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Hi James,

Thanks for the useful ticket link.
That appears to relate to the first suggestion;

“1) allow the search engine to be limited to within a forum”

It is good that this is being seen to, as it may not improve the search engines capability for relevance, but it will have a very favorable reduction in the search engines capability for irrelevancy (to try to put it humorously).

What are your (and anybody else’s) thoughts and info for suggestions 2,3,4 and “the grouping concept”?

Thanks

Hi James,
Q) by “that capability” (since I mentioned several functions),
do you mean the abilility to change/alter (I imagine this is what you probably do mean)?
but do you mean that ability to “view” the information also (which means it would not be viewable)?

the reason I ask is –
I noticed that the Forum Topic List when viewed from within a user’s profile, does include the name of the forum that the Topic is in or was started in (I am not sure if the list view can tell the difference).
So this information is available to be “viewed”, at least by the topic starter, within their profile.
It may also already able to be viewed by repliers to the topic, in their profile view of Topic Lists.
The only thing new, is that the information could be viewed by anybody viewing the topic from within the forum (which would probably be of the same name anyway), but would show the route that the topic took to arrive at that forum.

Thanks for your help.
Anyway – not a big problem – sounds like the function is already available and being used by those who need it most.

Hi James,
Thank you for confirming my eyes weren’t deceiving men.
Hi t-p,
Thank you for being adaptable, and your apology is much appreciated.
But still, you may be correct – especially with what you have seen. I was just reporting what I was seeing. We could be both seeing a different view.

For James –
I just had a look at that link for the bug ticket. It seems to be talking about the “count for the replies”. Just to be clear, I was talking about the “name” of the most recent replier (which at the start is the topic starter).
It might be that if the count is miscalculated or to zero, then it does not show the name, under some situations – just a guess.
Q) I am not familiar with this bug ticket, but does this bug fix also cover the problem of the name?

If it does, then we can happily mark this topic as resolved, in anticipation of the successful fix.

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the info.
I didn’t know that there had been a problem with people misusing underlines on WordPress.

An explanation of why I would find “underline” or something like it, handy.

When I ask about a problem, I include the following ingredients;

a statement of the problem
a description of events
questions seeking a solution

not necessarily in that order, and may be accompanied by additional ingredients.
Each ingredient is most clearly delineated in the steps of the topic, by being underlined (or other form of distinguishing).

similarly for a suggestion, ingredients would include;

a statement of general concept
options for methods to achieve the result
description of benefits from the solution
discussion of pros and cons
and more

Although, a topic can be created with no formatting at all, a sensible application of formatting to text can improve the readability and scan-ability of the text. I find that bold is about the next best format after underlining for this, possibly along with a “;” at the end of the bolded (title) line.

so (seeking a solution),
Q1)Is “bold” considered to be okay for use as a way to subtitle ingredients/components/paragraphs/sections within a topic?

Also
(thinking about some other possibility),
Q2) Might it be possible to create some pseudo-markup convention for formatting?

The concept being that a topic or reply author could surround a text say “<title>Some Title</title>” for example.
Then the moderator can decide whether these can be replaced with html code, (after the article has become un-editable) that matches the site requirements for standardised formatting.

Alternatively
Q3) Is there possibility for say an insertion of h3,h4,or h5 heading formats?
These may or may not use underline (depending on what ever form the previous misuse of underlines took), but in any case use a format that is befitting of a small sub title. for example Slightly larger first font of first word, or every word in the title, or different font style, or different colour.

This was a question, but it may be developing into a suggestion/request,
so please let me know if you want me to re present it as a request.

I am just tossing a few ideas around.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for that.

So is there a way to get “underline” in the editor?
perhaps by typing in <something> ?
(or not?)

Hi James,

Thank you for confirming that this the correct forum for Feedback to Webmaster Team of www.ads-software.com .

If you are willing, then I would like to engage in further conversation with you within this topic, but only if you wish.

Again Thank you.

Hi,
I installed this plugin, but did not activate it.
I ran a scan with “PHP Compatibility Checker” on “all plugins and themes”, set to check for compatibility with PHP 7.

The result showed no warnings, and no errors,
and that it “Is” compatible with PHP 7.

So this is a positive confirmation that it is compatible, using this method.
I’ll set this a s resolved, and will un-resolve it if there are incompatibilities (which I doubt will be the case).

Thank you

Hi Jan Dembowski @jdembowski),

Thanks for letting me know this is the right place for website feedback.
Can you please make it more obvious that this “is” the place for website feedback?
Is it “only” for website feedback?
Or is website feedback in the same area as anything else that is not specifically handled?

