[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks, Peter. I saw too late that this thread had been started just a few weeks ago (such is the nature of forums):

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/global-content-tagging#post-38480

Did you take a look at Burt’s code? Jeff Sayre says he created a version of this for BP 1.0 but needs to be updated.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

While this is an elegant hack, it just occurred to me that this is not optimal if you want to preserve an individual user’s ability to check blog comments in an activity stream. If I read the code correctly, it prevents blog comments from triggering an activity update in the database, so blog comments never get recorded as an activity.

If that’s true, then it would be preferable to still RECORD the activity, but simply not DISPLAY it in the activity loop. Unfortunately, from this codex tutorial, it seems like the “filter” options only allow you to SHOW one type of activity (rather than filtering OUT one type of activity):

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

this works great – how do you also exclude forum replies?

(… searching code …)

UPDATE: Well, I tried this code but it doesn’t work. Posting it here in case I’m on to something that somebody else can fix:

function bp_remove_forum_topic_post() { remove_action( ‘groups_new_forum_topic_post’, ‘groups_update_last_activity’, 10, 2 ); } add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘bp_remove_forum_topic_post’ );

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

will do. Thanks!

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@snark I’m trying this now. If you’re not using a child theme, I would create one so you don’t mess with the core BP files.

So far, I’ve done this:

1. Copy the function bp_get_options_nav() from bp-core-templatetags.php into my theme’s /groups/single/home.php file

2. Rename it my_bp_get_options_nav()

3. Call it

Not sure what to do next, but will probably try to:

4. Hard code the echo apply_filters to list Forums first.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@blackphantom tweetstream still interferes with editing of BuddyPress forum posts. If you try to edit a post, the edit just disappears/is not accepted. I have it on my todo list to review your code and see if I can figure out why this is the case. Any idea what could be causing it? Any shortcuts you can provide might help me focus on parts of the code that could be causing the problem.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

etiviti,

Just a short program note… This plugin causes WP/MU to die when BuddyPress is disabled:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_is_register_page() in /home/mysite/public_html/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/bp-forum-extras.php on line 33

I think there a way to add something that loads/not loads based on whether bp_is_installed… I think I saw Andy post about this recently. With the right trip wire in place, the error looks like:

BuddyPress Like requires the BuddyPress plugin to work. Please install BuddyPress first, or deactivate BuddyPress Like.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

>>Deleted posts from the sub domain blogs remain after being deleted.

This does seem to be a significant problem. I just got asked about this. One of my users deleted his sub-blog post, and now the Activity page is covered with dead links.

Is there any fix?

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

I’m trying to set up a custom theme for links, but the links tab disappeared and I can’t access them any more. Here’s what I did:

1. added a “links-custom” directory: /wpmu/wp-content/themes/customtheme/links-custom/

2. Copied all the files from /bp-links-default/ into /links-custom/

3. edited wp-config.php to include the following: define( ‘BP_LINKS_CUSTOM_THEME’, ‘links-custom’ );

Can anyone tell me what I’m missing? This is really a question for @MrMaz but thought I would post it here for the group just in case.

Thanks!

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

works like a charm now. thanks!

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

yeeks! @gregfielding is right. It kills the new blog creation – I just had a user report this 30 minutes ago. @etiviti I need to break for a while but will check back in later and try to figure out if it’s a sub-plugin that’s causing it.

I was able to create a blog successfully, despite it hanging on the “blog creation successful” page. My user was able to create a blog, but it got misconfigured, and attempting to reach the blog caused a misconfiguration error to be thrown. I don’t know that this info necessarily helps troubleshoot but I thought I’d throw that out there.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

I love this thread. There should be a way to vote on these. I’ll add my “votes” as text here:

1. Forum plugins – Every key bbpress plugin should be ported to buddypress. rich! has done some amazing work with forum extras and I hope he continues.

2. Events – was a really nice emerging implementation of that in progress, but I haven’t seen much on it lately; I think it “broke” at one point due to BP version incompatibilities.

3. Privacy, of course.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Very cool, potentially, but I would also caution that this could really overwhelm server load if it’s not implemented carefully.

If you don’t believe me, check out the discussions on the (auto-updating) P2 Theme over at wordpress.org.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Rich, did you try disabling all plugins and seeing if that helps?

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Gigya Socialize lets people login with their Facebook accounts. It seems to work OK on my site. Creates a user in the database. Is that similar to FB Connect?

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Eureka! it works. Thanks again for this great plugin.

Btw, the sigs won’t work UNTIL you update the admin settings and choose a max length / max lines. May be best to set a default value for that?

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

etiviti, The contents of the sig were “test sig”. And I cannot set the max lines/max length… it just says “settings saved” but the fields remain blank.

just heard from a user who had the same issue as me – cannot set sig.

I’ll message you this info as requested, but wanted to post it here in case anyone else has the same issue.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

etiviti,

1. I think a lot of us got thrown off by the sub-plugin thing… maybe good to include a “instructions for dummies” that emphasizes you have to activate sub-plugins…

2. BBcode and quotes are bulletproof. The addition of @mentions was ingenious. THANK YOU!!

3. Signatures don’t work for me. I keep getting a “Signature removed!” error every time I try to post a sig. I’m just using plain text, no tags.

Update: Signature strangeness continues… I did a “vanilla” install of WPMU 2.9.2 and BP 1.2.2.1. I could add a signature successfully ONCE, but when I went back to change it, I got the “Signature Removed!” error again.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

<deleted post asking about missing dialogs etc. because I didn’t realize there were subplugins I had to activate>

Doh!

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

I also tried M’s “hidden installation” method and can’t get plugins to work.

I was able to open the new installation without a problem, but I cannot figure out how to activate plugins. I uploaded plugins to both the buddypress bbpress directory and the new “hidden installation” plugin directory. They obviously work fine on the hidden installation pages, but I just get “function not found” errors in the buddypress forum pages. Any ideas?

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Has anyone actually got M’s backdoor admin method (copy bb-config.php to the buddypress/bbpress directory to work and activate plugins?

I copied my bb-config.php file from the WPMU root dir into the /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress directory. Then I tried opening this page:

http://mysite.com/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/mysite/public_html/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45

I also tried opening this page and got the same error:

http://mysite.com/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Bug alert!

Tweetstream conflicts with Forum (bbpress). Specifically, users cannot edit their forum posts/comments (or at least comments) when tweetstream is active.

Peter, I set up a vanilla WPMU/BP setup that duplicates the error; contact me for private link.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

>>Need to get in touch with plugin authors

I agree. I’m about to contact the tweetstream author because there is another bug now. It is a conflict between Tweetstream and Forum posts.. When enabled, the tweetstream plugin prevents authors from editing their posts/comments.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Grrr. The weird thing is I can’t get the expression rule to work in WPMU with no plugins running. The expression rule works perfectly on a raw html/php page (site.com/test/maxwidth.php). Will try reinstalling WPMU and see what happens.

[@3sixty Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

r-a-y is right. The issue is that IE6 doesn’t understand max-width, so what Modemlooper is suggesting would just give IE6 css that it doesn’t understand anyway.