Hello fellow Buddypress webmasters!
I have a wordpress MU-Buddypress customized theme site
http://privateenglishportal.com
and my curiosity is if I proceed with bbpress forums installation, will it
affect my existing customized layout of my page. Per Andy’s description,
that ‘bbpressforums’ installs directly into groups. I am guessing since I
have groups already running on my buddypress page that there would be no problem.
Should I go for it and do the one-click installation? Could I always uninstall forums
if I end up modifying my customised theme?

Many Thanks!

Steve Ford

Online English Teacher/Video Maker

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 7 months ago]

Do you have your own separate bbPress forums already setup?
If not, just go ahead with the one-click forums install!

[@privateenglishportal Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks Ray! I was successful at installing BBpress forums by making sure that file was cut and pasted to my root directory.
Admin panel on wordpress says that bbpress forums has been successfull integrated into buddypress.
Sadly I can’t get it to show up on my groups tab nor my header on my page.
I was able to get the forums by typing in the following address:
http://privateenglishportal.com/forums
When I try to post new topic, everything just disappears as if I had posted nothing.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Steve

[@privateenglishportal Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

PS. In response to your question, I had no prior bbpress installed prior. This was a first time install onto my Worpress MU/Buddypress

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 7 months ago]

There’s a bug with the “New Topic” dropdown menu that will be fixed in the next release of BP.

You first need to enable the discussion forum for each group before you can post a topic.

Navigate to the group admin page for the group you want to add a forum to. Go to “Group Settings” and enable discussion forum. Save.
Now attempt to post a new topic.

See if that works.

[@privateenglishportal Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Ray! Thanks! I just got it to work . Faaaaaaabulous.
There is one issue with the Forum title being larger in text size than the field can take. http://privateenglishportal.com/forumsTEXT.jpg
Any ideas how I could change that?

Thanks so much!

Steve

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 7 months ago]

Add the following to your theme’s stylesheet:

div#topic-meta h3 {padding-bottom: 1em;}

[@privateenglishportal Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

ok, I think I am almost there…… I have css style sheet for buddypress here:

/*
Theme Name: PEP New Theme
Theme URI: http://www.privateenglishportal.com/
Description: This is the WPMU + BuddyPress theme customized specially for privateenglishportal.com
Version: 1.0
Author: Tejaswini
Author URI: http://www.clickonf5.org/
Tags: buddypress, fresh
Template: bp-default
*/

@import url( _inc/css/default.css );

@import url( _inc/css/adminbar.css );

@import url( _inc/css/custom.css );

and style sheet for main MU page is much longer, wasn’t sure where to paste your code.

Thx

Steve

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 7 months ago]

Either add the snippet to /_inc/ccs/custom.css or add it directly to style.css.

[@privateenglishportal Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous!

[@privateenglishportal Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Ray! I have just installed your oembed plugin and it is working fine on my forums on buddypress!
Is there any way to resize the youtube video size which embeds through your plugin?
Perhaps some way of centering it on the forum page?
here’s the link:
http://privateenglishportal.com/groups/peppy-advanced/forum/topic/test/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 7 months ago]

New version of the oEmbed plugin will allow you to define a fixed width in the activity stream and activity permalink. I guess I could add a resize option for forum posts.

[@bplove Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

@r-a-y would be great to have it like facebook where the video / picture etc. is quite small int he activity stream, but when you want to check it out, you click it and it expands full width. That way doesn’t take up a lot of real estate unless you want to check it out.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 7 months ago]

@bplove – This idea has been requested before; I’m looking into this for a future version. The upcoming one will probably not support this though.

[@jimhellas Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

Is there any quick way to resize the oEmbed videos for now, while we wait for the next version of oEmbed plugin?

[@auphoria Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

when is the release of the next version? I’ve been waiting to get the videos resized too!!