Antipole

Additionally, in the excerpt the text ‘launching’ (with single quote marks) is being sent in user emails as

‘launching’

Robin… by design the activities are only available to logged-on users.

I am, this evening, launching the site and issuing invitations to my users to register.

Later this week I expect to have set up a shadow testing site and I could make the Activities visible to you or allow you to log on and see how it looks and twiddle with the settings, if you wish.

If so, please let me know how to communicate log on credentials to you. I will be not ready for a couple of days.

thanks, Tony

Robin…

Thank you for your response and the amazingly quick addition of the styling tab for the Latest Activity list.

Making the Topic/Reply title bold just makes it clear where the start of each ‘paragraph’ starts and is a big improvement.

The various styles you have provided don’t seem to work consistently, at least with my theme ‘Attitude’. I tried giving a link colour (section 7) and some of the topic title links are coloured and some are not. I have used the Safari web inspector to check what is being generated and I can see no difference between the ones that are coloured an those that are not – all use class=”bps-la-reply-topic-title” and have the same structure in the html. Very strange.

Anyhow, the bold and a larger font does work for me. Thanks, Tony.

An after thought for if you are going into the code…

A sample output from the widget looks like this:

Problems with private group forums
topic by Tony – Antipole & site admin
3 days ago
in Known issues with this site
Forum Topics and their control
reply by Tony – Antipole & site admin
3 days ago
in Site Steering Group
Ovni Tattle forum
topic by Tony – Antipole & site admin
2 weeks ago
in Site Steering Group

As I suggested, the number of lines could be reduced by bringing the forum/topic onto the same line as the abbreviated freshness. It is also difficult to read because it is not clear where the break is between topics – you really have to work it out. Ideally, a little extra space would indicate that, but that may be difficult. Alternatively to embolden the topic title or even just put a * on the front, thus

* Problems with private group forums
topic by Tony – Antipole & site admin
3 days ago in Known issues with this site
* Forum Topics and their control
reply by Tony – Antipole & site admin
3 days ago in Site Steering Group
* Ovni Tattle forum
topic by Tony – Antipole & site admin
2 weeks ago in Site Steering Group

I hop this is of interest
Tony

@mattyrob

Discussed where, please?

Yes – but I have switched to ‘Log emails’ so don’t need any further support – thanks.

Mystery solved, if not the plugin problem.

I did my successful testing on another test site and I have now found that I installed there the plugin ‘Log emails’ and not ‘Email logs’. Confusion because ‘Log emails’ titles its log page Email logs.

I continue to have the problem with ‘Email logs’ but ‘Log emails’ is working fine for me and I shall run with that.

thanks

Third time: the string is showing as:

Tony - Antipole <an ampersand>amp; site admin

Trying again – the string is:

Tony - Antipole && site admin

The above did not show properly. The string in the emails is:

Tony - Antipole & site admin

I have just re-enabled the Subscribe2 plugin and made a post to force WP to send an email other than through BuddyPress. The email arrived OK and was logged by Email Log.

The content is viewable, and so now is the content of the other emails sent from BuddyPress! Somehow, sending an email from WP itself rather than BuddyPress has cleared something. Very strange.

So it look like I am back in business. I will let you know if I get any reoccurrence.

Once again, thanks for your prompt support.

I do have Error Log Monitor installed and the PHP Error log is blank since I cleared it yesterday. No errors being generated during testing of Email Log.

Emails I am seeing are being sent from bbPress and also BuddyPress through the usual WP method. They are arriving OK, with their content.

I am using Email Log because I seem to have a problem with notifications from BuddyPress. But if I sent a private message to another BuddyPress user, the email notification does get sent correctly, is recorded by Email Log but the content field is blank.

Thanks for your prompt response.

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Thanks. I have now played around with the wording and settled on the following:

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Sorry – the above got reformatted in a meaningless way. I will try again, and will not attempt to underline the links:

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