[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 4 weeks ago]

Just thought I’d update this to share the changes to TF lately. I’m running the latest versions of BuddyPress (1.7) and bbPress(2.3). Everything is running super smooth. Check out the site, and I hope it can give you some ideas or inspiration for your own communities

http://tamrielfoundry.com

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 3 months, 1 week ago]

I wanted to update this thread to show off the brand new WP/bbPress/BuddyPress parent theme that I created to serve as the new platform for Tamriel Foundry moving forward.

After a month and a half of development, I’ve shipped it to the live site, and am using my extensive community as unwilling lab rats chasing after cheese and bugs through my Elder Scrolls themed social maze.

I’m particularly happy with the theme functionality and performance so far, and I think it definitely has room to grow and improve further. Be sure to check it out and let me know what you think about my implementation of the BP environment!

http://tamrielfoundry.com

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 4 months ago]

Thanks for looking into this so quickly @djpaul. Appreciate your hard work

Would you presume I can safely delete the 25,000+ akismet activity meta entries which are in my bp_activity_meta table without it causing any adverse effects?

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 4 months ago]

Sorry, should have specified. This is on 1.6.3.

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 4 months, 2 weeks ago]

OK, I looked into the code, and this is something I’ll need to go bring up on the bbPress forums as it’s an issue with the extend buddypress component of the bbPress plugin.

I opened a ticket here: http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2140. Hopefully this helps!

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 4 months, 3 weeks ago]

I had built some functionality into my widget which the stock BP who’s online didn’t incorporate. My code is actually pretty similar to the stock widgets in bp-core-widget, but yet I run into this issue where any other has_members query contaminates the contents of my widget. There must be some trick that I’m missing to initiate a has_members query that resets any pre-existing query…

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 4 months, 3 weeks ago]

@johnjamesjacoby great to hear. Looking forward to the update, thanks!

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 5 months, 1 week ago]

Having the same issue. I can confirm that as per the trac ticket, enqueue jcrop styles resolves the issue.

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 5 months, 1 week ago]

Thank you @djpaul, I had a similar issue, and the user_id parameter saved my bacon!

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 6 months ago]

Hey @themightymo,

I did try SI Captcha, I was getting a strange PHP error by which the code was never successfully validated (even when entered correctly). I ended up settling on Sweet Captcha, which is a pretty neat idea, but it’s one of those annoying plugins that inserts a ton of sitewide javascript and css rules, so I’m working to hack these out with the exception of the register page.

I would still be interested in knowing how to filter user registrations though, in addition to whatever Captcha method I use I wouldn’t mind adding a honeypot as a redundant safeguard.

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 6 months, 1 week ago]

Hey @candeed, thanks for the compliment! I’ve worked hard to integrate BP into my theme as naturally as possible and to keep pages lightweight. However, I would definitely benefit from the advice and collaboration of someone who has more development experience. I hide it pretty well through constant research and lots of hard work, but I’m actually still a huge noob when it comes to this stuff. If you have any friends who are experienced developers and interested in ESO I would definitely like to get a chance to talk to them.

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 6 months, 1 week ago]

Hmm thanks @aces, I looked that over and it doesn’t seem to quite address my problem. The issue isn’t restricting usernames at signup in any way, I just want my login form to pass a username field which has spaces str_replaced to hyphens since my users keep forgetting to log in with their “login name” rather than their “display name”.

The answer might be to just write my own login widget, and do the replacement in PHP before calling the authentication. I was hoping for an easy filter that I could plug into though.

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 6 months, 1 week ago]

Exact same problem as @GordonRe, users successfully activate by following the emailed activation link, however this prompts them to enter a key even though their activation was successful.

From the activation template, the problem seems to be with:

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This conditional must not be returning TRUE, otherwise the form would display the activation successful message. Not sure how best to approach this, but the autologin on successful activation plugin sounds like a potential alternative…

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 6 months, 1 week ago]

Thanks @djpaul, you guys really have built a fantastic platform. I’m still a novice when it comes to BP development, but the framework has slotted really nicely into the site, and all the social features (especially groups, which are mostly guilds for us) have been very popular!

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 8 months ago]

Unfortunately this is still giving me issues, currently I’m just hiding the button with CSS.

[aaclaytonParticipant @aaclayton 8 months ago]

It’s also worth noting that original is saved even if the avatar upload process is abandoned partway through.

Also, repeating the avatar generation process with the same base image saves duplicates of the file as filename-instance.extension.

Ultimately as the plugin designers, this is the type of feature that you guys have complete discretion over, of course, but perhaps the inclusion of an optional function to tidy out old source files would be a nice addition.

I know my avatar upload directory is comprised of approximately 75% original files, and 25% user avatars. I imagine for communities where users change avatars frequently this would be even worse.