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My experience upgrading from 4.5x to 5.0

SU Superfast
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Feb 27, 2012 · 11:55 am · Edited

The actual upgrade itself couldn’t have been simpler. I did get a “this plugin has an invalid header” a few times when trying to activate the 5.0 SP plugin (typical WP issue when uploading a plugin ZIP with nested directories), but I just clicked plugins within WP and then it disappeared with no further issues. Went to Forum and then upgraded without any issues. A few of my topic titles had some odd subscript and random ASCII characters inserted into them, but that was an easy fix….just odd.

Everything looks great, and my server CPU load is down about 11%, PHP memory usage is less (great thing on Apache servers), and overall performance seems snappier.

My only real issue is that when we click on the New/Recently Updated Topics or Select Forum drop down menus, the menu opens upwards with half of it off the top of the screen. If you scroll down a bit on the page, and click the menus, it then drops downwards and is fine.

Any quick fix for this?

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SU Superfast
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Feb 27, 2012 · 12:41 pm

Using firebug, looks like adding a position relative property to that particular element style makes it behave properly no matter where the scroll bar is positioned. Now just to find the appropriate to file to edit with the position relative property.

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 27, 2012 · 1:02 pm

this plugin has an invalid header”… really? I didn’t know that was common. That has come up here a couple of times- I wish I had known this then!

OK – now we are themes you are going to need the themes folder (look at your storage locations under Integration) where you will find the CSS file. If you are using, say ‘default’, then you will need the default.php file.

You will want to find the section marked ‘Quicklinks’.

If this really helps with that problem please do let us know and we might put it in as standard. I think one or two have mentioned it.

SU Superfast
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Feb 27, 2012 · 1:20 pm

Duplicated the default theme, and giving it a whirl now. I’ll post as soon as I test it.

SU Superfast
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Feb 27, 2012 · 1:40 pm

That was the ticket. On line 2176 in default.php, I just changed the position property value from absolute to relative and that made it work perfectly. Thanks a bunch, you guys are always a big help. wink

SU Superfast
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Feb 27, 2012 · 1:52 pm

Well I spoke too soon, it works perfectly the first time you click to drop them down, but then if you click to re-open them it kicks the child menu way down on the page. I’ll do some more testing.

SU Superfast
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Feb 27, 2012 · 2:21 pm

LOL, ok I think I have fixed it. Added a position relative to the main container (added after line 2131-2132) and just kept the position absolute for the child container (now line 2177). Even though the position absolute property for the child container is absolute and the element is removed from the document and placed exactly where you tell it, we can make the child element think it is positioning itself absolutely relative to the main container.

 

Working perfectly now for me no matter where the scroll bar is positioned, and no matter how many times I open, close, and re-open the quick-links menus.

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 27, 2012 · 2:30 pm

I will give this a try although it is not a problem I see (Firefox or Chrome on OSX)
Thanks.

MP Mr Papa
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Feb 27, 2012 · 8:29 pm

on my list to try on PC as I have seen previously…