Please enable the debug mode of WordPress and see if any error message appears.

To enable the debug mode, change the following line in wp-config.php:

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

to

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true);
define('WP_DISABLE_FATAL_ERROR_HANDLER', true);

Make sure to add the lines above to wp-config.php where it says:

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Something did not go right during activation of the plugin. Have you gotten any error message during activation?

If you have phpMyAdmin installed on your server, please issue the following SQL in phpMyAdmin and obtain the installation log for the plugin.

SELECT option_value FROM `wp_options` WHERE option_name = 'sabai_sabai_install_log'

Make sure to change the wp_ part if your database tables have a different prefix.

Also there could be a problem if the memory_limit setting of PHP on your server is set to a low value. Make sure the value of the setting is set to at least 128M.

If you are still having issues with the install or can not obtain any installation log, please contact support using the contact form on my profile page (http://codecanyon.net/user/onokazu) so that we can send you a database dump file that you can import from phpMyAdmin to manually setup the plugin.

This method no longer works with the plugin. Instead, please use WordPress embeds.

1. From the WP admin dashboard, go to Questions -> Questions (or Answers for answers)
2. Click the Manage Fields tab.
3. Hover over to the Markdown Text field and click on the small Edit link which appears at the top right corner.
4. Mark the checkbox which says Allow iframe HTML tags.
5. Optionally, add the URL prefix of the content you would like to embed, e.g., //www.youtube.com/embed/, to Iframe URL Whitelist. Make sure to separate the URLs with commas if entering more than one URL.
6. Click the Save Changes button.

Make sure you have either the WordPress Seo by Yoast plugin or the All in One SEO Pack plugin installed and activated.

1. From the WP admin dashboard, go to Questions -> Questions
2. Click the Manage Fields tab.
3. From the Available Fields panel on the right (or left for RTL languages), click Single Line Text.
4. Enter “meta_title” for Field name.
5. Enter “Meta Title” for Label.
6. Under Visibility Settings, unselect all checkboxes but the Administrator checkbox.
7. Press the Add Field button to save the field.
8. From the Available Fields panel on the right (or left for RTL languages), click Paragraph Text.
9. Enter “meta_description” for Field name.
10. Enter “Meta Description” for Label.
11. Under Visibility Settings, unselect all checkboxes but the Administrator checkbox.
12. Press the Add Field button to save the field.

Try editing one of your questions as administrator and you should see two new fields you just created. Enter values for these fields and they will replace the original values that were automatically generated by the plugin.

To create a new questions section, you will need to clone the Questions add-on.

1. From the admin dashboard, go to Settings -> Sabai.
2. Under the Sabai Add-ons section, find the row for the Questions add-on and click the blue button on the right.
3. Enter the name of add-on you would like to create. The name of the add-on can be anything you like as long as it is unique within the system but do not choose a name that is likely to conflict with add-ons that would be released in the future.
4. Submit the form and after the page refresh, you will see the add-on you just created listed in the Installable Add-ons table under the Sabai Add-ons section.
5. Install the new add-on just like you did for the Questions add-on and you will see new menu items for the add-on added to the dashboard menu.

That’s it, you have just created a complete new questions section.

SabaiDirectory includes template files that you can modify to customize the output. The template files are located under the following directory:

wp-content/plugins/sabai-discuss/assets/templates

You can copy these files over to wp-content/sabai/assets (or wp-content/themes/[Your Theme]/sabai for versions older than 1.2.25) directory (you must create this directory) and modify however you like. Note that you do not need to copy all the template files over to the folder, but only those you want to make changes. Also if the directory you are trying to customize the display is a cloned directory, you can optionally create a folder at wp-content/sabai/assets/[Cloned Addon Name] (or wp-content/themes/[Your Theme]/sabai/[Cloned Addon Name] for version older than 1.2.25) and copy the template files to the folder so that the modifications are applied to the cloned directory only.

