• Resolved MichaWha

    (@michawha)


    Hi, I have the latest version of WP and Asgaros Forum (and all my other plugins).
    I’ve installed Asgaros Forum recently and I’m pretty happy with it. People on my forum are starting to ask some questions about possible improvements though, here’s a list:
    – It would be nice to be able to use your own avatar instead of the Gravatar one.
    – In thread titles, a backslash appears before an apostrophe (like for instance in Mirror\’s Edge).
    – Image resize doesn’t seem to work. It works when you’re in the edit message mode but when you publish it, it’s not resized.
    – Sometimes the “unread” icon appears even though everything has been read.
    – And here’s a quote from someone : “A subscribe option to threads would be especially helpful. If and when the forum grows even larger, with large numbers of threads per forum, digging through various threads just to get to one is going to be extremely painful and too much hassle. One method of solving this could be sending email subscriptions for various updates OR creating a notifications bar (although I don’t really know the amount of work for this idea).
    Another method to solve this could be a ‘My Posts’ option that shows all topics you’ve posted in.”

    Thanks for taking the time to read my message, I hope you can help with some of these things!
    Thank you in advance.

    MichaWha

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/asgaros-forum/

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  • Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Hello MichaWha!

    It would be nice to be able to use your own avatar instead of the Gravatar one.

    There are WordPress plugins which allows user to change their avatars.

    In thread titles, a backslash appears before an apostrophe (like for instance in Mirror\’s Edge).

    This has been fixed in the dev-version and will be included in the upcoming v1.0.11 release. See:
    https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/commit/e6d756afcd817d7311c9b14e7f7b7ba5f19af96d

    Image resize doesn’t seem to work. It works when you’re in the edit message mode but when you publish it, it’s not resized.

    Sometimes the “unread” icon appears even though everything has been read.

    I will check both problems later.

    A subscribe option to threads would be especially helpful.

    This is on my todo-list, see:
    https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/issues/22

    But it can already be achieved with own code via the hooks:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/notifications-30?replies=9

    Thread Starter MichaWha

    (@michawha)

    Hi Asgaros, thanks for the reply, I’m glad to see you’re working a lot on this plugin, I’ll keep it up to date!
    Thank you ??

    Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Hey again!

    Image resize doesn’t seem to work. It works when you’re in the edit message mode but when you publish it, it’s not resized.

    This is working fine for me in Chrome. Which browser are you using and what is the name of your theme? Do you have a link for me where I can see an image with the wrong sizing? Maybe it is some CSS incompatibility.

    Thread Starter MichaWha

    (@michawha)

    I’m using Chrome too but my WordPress has a custom theme, that might be the source of the problem then. Take a look at this post, I set the image size at 350px wide and it’s just fits the forum’s size instead: https://mirrorsedgefans.fr/forums/?view=thread&id=15#postid-61

    Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Yes,

    the CSS in the style.css of your theme overrides it, see ~line 143:

    img {
    	border: 0;
    	width: auto;
    	-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
    }

    Can you try to remove width: auto;? This should fix it.

    Thread Starter MichaWha

    (@michawha)

    It worked! Thank you very much!!

    Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Sometimes the “unread” icon appears even though everything has been read.

    Have you pressed the “Mark all read” link at the end of the forum overview to mark all forums/topics as read?

    Thread Starter MichaWha

    (@michawha)

    I must admit, haven’t tried that. I’ll try it next time it happens!
    But seriously, the unread icons is really acting weird: yesterday, some categories I had already checked out were marked as unread, then a few hours later, marked as read, and this morning, marked as unread again even if nobody posted anything in the meantime.

    Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Yeah, the unread logic dont check which topics you have visited in the meantime. It just sets and checks an cookie with a date of your last visit and marks forums as unread which contains posts/topics created after that date. If you click on such a topic it is not marked as read. You have to manually mark the forums as read via the link when you are done. There is room for improvements but I will do this in a later release.

    I also thought about removing this entire feature and to provide a “last topics/answers” list in a chronological order instead. Not sure about it yet.

    Thread Starter MichaWha

    (@michawha)

    I understand, I’ll use the “mark as read” link from now on, thanks for the reply!

    Thread Starter MichaWha

    (@michawha)

    Hi again Asgaros!
    Even when I use the “mark all read” link, a few hours later, some old threads are marked as unread again.

    Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    Thanks for your info. I will check this again.

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