Data recovery people know that "deleted" rarely means gone. Google works a bit the same way: a page can be removed or edited at the source and still appear in results with the old snippet for a while.

For that situation Google has a Refresh Outdated Content tool. You submit the URL, and Google updates or drops the stale result. Handy when someone took down a post about you but a search for your name still shows it.

For results that are still live, it helps to sort them first: personal data (number, address, ID), social media posts, news articles, and neutral results you'd rather keep. Each group has its own route. This page on removing your name from Google walks through that sorting and its limits.

Anyone tried the refresh tool? Was it quick?

Included in version 3.0,4

marked solved

Excellent. Thank you @rjen!

Quote from: Itchdog on November 01, 2026, 01:06:12 AMI'm trying to add "Ambassador" to the "Membergroups that can see this category". Can anyone tell me what file or database table to edit to manually add this permission?

The category permissions ar stored in table: _tp_variables

In the table find the record of type 'category' and the id of your article category. User groups with access are stored in value3

Yea. I used to be with Bluehost and never had a problem, but I think HostGator and Bluehost are part of the same company now. I once reached out to HostGator via chat and they used a Bluehost image, lol. They also think I'm using Wordpress and I have to spend the first few minutes of every chat convincing them it's an SMF install.

I had a convo in the SMF forum and Crocweb was mentioned there as well. I might check it out when I'm ready to move.

The TinyPortal Team is pleased to announce the release of TinyPortal 3.0.4

TinyPortal 3.0.4 can be used on SMF 2.1 and should also work on SMF 3.0

Minimum required PHP version : 7.0.0
Highest tested PHP version: 8.5.12

This includes the following updates and fixes:

Functional changes:

• Added functionality to control the layout for forum topics on the frontpage

Technical changes and Bugfixes:

• Fix to the Promote topics button to inactive on topics that are not promoted
• Fix for shoutbox showing correct user names for deleted members
• Fix for integration hooks showing "temporary hook not found" in hooks admin
• Fix for Install aborts with "Column 'body' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index", install.php
• Fix for Timeouts during install: Due to the large # of updates & data volume, this can run into execution time exceeded error
• TinyPortal version showing on hover on TinyPortal in footer to allow quicker support
• Updated article template logic so no header is showing when article title is not used
• Updated article template logic so no horizon line is showing when no article option used

Notes:
Support for SMF2.0.x has been dropped starting TinyPortal version 3.0.0.

SMF2.0.x is still supported by TinyPortal, but only up to TinyPortal version 2.3.1.



Note that SMF3.0 is under development, we cannot guarantee stable support for 3.0 until a Final version is released.

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Download:
https://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?action=tportal;sa=download;dl=item214

I made a number of changes that will make sure the Title div is only called when the title is set to be displayed for the article. Secondly I also suppressed the article info div when no data is selected for the article..

This will remove the need to adapt the css on your site...

I have added these changes to the next TP version 3.0.4

I can't help you with the file or database stuff, but I can Sympathise with your hosting situation.

I was running this site and all my other sites on HostGator for many years without issues, in fact they were one of the best value hosts around at the time.  Then they got taken over by EIG (Endurance International Group) in 2015 and it all went down hill from there, the support turned from great to really bad. 

When the start of the SSL requirements they wanted a fortune just to provide a SSL cert.  https://www.websitebuilderinsider.com/who-owns-hostgator/

In 2017 I decided to move everything to a new host. Currently with Crocweb who touch wood have been absolutely fantastic, and really helpful from day one.  They even moved all my sites for me free of charge, and it was fast and painless.

Hope you can get this resolved.