In addition to copying the template files, if you place a stylesheet file at wp-content/sabai/assets/style.css (or wp-content/themes/[Your Theme]/sabai/style.css for versions older than 1.2.25), this file will be read after all the plugin stylesheets are included. So use this file if you need to ensure that your custom styles are applied after the styles defined by the plugin core.

From the admin dashboard, go to Questions -> Questions and click on the Fields tab. There you will see a form editor with default fields on the main section and a small panel containing buttons to create new fields on the right. Simply click on the button of the field type you would like to create and fill out the form that will be displayed in a modal window. Submit the form in the window and you’ll see the field added to the bottom of the form editor section.

Currently there are 18 field types available:
CAPTCHA, Choice, Date, File, HTML, HTML Text, Image, Link, Location, Number, ON/OFF, Paragraph Text, Range, Section Break, Single Line Text, Social Accounts, Time, and User

Custom fields can be configured to be displayed in several locations of the plugin. By default, there are 2 locations:

- Single question page (Detailed view)
- Questions index page (Summary view)

To display the fields in the above locations, please follow these steps:

1. Go to Questions -> Questions -> Fields -> Manage Form
2. Hover over to your custom field on the form preview. When you hover over each field, one or more icons will appear at the top right corner of the field.
3. Click the icon with a gear image which will open up a form in a popup window.
4. Scroll down to the section labeled Display Settings (Detailed view).
5. Check the Display this field option. This tells the plugin to display the field on the single question page.
6. Optionally, configure settings displayed below in that section, such as Field render and etc., if any.
7. Optionally, repeat steps 4-6 for the section titled Display Settings (Summary view). This will tell the plugin to display the field on the questions index page.
9. Click Save Changes.

Version 1.2.x

All custom fields are displayed by default on the single question page. If you would like them to be displayed for each listing on the question index page, then you will need to modify the questions_single_summary.html.php template file located under wp-content/plugins/sabai-discuss/assets/templates. Refer to the question “How can I customize the display?” for more details on editing template files. You can add the following code to the template file to display all custom fields:

<div class="sabai-questions-custom-fields">
    <?php $this->renderTemplate('questions_custom_fields', array('entity' => $entity));?>
</div>

If you need to display a specific field, e.g. field_xxx, then you can use the following code in the template file:

<?php echo $this->Entity_RenderField($entity, field_xxx');?>

The following is the structure of the HTML markup of custom fields:

<div class="sabai-questions-custom-fields">
    <div class="sabai-questions-field sabai-field-type-[Field Type] sabai-field-name-field-[Field Name] sabai-clearfix">
        <div class="sabai-field-label">[Field Title]</div>
        <div class="sabai-field-value">[Field Value]</div>
    </div>
    ...
</div>

Here is an example of the HTML markup for a Single Line Text field:

<div class="sabai-questions-field sabai-field-type-string sabai-field-name-field-hours sabai-clearfix">
    <div class="sabai-field-label">Opening Hours</div>
    <div class="sabai-field-value">Mon-Sun 5:30 pm - 10 pm, Sat-Sun 5:30 pm - 9 pm</div>
</div>

As you can see, the field type and the field name are used as part of the CSS class names, so you can target specific fields to style them however you like.

If you want to go further to modify the HTML markup generated by SabaiDiscuss, you can edit the questions_custom_fields.html.php template file located under wp-content/plugins/sabai-discuss/assets/templates. Refer to the question “How can I customize the display?” for more details on editing template files.

Follow the exact same steps instructed in the following FAQ but check off the Display this field option instead of checking it on.

How can I display custom fields?

Version 1.2.x

You can exclude specific fields from the custom fields list (those displayed above the tabs) by modifying the questions_custom_fields.html.php template file. Refer to the question “How can I customize the display?” for more details on editing template files.

