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Search box for members

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I notice two things on your 'members' page Perrie. If you HOVER your mouse over a picture of a member, a popup shows their member name and if you click on the avatar or name it takes you to their profile page... so that's good.
And two: if you type in a member name into your general site search box at top right of any page, it also will show you the search results with that member as a result. I searched for fitbuddy and got this: https://thenewstalkers.com/search/results/all/1/4?search_string=fitbuddy That's good too.
Note that on THAT page, there is also a "search profiles" search box where you can search for other member names.

Search box for members

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Yes Perrie, it's skin and template related... in that I did a lot of customizations especially to the 'look' of my site to make it easy for my members to find their way around and (hopefully) friendly and pleasant to look at. I started (like you too maybe?) from the basic generic "Ningja" skin long ago. Most of the customizations were done around the time i moved from Ning 2.5 years ago, but it's an ongoing process, especially when updates keep coming along to mess with my head. (lol)
I'm still no coder, but I manage to figure out small site tweaks on my own here and there. And I do make mistakes.

What skin did YOU base your site design from Perrie?
updated by @strumelia: 03/13/18 04:19:19PM

Search box for members

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I like to add profile_location to that as well. Depends on the type of site though- my members often ask about searching for/finding other members near them to play music with.

Search box for members

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Members tab? Not sure what you mean. Do you mean the main links along the top of your main page, one of which might be 'members'?
Perrie do you mean you member 'index' page, as in: yoursite.com/profile ? My member index page has a search box there above the member avatars, here: https://fotmd.com/profile
Maybe you can post a screen shot of where you are talking about if you mean someplace else and can't describe it exactly.

question re: apply new Ninja update to my custom skin

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That seemed to do the trick. Thank you Micheal !

JrChat Question

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My jrchat button (i'm on a custom skin cloned from Ningja years ago) turns yellow when there are new chat messages I have not read. Once i read them, the button turns white again.
My chat buttons turn to a very pale grey background when I merely hover over them though... unlike the chat buttons here which turns yellow when you hover. The turning yellow when hovering is nice to have, but the most important thing does happen correctly on my site: that my chat button turns yellow when new unread chat posts are there.

question re: apply new Ninja update to my custom skin

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I see. The problem is, when I get to the 'skin cloned from' column it only shows the name of my previous active custom skin... I have a generational series of skins that have been cloned anew over time, in order to maintain a few previous generations of my custom skin. Wouldn't it mess up my current active custom skin in some way to change that to 'jrNinja' ?
Perhaps I should be doing this instead to the ninja skin, to make it understand that IT was a 'child' of Ningja?
See screenshot:

updated by @strumelia: 03/06/18 02:24:30PM

Jamroom 6.1.6 Upgrade and TinyMCE changes

Announcements

Thanks for the heads up Brian.

question re: apply new Ninja update to my custom skin

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I'd like to apply the latest Ninja skin update to my custom skin.

Two part question:
1) I thought i used to have the ability to use the template 'compare' tool to apply ninja updates line by line to my custom skin (which was originally cloned from 'Ningja' skin years ago). But now the Compare button for doing that is greyed out. I only get the option to apply updates if I start with opening the Ninja skin and click the compare button to compare one of its templates to my custom skin in the dropdown.... but then I can only make changes from my custom skin to the ninja skin... not the other way around.
Again, I thought I used to be able to open my custom skin and 'compare' a tmeplate to a ninja tmeplate and apply changes FROM the ninja TO my custom skin... but now the Compare button for that is greyed out. Maybe I'm not recalling this clearly and it was always this way?
Is this greyed out Compare button telling me I have to manually copy/paste any updates from the Ninja skin into my custom skin templates?

2) either way, the new update to the ninja skin involves social sharing stuff in the footer.tpl ...but that updated code includes several references to "jrNinja" skin. If I apply these ninja updates to my custom skin, do I need to manually replace all references to the Ninja skin with my custom skin's name?

Thanks!

updated by @strumelia: 06/09/18 09:20:28AM

ninja Skin background

Design and Skin Customization

D'oh! I knew there was probably an easier way!