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New problem i havent seen before?


  • mcpeanut
    Participant

    @mcpeanut

    Hi all, been a while since ive been around , i had to move house etc so i havent used buddypress or wordpress since buddypress 1.9 and wordpress 3.8.

    The problem is ive just installed a fresh wordpress 4.0 and buddypress latest 2.03 on a fresh database, testing it using the default twenty twelve theme, and no other plugins.

    The problem is with the hiding of activity comments, it does what it allways has done shows 5 comments then if anymore comments are added it puts the show all comments link that it is supposed to do, this also works fine and shows the hidden comments when its clicked.

    However this works fine until you scroll down your page to view older posts and click the load more tab at the bottom. upon clicking it and scrolling down further to a post that has more than 5 comments they all remain visible instead of hidden? so say if there are 100 replies you have to scroll past them all? any ideas as to why this maybe happening?

    I have tested this on 5 different wordpress installs now with nothing more than wordpress/buddypress/twenty twelve theme/twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen themes, with fresh databases and no other plugins on each site :/

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  • mcpeanut
    Participant

    @mcpeanut

    Update! ok ive been that frustrated with this i have just been over to the buddyboss demo theme and logged in as test user to see if it was happening there to, and guess what? same problem!

    Now i think i am either going mad or this feature was never in buddypress and only hides more than 5 comments on the first page of activity updates? i could of swore it used to work for me after clicking load more? am i going mad or what guys? any feedback will be appreciated, and if indeed this is normal behaviour for buddypress then all i can ask is why?

    surely something like this should of been adressed ages ago, i know you guys have been working on the speed and queries etc which is outstanding work 🙂 but what about all these little details that need adressing? there is no such plugin to help with this issue, and surely it would be great to also have collapsable and expanding comments so you can collapse them again?
    the commenting system is very awkward if there is alot of people commenting.

    who really likes to scroll through a couple of hundred comments on one post if its not interesting to them? does anyone have a fix for this in any form? @henrywright do you have any takes on this pal?


    Henry Wright
    Moderator

    @henrywright

    Hey @mcpeanut!

    Considering you’ve tested unsuccessfully on an unmodified Twenty Twelve – Thirteen – Fourteen, it might be worth making the core dev team aware of the problem by opening a Trac ticket:

    https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org


    danbp
    Moderator

    @danbp

    @mcpeanut,

    The problem is with the hiding of activity comments

    How did you hide activities comment ?
    Default wp/bp install let you add 5 (nested) comments only. And all comments are shown on SWA. If you have 100 you have to scroll them, yes.
    I’m unable to reproduce your issue.

    Try this bp settings:
    check profile syncing
    check activity stream commenting for blog and forum
    check automatically check for new items

    wp discussion settings
    uncheck Enable threaded (nested) comments
    uncheck Break comments into pages


    mcpeanut
    Participant

    @mcpeanut

    hey @henrywright ok but before i do could you confirm this is not the default behaviour?
    because im baffled as to whether it actually worked in the first place now lol, or was i imagining it? lol


    mcpeanut
    Participant

    @mcpeanut

    @danbp i didnt hide the activity comments myself even though i know you can change the number visible if you wanted but im happy with default of 5 showing.

    buddypress automatically hides more than 5 comments anyway and if say 10 comments have been made a link will appear saying show all 10 comments, you then click it and it expands them.

    thats what i am saying, it works fine until you scroll down to previous updates with comments made above 5, by clicking the load more button at the bottom of activity this stops working.

    instead of seeing the link that says show all 10 comments you just see the 10 comments or 20 comments allready expanded , is that a little clearer? you can both go and test it on buddypress install within a few minutes and you will see what i mean? no


    danbp
    Moderator

    @danbp

    Follow Henry’s wise advice. 😉


    Henry Wright
    Moderator

    @henrywright

    I’m not able to test at the moment (am away for the next 7 days and am currently typing from my tablet). But it sounds like the ‘load more’ click is resulting in all activity item comments being revealed? As far as I’m aware, a load more click should load new activity items onto the page and should not have any impact on activity item comments being shown or hidden. It would make sense for the functionality which displays or hides activity item comments to be associated with a different event listener (i.e. not the load more button click)


    mcpeanut
    Participant

    @mcpeanut

    @danbp please read my last post again i have edited it to read a little better, and hopefully it explains better,i have to stop lazy typing, slaps himself.


    mcpeanut
    Participant

    @mcpeanut

    @danbp @henrywright i think i have found a solution! took alot of hours searching for this, but i have found some code (function) that adds a new button to each activity allowing you to toggle the comments to collapse and expand throughout buddypress.

    I am going to spend some time testing this tonight and will share the fix later if i dont run into any problems with it, maybe this could be made into a plugin? , obviously the credit for this is not mine and belongs to the guy who figured this out, i have just found the code:) and altered it a little, i have it working now and all seems fine i will try it out on a few different themes first.

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