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Just don’t install or enable BBPress.

I use this plugin http://www.vincentprat.info/dev/wordpress-plugins/email-users/

Thanks! Works! This is actually basically what I had done but you accomplished it in a much better way!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! Halifax Regional Search and Rescue thanks you And by the way… I found out why my attempt “broke”. It actually didn’t break. Not exactly. I had been trying to send [...]

Thanks! I’ll try that. I did get it working but I had to duplicate functions and hack the core… etc. Such are my limited skills. Then my “working” fix stopped working mysteriously a few days later. Argh. Anyway… thanks. I agree that this is plugin territory and the ticket should probably be closed.

greg makes good points about groups and friends. There is almost no benefit whatsoever of Friends within BuddyPress. As far as I can tell it only enables three things. 1. Stream filtering 2. Group invites (altho’ there is the invite anyone plugin) 3. Autocomplete help on “Messages > Compose” That’s it. You can still message [...]

@mikepratt Well, I built my first website in 1994… shortly after Netscape 0.9 beta was released… but I’m still a whining code monkey some days

I agree with Mike. It does seem like the community is not as active as it was. That may be due to the new website. I’m not sure all these groups are helping. I think the previous simple forum may have been better… for a developer site at least.

@andy: I agree there is much more to life than code… but soccer? Seriously? You mean that “game” where guys run around for 2+ hours and never score a goal? Now if you’d said hockey or any other actual sport… I’d be right there with yah. LOL Sorry. Just teasing (obviously). I’m fine with the [...]

@takeo
here is my TRAC-ticket for a issue I discovered on the auto-complete:
http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2452

@nuprn1
here is a TRAC-ticket regarding “Load More”:
http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2435

@takeo – Re: autocomplete – I just coded something that “fixes” this. Re: usability – Users easily outnumber developers a multitude of times over. Andy is the only employed person working on the project. It’s so easy to ask for something. A reminder that this is an open-source project where people help out when they can. Many people have [...]

Re: Forum vs. Activity – I have no doubt that it is harder than is seems, but that’s not relevant to the discussion. The issues being discussed are usability. Any good and usable design begins and ends with users… not programmers. Re: Autocomplete (my pet peeve) – Sorry, doesn’t make sense to me. I’m free [...]

@r-a-y, @takeo And the whole “comment on a forum post in the stream *OR* in the original thread” is absolutely insane. When a user makes a comment… don’t make them THINK about where to make it. They should just make the comment and it should show up in *BOTH* places. I totally agree about this. Forum posts, blog posts, [...]

I also hate buddypress.org since they started to “eat their own dog food”. Ironic. I find is very difficult to find past postings. And the whole “comment on a forum post in the stream *OR* in the original thread” is absolutely insane. When a user makes a comment… don’t make them THINK about where to [...]

I don’t understand the question. To add new html, you need to add new same-named templates to your child. So to change the header HTML, add a copy of header.php from the default parent theme to your child theme and then modify. Alternately, if you only want to add HTML (not modify) you might be [...]

p.s. This inglorious hack also depends on having the pointless (for us) “Friends” feature enabled. Oh well.