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Thanks @mgordon7.

@chandraanupama, do you know if the plugin will become crippled at the end of the one-year subscription or it will continue to work but without updates and support?

Thanks.

@bigbankclub, what was the response of your users?

The problem was “fixed” after I compared another working ssl.conf file generated for another virtual host on the same server by Let’s Encrypt. I noticed the functioning config did not contain the line “Options None”.

I commented the line (# Options None), reloaded Apache and then set permalinks to Post name. Bingo, the pages loaded correctly. Is this the solution or just a fix? I don’t know but it certainly adds to the myriad of recommendations around the Web. One more possible but maybe not probable cause for permalink 403 errors.

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@t-p, itseems you only read the heading.

Thanks @munayam

I tried logging in to Trello and joining Tutor LMS Feature Request! but got an “Unauthorized” message.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by starapple.

@munayam, thanks for clearing that up. Does buying the Skillate theme allow for having instructors sign up in that role — ie, can I have a link to a sign up page for teachers?

Thanks.

I saw mention of Sensei during my search. Glad you mentioned it. I see it’s by Automatic, meaning it should fit neatly with WP. I installed Tutor and it had some really useful features compared to Sensei. Unfortunately, the Tutor marketing is a bit deceptive because they give the impression that add-ons can be bought separately but you have to buy the whole lot.

Still, it seems a better deal than Sensei because you need to buy the $129 plugin to offer paid courses while Tutor allows paid courses by default. Sensei doesn’t have good options for registering teachers.

Academy LMS seems to have everything for free but it’s very new, doesn’t have many users and the grammar in the interface is poor. However, featurewise it trumps all the others mentioned here.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by starapple.

@ianhyzy sad. I’m going to give it a run and see how it goes.

@ianhyzy could you explain why you gave the plugin 5 stars despite saying that it didn’t work at all?

I’m ashamed. I created the display problems. I created a custom post type and made an edit screen with Advanced Custom Fields. My single-custom.php was using the uploaded image attached to the post as the featured image. Specifically setting a featured image results in the correct display of posts with featured images.

So now, my only problem is the slow load times. I’ll just close this topic with the accepted answer that Boardwalk is not being updated.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by starapple.

Hi @supernovia, thanks for your response and the link to the theme’s page. I asked <stabout configuration because the displays are not graceful across gadgets and so I thought that information on the dimension of images or such might help to find an answer.

(1) on the desktop the homepage seems fine as the billboard fills the screen; but on an Android phone when the images are flipped to a horizontal stack, a lot of empty white space is below them to fill the screen. That’s not too bad.

(2) With individual posts, the ‘featured’ image doesn’t fill my desktop screen’s width although the photo is 2000 x 1200 px.

Take this post on the desktop Landscape image on PC

Compare it to what seems the perfect display on the phone in landscape view: Landscape image on Android phone. This demonstrates the perfect horizontal fit.

On the phone in portrait orientation: Portrait image on Android phone. This shows a long gap between the image and the body of the post.

I tried using the 2000 x 1500 px mentioned on the Boardwalk page but when I tried to upload an image set to those dimensions, I got this message:

“Image width must not exceed 2000px.
Image height must not exceed 1200px.
File size must not exceed 256 KB.”

So that wasn’t very useful.

(3) Regarding load times, my other themes load quickly but Boardwalk shows a green line moving atop the blank white screen a good 5 secs before the page renders.

The billboard effect really suits my usage and I don’t look forward to creating a page in the Gutenberg editor to try to emulate it.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by starapple.

I can’t venture to say what could be causing that error. What I shared is exactly what I’ve been using without error since my first post in this chain. Check that the previous block of code before the point that you pasted this is correctly closed.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by starapple.

Copy and paste the error message here. The code is to be placed in your theme’s functions.php. I don’t know what wpforo is. Help here is related to wpdiscuz

@jeyantharkumar I think you need to ask your question in the wpforo forum.

For those still interested, this is what has been working for me, which I place in a plugin rather than the theme’s functions.php so that tbe shortcode is available independent of the theme being used.

/** 
* wpDiscuz shortcode
*/
function my_wpdiscuz_shortcode() {
    $html = "";
    if (file_exists(ABSPATH . "wp-content/plugins/wpdiscuz/themes/default/comment-form.php")) {
        ob_start();
        include_once ABSPATH . "wp-content/plugins/wpdiscuz/themes/default/comment-form.php";
        $html = ob_get_clean();
    }
    return $html;
}
add_shortcode("wpdiscuz_comments", "my_wpdiscuz_shortcode");