Not too busy in February, even with the leap day. Here’s a summary of my February work for clients.
- Updated a board from phpBB 3.3.10 to 3.3.11. There were styling issues using my custom style with 3.3.10. I think it’s a web server issue. I doubt this was fixed. Updated board announcement extension from 1.1.1 to 1.2.1.
- Updated a board from phpBB 3.3.10 to 3.3.11. Two extensions needed to be updated: SEO Metadata and Advanced BB Code box. List of forums on index did not show but content was in database. The problem was related to the quickstyle dropdown. Tried updating the extension but it didn’t work. I deactivated the anime-based style, added the logo to the prosilver stylesheet and both prosilver and prosilver_se showed the logo with quickstyle. Worked but one less style to choose from. Next day the Latte style seemed to stick and not overwrite the index when invoked from the quick style extension.
- Updated a board from phpBB 3.0.8 to 3.3.11. 3.15M posts so this turned into a big project because of its size. The update took hours to run and never showed a completion message but seemed to work. Added translate page Google Translate widget. Added sample ad after installing advertisement management extension. Added old links above navigation bar by hand by editing the overall_header.html template. I also had to add American English language pack. I installed the Latte style, and added the old logo to overall_header.html template. Wanted old style icons but couldn’t get them to work. Client rejected advertisment management extension, must have a column on the right. Installed Board 3 portal instead and disabled the ad extension. Translated Google Ads to use BBCode but they needed to be displayed in a random order. I suggested another developer who I thought could write the Javascript to do this.
- Troubleshooted a BBCode issue for YouTube that didn’t show the embedded video. Pointed client in right direction but he eventually figured out the right BBCode to use.
