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One more thing: there are 11 classifieds that are sitting in the “incomplete” list, waiting for approval. If you have submitted one of these ads and are desperate to have it published, let me know (and tell me which one it is). Otherwise, I would like to wait a little bit (maybe a day) so that the guys who are trying to troubleshoot this can have some clues to go on. Thanks.
I just added an update to the About This Site page. If there is an issue you are concerned about that isn’t addressed there, please let me know.
Some people have had trouble resetting their passwords. That issue has been resolved now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please let me know if you have any further issues with passwords.
Can someone please enable all my classified ads? I don’t know how to get them to work.
Done.
So, I made a large post with my curled dragons for sale 3 days ago. It said i needed a verification email. Until i verified my email the add would remain disabled but i could view it. Now the add is completely gone and I still never received a verification email. I also had several old adds that were disbaled when the new website came up and still have no way to make them active. Please can someone help me out? I see other people getting to post adds and I dont understand why none of mine have been resolved?
Apologies Betrluk1. The problem (in the short run) is that a bunch of ads are going into a couple of different queues (“ads awaiting approval” or “verification”) that they shouldn’t. I’ve got the people who wrote the code for this classified plugin looking into it, but in the meantime it’s very difficult for us to know which ads in the queue should be enabled and which should not be. I will enable all your ads that are queued right now, so if there are any that you DON’T want enabled, please let me know (or you can disable them yourself). Sorry for the trouble.
I’m concerned about my PMs. None of them are showing up-from the olden days nor a new one I sent. IDK if the person replied because there’s no record of me sending the message an I don’t see an “outbox” sort of thing.
WolfenMachine,
I’m wondering if maybe you had another account at some point (or a different forum name) and maybe your PMs got attached to that. Did you ever use a different name?
Several people have asked about zooming in on their mobile devices. Normally, responsive websites (sites that adjust the layout to display well on mobile devices) do not have pinch-to-zoom functionality. However, since some Windstone users seem to use that feature a lot, I have enabled it for now. It doesn’t work very well when viewing lightbox images (images that open in a separate window), but for photos that are part of a page/post it seems to be fine.
another thing, I don’t see a button to quote anymore…will that be coming back?
A quote button would be nice …
I found a plugin that enables quotes. Enjoy!
Natasha,
Those ads were in fact in our “ads awaiting approval” queue. They were showing as expired. I renewed them. I’ve been inquiring of the bbPress support people about this issue, but haven’t gotten an answer yet. There must be a way to let users renew ads without having to get them approved every time. I’ll keep you posted.
Fatal beauty,
Thanks for pointing that out. I had turned on “reply threading (nesting)” not realizing that that option also disables pagination, so all replies are loaded on a single page. It’s a nice feature, but with some of the larger topics (hundreds of replies) it’s prohibitively slow. So I turned it back off. The makers of the forum plugin (called bbPress) are working on a way of having nested replies and pagination at the same time.
Mike, I’m afraid that going back to the old format is not an option, though we are trying to make the new system as similar to it as we can. The entire site was migrated from our old platform (Drupal) to the new one (WordPress), and WordPress has its own modules (called plugins) for every site feature (forum, classifieds, galleries, PMs, etc.). In order to make the transition as easy as possible for everyone, we are trying to replicate the look and workflow of the old system as much as we can, but it won’t be exactly the same. In the long run it will be better, and will have some nice features that the old site did not have (though that may be hard to believe at the moment). During this transition, the person who had been in charge of the classifieds for years (and would have been setting up this new system) left Windstone, so that’s an extra challenge. Hang in there, it will all get sorted out soon.
Ad description limit is now 3000 words. This may be adjusted later–I don’t know what the limit was in the old system. BTW, I never really used the old system. Pam, who used to be in charge of the classifieds, was going to configure the settings for this new system. But now it’s up to me, and I don’t know the details of how things used to be, so if there are things about the old system that were different, and that you’d like to see replicated, let me know.
Brief classifieds update: description limit is now 1000 words, HTML is now allowed, and captcha (which was causing some errors) has been switched to a math problem type for now. The system is not set to require admin approval for new ads, so if you create an ad and it doesn’t appear in the listings right away, please let us know and I will take a look. I am currently researching how to give users control over expiration dates. More soon…
Sorry for all the glitches everyone. I had hoped that I’d be able to work on a lot of this stuff while the data migration guys were doing their thing, but turned out if I had made any changes before they were totally finished my work would have gotten over-written, so I have to make my fixes now. I think the classifieds will be the trickiest part. All the ads are there, but expiration dates and statuses (stati?) may take some sorting out. Someone mentioned the 750-word limit and the inability to include HTML. Both of those things are just the default settings in this system, and can be easily changed. I did get a list of recent forum posts and new members added to the forum homepage. Most of the formatting issues (text too dark, background too light, font too small, etc.) are very easy to fix, so look for improvements to those sorts of issues very soon. But as John said, getting everything working right is the first priority. Thanks for your patience and feedback. More soon…
