With the help of ChatGPT I was able to migrate posts, comments and users to a Wordpress site. After revising the script 12 times after error messages, we made it. But maybe the experts among you can have a look? <?php // Database connection settings… More »

I was wondering if anyone had a way to export the posts to an external file. I'm cleaning up my system and have several blogs that are basically static at this point. I want to pull the posts for them and archive them, but while I can pull it from the… More »

So, after a few years of being unable to do anything to my site, I'm finally able to update it, which means upgrading to the latest b2evo. However, I'm getting a LOT of errors, mostly "Deprecated" and "Warning: Cannot modify header… More »

I have a quite big DB (more than 100,000 records) and the normal backup process (only for DB) always ends in fatal error. I run the heavy db maintenance cron once a month, so I thought to add _backup.class to the end of _heavy.db.maintenance.job, after… More »

Hello, I have different instances running on different webservers /hosters. I think about closing one webhost service and domain, but I don't want to loose my content. I am using 6.11.7 in the instance I want to close and 6.11.5 in the other. Is there a… More »

Ran code through easy coding standard (ECS): https://github.com/easy-coding-standard/easy-coding-standard which upgraded the b2evolution arrays to PHP 8 standards, etc. Manually fixed the arrays in b2evo installation file(s) to correspond to PHP 8 -- as… More »

The install always stops with this error's if i try to use some demo data and users. only if i install without anything the install works. but then the login is not working. with the hash salt problem. the database was created with utf8mb3_general_ci… More »

Hello, my RSS Feed does not sort in order of latest posts, but in the sort order customized for "all" (sort order of start page). Does anyone know where and how to hack codes to change sort order for rss? Thanks in advance and regards, Will More »

I have been running 6.11.3-stable for some time. In March 2022, I tried manually upgrading to whatever version was the latest stable version at that time. While the upgrade worked, the skin had issues. I use pixelgreen. There were issues with the link… More »

Hello, I've inherited a php forum with a blog. The forum stopped working a couple years ago with a major php update. The previous owner got the forum back online but that was about it. I've since updated php again and fixed/updated the forum. Before I… More »

Hi, I have just upgraded an old blog (last used in late 2018) to 7.2.5. After some fiddling to get php working (it doesn't like 8.1 which the rest of my site is running on) I have a Blog that works in a web browser. I get a stack of skin errors when I… More »

Hello, Today, while looking at the analysis results, I discovered an idiosyncratic hack attempt (see Fig. 1) - It is likely to be a java injection. (alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83)) ) via ?disp=>… More »

(Screenshot upper half there is a diff between unpatched file (left) vs patched file; whereas lower half of screen shows patch, as ensues below) Had seen a few of those 500s in error.log file(s). Began to investigate the issue and subsequently... ---… More »

If you haven't already done so through auto upgrade, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to b2evolution 7.2.5 stable NOW! https://b2evolution.net/downloads/7-2-5-stable All prior versions of b2evolution should be regarded as unsecure and… More »

Hi eveyone, I finally got b2evolution working in docker. Still work in progress, but with the example provided it worked for me. https://hub.docker.com/r/z8bulon/b2evolution Maybe it helps someone, or you could provide feedback about the 'good the bad… More »

Hello, I limited "Search" (in features) only for posts (no comments, no files …) But this caused the following error: Notice: Undefined variable: search_input_type in …/inc/widgets/widgets/_coll_search_form.widget.php on line 391 If I activate… More »

Hello, does anyone know how to disable ?disp=mediaidx for anonymous users? In recent months, hotlininking developed into a real plague and sometime it starts by crawling images via ?disp=mediaidx. I figured out how to disable it for all users (by… More »

Hello, since few weeks I detect unauthorized access directly to media folder and evocache folder in blogs. In the analytics it looks like this (see fig. below). B2e Analytic shows a link that does not work although HTTP response shows 200. (It can't… More »

I realized that via China Mobile Communications the folder media > blogs > [blog] image files were called. It happened with IP 117.148.130.28. I checked chmod of the folder. It is set to 755 - is this correct or should I change it to 750? Thanks… More »

There is a new update. v 7.2.4 It is not available for a Download and Install, it must be done via Auto upgrade. Tried and it went smoothly. Ms F Planque is still alive and kicking :) More »

Hello: I am stumped trying to install b2evo. I am trying to install it locally. I have xampp and apache and mysql are running according to xampp's gui. I have version 7.2.3 stable. I used the myphpadmin supplied with xampp to create a user with all… More »

I followed the instructions to setup but when I go to https://domain.com/blog/install/index.php, the page displays ok and fill out the required information and hit "update config file", my browser then says "this is a non-secure… More »

need some help please i want transfer my host to another one so is there way i can do that without lose any data ? am looking for answer so soon please More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.x I don't know if this is to be blamed on my hosting company or some error in b2evolution but from some time back, everytime I try to add a picture (or any file) to a post, the opening file page gives me an Internal Server… More »

But when I click on either of the buttons to "Go to Front-Office" or "Go to Back-office" I get Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.48 (Ubuntu) Server at mytestingsite.com Port 80 (mytestingsite is on… More »

Hi @amoun I'll get tricky (towards GDPR) contace messages. I want to translate the text into german and give some more information eg Art. 13 GDPR. In case I'll edit _contact_msg.form.php the changes are not shown. I'm not sure if changing files in… More »

I recently updated to 7.2.3 and now my profile photo is broken. If I click on it the correct image is shown in a popup, but it shows as broken on the page as well as in Settings. http://www.tylerhosting.com/b2e/ Update: I reinstalled b2evolution and… More »

Hi, today I have a question for you, I need to integrate variuos functionality like button (add to cart, add to wishlist), cart and related button (delete item, increase/decrease quantity, etc.), payment, so all I need for a slight e-commerce (yes… More »

I was trying to install from b2e 6.xxx to the 7.2.3.... it was hanging on backing up the inc/ directory so I just left it. When I came back, it had timed out and now it's kind of stuck. When I go to /admin.php I get a message: Database schema is not up… More »

When creating a New Post/Item Type, what is the process for displaying custom fields and formatting them, creating a layout for them etc? Say I wanted to do something like below. [inline:8567] More »