I just upgraded from 4.5.1 to 5.0.1 and I cannot figure how to cause the subscription bar to show up for users. It was there on my 4.5.1 system and is gone now.
Is there a document somewhere that identifies the differences in setup and appearnce so I can get things to look like they did before the upgrade?
The subscriptions component is now in an SP plugin which you can download here: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/using-plugins/
For guidance on installing plugins then this codex artile will help: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/using-plugins/
V5 is never going to look identical to V4 because of the move away from skins and icons sets to themes and templates but the ‘default’ theme we have supplied is as close as we could get to being more or less the same. You might want to take a look at the different colour options supplied however which can be changed on the SP theme panel and reviewed in this article: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/sample-theme-overlays/
I found the items you mentiuoned and have everything installed now. Is there any way to tailor it? I don’t like the idea of the users being able to display the Member List , for example.
I had also placed a topic with a link that had several topics for “the new user”. It linked into your web site and displayed “how to” stuff from there (example below). is there any plan to have this same kind of info available for version 5?
Phil Slover said
I found the items you mentioned and have everything installed now. Is there any way to tailor it? I don’t like the idea of the users being able to display the Member List , for example.
Whether a user or group of users can view the Members List is actually a permission which you can turn on and off and, this, of course, is the best way to deal with this particular requirement. However…
…now that SP is theme and template driven, adding, removing and changing items of the display is easy. The templates work basically the same way as they do for WordPress. So for this task – using the forum admin > Themes > Editor, you would open, in this case, the spHead.php template – locate the template function/tag that displays this button – sp_MemberButton() – and remove it/comment it out. In this case use the permissions but for reference it is worth looking at the templates and tracing the flow. Anything is possible! Well – a lot is!
I had also placed a topic with a link that had several topics for “the new user”. It linked into your web site and displayed “how to” stuff from there (example below). is there any plan to have this same kind of info available for version 5?
Again – adding items to the template is just as easy. You can use php or just standard HTML and place things where you want them. As always we recommend that you create your own SP theme so that any customisation is not lost during a future update. (http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/)
Our new Codex will replace the old V4 wiki. We are working hard to get it populated with everything you need and I hope to be moving and updating most of those ‘How To’ pages in the next few days. The problem is that they will not be publicly available any more I am afraid.