Forum Activity for @claygordon

Clay Gordon
@claygordon
09/08/15 08:33:43PM
733 posts

Subscribe to a Forum?


Ning To Jamroom

Strumelia:

I do mean subscribing to a Forum category. The one that everyone seems to want on my site is Classifieds. They want to be notified when a new post is added or an existing post is updated. They don't want to manually subscribe, and they don't want to visit if there's nothing new.

P.S. - I've been letting the site stew for a couple of months to see how people respond to it. Going to start addressing the changes people want to make ... starting now!
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
09/08/15 01:34:10PM
733 posts

Subscribe to a Forum?


Ning To Jamroom

Douglas -

It is as I thought - a manual process.

What would be involved in adding the capability at the Forum level? A worthwhile/doable addition to add to the Features wishlist?

:: Clay
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
09/08/15 06:19:01AM
733 posts

Subscribe to a Forum?


Ning To Jamroom

In Ning, members of Groups could receive notification emails any time any update was made to the Group.

On my Jamroom site, I have moved an important bit of functionality out of a Group and into a Forum. However, this means - as far as I can tell - that members only receive notifications of updates to Forum posts that they have either created or that they have commented on.

Looking through the various config options it's not apparent that it's possible to "subscribe" to a forum.

Is it? If not, I think it would be a great new feature that I know many of my members - especially those interested in my Classifieds Forum - would be interested in. I also happen to think that it would be useful generally, not just to me.

TIA,
:: Clay
updated by @claygordon: 06/28/16 07:26:41AM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
06/16/15 02:31:46PM
733 posts

Multiple profiles/accounts


Using Jamroom

I have created a second profile (without its own account) associated with an existing account and profile.

I want to attach other members to this second profile.

Is this possible? How? Read the concepts admins need to know and the steps are not there.

TIA,
:: Clay
updated by @claygordon: 07/19/15 05:00:50PM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
03/02/15 11:04:18AM
733 posts

Google Webmaster Tools - Site Crawl Errors - Locate and Fix?


Ning To Jamroom

Not that I can see. All I get is URL fragments like the ones above.
updated by @claygordon: 03/02/15 11:04:40AM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
03/02/15 11:03:08AM
733 posts

Text box for html


Ning To Jamroom

Derrick:

If you take a look at the home page of TheChocolateLife.com you will see that I narrowed the "About" blog and added a right-hand column that contains two ads served up by Broadstreet.

What Strumelia suggests is a great approach if you need a block with styled text and you want to edit it with a WYSIWYG editor. However, if what you want to do is insert code for a 3rd party ad server then here is the approach I used.

It might not be the most elegant or concise bit of code, but it works. The key, as either Michael or Brian explained to me, is the use of {literal} {/literal}. This will mean that the parser will ignore what's inside.

<div class="col4 last">
  <div class="container">
  {* ========== BEGIN MARKETPLACE *}
    <div class="item blog-archive-header m10">
      <h2>Member Marketplace</h2>
    </div>
    <div align="center">
      {* BROADSTREET JAVASCRIPT  *} 
      {literal}
        <script type="text/javascript">
          the_script 
        </script>
      {/literal}
      <br /><hr width = "87%"><br />
      {literal}
        <script type="text/javascript">
          the_script 
        </script>
      {/literal}
      {* END BROADSTREET JAVASCRIPT *} 
    </div>
    {* END MARKETPLACE *}
  </div>
</div>

The Broadsreet server requires support scripts to be loaded in in the head to work, and those are put in meta.tpl.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
03/01/15 07:21:13PM
733 posts

Google Webmaster Tools - Site Crawl Errors - Locate and Fix?


Ning To Jamroom

Okay - now that I have submitted a sitemap and Google has started crawling I am getting "not found" crawl errors (over 2000!).

In some cases I can go and find the new page but in many cases it's impossible. Even when I can find them I don't think that there's any way for me to find where the bad URL is and fix it.

Here's one where I can find the image in question:

photo/sesame-ginger-truffles?xg_source=activity

I searched Images for "sesame" and found it - so I know how to change the URL if I could find the broken one.

Any thoughts on ways to proceed? I am not going to be able to fix all of them, but do want to eliminate as many 404s as possible.

TIA,
:: Clay
updated by @claygordon: 04/24/15 01:14:24AM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
03/01/15 12:56:33PM
733 posts

New "Kickbox" Email Validation module


Ning To Jamroom

I am in no hurry to validate my list, so I noticed that I can purchase a 500/day monthly subscription for $30 that will process 15,000 names - or purchase 10,000 for $70.

So - something to consider is that tradeoff. Might be cheaper to go with a monthly subscription and take a couple of days to process the list rather than buy them outright.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/28/15 09:06:11AM
733 posts

empty sitemap?


Installation and Configuration

Now that the basics are done, I am updating the site for Google Webmaster tools.

Google said there was no sitemap though I have had the sitemap generator module up and running since day one more or less (2 months?).

I looked via FTP and there was no sitemap.xml in root.

I went to the URL https://www.thechocolatelife.com/sitemap.xml

The sitemap was empty:

<sitemapindex> </sitemapindex>

So I ran the tool manually. The module report says that it updated over 8000 profile pages. In under 10 seconds? Not one other type of page.

Sitemap now consists of about a dozen entries that look like the following, just timestamps:

<sitemap>
  <loc>https://www.thechocolatelife.com/sitemap/sitemap1.xml</loc>
  <lastmod>2015-02-28T11:54:31-05:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>

Still no visible sitemap.xml file in root.


updated by @claygordon: 04/16/15 12:39:57PM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
02/25/15 12:30:51PM
733 posts

Missing item titles in search results


Ning To Jamroom

Can I add it to one of the other discussions that shows up in the search results?
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