Wordpress Mingle Forum - Your ADVICE NEEDED

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Hi Guys,


I am using a website to test certain aspects of Mingle Forum before I move it onto my domain, and I am currently facing a few issues. Where can I access the Forums page i.e. the homepage displaying the forum to change certain aspects. Take a look here...



I can make changes using A firefox plugin called Firebug, so I know it's possible to do, however I am unable to find the file to make changes to this. Any ideas I would greatly appreciate it.

So the overall goal is finding the code to replace the default "Letter" image and replace with images of my own and remove the moderators code and put in a summary of the sub-forum, seeing as the descriptions don't work for the forums.


PS: I am using the ElegantPress Theme.

To save you time you can find it here: ElegantPress Theme

If you guys have done work with Wordpress forums before I would highly appreciate your help or if you know what to do but have questions to ask please let me know.

Thank You.
#advice #forum #mingle #needed #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Shaolinsteve
    Any ideas on this guys? Still trying to figure it out without any luck. I thought I would post again now due to time differences and hopefully some of you have some ideas.

    Appreciate it.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaasmit
    Actually you are talking about something relatively new in the field and it is not all that spread out yet.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shaolinsteve
      Originally Posted by jaasmit View Post

      Actually you are talking about something relatively new in the field and it is not all that spread out yet.
      You mean forums being run via Wordpress?

      If there are some guys that can do PHP, HTML, CSS and are familiar with Wordpress, I am sure it won't be a problem for someone to make these minor adjustments. I am just trying to find someone who can help me do this, even if it means paying for the help to be done.

      It's a real pain in the *** lol.
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      • Profile picture of the author Nolimit2it
        Sounds like you are trying to find where those images is so you can replace the default ones with your own, right?
        Here is something you can try if you have access to your cPanel on that domain...
        First do a "right-click" on the images you are trying to replace and see if it tells you the actual dir/folder that they reside in on your site... that should help track down the right area to look.
        1. Log in to the cPanel of your site (www.yoursite.com/cpanel) using the username/password your hosting company gave you.
        2. look through those icons to find "File Manager" and click
        3. Now I am not postive WHERE those icons will be (the "right-click" you did above should help you clue in) as I don't use that plugin or theme but you can try a few spots that I believe you will find them...
        A) public_html/yourwebsite/wp-content/plugins/mingle-forum and look for a graphics/images folder
        B) if the images are there, then you can simple rename those ones (so you can revert back if you want) and upload and rename any same sized images to match the old ones.
        I would ensure that you have made the images the same pixel size so that you don't muck up the table or formatting they reside in on the page.

        As for the other item you were trying to find... sorry... that would be for someone that actually has used Mingle Forum plugin.
        Hope that was slightly helpful
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        • Profile picture of the author Shaolinsteve
          Originally Posted by Nolimit2it View Post

          Sounds like you are trying to find where those images is so you can replace the default ones with your own, right?
          Here is something you can try if you have access to your cPanel on that domain...
          First do a "right-click" on the images you are trying to replace and see if it tells you the actual dir/folder that they reside in on your site... that should help track down the right area to look.
          1. Log in to the cPanel of your site (www.yoursite.com/cpanel) using the username/password your hosting company gave you.
          2. look through those icons to find "File Manager" and click
          3. Now I am not postive WHERE those icons will be (the "right-click" you did above should help you clue in) as I don't use that plugin or theme but you can try a few spots that I believe you will find them...
          A) public_html/yourwebsite/wp-content/plugins/mingle-forum and look for a graphics/images folder
          B) if the images are there, then you can simple rename those ones (so you can revert back if you want) and upload and rename any same sized images to match the old ones.
          I would ensure that you have made the images the same pixel size so that you don't muck up the table or formatting they reside in on the page.

          As for the other item you were trying to find... sorry... that would be for someone that actually has used Mingle Forum plugin.
          Hope that was slightly helpful
          Hey Daryl,

          Thank you for your advice. The moderators is not a big concern now, however the managed to locate where you guided me fine as I had already come across it before, however somewhere in the code, every forum is assigned the same default image "the letter image". If I change one in theory it changes all, however I am not looking to do this, I need help with finding the code that get created for every "sub forum" so that I can assign each one with a new image.

          If someone can help me or send me a PM with regards to doing this I would highly appreciate it and be happy to give something back in return.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nolimit2it
    Ok, so now I understand better, you are looking for a way to change these site wide defaults to a forum by forum option. I may be over ruled on this but that sounds to me like a BIG job coding the PHP that makes up that plugin. I would think that it would take disabling the site wide code and then creating a way to enable it on a forum level. The plugin draws or creates its pages by pulling info from the database using the site wide PHP directions and it is going to be pretty complicated I think to rewrite that. Wish I could help more... sorry!
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    Greymouse Web Design & Local Marketing Services - GreymouseServices.com
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    • Profile picture of the author Shaolinsteve
      Originally Posted by Nolimit2it View Post

      Ok, so now I understand better, you are looking for a way to change these site wide defaults to a forum by forum option. I may be over ruled on this but that sounds to me like a BIG job coding the PHP that makes up that plugin. I would think that it would take disabling the site wide code and then creating a way to enable it on a forum level. The plugin draws or creates its pages by pulling info from the database using the site wide PHP directions and it is going to be pretty complicated I think to rewrite that. Wish I could help more... sorry!
      Hey Daryl,

      Thanks for keeping track on this and giving me some advice. What a shame it seems like a big job. I thought new code gets created per new forum created as the format is the same, but duplicated referencing a link for each image.

      Look here at some of the code <-- Image appears to big for posting.

      Like this code follows a similar format and it's just a case of changing the ref link in order to change the image, so this is what I am having trouble to find, but it must be somewhere surely.
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