As a start to improving the flow of website feedback and refinement,
here are some suggestions;
a) in the footer that appears at the bottom of every page on this website,
have a link with a label clearly indicating direct relevance to website feedback.
This can handle any type of feddback about anything to do with the website, it may try to categorise the feedback (for ease of handling by the team), but it will also have the ability to receive anything and feed it through to where ever it needs to go (like a really friendly and helpful receptionist).
You name it, I hope to find it (soon?).
b) Buttons to report problems with pages and processes “Report a problem(s) with this page?”, “Report a problem(s) with this section?”, “Report a problem(s) with this process?”. These may be placed on every page. But if the site team is not so keen to use these universally (because the team thinks they will not be needed), then they are at least available if there are any areas (pages,plugins,menus,features,systems,processes,etc) where roll-out/prototyping is going on, or where there has been some alerting to problems. These are very good at detecting problems (that may not be with the code functions) related to UI interaction with U.
This “button” method could be set up, so anybody who is developing anything can create a label for the button, and insert it into the area they are developing.
When the button is clicked on, it therefore knows which department to send its information to, which includes which page, and area the problem got reported from (the user does not have to spent effort describing their menu path, or circumstance surrounding an event).

c) make a separate area for the website feedback handling. It can be associated with the everything basket. But some people in the team may be specialising in the website, so they will be assisted not having to pass over the rest of the everything topics.
Perhaps this could be achieved by grabbing the code that is used for “categories” in the wordpress forum, and creating a different list of categories (one of which is website feedback).
The categorisation system could be made finer resolution, by having separate topics/subtopics for UI, possible code errors, ideas, feature requests, bug reports, process flow, etc.

Also
It’s not just a matter of “having” the features and functions, it is also important to “have them at hand”, and that they are “obvious”, and preferably intuitive to use.

This website is (the) a tool for the development process of WordPress.
If this website is hobbled in its performance, then the rate of development will be similarly effected.

Can I swing some topics that I have raised elsewhere, over to here, and have the website team see them?

In a way, I am interested in helping this site become a model of the way a best of breed website can be. And that means fixing up the shortcomings (irrespective of how brilliant other things are/may be).

Thank you for your help.

Re: mysqli_connect() fatal error.

If You have cPanel or similar, then you can go into PHP settings (possibly “Advanced”), and tick the PHP modules that get loaded with PHP.
just put a tick beside mysqli.
You may be able to remove the tick beside the old mysql module. Test to see.
You can keep the cPanel window open while you look at a page on your WordPress site.

Aside there are some useful caching modules if you are interested.

Hi,
Have any of those who might have complained about it, texted it with PHP 7?
Did any that did test it on PHP 7 give a positive report?

No “No”s is not the same as having some “Yes”s.

Lack of knowledge of negative effects, is not the same as knowledge of positive effects.

Thank you

Is it compatible with PHP 7.0 ?
Thanks

Hi sminozzi (@sminozzi),

The reason I ask is that I am running PHP v7.0 and am aiming to go to PHP 7.1 after December when WP is ready, and most of the plugins get compatible.

So are you sure, it is compatible with these versions?
If so, then maybe add the information to the description, so other people can know.

Thank you

Hi,

In the case above the flush can be done, and probably is automatically done.
Without too much trouble, there could also be a way to manually force it.

Being able to specifically flush certain areas or components of the website is very useful, as it reduces the need to fully recreate the cache.

In another topic, I have suggested this be able to be done for woocommerce (a very popular plugin)
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/woocommerce-shop-list-pages-not-updated-when-changes-made/

Is this possible – to be able to extend the ability for a “selective” flush to plugins?

Relating to the two parameters that share the “Status” box;
The “mixing the use” of these two parameters appears to have happened with “Views” at the bottom of the right hand side, which has the options

”
Non-support topics
Resolved topics
Unresolved topics
All topics
“

But does not have
“Support Topics” (i.e. ‘Are’ Support Questions)

So that part of the list could then be;
”
Support topic
Non-support topics
Resolved topics
Unresolved topics
All topics
”

Though helpful as links, this make searching for combinations of “different ‘types’ of topics” in “different ‘statuses’ “.
This would be helpful, not just for users, but developers and documentation expert helpers would be able to look for un-resolved topics of the type they are interested in.
These combinations would be made possible either by check boxes (which would give more possible combinations) or a two pairs of radio buttons, or some other way.

Hi Emre Vona (@emrevona),

Thanks for that.
So does that apply also if anything within a category is altered,
for examples;
a) a product price is changed
b) a product image is changed

Thank you