 'open-acces... Boone Gorges

2018-11-07

10:03 PM Bug #10678 (Reporter Feedback): Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newsletters

Hi Mark - I am unfamiliar with the way that this Newsletter plugin works. Could you please provide me with more speci... Boone Gorges

09:56 PM Bug #10678 (Reporter Feedback): Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newsletters

Hi,
The Newletter plugin for the CPCP website (https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu) is again having issues. Newslette... Mark Webb

05:29 PM Bug #10675: NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o

Interesting. Thanks, Boone, for this continuing work Matt Gold

05:05 PM Bug #10675: NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o

The Freemius tool seems kind of icky generally. In https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/3a8add2802f596... Boone Gorges

03:46 PM Bug #10675: NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o

Hotfixes:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/1a89462e0d091490653f22569c7d8b17bdaa8371
https://gith... Boone Gorges

03:40 PM Bug #10675 (Resolved): NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o

Spotted while examining recent performance issues: Plugins that use the Freemius library https://github.com/Freemius/... Boone Gorges

09:02 AM Support #10663: Access "Trash"

Hi Boone,
I'm just following up because this is the exact URL i'm looking for: https://gcdidev.commons.gc.cuny.edu... Kristen Hackett

2018-11-06

12:13 PM Feature #9943: Site templates

... Luke Waltzer

12:03 PM Feature #9943: Site templates

Luke, thanks very much for the update.
Your plan sounds good to me. To be clear, I assume you mean that each of 't... Boone Gorges

10:51 AM Feature #9943: Site templates

Just an update on where we are with this process; Boone, please let us know if you see any red flags.
Paul and I... Luke Waltzer

11:08 AM Bug #10665 (Resolved): Runaway database queries triggered by some BPGES queue events

Updated in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/7c756ab6909104df5fbea180862163d14affd6eb Boone Gorges

11:05 AM Bug #10665 (Resolved): Runaway database queries triggered by some BPGES queue events

See https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-group-email-subscription/issues/158
I'm going to port the most rece... Boone Gorges

11:05 AM Design/UX #10658: Condense sitewide footer

Thanks, Sonja!
Matt Gold

10:40 AM Design/UX #10658: Condense sitewide footer

I'll take a stab at this to make sure the condensed footer looks good on smaller devices too. Sonja Leix

08:27 AM Feature #10659: Post to multiple groups via email

Thank you, Ray. I could use this functionality on an almost daily basis, because I am often, for instance, sending up... Matt Gold

02:39 AM Feature #10659: Post to multiple groups via email

It's possible, but it will require some changes to RBE to allow multiple "To" addresses.
Currently, only one "To" ... Raymond Hoh

2018-11-05

05:02 PM Support #10663 (Rejected): Access "Trash"

Sounds good. Thanks! Boone Gorges

04:47 PM Support #10663: Access "Trash"

Hi Boone,
I myself am not too sure what happened.. - but I assumed I had put it in the trash and that's why I coul... Kristen Hackett

04:40 PM Support #10663 (Reporter Feedback): Access "Trash"

Hi Kristen - I think you have *access* to "Trash", it's just not appearing in this case because you have no pages wit... Boone Gorges

04:14 PM Support #10663 (Rejected): Access "Trash"

Hi Boone,
I'm trying to recover a page from the trash on the site: gcdidev.commons.gc.cuny.edu
I believe the pa... Kristen Hackett

02:27 PM Support #10657 (Reporter Feedback): child theme problems

Thanks, Marilyn. Some responses below. Please let Alison know that she's welcome to participate directly here on Redm... Boone Gorges

2018-11-04

12:44 PM Feature #10659 (Duplicate): Post to multiple groups via email

Increasingly, I have announcements that I need to post to multiple groups. Though we have an interface that allows us... Matt Gold

12:00 PM Design/UX #10658 (Resolved): Condense sitewide footer

Perhaps this should wait for our redesign, but in the interest of improving the site in the meantime, I wonder if the... Matt Gold

2018-11-03

06:27 PM Support #10657 (Abandoned): child theme problems

Alison Slon, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Technology at BMCC, has written to Zendesk with the follow... Marilyn Weber

2018-11-02

01:58 PM Feature #9801: Add courses item to main Commons nav

A brief update to note that Matt's assistants completed the review of courses earlier this week. This morning, I wrot... Boone Gorges

10:27 AM Support #10606 (Resolved): problems with testing environment

Thanks, Marilyn! Boone Gorges

2018-11-01

08:59 PM Support #10606: problems with testing environment

Feel free to close this now, thanks again! Marilyn Weber

03:36 PM Bug #10654 (Resolved): Trashing bbPress item can cause one zillion db queries

A request to
[REQUEST_URI] => /groups/[groupname]/forum/topic/post-transcripts-indexes-here/?action=bbp_toggle_... Boone Gorges

01:33 PM Publicity #10647 (Resolved): Add JTD to list of Publications on the Commmons

Hi - This has been added. scott voth

2018-10-31

09:34 PM Publicity #10647 (Resolved): Add JTD to list of Publications on the Commmons

Hi Scott --
can you please add this new journal to the list of publications on the CAC? Thank you!
https://comm... Matt Gold

05:06 PM Feature #9939: Campus branding widget

Thank you for testing, Scott! I don't want to try making per-theme adjustments this late in the game, but let's defin... Boone Gorges

02:17 PM Feature #9939: Campus branding widget

Just tested and looks great. Using 2012 theme, the brand might look better if it was left aligned, but that can be d... scott voth

05:06 PM Feature #9943: Site templates

Thanks, Scott! The behavior is expected - the academic portfolio template currently on cdev only has Jetpack activate... Boone Gorges

02:20 PM Feature #9943: Site templates

Jetpack was the only plugin that was automatically activated when I tested the Academic portfolio. Not sure if an iss... scott voth

04:51 PM Bug #10645 (Resolved): Facebook link in groups

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Gina. Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/f3d2277... Boone Gorges

11:32 AM Bug #10645 (Resolved): Facebook link in groups

I just attempted to add the CETLS Facebook page to the BMCC CETLS group. I added our Facebook id and the Commons gene... Gina Cherry

10:16 AM Bug #10605: cac-onboarding email sending routine can cause near-infinite db requests

Deployed! Let's see what happens. Boone Gorges