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Re: Forum Update

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:44 pm
by Chris Hall
John Whitley wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:54 pm
FYI, Preview can batch resize images:

How to resize multiple images in Preview
I knew there must be way! Thanks!

Re: Forum Update

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:11 pm
by Chris Pyle
Brian wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:04 am
Ah, thank you! Much appreciated. I've gotten a few complaints on my blog about image sizes (being too large) so maybe it is time to resize them first.
Is the 1000px width limitation okay to stay? I haven't really dug into it yet but I can this weekend if needed.

Re: Forum Update

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:38 pm
by Chris Hall
Chris Pyle wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:11 pm

Is the 1000px width limitation okay to stay? I haven't really dug into it yet but I can this weekend if needed.
Is there any option to have the image automatically resized down to 1000 pixels wide, say, if a person uploaded something larger? A forum I used to visit had such a feature, but I don't know if it is something readily available or some sort of custom coding work.

Re: Forum Update

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 12:25 am
by Brian
Thanks gents! Auto-resizing would be awesome if it is not too much trouble.

Re: Forum Update

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 7:41 am
by Chris Pyle
I set the maximum image width to 1000px so if someone wants to test it out I'd appreciate it. I don't know if it'll simply give you an error, asking you to reduce the size of the photo or if there is some fancy image resizer built in. I'm guessing the former.

Re: Forum Update

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 7:42 am
by Chris Pyle
Chris Hall wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:38 pm
Chris Pyle wrote:
Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:11 pm

Is the 1000px width limitation okay to stay? I haven't really dug into it yet but I can this weekend if needed.
Is there any option to have the image automatically resized down to 1000 pixels wide, say, if a person uploaded something larger? A forum I used to visit had such a feature, but I don't know if it is something readily available or some sort of custom coding work.
I missed this. I'll look around and see if I can find something.

Re: Forum Update

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:35 am
by Brian
I get the same error about max width, so no image resizing being done. Thanks for looking into this!

Re: Forum Update

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:30 pm
by John Whitley
Perhaps this should be a new thread, but I just noticed the following when using the forum software to search for "sketchup":
The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: sketchup.

:facepalm:

Likewise, my usual phpBB fallback of using

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site:thecarpentryway.com sketchup
on web search engines returns nothing, likely because the search engines (tested Google and DuckDuckGo) aren't spidering the site for some reason. There didn't appear to be a robots.txt file in place, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

This affects a lot of potentially useful keywords. Some may really be "too common" (e.g. kanna also hits this filter), but even restricting the search to post titles and a specific author doesn't allow any results back.

Is anyone aware of a workaround for the forum's search limitation here? Sometimes even a large result set can be useful, for example "I want to methodically troll through most/all of the posts that mention 'kanna'".

Re: Forum Update

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:20 am
by Chris Pyle
John Whitley wrote:
Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:30 pm
Perhaps this should be a new thread, but I just noticed the following when using the forum software to search for "sketchup":
The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: sketchup.

:facepalm:

Likewise, my usual phpBB fallback of using

Code: Select all

site:thecarpentryway.com sketchup
on web search engines returns nothing, likely because the search engines (tested Google and DuckDuckGo) aren't spidering the site for some reason. There didn't appear to be a robots.txt file in place, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

This affects a lot of potentially useful keywords. Some may really be "too common" (e.g. kanna also hits this filter), but even restricting the search to post titles and a specific author doesn't allow any results back.

Is anyone aware of a workaround for the forum's search limitation here? Sometimes even a large result set can be useful, for example "I want to methodically troll through most/all of the posts that mention 'kanna'".
Hi John, I'll post a message to the theme's creator to see if he did anything to customize searching. I'll let you know what I hear back.