Here we go again.
For Migration and Testing – Home Page
1) Explore – Top Menu
1.1 Home
1.2 Blogs (at the Forum)
1.3 Forums (Forum Homepage)
2) Navigation Menu – Sticky Shallhelp Jazzy looking Drop down Menu (with black opacity) – with Icons
2.1 Logo
2.2 Home
2.3 EXPLORE
2.4 Community / Forum
2.5 Articles / Blogs
2.6 Members Chat
2.7 MY ACCOUNT
2.8 Sign In or Register
3) Footer Menu (with black opacity) – with Icons
3.1 Blogs (at the Forum)
3.2 Forums (Forum Homepage)
3.3 Contact
4) GDPR pop-up modal
5) Legal Stuff
5.1 Disclosures
5.2 Terms
5.3 Privacy
5.4 DMCA
5.5 Credits
5.6 Webhost
5.7 CMS
5.8 Theme
5.9 Theme Developer
5.10 Copyright
5.11 Smiley
I will first reinstall the sticky “chat” on the bottom right corner, because we won’t be using the Forum’s “Recent Posts” as we migrate.
Too many tech issues going on and I am going to have to simplify some more.
Let’s just use the comments section for the back and forth commenting.
WHY?
I’ve been weighing all of the suggestions and areas of considerations on this decision. I’ve done a SWOT Analysis in my brain.
Back to the simple. Again. I’m starting to feel like a beta tester for a software I didn’t develop myself. The reason why I developed my own theme is because I hated the updates and the bloatware.
So considering for this website, we used the Forum primarily for everything, it begs the question, how do we back it up easily?
What irked me was all the smileys in the website and all the pictures are BROKEN, because some unknown script is sweeping through and changing the file paths.
Thursday night through Friday night marathon was exhausting, trying to troubleshoot each and every image and broken link.
It would have been easier had the forum posts been easily migrate-able to WP, because I have a script that can detect broken links.Another mental beat-down. And the site is crawling at (2.371 Seconds), and we’ve lost our Alexa Ranking.
We got to trim down this website.We have to batch remove all the high quality product pictures from Vendors that are still in the site. The gazillion screenshots that we took, uploaded and wrote about.
Not certain if once we deactivate, and then uninstall the forum, is the uploaded images would still be in our media files.
Anyway… let’s get started.
Again. (Now in hindsight, I should NOT have updated to the latest version). I’m tired of testing every single time there’s an update, almost always, it breaks something else somewhere. =(
#CWCodeSnippets – (I also added another Category = Code Snippets. Please edit add ANY post where you see any of my Code Snippets). I couldn’t post the code below in the comments.
Here’s what I added (Select “PASTE AS TEXT” when you are posting) :
<div class=”transnavbar-right”>
<span class=”alignright”>
<i class=”fa fa-commenting-o” style=”font-size: 1.5em; color: #1e4c91;”></i>
| </span>
</div>
8/12/2020 11:07 am Update: The above code for the chat icon on the bottom right of the screen, opens on the same page. I changed it so that it will open in a new window. Below is the revised code, in purple:
<div class=”transnavbar-right”>
<span class=”alignright”>
<a href=”/chat” alt=”Group Chat” target=”_blank”><i class=”fa fa-commenting-o” style=”font-size:1.5em;color:#1E4C91″></i></a>
| </span>
</div>
Updated: 8/14/2020 2:31 p.m. to include the following links:
Module: Comments and Leave a Reply
Session: Aug 12 2020, Wednesday
Module: Chat Icon on the Bottom Right of the Screen
Module: Recent Blog Posts Widget
Module: Recent Blog Comments Widget
#CodeSnippets
Finished putting the Chat Icon on the bottom right corner. It used to have the “Menu” icon in there. The top Hamburger Menu used to have the “Cart” where I programmed it to automatically display number of items, with the cart. I posted it somewhere on the Forum, but the Forum Search is kind of wonky after I super tested it the past 24 hours. Plus the cookie sessions are making old posts disappear.
It’s not allowing me to post code on the comments, it seems.
CODEI posted the code above. In Orange Font. =)
So can we add images?
Yes, using regular code
< img src = " " alt = " " / >
Remove the spaces of course and fill in the blanks
I also did a tweak on the way the avatar was displaying (square), so I made it round. =)
It will be a real pain in the neck to be working and fixing all these broken links and the images, too. Grrrrrr….
This cannot get any simpler …
/SH_Final_index.html
Now THAT looks real simple! And a ONE pager that doesn’t look like it is!
This is a reply from the very bottom “Leave a Reply” box.
This a reply from the “Reply” button. Level 1.
There is a 5 minute time on each comment box, leaving the commenter 5 minutes time window to edit, until the comment is posted.
I have noticed that the link I posted above protrudes, so I will edit the above post with the code snippet I am going to figure out and then add.
Also, I have been working on CSS codes on the comment box, in case you are noticing … =)
There’s a lot of tweaking I have to do on the Recent Posts and Recent Comments widget, it’s not showing up nice on phones.
I’ll create new Blog Post topics. So we can easily add the screenshots there.
I created a new one on the comments area, here.
/modules-comments-and-leave-a-reply/
(And I need to write a snippet to make sure the links break down, I noticed it protrudes outside the box)
I guess not. I wrote an earlier script on it, I noticed the link I just posted is ALREADY breaking down.
I just refreshed the page. I am being moderated. “Your comment is awaiting moderation. This is a preview, your comment will be visible after it has been approved. ” LOL!
I just approved it. You have 7 comments so far. =) . We have plugins that I can think of that might trigger that too. Akismet and recaptcha and the Stop Spammers.
Read. (no more Like buttons?)
At last!!!!