We’re about to move the site to a new platform, away from Joomla! and Kunena Forum. I could use some help with identifying anything that needs fixing/changing with the new forum. Here is the link: http://test.wickededgeusa.com/forum/single-forum/1-main-forum/. I’ve already identified the following things below but hope that you guys will find others that would improve your experience:
• The forum:
o I would like it to look like our current forum
o I would like the default page to be “Recent Topics” like it is on the current forum
o The users should be able to select how many posts per page they can see
o “Sticky” topics need to remain at the top
o Private Messages should show on any of the forum pages
o No images from the forum are showing. This is very bad and will need to be fixed before going live.
A couple of things to note: 1) This new forum was created with an old database so recent posts aren’t included. When we go live, we’ll pull the most current database and start with that. 2) The images will be uploaded when we go live.
Thanks in advance for any help. Whatever you guys come up with, I’ll send it along to the programmers so we can get it included.
I’d like to see a sorting option in the forums. Sorting any or all the headers, ascending/descending value from A-Z, Z-A, or numerical, ect. I didn’t see a search option for the forums. The search bar at the top only worked (for me) for the rest of the site, not the forums. Hope this helps!
The only problem with the current search feature is that it doesn’t work so well… for example, if I try to search titles only for ‘1000x’ then it will show every post that has the title ‘1000x’ instead of the one THREAD that has that in the title, and then other different threads that have it in it’s title.
Also, Clay, I would really appreciate the new forum being compatible with tapatalk and be able to see and reply to pm’s on tapatalk (which currently is not allowed).
recent topics page needs to show info like on current site
there’s no search tab
it’d be nice if Search produced threads rather than individual pages
sort options for sorting posts (which are not on the current forum either) would be nice
I’ve got a few more:
the missing info on the recent topic page (e.g., "topic started date"is missing) is also not present on the index page of every subforum
next to the “search tab”, the tabs “new topic”, “my topics”, etc. are missing (maybe because I’m not logged in; although it’d be weird if that is the reason, because there is a “profile” tab)
line spaces (empty lines between paragraphs) are not shown in posts
it’d be nice if the Search function could also deal with phrases or AND-clauses. (If you type in on the current forum, e.g. “stropping paste”, it searches on “stropping” OR “paste”, which usually results in far too many unwanted search results)
thank you’s and karma’s are not shown with posts
signatures are not shown with posts
I cannot login yet to the new forum. If the web team could add the current account database, we could perhaps do some more testing.
Success with the new site! It seems to be based on Wordpress, which I like a lot better than Joomla .
This was also asked in another thread. Clay answered that it appears to be rather difficult technically. Let’s hope the situation resolves itself when the forum is upgraded.
Has anybody else noticed that the links in the Wicked Edge Wiki site don’t work anymore? Maybe related to the new platform? Or is it just me? (I’m running Chrome for my browser)
