Dannie Jackson

 I recently found an Ad Server that is more user friendly than Reviver Ad Server, known as "Advanced Ads Pro" for WordPress. Hence, you create a directory in UNA for an "ads center" or "ads server," and drop in WordPress and this plugin. It also has a Seller plugin you upgrade to, so that advertisers can directly create an account and then upload their advertising content onto the Ad Server that this plugin provides.  

 This in essence creates an Ads Department that runs itself, where ads are place into UNA via iframes, in terms of ad zones. Java script ads can be placed in an html document and then an iframe can load that into UNA. Hence, you can use java in this way.

 The Seller plugin also provides the ability for people to place ads on other platforms; hence it extends the reach of your advertising beyond your UNA platform. User who uses this feature can both monitor their ads in UNA and their remote ads on other platforms.

 Although this is all automated, you would still want to moderate the ads and advertisers with User Rules and check their content as well as websites.

 These plugins are not free; however, you can license them for up to 4 years, in which case, the four-year license includes all of the Ad Server plugins and upgrades.

 I believe it does allow for video ads from what I read at their website.

I want to start a discussion on the topic of members selling items in the network. So far, I have my site set up to receive membership payments via the PayPal API. I am curious regarding the Marketplace App and want some input on actual use cases, how it works etc.

Also, I checked another profile and saw that in its settings the user could install a PayPal API of course I set that profile as an Operator since it was mine from another email address. I want to know it all users can install a PayPal API Client and Secret key, and receive payments or is this limited to an operator, or is this for the purpose of the Marketplace App? I am assuming from what I have read so far about UNA is that users have to have a way to receive payments.

All comments are welcome and more the merrier in this case.

I was setting up my UNA user account privileges; to limit the number of profiles and groups that a user can create in terms of Standard member status. And to only allow Premium members to create Business / Organization pages with a group for each page they create. My scheme is for a Standard user to create two profiles, one for personal use and the other for hobby or business use. The second profile can be used as a business page. However, I do not want Standard members to create groups or else only one group. I am not wanting a bunch of useless groups spamming up the place, anyone who wants a group thus requires Premium status.

I am not sure where to begin since in the Account privileges you can set the number of profiles, while in the Standard account setting you can also set the number of profiles. I am trying to figure out the logic to this. Should I set the maximum number of profiles in the Accounts settings, while limiting the number of profiles for a Standard account. Or set the Account privileges to two profiles and then the Premium settings would override the Account settings for the number of profiles?

 I had never done this before, so I decided I would learn how to migrate UNA to another server. So, I downloaded a copy of my site and its database and installed it into Xampp Apache PHP Server to learn the process. The main configuration file is in the " inc " folder. So, create a new database, then install a fresh installation of UNA, which should be of the same version your site is. And then, make a compressed zip file of the " inc " folder.

 The next step is to install your downloaded site version onto the new installation in your server. And then unzip the " inc " folder you compressed after installing the new installation. Afterwards, you dump the new installation database and then import your site database into MyPhpAdmin. If you have a large site, then the storage and store folders may be very large and have to be downloaded by themselves from your site host. It may take several attempts since sometimes the host may run slow and not complete the process. Maybe downloading overnight is the best when site traffic is low.

An alternative way to do this, is to add the " install " folder back to your downloaded site installation, and then install your site with a new database, then dump the new database and import your downloaded one. If you have copies of your SSL certificates you can install them into Apache in the Xampp files. As long as you are not using a static IP address with name servers pointing to your computer, it will not be online and interfere with you online installation. Anyways, this will help you to learn how to migrate the site to another server if you have a need to.

 This ad server serves html pasted into html or raw blocks in the UNA Pages app of the Studio. Where the html is placed in such places as a sidebar on the post-view page. Or wherever you have placed such blocks to deliver ads. The ad server operates a system of ads based upon zones, which are those zones of your site, where the zones are also based upon ad sizes, such as for sidebar, banners and header ads. You can also place ads inside of Featured Post on the network, where that ad is updated by the software over time.

 Using this software, you can have an ads teams post ads on the network, while they are using this software located in the htdocs files of your host. without giving anyone access to the Studio to place and update ads via editing html or raw blocks in the Pages app. Hence, ads are placed on the network remotely, from the Reviver Adserver folder on your site.  

The ad server is in effect a business website that you or your ad team operate from, within the host of your UNA network, or from some other hosting account on the web.

Reviver Adserver is Open Source and free to use.

I know that this has been mentioned before, by myself and others, but if you are not getting your email to work on a self-hosted site, then the problem most likely is that you added the SMTP module and have it on and have tried to get it to work. I suspected that in doing this myself, that it was conflicting with UNA's built in mailer which would be a PHP mailer function I believe. Anyways, the way to resolve this is to turn off the SMTP mailer, and then confirmation emails work perfectly. So, do not download the SMTP mailer unless you need it. I believe it only works for remote email accounts you want to send mail from.

I am thinking of modifying the Post Rich Text editor to allow html code for the Edit Profile editor, and also, increasing the size of the html insertion popup window. If anyone has tried anything with the rich text editor and has a suggestion let me know. Maybe just point me in the right direction, I looked through the UNA code for anything to pop out at me and so far, nothing. I noticed that the Classes page profile editor does allow html and I am thinking of using html to edit profiles. I do not think anyone is going to break their profile using html. java maybe would be bad but that is already not allowed.

I am using PHP 8.1 with the latest UNA 14 release, and when I upload new pages cover for the site, it does not upload. I am wondering if this is a PHP configuration problem or what? I checked the storage folder permissions, and everything seems fine.