Forum Activity for @claygordon

Feature request - Ningja skin built using Sitebuilder

Installation and Configuration

I think one of the things that keeps me from using sitebuilder is figuring out how to break down the current pages and make their functional duplicates using site builder.

I know I can put widgets on pages, but then I need to populate the widgets. Rather than populating the widgets from scratch I want a set of widgets that includes the working code from the latest Ningja skin.

This could reduce the challenges, for many, with using Site Builder. For example, right now, I wouldn't know how to divide up the code in index.tpl using cut and paste to produce the functional equivalent of what I currently have on my live site.

I am happy to do what SE did and create a video that shows how to do this but I need a starting point for index.tpl and all the module and profile pages.
updated by @claygordon: 04/05/15 09:57:39PM

Creating a sandbox copy of current site - without images - best way

Installation and Configuration

I am struggling with lots of small issues and I don't want to play with them on my live site.

I am happy to do another install of JR somewhere (e.g., mysite.com/sandbox/) but don't need all the content - especially the image content - to test how things work.

But I want to duplicate everything else.

What's a recommended way to go about doing this?
updated by @claygordon: 03/06/15 10:52:15AM

More weirdness - missing blog post

Installation and Configuration

This does not make sense. If am in site-wide search (not member search) and search for an arbitrary string that turns out to be a member name I would like to know everything they have participated in.

To make this work I need to add whatever the blog_creator name field is to search? Same for images?

It's Alive !!!

Installation and Configuration

John -

One thing I think would be really helpful, conceptually, would be to have a "map" of template dependencies.

For example, in the Latest Forum Posts, what is the relationship of the various template files that determine the behavior of

A) what shows up
B) how it is formatted

index.tpl has an embedded template and then there is code in index.tpl that uses that template.

But then there are three jrForum templates in the skin plus the module templates.

What's the order of precedence and inheritance rules here? Where do I go to make the changes?

Case in point in the example above - "The padding is part of the action_item_media"

This is the activity timeline and the CSS is in which file? I see that there is an index_activity.tpl file that references item_action_media and I am supposed to infer that because there is the word action in it that it refers to action.css? And then action.css doesn't even show up until you select the untagged tab ... and then action_item_media is NOT among the CSS classes that is displayed so I have to go modify it in the CSS source file which puts it outside of the skin update process.

Is there a set of rules/explanations for where to think about how to look for this stuff? I haven't found one that lays this stuff out in a way that makes sense to me.

It's Alive !!!

Installation and Configuration

John -

Thanks for these great tips. At the moment I am having other issues with items not being displayed properly and I don't want to start editing templates until I get those fixed. Apparently I found a very subtle bug in one of the jrComment modules that can't be fixed in the skin.

But - once I get these issues ironed out I will certainly take a look at implementing these suggestions. And, yeah, I will probably go back to the default of scrolling lists in all the content blocks and the pagebreak. I turned them off because I didn't like the overall scroll behavior of the page when the cursor enters one of the blocks and it starts scrolling, not thinking about the other problems it might cause.

More weirdness - missing blog post

Installation and Configuration

But why are they not displayed when I search on a member name?

More weirdness - missing blog post

Installation and Configuration

I have sent an email off to the member who created the blog post asking her if she deleted it.

On a related note, while trying to find out what's going on ... does site-wide search include blogs? It didn't group discussions until I added the discuss_description field to the search global config. The member (landen-z) has created 30+ blogs but they do not show up in the search results:

http://www.thechocolatelife.com/search/results/all/1/10?search_string=landen

More weirdness - missing blog post

Installation and Configuration

There is an entry in the timeline datastore browser (id 532)

More weirdness - missing blog post

Installation and Configuration

New blog post shows up in the Activity timeline.

Clicking on the link to the blog post in activity timeline:

http://www.thechocolatelife.com/landen-z/blog/609/cocoa-bean-quality

Takes me to:

http://www.thechocolatelife.com/landen-z/blog

And there is no indication that the blog exists on that page.

The blog is NOT listed in the list of recent blog posts on the home page.

There is no blog with an ID of 609 in the datastore. How is that possible?

What's going on? These things appeared to be working properly on Sunday -- but stopped working on Monday.

I am completely confused about why
updated by @claygordon: 03/27/15 10:29:59PM

Home page content block not updating, bad URLs in Activity feed

Installation and Configuration

In the template editor.

That said, the timestamps looking at the files in the FTP client don't show changes from Jan 12! This is because changes to the skins are stored in the db, right?