Testing link from UB
https://urassoc.arko.nyc/the-urantia-book/part-3/paper-100/?zoom_highlight=tadpole#U100_1_4
From Sydney, Australia
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Help!!
69 posts · 12 participants · started Jun 27, 2017, 10:15 PM
Hi Brad,
I’m not sure exactly how you were doing your links to a desired section of the UB, but I just tested a link to a search I did on the word “tadpole” as you can see from the above post, it works.
Can you explain the process you used and I’ll see if you did it the same way I did it. Here’s how I did it:
- Open another session of the website and do a search for something in the UB.
- Once you get to the spot in the book, highlight the URL and copy.
- Go back to your post and paste in the URL.
- Highlight the pasted in URL and create the link. (For the benefit of the reader of your post, make sure you select the “open link in a new window” when creating the link.)
Let me know if you did it like this or if you used another method.
Cheers,
KathleenFrom Sydney, Australia
Testing again to first level search.
From Sydney, Australia
Hi again Brad,
After posting I realised I only tested the link on the second level search where it goes right to the place in the book when you choose from the first level of search results. So I tested again (did a search on”Jesus”) and just copied the URL on the first level search where you get the list of multiple finds to choose from. It worked too.
Cheers,
KathleenFrom Sydney, Australia
Greetings Kathleen!
testing key word search – Jesus – results:
Okay…still not working….for me. Copied and pasted word search results address bar. Always works as a link to results at Foundation’s search engine. Also worked here for me since the beginning whenever I post the address at the opening page of a topic. But not working for search results. Probably my lacking tech savvy. What’s funny is that on the posting or reply box, the correct address is showing but when I post, what shows is a link to the search engine, not the results of the search.
Worked!! Didn’t know about the insert/edit link. Thanks Kathleen!!
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
I placed this post here because I didn’t feel like starting a new topic for this question. I submitted a post in the topic dealing with advice for a couple where one is an ub believer and the other is not. I then edited the post. I checked it a few minutes ago and the post had not been submitted, or at least it did not appear on the forum. Could one of the moderators try and find the post and submit it? Thanks.
Chuck Smith
I’ve been looking for your post since yesterday morning Chuck. Whatever the problem is, I hope it gets fixed because the thread was just warming up. I’m curious to read what you posted.
Dear Chuck,
I did find it! For some reason it got lodged in the Spam folder. I moved it to your topic. Let us know if you need further help.
Smiles,
Moderator-1
Help!
I can’t read what Cole wrote. When I click on the topic, or click on his reply to the topic, or click on page 3 of the topic, the page that comes up is a *reply to the topic* dialog box. This is what I’mtrying to read:
Other topics work fine for me.
Thanks
Just wanted to let you know only half of my toolbar is showing above….all topics, all replies this week. Frustrating and can’t recover. This include colorization of text and blockquoting to differentiate my reply from original and copied post. There used to be an icon on the right end of the top line of tools to click and make the second line appear….also not there anymore.
Thanks for the help!
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
I see what you mean. See “Formats” above? Click on it to get more formatting options. I used blockquote from that menu to indent this:
13:2.6[Part I]The worlds of the innerOne item they show now is undo and redo.
Dear Friends,
Apologies for this inconvenience. This happened when an adjustment was made to the tool bar for the new Subsites. Initially it wasn’t supposed to effect the main site but it has. I would have warned you if I’d had known it was going to happen. Mara is right. Some of the features that you can’t see now are in the drop down menu under Formats (top left of the tool bar.) The only feature that has fully vanished I think is the text colour. Is this something you need or can you live without it? I can ask the Webmaster to set it back to the way it was if you need the text colour options.
Regards,
KathleenFrom Sydney, Australia
Actually the blockquote feature is not the same function at all….and yes the colorization is important to highlight and link concepts in discussions. Why not simply restore functionality? I would hope such a site with such flexible operational coding and wide spectrum of optional functions might grow in capability….rather than shrink.
I understand it was unintentional. I look forward to restoration and even greater tools for the expressions of users.
Thank you Kathleen!! Love the site and your committee’s work….well done.
Bradly
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
Hooray for the restoration of the Toolbar Toggle icon and text colorization!! Thanks so much Kathleen!
Kudos to the team!!
Bradly
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
New Issue…..
I noticed the “Pageviews” #’s have disappeared. Hope those can be restored. Thanks.
Also the second generation Forum 2012-2014 link is not working and has not for a long time…it takes you to the current Forum. If it can’t be restored to functionality, it could be eliminated as dysfunctional? A shame if that time frame of historic posts and topics is lost but I know there were complications with intricate code applications which made it unstable. Appreciate you….regardless of outcome on that!
Bradly
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
Just noticed that we are missing the first 7300+ posts and dozens of topics here. Should be easy to restore from backup files? Hope so.
Site integrity needs some attention….please.
