2014-10-03, 05:07 PM
Greetings everyone,
My name is Ed, and I have been running a forum over at www.empireofthealexandrians.org/community for a while now. We originally used MyBB 1.6.8, and we upgraded last night to 1.8. I didn't perform the upgrade, a friend of mine (Liam) who has better knowledge of the process did it. He is part of our community and I could get more information about steps taken to upgrade and such from him if needed.
1. We are having issues with the board theme, as described by Liam below:
2. User validations - a user had registered on the board before the upgrade and apparently was stuck on validation. I went ahead after the upgrade and approved his validation anyway. But I am still getting an alert at the top of the forum saying that there is still someone in the validation queue. Not sure if now he has to validate his account via email or if it's something we can take care of. (See screenshot below.)
3. Thank You/Like System - On the previous board version, we used a Thank You/Like plugin. We turned it off before the upgrade. I noticed that MyBB 1.8 now has its own Thank You/Like system. When I tried to turn it on, it does not work. I turned on the option in the Admin CP panel and I am not seeing it applied to any of our posts or forums - at least I can't see the "Like" button anywhere.
4. Issues with the Purge Spammer and Contact Details options in the Admin CP - In the "Purge Spammer" option menu under Configuration in the Admin CP we get an error at the top, not sure what that is about as well. The same thing happens with the "Contact Details" option menu. (See screenshots below.)
5. Option Buttons in Admin CP do not work - I try to click on any "Option" button in the Admin CP after the upgrade, they never work. A pull down menu is supposed to come out providing you with options, but they never work or pull down the menu now.
6. Text editor no longer has buttons for formatting your post. Not sure where those went after the upgrade. 0.0
7. Buttons in all posts missing - See the screenshot below, the missing buttons are highlighted in yellow.
I am not sure if these issues have been addressed previously, but I have not been able to find resolution for them with a Google search.
Would anyone be able to help? I would appreciate it immensely. I really, really like MyBB and I am committed to keep using it. We just have to work through these kinks.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry I wrote a novel, lol.
Thank you!
My name is Ed, and I have been running a forum over at www.empireofthealexandrians.org/community for a while now. We originally used MyBB 1.6.8, and we upgraded last night to 1.8. I didn't perform the upgrade, a friend of mine (Liam) who has better knowledge of the process did it. He is part of our community and I could get more information about steps taken to upgrade and such from him if needed.
1. We are having issues with the board theme, as described by Liam below:
Quote:We are in the default theme because the Alexandrian custom theme isn't responding to its CSS parameters with respect to table width and text alignment especially despite the files having the appropriate read/write/execute permissions (if you log out and view the forum as a guest, you can see the issues with the custom theme). I've tried re-inputting the values with no luck. I think it may be an issue of the theme it's based on being from an older version of MyBB and a Google search on the issue appears to support that.
Even the default theme is being fussy - I tried to change the logo to the Alexandrian one to see if we could rebuild easily, but then there was a board-wide error that dumped the themes completely.
I haven't had any luck finding a solution but I reinstalled the forum a second time to get the default theme to work properly again. If Ed can't fix it in the meantime while I'm offline, I'll continue some research into the matter tomorrow night or during the weekend.
For now, the default theme is a temporary measure, so that when you're logged in, you can at least use the forum normally without the CSS issues.
2. User validations - a user had registered on the board before the upgrade and apparently was stuck on validation. I went ahead after the upgrade and approved his validation anyway. But I am still getting an alert at the top of the forum saying that there is still someone in the validation queue. Not sure if now he has to validate his account via email or if it's something we can take care of. (See screenshot below.)
3. Thank You/Like System - On the previous board version, we used a Thank You/Like plugin. We turned it off before the upgrade. I noticed that MyBB 1.8 now has its own Thank You/Like system. When I tried to turn it on, it does not work. I turned on the option in the Admin CP panel and I am not seeing it applied to any of our posts or forums - at least I can't see the "Like" button anywhere.
4. Issues with the Purge Spammer and Contact Details options in the Admin CP - In the "Purge Spammer" option menu under Configuration in the Admin CP we get an error at the top, not sure what that is about as well. The same thing happens with the "Contact Details" option menu. (See screenshots below.)
5. Option Buttons in Admin CP do not work - I try to click on any "Option" button in the Admin CP after the upgrade, they never work. A pull down menu is supposed to come out providing you with options, but they never work or pull down the menu now.
6. Text editor no longer has buttons for formatting your post. Not sure where those went after the upgrade. 0.0
7. Buttons in all posts missing - See the screenshot below, the missing buttons are highlighted in yellow.
I am not sure if these issues have been addressed previously, but I have not been able to find resolution for them with a Google search.
Would anyone be able to help? I would appreciate it immensely. I really, really like MyBB and I am committed to keep using it. We just have to work through these kinks.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry I wrote a novel, lol.
Thank you!