Hiding Sub-Groups from the Groups page?
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I’ve tried everything available in this plugin’s options.
Is there any way to only show the Site Root groups and none of the sub-groups on just the /groups page? I’m separating my categories, and they show, but any sub-groups made also shows on the same page. I want my groups page to be neat and tidy, but listing every single sub-group on the main page kind of defeats the purpose of the hierarchy. Instead of showing them just the site root, it shows the site root and the sub-groups.
What I’m trying to do is this:
Groups Page > Site Root Categories
Site Root Categories Page > Sub Groups
Sub groups Page > More Sub GroupsBasically I want to disallow Sub-Groups from listing on the Groups page. Then once users click on a group I have set up they can then create a group within that default group. The only time I’d like the sub-groups to be visibile is when on the default group and are taken to the default group page.
*Edit*
The more I think about it, is there a way that you can create a “shortcode” for only displaying groups or sub-groups? This is what I mean:
Say I have created a page and save it as /groups on my wordpress site? If there was a shortcode like [SiteRootOnly] and save it on that page, it would just show the listing of the Site Root groups.
Then if I created a new page and save it under the groups directory, like groups/toys. And if there was a shortcode like [CategoryToysSubGroups] and then save that page, then when I viewed groups/toys it would list only the Sub-Groups associated with the parent CategoryToys group that I made.
Is something like this possible? Maybe something for a future update?
Doing it this way, by making WordPress shortcodes and having them display on a created page would be so much more cleaner and neater than displaying all groups and subgroups on the same page.
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This is what you get if you select to display the group tree and hide the flat list of groups.
I can look into a shortcode, but no promises on an ETA.
Yeah, my site is heavily modded with plugins. (This is also the issue I believe I’m having with the other thead I started.) I’m using a RocketTheme theme working off the Gantry BuddyPress plugin. Since the Theme calls for the Gantry BuddyPress plugin files, many of the normal BP items do not display unless I add them to the /plugins/gantry-buddypress folder.
In the Gantry BuddyPress directory I have the following folders:
/_inc
/admin
/html
/languagesI was told by the RocketTheme people, about a previous BP error, that whatever template files from other plugins need to be put in the /html folder of their plugin. However I can not find template files for the Hierarchy plugin.
Inside my /html directory I have:
/activity
/blogs
/forums
/groups
/members
/registrationSo I’m not sure what to add from the Hierarchy folder to the Gantry-BuddyPress folder.
I gave that a try, copying and moving the folder to all folders inside of /html and it didn’t do anything.
I’m trying to get a reply back from RocketTheme, but I wanted to ask (since I know they will ask me) what parts of the BuddyPress groups are being called for in the template files? I’m hoping that the folks at RocketTheme will be able to know exactly where to place the /tree folder based on what the template calls for.
Also, to go back to your previous reply, if you do decide to make shortcodes for this plugin, I would be indebted to you!
I don’t know what this means: “In any of your .php files, so you have code in it that calls for anything directly from the buddypress plugin?” Can you elaborate?
Obviously this plugin hooks into BuddyPress in lots of ways. But it doesn’t call BuddyPress theme files or anything like that. I don’t know if that’s what you were asking, though.
I don’t know if it was the changes you made in your newest version of Group Hierarchy or the changes made in the most recent BuddyPress, but this plugin is FINALLY working for me!
Like you mentioned in the previous replies (and anyone using RocketTheme templates along with Gantry BuddyPress, take notice), that copying the Tree folder into the plugins/gantry-buddypress/html directory worked. The only thing I needed to so was clean up a bit of the borders and padding in the hierarchy.css file and it’s running the way I envisioned. Finally, the Hide Group works to 100% for me
I do have a question, and I’m hoping it’s something as simple as adding a line of code to my bp-custom.php file, but I’m wondering how to change the Hierarchy slug name to something different. Like “sub-group” or “sub-division”?
I know you can change the slug name for almost anything by adding a line of code to the bp-custom.php, something like
`define( ‘GROUP_HIERARCHY_SLUG’, ‘sub-group’ );`I just don’t know what I would add to the space I wrote ‘GROUP_HIERARCHY_SLUG’.
Any ideas? So excited that this is working for me now. This is going to be the most used feature on my site!
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