Site, theme & layout bugs and requests

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We are using a custom MyBB theme called Emerald which I have fixed up some stuff and modified and will continue to do.
The base theme is planned to be updated in the future which would hopfully fix some of the bugs we face.
The developer has asked me for the fixes and additions used here.
There are quite a few major bugs with this theme still so please post them in this thread here in a way we can easily diagnose and fix them.

The biggest bugs are with mobile responsive and beyond new to fix at this stage, I have let the original theme developer know.
For now click desktop site in your mobile browsers menu.

We are primarily looking at fixing theme and layout bugs to polish the user experience, I have created another thread for feature requests to separate discussions.
Feature requests for the theme and the site if they can fix a bug or a issue will be done with other feature requests looked at later.

It might be worth us looking at a different theme due to the amount of bugs and issues with the current theme.
At this stage I am currently looking for a replacement theme that's truly responsive and meets my end our design ideas.

A idea I had is Instead of using a different theme that's fixed then doing customisations is to eventually rewrite major parts of this one and unifying the code base which various code is spread out around the site like the welcome block using what we know and have learned and what other themes do.
This would need someone who could help with ongoing theme development. Currently we don't have the userbase with enough talented people to make that happen.

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Issues fixed and being looked at, not all will be listed here as some can fixed quickly or very minor they don't need mentioning but bigger ongoing issues that require more attention will be.

Currently working on

• New navbar has been implemented needs feedback and adjustment to tastes with a welcome user etc (feedback welcome)
  
• MyCode (also known as bbcode) has been expanded with a plugin and needs filling out with extra codes. (Let me know what you want to see)
  
• Editor buttons for additional MyCode's need adding when implemented.
  
• DONE: User Profile box on right sidebar (It can be done slowly, the placeholder box is now in)
  
• Custom member only spoiler code is implemented, just needs a nice button now in the editor and some adjustment on margins.
  
• Fixing and adjusting the new slider on front page.
  

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Common Issues:
The Issues I have personally found and ones that are needed to be shown to help them not get reported again.
Fixed bugs will be removed from here.

Critical Bugs: (forum)

• Mobile portrait bugs responsive
  • User CP
    
  • Inbox
    
  • Registration
    
  • Moderator panel
    
  • Search Page
    
• Quick reply box not aligned on mobile site to custom editor
  • Full edit is broken.
    
  • Quick edit works fine
    

Bugs: (forum)

• I have noticed is clicking a anchor link the header will block the top of the postbox.
  • I am looking and testing fixed header themes on my development forum and they all seem to have the same problem
    
  • If anyone comes across a fix let me know
    
• Padding of the logo
  • Might need a bit more indent on the left on desktop on mobile it is fine
    
  • Have looked into it alreaddy but need to work out the best way to use @media queries to fix this
    
• Mature content last post cannot be turned off
  •  Solution is to make a dedicated mature forum category for such content
    
  •  If we get enough interest this may be done no point with just 1 mature forum
    
• User menu and navbar need fixing and re-positioning
  • This is on medium resolution devices. Between mobile and desktop
    
  • Low and high resolution is fine
    
  • New navbar has been coded but may still need fine tuning
    
• Breadcrumbs clip home logo when duel line
  
• Positioning and nested tables needs to be adjusted and modified on the latest threads sidebox
  • Low priority as the currently alignment is fine and to fix would need portal template changes
    
• Threadname clips into post box on mobile
  • Needs some extra margins or padding for mobile devices
    
• Toggling sidebar then resizing the window down screws up the page when it reaches mobile mode
  • Not really a issue as hardly anyone would do this
    
• HTTP mixed content is breaking site secure
  • Normal - though I am looking into this
    
  • In the future more and more sites will use HTTPS as google is set to remove the secure label end of this year 2018 and only show the insecure label
    
• Youtube videos with timestamp wont go to the time (MyBB code issue it's not us)
  • I have changed the parser to the latest dev version this gets youtube videos working again but not timestamps or other parameters
    
  • MyBB 1.9 will address stuff briefly then 2.0 will be a new system for parsing YouTube but that will take ages
    
• Need to fix print thread logo image.
  • EG
    
• Unknown error in apache log about missing file "https: likely the fancybox plugin will look at a fox
  
• Error with the sidebar js script and cookie plugin needs to be fixed. 
  