For example, if you need to exclude custom fields named field_my_field and field_my_field2, modify the following line in the template file:

<?php foreach ($this->Entity_CustomFields($entity) as $field):?>

to

<?php foreach ($this->Entity_CustomFields($entity,
array('field_my_field', 'field_my_field2')) as $field):?>

User roles with the manage_sabai capability can access Settings -> Sabai, and roles with the manage_sabai_content capability can access the pages under Directory. You can grant capabilities to user roles using another plugin like the Members plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

Yes, Sabai Discuss will automatically create a sitemap index at the following location:
http://path-to-your-wordpress/sabai-sitemap-index.xml

For example on our demo site:
http://demo.sabaidiscuss.com/sabai-sitemap-index.xml

Note that this is a virtual file so no actual file is created at the URL location.

Yes, Sabai Discuss generates an RSS feed of the most recent questions and answers. For example, on our demo site:

The most recent 20 questions and answer
http://demo.sabaidiscuss.com/questions/feed

There is also a feed for each user, which contains recent questions and answers submitted by the user. For example, the following is a feed of the demo user on our demo site:

Recent posts by demo
http://demo.sabaidiscuss.com/questions/users/demo/feed

To view the RSS feeds on your site, replace the http://demo.sabaidiscuss.com part with your WP site URL and the questions part with the slug of your questions page on your site.

The WordPress Seo by Yoast plugin is highly recommended which if installed generates title and meta description tags automatically for each listing and category. Sabai Discuss also supports breadcrumbs generated by WordPress Seo. Please visit the demo site to see it in action. Also please see the documentation by Yoast here for details on displaying breadcrumbs in your theme.

As of version 1.2.10, support for the All in One SEO Pack plugin has been added which if installed will also generate title and meta description tags automatically for each listing and category.

Yes, there are 10 email notifications all configurable from the administration dashboard. Here is the list of all email notifications:

• Question Answered Notification Email – sent to the author of a question when an answer is posted to the question.
• Answer Accepted Notification Email – sent to the author of an answer when the answer is accepted by the question author.
• Comment Posted Notification Email – sent to the review author when a comment is submitted.
• Post Published Notification Email – sent to the author of a content when the content is approved and published by an administrator.
• Question Posted Notification Email – sent to users of selected roles whenever a question is posted.
• Answer Posted Notification Email – sent to users of selected roles whenever an answer is posted.
• Question Posted Admin Notification Email – sent to administrators whenever a question that requires approval is posted.
• Answer Posted Admin Notification Email – sent to administrators whenever an answer that requires approval is posted.
• Question Flagged Notification Email – sent to users of selected roles whenever a question is flagged.
• Answer Flagged Notification Email – sent to users of selected roles whenever an answer is flagged.

Shortcodes are supported by the default Body field of questions and answers and Paragraph Text type custom fields. However they are not processed by default. In order to have shortcodes in these fields processed, go to Questions -> Questions (or Answers) ->Fields -> Manage Form, hover over to the Body field (or your Paragraph Text type custom field) and click the gear icon to edit the field. In the popup form, scroll down to Display Settings (Detailed view) and check the Process shortcode(s) option and press Save Changes

In addition, for security reasons, by default shortcodes are processed for questions and answers authored by users with the Administrator role. In order to process shortcodes in listings by other user roles, go to Settings -> Sabai -> WordPress (click gear icon) and select users roles under the User roles allowed to use shortcodes in content option and press Save Changes

We recommend installing the “Responsive Lightbox” plugin, and then select “prettyPhoto” as the lightbox script in the settings of the plugin.

Currently there are 5 shortcodes available.

• [sabai-discuss]
• [sabai-discuss-questions]
• [sabai-discuss-answers]
• [sabai-discuss-favorites]
• [sabai-discuss-search-form]

Please visit the page below for details and examples.

http://demo.sabaidiscuss.com/shortcodes/

There are several ways to do this:

1. %sabai% placeholder

Go to the Pages section in the WordPress dashboard, and edit the page you have specified for the Questions Index Page in Questions -> Settings -> Pages. In the content section of the page, you can use the %sabai% placeholder which will be replaced with the content of the plugin. For example:

<p>My custom header</p>

%sabai%

<p>My custom footer</p>

This will however affect other pages in the plugin as well, so if you do not like that then you should assign different pages for Category List and Single Question pages in Questions -> Settings -> Pages.

