commons-in-a-box

Commons In A Box

A platform for easy and powerful community websites. Powered by BuddyPress.

34.3 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

30active installs

38.4Kdownloads

5.0rating

0unresolved threads

22complaints analyzed

9praise analyzed

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Download Momentum

180 days

60recent 30 days 140previous 30 days -57.1%movement 775shown total

Related Opportunities

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Commercial opportunity Education: Member and course operations member and course operations · final 74.0 · proof validated Needs sharper proof Community: Support triage and conversation operations support triage and conversation operations · final 66.6 · proof partial

Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.98

Fatal Error with 1.0.5

Fatal Error with 1.0.5: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

Proof Blocked card complete member and course operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Fatal Error with 1.0.5 I upgraded to 1.0.5 last night and got the following error on the admin backend of the site and the front end: Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_option() in …./wp-content/plugins/commons-in-a-box/includes/frontend.php on line 62 I stepped back down to 1.0.4 and everything is back to normal.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.97

Fatal Error

Fatal Error: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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Fatal Error Hello.

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95

Reply by email not working with Mandrill

Reply by email not working with Mandrill: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

Proof Blocked card complete member and course operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Reply by email not working with Mandrill Hi r-a-y, I came across your plugin and was fascinated by the possibility of replying by email on my website which is centered around buddypress and bbpress.

question support · high severity · relevance 0.88

Action hook missing on cbox theme

Action hook missing on cbox theme: users show security, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

Proof Blocked card complete member and course operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Action hook missing on cbox theme In cbox theme’s customized register.php file the original BuddyPress action hook ‘bp_signup_profile_fields’ is missing.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.93

Does it support wordpress MU?

Does it support wordpress MU?: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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Does it support wordpress MU?

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92

missing Style.css

missing Style.css: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

Proof Blocked card complete member and course operations Evidence linked to opportunity

missing Style.css When I upload the theme it says it won’t install and it says it is missing style.css https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/ When I upload the theme it says it won’t install and it says it is missing style.css https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/ Hi antiapathy, How are you uploading the theme?

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92

Drop down menu issue

Drop down menu issue: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

Proof Blocked card complete member and course operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Drop down menu issue Running WordPress 5.8 and CIAB 1.3.0 on the above test site.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

bbpress

bbpress: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

Proof Blocked card complete member and course operations Evidence linked to opportunity

My theme has automatic meta details on pages such as author, date created, etc.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

CBOX theme compatibility problem with Buddypress Docs 1.9.0

CBOX theme compatibility problem with Buddypress Docs 1.9.0: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

Proof Blocked card complete member and course operations Evidence linked to opportunity

CBOX theme compatibility problem with Buddypress Docs 1.9.0 The latest version of BuddyPress Docs (1.9.0) add a great feature of folders management.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Extended profile fields disappear with CIAB Infinity theme

Extended profile fields disappear with CIAB Infinity theme: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

Proof Blocked card complete member and course operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Extended profile fields disappear with CIAB Infinity theme I recently installed the CIAB Infinity theme over CIAB, which fixed a number of issues on the community site I’m building.

Competitor Context

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Student Result or Employee Database praise owner · intel 75.1 · weakness 66.6

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stale update history below-average rating missing feature support 2 source links Evidence only

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Academic Blogger's Toolkit praise owner · intel 73.4 · weakness 64.2

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stale update history 13 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Evidence only

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Side Matter praise owner · intel 71.0 · weakness 61.9

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stale update history 17 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Evidence only

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JP Students Result Management System praise owner · intel 63.8 · weakness 49.5

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stale update history 4 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Evidence only

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Footnotation praise owner · intel 58.4 · weakness 43.5

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stale update history 3 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Evidence only

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Class Blogs watchlist · intel 55.1 · weakness 58.5

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stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 1 source link Evidence only

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Educare – Students & Result Management System praise owner · intel 53.8 · weakness 32.0

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4 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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Scholar Publications Fetcher watchlist · intel 13.7 · weakness 13.3

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Repeated Themes

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Collected Signals

20 shown from 39 collected

complaint Drop down menu issue support · 2021-08-03T17:37:11+00:00 · medium severity · community

Drop down menu issue: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Drop down menu issue Running WordPress 5.8 and CIAB 1.3.0 on the above test site.

bugs compatibility support migration support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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praise Absolutely Brilliant (5 stars) review · 2019-01-06T18:17:02+00:00 · medium severity · community

Absolutely Brilliant: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Absolutely Brilliant Great for groups and associations.

missing feature setup reliable value support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Features – there is no actual list of what this plugin does support · 2018-11-26T05:24:27+00:00 · medium severity · community

Features – there is no actual list of what this plugin does: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Features – there is no actual list of what this plugin does website calls ‘benefits’ features says there is a list of plugins in installation documentation there is no documentation in the install files this approach might be okay for a school… but … for a business it is nice to know what it actually does before installing it website calls ‘benefits’ feature

missing feature setup form support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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praise One of the best bp plugins available (5 stars) review · 2017-04-10T02:05:53+00:00 · medium severity · community