Bugs: (front-page)

• Fix header and menus on various device sizes
  

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Wanted Additions:
A list of popular additions wanted by members and ones I want to implement.

Additions:

 

• Popup menu-bar on bottom of mobile with links to inbox and other features
  
• Would be cool if we could have the user-navbar drop down and hide with a button and can be hidden but may be a bit beyond my skills but will look into it
  • We have a drop-down in the top menu now it should suffice for now please give feedback
    
• There is a alerts system showing latest threads, pm's etc might be worth a look later
  
• DONE: Code the new style MyBB post style into the theme with user information above the post than the side
  
• There is a forum blog MyBBLog might be worth a look later
  • Having a look now but doesn't work with the custom post editor I put in.
    
• With a plugin Xthreads or a built in PHP parser we could create a inline imageboard for members
  
• Adjust header bar with links
  
• Think about alternatives to captura
  
• Create our own forum and sites colour style
  
• Group images to make support and other groups stand out more
  
• DONE: Full reply button on bottom of threads
  
• Put username on mobile welcome box
  

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I have just added FancyBox which makes all images popup as a overlay both as attachments and image links.
This should make the forum nicer and allow viewing of all the HiDef and 4K etc images posted to this site.
We support and endorse showing off high resolution images on this forum.

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We now have a imageur button in the post box its the black box with white 'i'
This allows uploading of images directly to imgur as a alternative to attachments.

We have a max size limit on direct site attachments as I am running the server from home and don't have massive amounts of storage so for bigger HiDef 4k and other images you can upload images which will be hosted on imgur without leaving the post box.
This is another step of integration to make things better here.

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I just changed the theme to use a different post display style.
This theme only used the classic style with info on the left of the post despite having both listed.

Now the default post listing is the user information above the post.
This also makes viewing on mobile look slightly neater as you don't have a squished userbar on the side
If you don't like it and want to use the older one you can change it in:

• User Control Panel
  • Edit Options
    • Display posts in classic mode
      

I added the button in to show classic mode I had it previously disabled as it wasn't relevant on our forum.
I need to fix the right information appearing under the user group image on mobile so I will look into that later as well as adjust placement of things which will be ongoing.
Has been now fixed.
Also at the bottom of each post is the various information ip / post date and last edited which is laid out what I think is 'nicer' than the official MyBB forums for our purpose.

These and all the recent changes around the place are the areas we here at CAJGO Support care and want and will go above what the default options are for various things to make this site better than ever for you.

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I coded a user profile into the sidebox today very happy.
Not too happy about the nesting table rows and data so don't know what can be done about that.
But it works and welcomes you in the header of the box.
This is something I have achieved that most other people haven't with MyBB.

Note: worked out in my head I can div the content on the portal template then link in the table data field in the sidebar.
This is a cleaner solution to multiple table elements.


I could also link the sidebar table row to portal table data mby.

- Implemented divs instead of nested tables much cleaner now bit will test more.

I need to look at media queries to fix the quick reply box on smaller scores.

​​​​​​Guest login on sidebar takes you to the unused portal we gran data from, need, to fix that.

Need to fix username on mobile view to use the inbuilt $lang tag instead of using the sidebar hook.

Also add any extra links for mobile users.

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I'm learning improvements to the sidebar and using / replacing with native mybb code.

I have just moved the Whoe's Online header to the proper language link which you can click on for that full page.
I'll do the others soon.

It's just polish like this we need to do so post everything that needs polishing and I'll add it to the list.

Statistics now link to the stats.
Latest thread uses the lang file for the header now.
Will get around to other changes soon and try to get more links on the sidebar.