2. sabai_questions_before_questions/sabai_questions_after_questions action hooks

You can add the following action hook functions to your theme functions.php or a new file at wp-content/sabai/functions.php:

To add your custom content above listings:

add_action('sabai_questions_before_questions', 'my_sabai_questions_before_questions', 10, 2);
function my_sabai_questions_before_questions($addonName, $settings)
{
    if ($settings['category'] === 0) { // the main index page does not have a category
        echo '<p>My custom header</p>';
    }
}

To add your custom content below listings:

add_action('sabai_questions_after_questions', 'my_sabai_questions_after_questions', 10, 2);
function my_sabai_questions_after_questions($addonName, $settings)
{
    if ($settings['category'] === 0) { // the main index page does not have a category
        echo '<p>My custom footer</p>';
    }
}

3. questions_questions.html.php template file

You can edit the questions_questions.html.php file which you can find under wp-content/plugins/sabai-discuss/assets/templates and add any custom content anywhere in the template file. Please see the following FAQ for more details on how to customize the display with template files.
http://codecanyon.net/item/sabai-discuss-plugin-for-wordpress/3455723/faqs/18756

By default, our plugin removes any content added by other plugins (via the the_content WordPress filter hook) to our plugin pages in order to avoid possible display conflicts.

Therefore you will first need to disable this feature by adding the following line of code to wp-config.php:

define('SABAI_WORDPRESS_DISABLE_REMOVE_FILTERS', true);

above where it says:

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Then, using a text type component of your editor (e.g. Text Block in Visual Composer or Text Module in Divi Builder), insert the %sabai% placeholder to where you would like the content of our plugin to be displayed, which will be replaced with the actual content of our plugin in the frontend. For example:

<p>My custom content</p>

%sabai%

<p>My custom content</p>

Also make sure that you are using version 1.3.24 or later of our plugins.

Step 1: Update Files

Unfortunately updating from version 1.2 to 1.3 is not possible using the online update. You must manually delete the sabai and sabai-discuss folders from the wp-content/plugins directory using an FTP software.

Also if you have been using cloned add-ons, make sure to delete all files under wp-content/sabai/System/clones.

Then, upload the new plugin folders (sabai, sabai-discuss folders) to wp-content/plugins. You should NOT deactivate nor delete any sabai plugins from the Plugins page of WordPress dashboard.

After uploading the folders, go to the Plugins page of WordPress dashboard. You may see an error message saying that certain add-ons are not installed or a white screen.

However, do not worry and reload the page a few number of times until the page displays correctly, and then activate the Sabai Discuss plugin.

Step 2: Update Data

Next, go to Settings -> Sabai from the Wordpress administration dashboard and under the Sabai Add-ons section, upgrade all add-ons that are highlighted and have the Upgrade button displayed. Press the Upgrade button for each of these add-ons and follow the instructions displayed on the pop-up window. You can also do a bulk upgrade by checking the checkboxes on the left and pressing the Upgrade Checked button. Note that some add-ons may not be upgraded until certain add-ons have been upgraded first. Make sure to upgrade all add-ons until all add-ons are de-highlighted.

Also, depending on the upgrade package, there may be some add-ons that are newly available for installation. These add-ons will be listed on the Installable Add-ons table below the list of installed add-ons so you can click the Install button for each of them to make them active.

Step 3: Clear Cache

The last step is very simple. Go to Settings -> Sabai from the Wordpress administration dashboard and under the System Settings section, click the button labelled Clear Cache. If the cache is successfully cleared, you should see a green check button displayed next to the button that you just clicked.

That’s it, you should have now successfully updated Sabai Discuss to the latest version.