Charlotte,

You’re going to the WordPress Dashboard Edit Profile page, and not your Forum Profile Edit Forum Signature page. If you follow these steps from my tips above, you’ll get there:

– To get to your own public profile.

– To edit your own forum signature.

See the images above under these 2 items, and you should find your way.

Good luck,

-Mark

Hi Craig,

I agree that having 2 edit areas is not ideal, even for a free site. If you have WordPress/bbPress experience and know of a better way to add signatures to the bbPress forum plugin, I’d be all over it.

BTW, besides clicking on your avatar picture, you can also use the Profile link at the top of most forum pages to get to your public profile (per the instructions above), where the signature edit link is located.

I’m not sure if someone else reported a problem with line-breaks in signatures, but they have been working fine all along. The only known problem is that the line-breaks are stripped from the edit field when you come back to it after making an initial entry, so if you want to re-edit to your signature, you must put the line-breaks back in again before submitting, if that makes sense.

Cheers,

-Mark

Dear Mark,
Inspite of that error message appearing, I see that my profile has been updated nevertheless! Wow.

Apra

Hi Apra & Charlotte,

Yes, the erroneous “email error message” is a known bug, but it doesn’t affect the functionality of the page, as you can see.

I’m glad you guys were able to get your sigs going – I should have mentioned the email bug before but I had hoped to have time to fix it by now.

Cheers,

-Mark

Hi Mark-
I don’t know if this is a problem or not- just an FYI
Yesterday I asked a question of the doctors about NOSH aspirin – I clicked the button to receive e-mails when responses were posted -
Today I checked to see if there was any activity – Certain spring, Dr Weiss and Dr West had responded, but there were no emails from those responses.
Dr Quesnelle responded in an e-mail, but her response is not showing up on the thread.
I also had an e-mail from you that doesn’t show on the bugs thread.
Is that how it’s supposed to work? Either e-mail or thread?
Charlotte

Hi Follansbee,

There are several possible explanations as to why you wouldn’t get a subscription reply notice:

- For some reason, there was a problem on the Internet and the email notice didn’t make it through.

- There was a problem with your ISPs email server, so it couldn’t receive the notice.

- There was a problem with the sendmail service on our server, so it failed to send the notice.

- The server is just delayed in sending the notice, because of a heavy load of traffic or email, etc.

There are probably other possible reasons, but besides sometimes several hours of delay, the subscription service seems to be working pretty well.

If you notice this problem repeatedly, certainly let me know and I’ll dig around a bit.

Cheers and thanks,

-Mark

Hi Follansbee,

Thanks for the heads-up as I hadn’t seen your other replies yet.

So, re the new topics, you can confirm that even when you’re logged in, you can’t see the Create New Topic form when on a topics page like this: http://cancergrace.org/forum/grace-errors-bugs-support?

Your permissions look intact, so I’ll have to look into this further.

Re the homepage article excerpts, thanks for the feedback. I totally agree. We were kind of left in the lurch by a previous developer, so for now, this is the only widget we have available for the homepage. I was able to turn on the image thumbnails recently, but there’s no provision for authors or dates. Rest-assured, I’m going to be looking for a better solution ASAP.

Cheers,

-Mark

Hi Follansbee,

I think the problem is that the GRACE Site forums are setup a little differently than the other subject areas. The GRACE Bugs forum is a forum, and so you can create topics inside of it. However, the top level of Treatments/Symptoms is a category with a list of forums (note the “Forums” column title in the table there). So, in order to create a new topic there (and in all other subject areas), you need to select a forum first, and then you will see all of the topics within that forum. The oddballs are really only the Bugs and Suggestions forums here under the “GRACE Site” area.

I hope that helps and thanks for the suggestions/questions. I’m not sure about adding the dates to the titles, that would be up to Dr. West, but in either case, I hope to have a better widget in place pretty soon.

Cheers,

-Mark

Hi Follansbee,

Your signature entry is empty right now, which is why it isn’t posting in the forums. I’m not sure why it would have been removed – the only reason that I know of would be editing on your Dashboard profile.

Please replace your signature and if it goes away again, do let me know and I’ll try and dig deeper:

http://cancergrace.org/users/follansbee/edit

At this time, I’m not hearing any widespread reports of signatures disappearing, so there’s not much I can do and I don’t see any problems with the database.

Cheers and sorry for the inconvenience,

-Mark