Biopowered - vegetable oil and biodiesel forum
General => Chatter => Topic started by: Tony on June 20, 2011, 09:31:55 AM
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I've upgraded the forum software to the latest version. Obviously this has changed the theme somewhat - when nice new themes become available I'll add one.
Currently the wiki/forum authentication bridge is broken (can't login to the wiki using your forum ID). I'm working on fixing this at the moment - please bear with me. :)
Edit: Now fixed. :)
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looking very sexy dude 8)
sees my IP address too... :P
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Always did that, I guess this Theme just lets you know... won't be visible to other users though (it'll have the little network icon with the words "Logged" by it rather than the IP address).
I find it a little unfriendly (ooooh big brother is watching you!), when we get a new theme together it'll go...
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be fine chap love it....
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Don't want to appear an ungrateful old stick in the mud, but can we get the old theme back on this version?
It's a bit like an old jumper ... it may have dinner stains down the front and holes in the elbows, but it just feel comfortable and you can't bring yourself to throw it away!
Also a link back to the antispam site again would save a hell of a lot of time if it's possible. I had a quick google and there appear to be a couple of bits of software that do similar things and, I think one prevented known spammers registering in the first place.
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Sadly the Template for the upgraded forum is no longer free - $6! Given the old one was buggy (remember it had the post and thread counts back-to-front?) we might be better off waiting for something more shiny and free to come along :)
Anything grab your fancy?
http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?action=search;version[]=63
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Oh and check the admin registration settings - new users have to answer a question about biofuels - should sort the bots from the humans :)
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How do i alter the time? its not where it was before or is it now a site thing?
BTW Lookin good Mr rabid rabbit
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Anything grab my fancy?
Err ... in a word ... No! Most are hideous!
I'll have to accept that the dustman have my old jumper and get used to this new one!
Can't see the questions, but found the Anti-Bot Registration Puzzles thingy, says the questions are suitable for 7-11 year olds ... good job we all registered before this was instigated!
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I just tried registering with a genuine email address and it told me I was Spam! Didn't get a chance to answer any questions.
Is the registration system working OK?
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How do i alter the time? its not where it was before or is it now a site thing?
BTW Lookin good Mr rabid rabbit
Go to "profile", "Account settings", "Modify profile", "Look and layout" and you can add or subtract hours from forum time.
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I just tried registering with a genuine email address and it told me I was Spam! Didn't get a chance to answer any questions.
Is the registration system working OK?
No idea - I'll take a look :)
Yes, was failing the test questions because no answer to them was given (hardly fair, since the questions weren't displayed). I've taken the questions away for now, registration will work as per normal.
The anti-bot quiz addon sounds a little extreme to me, not sure we need that just yet - would be nice to get the questions bit of registration working though (suspect it's just missing form the template).
I did a forum reinstall from fresh this morning, as last time it was an upgrade... but this didn't fix it.
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All working now, configuration error on my part (duh!)
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Anything grab my fancy?
Err ... in a word ... No! Most are hideous!
I'll have to accept that the dustman have my old jumper and get used to this new one!
They are, aren't they? But I'm sure now 2.0 is out there will be lots along in the future. There are also third party ones not listed on that forum site.
Here's the old "Hediye" theme but for 2.0:
http://www.smfdesign.net/index.php?action=tpmod;themegallery=view;design=4
Obviously ours was a bit more customised with some of the display bugs ironed out.
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avatar theme looks good
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Opinions on "Headline" theme?
http://www.jpr62.com/demos/ (select "Headline" from the pulldown at the top to view it).
Colours are a bit more in line with the wiki and we can customise it like we did with the old one (cartons of oil depending on read/unread status etc).
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OK, you can choose for yourself now 8)
Click "Profile" in the menu above (not any dropdowns), then hover over "Modify profile" to pop up menu containing "Look and layout" you can change the theme to Headline, which I've modified with all the old oil images and logo.
From what I can tell the only downside of this theme is having the newsletter ticker missing.
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Nice bright and cheerful
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I see there is a "Today's posts" mod for the forum too, but that might be making it a bit too much vegoildiesel ;)
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If it gets much busier, a today's posts would be a useful facility, never mind that it's available on the VOD.