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Just want to say, we are still looking into why the spam is happening like this. Askimet does not seem to be doing what it should be, but I have coded up a plugin which should make it easier to deal with by allowing us to block a user and mark all topics and replies as spam.
While I have tested this in a clone I setup of the forum we do not wish to activate a new (especially one that was literally written yesterday) plugin on the weekend. If this spam is still a problem next week this new weapon against the spammers should help quite a bit.
nickthegeekMemberwhere is the gist cloning not working?
nickthegeekMemberYes, please use the Sample child theme 1.9. The 1.9.1 update did not address anything in the style.css file so there was nothing to update in the sample child theme.
nickthegeekMemberI haven't actually looked into this much. I believe the big change is markup, but presumably there will be some changes that could affect hooks and filters, but this is all still being written so it is hard to say exactly what the final results will be.
nickthegeekMemberThat should get you there. The biggest issue is the markup is going to change quite a bit so you may have to rebuild a good bit of your style sheet.
nickthegeekMemberI would be cautious about trying to implement HTML5 at this point. You can but you would want to test and fix everything in a testing site before trying to update a live site to Genesis 2.0.
I have a site that I wanted to use some HTML5 tags on so I enabled HTML5 support. However, I have a testing environment so I can finish my HTML5 port when Genesis 2.0 comes out then push those edits when I update Genesis to a full HTML5 version.
nickthegeekMemberI'm not aware of plans to make an app. I'll have to see if we can make it responsive
nickthegeekMemberThe short version is we can't just switch to HTML5 with existing sites. We are working very hard to make Genesis HTML5 but it requires thoughtful consideration to make sure the markup is correct the first time because we can't really go back and change it after the fact without affecting sites using HTML5. Additionally we have to do extensive testing to make sure that it works for existing sites as well.
nickthegeekMemberWe are working on it and we are working on fixing the problem as well
nickthegeekMemberSorry that you are experiencing problems with this. We work very hard in help desk to reply quickly and your tickets should be coming to your email address. If you are not receiving responses please make sure that @copyblogger.com is whitelisted with your email provider.
As for the forums, I have to say I am incredibly proud at how well the community is stepping up to help. I'm seeing many more people answering and I'm seeing them write tons of free code. It might feel like something was lost because it changed, but from what I'm seeing by overlooking is the community is providing much more, and that is just amazing.
If you end up with your thread getting buried please drop us a message via help desk with a link to the thread. I can't promise an answer but I'll ask the community to check it and to be honest, I've been blown away with how good they are at helping.
The people helping here aren't ignoring things on purpose, sometimes things get buried, but they are great at going well above and beyond and deserve a huge round of applause.
nickthegeekMemberGlad you found the issue. I was assuming that it was a problem with the theme folder name. The following is my standard response for this zip issue. It includes a couple of solutions so you might find it helpful.
I recently switched to using a Mac and that first week this issue caused me endless frustrations. It turns out there is a default setting that unzips downloaded files and then deletes the zip file automatically. I guess this is handy unless you need the zip files like WordPress users do.
I found there are two simple solutions. You can disable this option in the browser preferences. I just looked and the option says "Open safe files after downloading" and is in the "General" tab. Once disabled you should be able to download zip files like normal.
The other option is to press "control" while clicking on your folder. Select to "compress" the folder and you will get a new zip file easy as that. It is super important that the Genesis folder be named "genesis" exactly like that. It can't be "genesis-2" or anything else like that.
I hope this helps ease your frustration and gets you back on track.
nickthegeekMemberIt helps if we have a link to your site. Please post a link to your site. Thanks.
nickthegeekMemberI have pretty much finished. I'll be making small adjustments as I add some different posts, go through my old posts and find things that need to be changed. I put it live on my site though
http://nickgeek.comStill welcome feedback on what I might improve.
nickthegeekMemberThe moderators approve spam as they find it. I check the spam filters a couple of times a day and have also added another administrator with access to the spam filter to help with account issues and to check for spam if I am not available. In all honesty we don't have many posts being flagged relative to the number that come through each day.
I'd love to do a write up but as Askimet is a bit vague on how their system works it is difficult to say for sure.
nickthegeekMemberBill, we don't flag people manually very often. Only if it is legit spam and then we would block the account while we are in there. Askimet does this automatically and it has been a bit aggressive the past month or so.
nickthegeekMemberjust an update, I cleaned up some of the issues on my punch list, especially some of the mobile responsive things. I still have cross browser testing and mobile device (as opposed to using the SP responsive tool) testing to do.
Anything anyone would change? I figure once I've had it live on my site for a bit I'll clean my code up some (the php files are kinda scary) and package it as a free theme. I'm also taking suggestions for names. All I got is infinite free mason which will probably get the illuminati after me.
nickthegeekMemberJust a couple of things.
First, I'd recommend making the CPTs and Custom Fields a plugin, even if it is a premium plugin included for free with the theme. This is ideal as a plugin because if you did a "Ministry 2.0" or even another ministry based theme users can upgrade/switch themes without affecting the CPT/Custom fields. Also, users might chose to use some other theme and if you make functionality that is central to the site usage part of the theme you kinda make that a big mess.
Second, in my experience the person updating the church website isn't necessarily tech savvy. They will need an easy way to add details about ministries such as service times and leader details. Same for events, and sermons. These are all things that custom fields would be very helpful for. My church website is a very basic version of Outreach 2.0 but under the hood is a pretty good system for adding events, ministries, and sermons (which I still need to add). I stripped out the actual page content and put in a small handful of custom fields, some of which are date selectors, WYSIWYG editors, or file upload fields. The goal was to put as little on each post type as I could. Too many fields and it just gets confusing for people.
Here are a couple screen shots to show how little is actually there
http://awesomescreenshot.com/06fwn3hcaThere is even less in the "ministries" post type
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0fawn3ob4That lets me have a lot of power controlling how it gets put on the site though so it is useful for visitors. From everything I researched most people want to know when the church meets, where it means, and who will be there in that order, so I've tried to make getting that information easily available and easy to share for each ministry and for each event. Everything is also tied together so users can follow various links and get to the info they want in more than one direction.
In other words, it needs to be extremely easy to use, but it needs to make the basic information people are searching for on a church site easy to find.
nickthegeekMemberMasonry is a jQuery plugin script that lets floats arrange in tighter block similar to what you see in Pintrest.
http://masonry.desandro.comI tend to leave my site alone for much longer than Brian does though. The last redesign has been there since Streamline 2.0 came out.
nickthegeekMemberLooks good. I'd like to see a min-height in the home middle section so those items are all the same height in a typical setup.
I'm also curious, are you using any CPTs or Custom Fields to improve the usability for ministries for events or sermons or is it intentionally compatible with specific plugins that add that functionality?
February 7, 2013 at 2:24 pm in reply to: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page #18736nickthegeekMemberIf you are having difficulty please use the default login form
http://www.studiopress.community/wp-login.phpAs Susan noted, you can't login via wp-admin because you do not have an account that has access to the dashboard.
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