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1 January 2015
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If we unlock one at a time a) we have to lock all the others so folk cant post in those (never mind the calls to unlock ones that folk want to play there and then – why does one remain closed when another is not?) and b) there will be a time when all will be open as they take an eternity to finish and folk get bored (hence why there are a number unfinished). 

Joe closed them to bring the forum back to more of a Beatles discussion forum and its worked so i fail to see why they should be unlocked. 

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ahdn_paul_06 for only unlocking one at a time, one of the Hurt/Heals could be moved to the Forum games area and then be unlocked.

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1 January 2015
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Which leaves open the chance for other folk to start new ones in there which the mods would have to run around locking and moving.

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I’m sorry if this has been brought up, but is there any chance we could search for terms with 3 letters? The search engine doesn’t allow me to find anything for Let It Be . :-P

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ahdn_paul_06 I was just able to search up New. I think they changed it to three letters earlier.

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*let it be* searched as phrase (topic title only, all forums) gave me the warning the first time, but when I tried it again I got this list result https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..;include=2 . Weird

To play around some more, I searched *new be* as a phrase for titles only in all forums and got https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..;include=2 . I did it again, and it just gave me the error message. Weird.

*new* by itself didn’t work for me for any type of search.

*new album* searched using the any word option gave me the warning message but did return a list https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..;include=2

Yeah, I got nothing as to why the search thing does what it does with short words.

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Annadog40 said
ahdn_paul_06 I was just able to search up New. I think they changed it to three letters earlier.

I’d thought that was the case. But it seems to be random, as Ahhh Girl found.

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*new* by itself didn’t work for me for any type of search.

I got it to work by capitalizing New. Does that work for you?

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For any word 3 letters or less use apostrophes at the beginning or end. So for Let use ‘Let’ and that will bring up all the results (this example being for topic titles only). Additionally if you know the sub-forum its in you can navigate there first to further narrow down the results.

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25 January 2015
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meanmistermustard said
For any word 3 letters or less use apostrophes at the beginning or end. So for Let use ‘Let’ and that will bring up all the results (this example being for topic titles only). Additionally if you know the sub-forum its in you can navigate there first to further narrow down the results.

Thanks for the tip about the apostrophes. I tried your second idea first, but now that all of the songs were added, there are so many more pages to navigate. I went through 20 and gave up. I probably skipped it somehow.

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26 January 2015
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Can I suggest a post in the forum guides with all the possible smileys and the results? I just discovered :mad: by accident and I’m wondering what other BBcode and smileys are out there! The Beatles smileys are fine but I can’t make out half the facial expressions anyway and I’m just following the convention for how people are using them, I’d like to be able to use the other smileys when I need to!

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The other smileys are not specific to the BB. Here’s one site that has some smileys.

http://www.freesmileys.org/

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ewe2 said
Can I suggest a post in the forum guides with all the possible smileys and the results? I just discovered :mad: by accident and I’m wondering what other BBcode and smileys are out there! The Beatles smileys are fine but I can’t make out half the facial expressions anyway and I’m just following the convention for how people are using them, I’d like to be able to use the other smileys when I need to!

http://simple-press.com/features/ – Is a list of simple press features and their site. It might have the smiles listed.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L….._emoticons – Here is a list of emoticons that you could try out

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The base plugin doesn’t have many, and I think there’s a few custom smilies here, anything like :lol: or :mad: is custom I think?

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I can use :lol: in email so it doesn’t work just for this site. Is that what you’re talking about?

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Tbh, I’m not sure if it’s not a general wordpress thing, I don’t know the inside of that software that well, I shall investigate further.

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:arrow: :biggrin: sf-confused <img decoding=” class=”spSmiley” /> <img decoding=” class=”spSmiley” /> :eek: :evil: :exclaim: :idea: :lol: :mad: :mrgreen: :neutral: :question: :razz: :redface: :rolleyes: :sad: <img decoding=” class=”spSmiley” /> :surprise: :twisted: <img decoding=” class=”spSmiley” />

Ok that make sense now.

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26 January 2015
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parlance said

meanmistermustard said
For any word 3 letters or less use apostrophes at the beginning or end. So for Let use ‘Let’ and that will bring up all the results (this example being for topic titles only). Additionally if you know the sub-forum its in you can navigate there first to further narrow down the results.

Thanks for the tip about the apostrophes. I tried your second idea first, but now that all of the songs were added, there are so many more pages to navigate. I went through 20 and gave up. I probably skipped it somehow.

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You could find them via the song or album page. If there’s a related forum thread you’ll see a link at the end of the article. I can’t change the search function, sorry.

@ewe2 Little yellow smileys are automatically added by the forum software (Simple Press), and a different set by the site CMS (WordPress). I could disable them but never got round to it. The Simple Press ones aren’t shown by default but can be accessed by typing any of the following :words: enclosed by colons.

frown sf-frown
smile sf-smile
wink sf-wink
yell sf-yell
embarassed sf-embarassed
cry sf-cry
kiss sf-kiss
cool sf-cool
surprised sf-surprised
confused sf-confused
laugh sf-laugh

The WordPress ones are listed here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Usi…..Smileys.3F

For aesthetic reasons I didn’t want these to be shown alongside the Beatles smileys.

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Is it possible to have the spoiler function work in PMs?

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Don’t think so, sorry. Can you change the font colour to white so people have to highlight them? It’s less elegant and wouldn’t work so well on mobile, but I can’t think of another option.

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Somewhere in my travels here I found that someone (AG or AD40?) has trouble accidentally deleting posts that took significant effort.  I have the same problem.  I’m wondering if there’s some way to have the site make a backup of your post every couple minutes?  The hard part would probably be designing the system to recall the saved post (or it could revert to it if you got out and tried to reply again). In fact that happened to me tonight – twice I killed the whole window, opened it back up, I was still logged in, and when I went to reply my previous text was there.  However, when I had to re-login, there was no sign of my post.

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