MyBB Community Forums

Well, I finally found the time this weekend to upgrade my forums from 1.2 to 1.4.3. Overall, things have gone VERY smoothly. So thanks to everyone who contributed with the development. This is certainly an awesome product, and your hard work is MORE than appreciated - at least by me.

As recommended, I disabled (and even deleted) all my custom 1.2 themes and plugins. After installing 1.4, I then went back to the templates area in ACP and reverted all templates to their 1.4 defaults.

Issue #1:
This is minor, but I have a custom template set left over from 1.2 that no theme is using anymore. I'd like to delete it since it's no longer usable with 1.4, but I can't figure out how to do it without ripping into the database manually. I'd prefer not to do that unless I have to since I don't know where all the hooks/dependencies may be in the code. Isn't there a simple button somewhere to remove a template set? There's one to add, I assume there has to be a delete.

Issue #2:
When posting a new thread or making a reply using the 'non-quick' form, my clickable smilies just absolutely takeover the screen. I do have a ton of them (my users smilies), but 1.2 seemed to scale them well down the left side. As the screencap below shows, the Smilies box slides behind the post area; and the post area does not expand to fill all the extra space. (Note the red circles.) Is there anyway for me to improve this?

Thanks!

There should be a button 'Options' next to a template set.

You could play around with the templates to change the widths, but if you change the amount of smilies to show in that box and change how many columns there are, it might be better.

Removing templates might not be that easy. There was a recent bug fixed (#39807) - meaning your templates should be removed in 1.4.4... in the mean time they won't cause any harm.

I'm not too sure what will be causing those errors in the skin... have you made any template/css changes at all? As Matt says, you might as well try and alter the smilies table - it's overflow might effect the rest of the structure...

And also, whilst you're in the templates section, make sure all your templates are default (unless you've already edited them since you went to 1.4).

Oh yeah, I forgot about that fix... yeah if you can't delete them, just leave them for now and they should be gone with the next update.

Thanks for the replies. It sounds like the best approach for now might be to just wait for this fix in 1.4.4. I have attempted to revert every template I can find. And, according to the "Find updated templates" feature, the only templates that are non-1.4-default are in that unused template set that I'd like to delete. All the others have been restored as best I can tell.

As expected, changing the number of smilies as well as the # of columns in use (all through the ACP interface) does effect the output. But it doesn't scale well at all. I'm not a CSS guru, but I suspect the way the sheets are currently setup expects a very small number of smilies to be displayed. So, it may not scale very well.

Thanks again for your help.