swisspenelope

Ah yes! THAT is where the messages are! I must have redone the form at some point and totally forgotten to redo the messages.

Many thanks, mbr – I was not going to find that on my own any time soon.

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Penelope

Hi mbr

I don’t have the Custom Message Addon installed, but I do have Form Builder. I’ve just had another look at the two forms (registration and profile) that I set up in FB, but I can’t see any place where I may have configured (incorrectly!) a message.

Does FB have some place for this (that I have forgotten about)?

I have been using SWPM since 2015 so I have seen it evolve a great deal, and definitely do not remember every single tweak I – or you – have made over the years. Any help you can give me will be much appreciated.

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Penelope

Just to add to my feedback, all is working now with your new patch. I can remove occurrences of \\ inside entries and they don’t immediately come back with friends.

In the search boxes, however, whether in the Online Directory or in the Admin panel of WordPress, I cannot search on O'Dowd or O'AnythingElse, because it inserts the famous \ and then does not locate the member I am searching for.

I have told my users to live with it for now and instead to type the part of the name AFTER the O' if they want to find that member account.

Fabulous! Many thanks, @wpinsider-1 !
Will install it now.

Hi Mbr,

Are we talking about the same thing here? If you have family names like O’Hanlon or O’Dowd, those are extremely common names in the USA, Australia, UK … any place that the Irish emigrated to more than 100 years ago! How can such common names no longer be acceptable?? They were fine for years until recently.

I am NOT talking about usernames such as those used only at the system level …

Hi, I have the same problem, but I can’t even find

.single-tribe_events #et-top-navigation {
display:none !important;
}

It’s not in views-skeleton.min.js.

To be precise, I am trying to remove the big bar that has a dropdown labelled Today, with nav. arrows, and at the far right, a little calendar icon. I don’t need any of that stuff. In Chrome’s element inspector it’s *header.tribe-events-header* and everything in there.

Thanks for any advice!

@tw2113 Michael, you were absolutely right that I needed to look at other stuff instead! There are so many variables in this setup. Anyway, I have made progress, but now have a different, although related, question.

If you look at the home page of this site, https://hacksrus.ch/roland-new, scrolling past the video you will see a “News” section created with the Elementor Posts widget and Elementor Custom Skin Pro. This has been there and working correctly from the start. I set the ECS Pro parameters for the first section to display only one column and only one post per page (the very latest one of the “News” CTP). I made the entire post a link, linking to the page https://hacksrus.ch/roland-new/blog. When you arrive on that page, there is a nice Elementor template that displays the content of /blog attractively.

What’s new is the section with two “News” thumbnails below that, also subtended by the Posts widget and ECS Pro. I managed to get a working result by creating a different template to use with ECS, and setting the ECS params to 2 columns, 3 posts allowed per page, and an offset of “1” to avoid it displaying the latest post, as this is already displayed above. Once again, I made the entire post a link, and this time it links dynamically to Post URL. The result is that the correct data is shown for the landing page each thumbnail leads to! This is already a huge success, BUT neither of those pages has Elementor formatting. Their layout is rather clunky, too wide and without enough spacing between elements. When you are on either of those landing pages, you can see that the URL is https://hacksrus.ch/roland-new/news/title-of-this-particular-post/. I can live with the /news/ tag in the URL, as long as it goes to the right content.

My question is, How can I create a “base” landing page that will receive and format the post data that is served up by the Post URL link? The page news/title-of-this-particular-post/ is created on the fly, so it doesn’t physically exist in the Pages section of the admin panel. I’ve tried to make a new landing page called “News”, with a nice template in it to format the contents of Post URL, but it displays with the title Archive: News at the top, and then quickly almost immediately causes an Elementor “cannot load Editor” error, which breaks the whole thing.

Is there any way of “catching” the Post URL content and formatting it on the fly? Do I need a parent-page-child-page hierarchical setup? Thanks in advance if you know how to solve this one!

Hmmm. I’ve added those two chunks of code into my child theme’s functions.php, but still seeing a url with /news/ in it when I hover the pointer over a title or featured image. And when I click, the page (that is, “old-news”) refreshes but I don’t get taken to the news article.

I know I haven’t understood everything about the all the parameters in CPT, so here is a summary of what mine are set to for the News post type:

Hierarchical: False
Rewrite: True
Custom Rewrite Slug: (blank)
With Front: False
Query Var: False
Custom Query Var Slug: (blank)

Can you see any errors there? I have pretty much tried every permutation of these!

Tks again.

Thank you – I’ll go and read that.

Okay, you can ignore my first reply as I understand more now. Initially I did not have rewrite set to True, but I had changed With Front to false, because I did not want the /news/ bit in my URLs, so that worked. It showed only https://hacksrus.ch/roland-new/?news=roland-iten-on-his-new-r18-superdriver.

But when I leave With Front as false and set Rewrite to true, then it brings back the URL as https://hacksrus.ch/roland-new/news/the-new-r18-superdriver/, which I don’t want, and anyway it still returns me a blank page.

There is nothing in the Custom Rewrite Slug field because I don’t want anything special in there. I just want the ?news= to go away.

I just had another look at the data-href occurrences – they seem to be part of Elementor Custom Skins, which enable me to pick and choose the elements I want in those thumbnails when using WP Posts widget.

Aha – well I have Optimole compressing my image files and I presume the hrefs are coming from there. First thing to do would be to empty Optimole cache – will do that.

Otherwise, any time I see tags like “data” I have been assuming it’s ACF Pro …

One question, when you say:

Just in case, you do have rewrite set to true for the post type in question, correct?

WHERE do you mean I should set this? I am not a master of CPT UI’s many features, so maybe I didn’t!

Yessssss!

Thank you so much – I just was not thinking when I put them in there, especially as the code got executed anyway.

Thank you once again!

Ah – it’s because they are in the Includes dir, so obviously they get included into existing php code … is that it?

Wow! I did that and it worked! Can you explain why these files shouldn’t have a closing php tag?

THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THIS!