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Kenn
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Jul 17, 2014 - 7:21 am

Hello again,

I have had a couple of users having difficulty to click on links in the forum because of the pop up message that appears. To try and fix this I un-ticked the javascript in footer to see if this would resolve the problem. It didn't so i am still investigating this issue, however after turning on and off the Javascript in footer button the whole forum has now gone https which we definitely don't want at present.

The dashboard admin areas are set as https as we want this but not the front area forum pages.

Can you offer any clue as to why all the links may be showing as https now?

Thanks for your help

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jul 17, 2014 - 8:40 am

You changed nothing else? I can't see what connection there could be with loading our script files in either the header or the footer to be honest. There is certainly nothing in our scripts that might effect the http protocols.

I will let my colleagues see this to see if they have anything to add but I can't start to think this act alone could have any bearing on this which is, I thought, mainly controlled by defined directives in the wp-config.php file or maybe some .htaccess settings...

Stepping back from that a moment then what popup message are you referring to? Do you mean the success/failure message box?

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Kenn
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Jul 17, 2014 - 11:17 am

Thanks for the reply, As on your forum when you hover over a button or link you get the little blue help tip. I have one laptop in the office that is interpreting this as too high. and it is over the end of the cursor meaning the user can't click on the link below.

THe dashboard is set the https in the wp-config, I'm not aware of an .htaccess rule that could be interfering but I am happy to check.

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Ike
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Jul 17, 2014 - 11:45 am

OK the ToolTips.

Well, when you say 'over the end of the cursor' do you mean hiding the mouse pointer so you cant see where to click? or actually under the pointer?

These can be moved quite easily, or disabled completely.

 

To disable:

Locate your themes folder, find the folder for the theme you are using for example- sp-resourcesforum-themesdefaulttemplates   then open   spFunctions.php.

You have a simple line of - define('SP_TOOLTIPS', true);  

Just change that to false and you are left with browser default ToolTips.

 

Alternatively to move:

Again in your themes folder, and again in the theme you are using- sp-resourcesforum-themesdefaultstyles   and open default.php

Do a search for 'tooltip' and it should take you to:

/* Tooltips
----------------------------------*/
p#vtip {
    display: none;
    color: <?php echo($alt1Color); ?>;
    font-family: <?php echo($toolTipFontFamily); ?>;
    position: absolute;
    padding: 10px;
    left: 5px;
    font-size: <?php echo($pvtip); ?>;
    line-height: 1.2em;
    background: <?php echo($alt1BackGround); ?>;
    border: <?php echo($alt1Border); ?>;
    <?php echo($largeRadius); ?>
    z-index: 999999;
}

You can simply add something like:   margin-left: 30px;   save, and refresh your forum to see the change.

 

Hope this helps.

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Kenn
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Jul 17, 2014 - 12:00 pm

Thanks I will look at moving it.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jul 17, 2014 - 12:16 pm

For the record though, it would be useful to know what the difference is between the one machine with this problem... Is it by any chance a Windows install using Windows 8 and IE 10?

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Mr Papa
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Jul 17, 2014 - 8:18 pm

The issue is with IE 11 and Windows 8...

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Kenn
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Jul 25, 2014 - 9:55 am

Thanks for your help, and apologies for not responding sooner about the laptop spec but that does sound right IE11 and it was Windows 8.

Have you got any idea why the forum may be over https? Like I said it happened when changing some of the integration settings to originally try and resolve the tooltip, even though I have turned them back to how they were it is all still over https. The server is powerful enough to cope at the moment but it means we are getting small issues between old links that were pasted as http and the new https pages and mixed secure and unsecure content on the page. It would be nice if we could just turn it back to http.

Hope you have some ideas, let me know should I need to change or test anything, as said the wp-config does have the admin/dashboard area as https but this shouldn't be interfering should it?

Thanks

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Kenn
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Jul 25, 2014 - 10:00 am

Just checking but as wordpress codex states "The constant FORCE_SSL_ADMIN can be set to true to force all logins and all admin sessions to happen over SSL."

and the forum contains a login form this couldn't be the reason could it? It's changed all pages because the login form is present?

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jul 25, 2014 - 10:50 am

We check force_ssl_admin() using the standard WordPress supplied core function but this is just to determine whether SSL is on or not. We certainly do not turn it on - or off for that matter. I also have to assume that our checks work as expected otherwise all of our users would be having the same issue.

I will ask colleagues if they have any ideas of where you might look but to be honest - my only real idea is to check your wp-config.php which I assume you have already done...

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