Still no page views restoration yet either. Or the second generation Forum.
It would also be interesting and useful if optional site functionalities and tools might be introduced for Forumite consideration. I am certain there are many options available to help identify readership numbers, likes/dislikes, etc.?
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
Dear Brad and all concerned about the missing Page Views,
Firstly, I sincerely apologise for not responding on this forum to your call for help Brad. The past few months have been incredibly busy for Urantia Association volunteers who deal with and coordinate all these issues. Consequently there are all too few of us juggling many balls.
That said, however, we have been looking it and consulting with the webmaster. This what we’ve found out so far:
The gist is that Google Analytics made some significant changes that broke many WordPress plugins working with it. Unfortunately, there isn’t an easy fix to this problem. The plugin we were previously using to fetch data from Google Analytics to display the page views broke with an update and has been discontinued.
We have several options to consider but none of them seem to be terribly satisfactory. One of them is fairly costly in terms of the webmaster’s time to dig deep to find a solution so we’re still deciding on a way forward.
As for the other issues Brad raised:
- Missing 7300+ posts: We haven’t checked into this one yet, but I’ll bring it to the webmaster’s attention today.
- Access to old forums: The 2012-2014 forum that used Xenforo did have problems so we discontinued our license. Keeping up licenses for old software so we can refer to historical posts is something that probably shouldn’t be sustained indefinitely. To attempt to retrieve posts and store them in archives has been discussed in the past but labour and costs are the main inhibitors. So this one is still a quandary I’m afraid.
- Additional tools: I can look into what’s involved to get some additional features installed, but again, it’s all time and money so we’d have to consider priorities.
I’ll keep you posted as more answers/solutions come to light.
Warm regards,
KathleenFrom Sydney, Australia
Dear Friends,
I have an update for you on the concern Brad brought up on the missing posts. The webmaster has looked into it and this is what she said:
I’m happy to report that upon investigation, it doesn’t look like there are any posts missing from the forums.
- The bbPress forum on WordPress launched in July 2014. We did not bring over the archive from Xenforo [the previous form], so the oldest posts should be from that time.
- The number Brad is seeing doesn’t reflect the number of forums or topics. It’s just the post ID in the WordPress database. While these IDs do increment upward, they are shared not only between forums, topics, and replies, but also with pages, urantia book pages, blog posts, events, and all sorts of other things. It’s easy for IDs to get into 4 digits, especially since you migrated from another WordPress install that itself incremented the ID numbers.
I’ve asked her to go ahead with fixing up the forum Pageviews problem. She has several tasks on her list for us and this one is now 2nd in her queue. Again, thank you for you patience.
Cheers,
KathleenFrom Sydney, Australia
Dear Friends,
I’m pleased to let you know that the missing Pageviews problem has now been fixed. Again, apologies that it took so long to solve this problem. You’ll see now that all the topics show how many views there have been, which I hope is helpful for you to know as many people follow the discussions even though they may not participate.
The webmaster brought a couple of things to my attention which I’ll share with you:
- Pageviews are cumulative by url path, so the Forum pageview number at the top of the landing page for each Forum is for the entire forum which includes numbers for any sub-forums. However, the number at the top of a sub-forum landing page isn’t reflective of the entire sub-forum. Apparently that has something to do with the fact that topics don’t actually have their forum in their urls, so topic views aren’t actually included in the numbers for individual sub-forums landing pages even though they are included in the “Forums” top level landing page.
- The pageviews do not update instantaneously. Results are fetched from Google Analytics every 12 hours, and Google Analytics itself lags a little behind.
- Since it just got rolled out, there may be a few pages with no numbers just because they are cached, but that should change soon.
Cheers,
KathleenFrom Sydney, Australia
Dears Mods,
- Clicking directly on thread “Support and suggestions” doesn’t work … a box appear telling me a script slow done execution, the script is: https://370w5yam0ls19yopg2kwq2nalisa/wpml_script.js?=9999:6 I had to click on a answer beside to get access. Most of the time Yellow square threads on main page do not appear.
- To improve my efficacity in a post I used symbols like [sub] and [/sub] on French”s forum work fine but so far not here. Could you set apart those computer language that we can use? In a thread like “Tools”. I noticed Nigel use them often here.
- As a encouragement for participant on this forum would you let us know the frequency of viewers passing by “silence audience” or participants? We are under the assumption not much peoples pass by.
- Kathleen in “profile section” mine do not indicate. numbers of threads created or respond done etc. Maybe l’m the only one ? i.e. in french forum when we quote somebody as a result a grey box appear with text inside easier than write “andre wrote” and more identify quote text. And there “profile section” of anyone can be read resulting a more effective search for prior posts.
- Suggestion: … Wouldn’t be possible synchronize both forums method, using same “language”?
I understand those problems could be specific to an individual but I prefered let you know in the event it is not isolate.
Thanks you,
André