One of the best bp plugins available: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: One of the best bp plugins available I’ve been using WordPress since 2006, and was probably one of the first buddypress adopters, installing it when it first appeared, almost 10 years ago, always watching with enthusiasm every new development of such wonderful wp plugin.

compatibility missing feature setup easy support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Any plugins to support BP groups category or type support · 2016-10-15T20:30:25+00:00 · medium severity · community

Any plugins to support BP groups category or type: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Any plugins to support BP groups category or type Hello, Commons In A Box is great package for buddypress community, and I know you are really experts of buddypress, my problems is how to filter groups by categrory or type, and plugins to support user to filter groups at frontend?

support quality support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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question Selectively use reply by email – avoid woocommerce, newsletter etc. support · 2016-08-26T08:53:00+00:00 · low severity · community

Selectively use reply by email – avoid woocommerce, newsletter etc.: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Selectively use reply by email – avoid woocommerce, newsletter etc.

compatibility missing feature support email support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Cbox & image upload for Bbpress plugin conflict support · 2016-06-07T02:12:56+00:00 · medium severity · community

Cbox & image upload for Bbpress plugin conflict: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Cbox & image upload for Bbpress plugin conflict Just FYI CBox disables the ability to open po pup dialog box from the image upload for BBpress plugin.

bugs compatibility setup reliable support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint CBOX theme compatibility problem with Buddypress Docs 1.9.0 support · 2016-03-15T16:38:58+00:00 · medium severity · community

CBOX theme compatibility problem with Buddypress Docs 1.9.0: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: CBOX theme compatibility problem with Buddypress Docs 1.9.0 The latest version of BuddyPress Docs (1.9.0) add a great feature of folders management.

bugs compatibility missing feature quality support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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neutral How to access theme? support · 2016-02-25T13:54:05+00:00 · medium severity · community

How to access theme?: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: How to access theme?

bugs compatibility performance support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint bbpress support · 2016-01-28T11:12:15+00:00 · medium severity · community

bbpress: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: My theme has automatic meta details on pages such as author, date created, etc.

compatibility missing feature support quality support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Post snippets on c-box subdomains support · 2016-01-26T17:31:39+00:00 · medium severity · community

Post snippets on c-box subdomains: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Post snippets on c-box subdomains Hi Boone, C-box is a great solution for networks, thanks for your work!

missing feature support easy reliable support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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mixed Reply by email not working with Mandrill support · 2015-12-21T12:30:14+00:00 · high severity · community

Reply by email not working with Mandrill: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Reply by email not working with Mandrill Hi r-a-y, I came across your plugin and was fascinated by the possibility of replying by email on my website which is centered around buddypress and bbpress.

security bugs compatibility performance support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Can't Install, Bad Archive support · 2015-12-17T09:40:57+00:00 · medium severity · community

Can't Install, Bad Archive: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Can't Install, Bad Archive Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/commons-in-a-box.1.0.11.zip… Unpacking the package… The package could not be installed.

setup form support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Does it support wordpress MU? support · 2015-12-16T16:51:31+00:00 · medium severity · community

Does it support wordpress MU?: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Does it support wordpress MU?

bugs compatibility performance missing feature support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Events calendar plugin in CBOX ? support · 2015-11-26T13:51:55+00:00 · medium severity · community

Events calendar plugin in CBOX ?: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: We still need to take care of a few issues and clean up the codebase before general release.

bugs support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint missing Style.css support · 2015-09-24T22:02:48+00:00 · medium severity · community

missing Style.css: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: missing Style.css When I upload the theme it says it won’t install and it says it is missing style.css https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/ When I upload the theme it says it won’t install and it says it is missing style.css https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/ Hi antiapathy, How are you uploading the theme?

compatibility missing feature support setup support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Using BuddyPress support · 2015-07-23T08:35:06+00:00 · medium severity · community

Using BuddyPress: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/ Yes, CBOX requires BuddyPress to be installed.

setup support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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praise Stable set of community features (5 stars) review · 2015-04-28T16:55:01+00:00 · medium severity · community

Stable set of community features: users show compatibility, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Stable set of community features We reviewed all the available community packages available for WordPress – both paid and premium – and Commons In a Box is the one we kept reverting back to because it is the most stable platform of features to build upon.

compatibility missing feature pricing support support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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complaint Commons in a Box Compatability? support · 2015-03-04T20:26:08+00:00 · medium severity · community

Commons in a Box Compatability?: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: As for support, try registering on the cbox.org forum.

support setup value support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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question Action hook missing on cbox theme support · 2015-01-10T13:30:21+00:00 · high severity · community

Action hook missing on cbox theme: users show security, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Action hook missing on cbox theme In cbox theme’s customized register.php file the original BuddyPress action hook ‘bp_signup_profile_fields’ is missing.

security compatibility missing feature form support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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