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OK, here is the exact problem. The correct permalink to this page is as follows:
The permalink on https://buddypress.org/community/activity/ is truncated:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/this-is-just-a-test-post-to-determine-if-the-awesome-new-activity-permalThat points to the “BuddyPress now has it’s own bbPress forums” post, which I can only assume is the first post in the database.
On a related note, malformed/nonexistent topic slugs should trigger a 404, when instead, they are also defaulting to that alleged first post:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/omg-freaky-weird-nonexistent-topic-slug-that-is-not-realUpdate: This is now on trac at https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2349
au contraire, mon frere… please go to the activity page and click on the hash (#). It brings up an Andy Peatling post about “BuddyPress now has it’s own bbPress forums…” (sorry for not adequately explaining in my initial post that I meant permalinks on the activity page!)
It may be user/browser specific – even if you are not seeing this problem, several of us have seen the mysterious “BuddyPress now has…” post (several meaning me, stwc, and el_terko)
@el_terko discovered that too-long topic titles break permalinks (#s) in the activity stream. Try clicking the permalink for any of the “promiscuous” topic items in the activity stream and it links you to a year- old thread.
I noticed “add friend” was replaced by “follow.”
Andy Peatling addressed this somewhere on testbp.org. The upshot is that “follow” is an additional module, not a replacement for “friend” (though you are right, on this site, friending is now disabled in favor of following, which I like a lot).“Post something to xxx”
This actually should be described more clearly. It is ambiguous whether you are posting something to them privately or publicly (until you try it out).“Can some elightened soul explain to us simple mortals how can we achieve sitewide search …”
+5… it is awesome!woop! updates:
1. I changed the milestone for your bug report to 1.2.3 and added a link back to this thread so the rationale can be seen
2. JJJ has patched the ‘promiscuous’ bug already!!!! I have not had a free moment to test yet: https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/2343/forum_id_check.patchPlease, please re-enable Forum Index.
I used to be able to check in many times per day and automatically figure out what discussions were new/updated. Now the site seems very balkanized and hard to follow.
The amount of traffic on buddypress.org/forums (now /community) is still low enough that a “snapshot” view of forum topics makes sense.
Case in point: it took me 2 days to find this thread, whereas on the old site, I would have seen the new thread pop up right away at the top of the forum index page.
OK, that trac ticket looks well cared-for. However, I agree that one should be a 1.2.4 milestone item rather than 1.3… hidden and private groups really should not be used without that fix. Will it moved up to 1.2.4?
“Andy left on the Activity stream Reply function for forum posts which which, by design, bifurcate the support conversations due to those users who live more in the Activity stream than Groups”
I agree activity stream replies need to be shut off here… and this is one for which there is an easy fix already available in the admin panel.
“you are able to view updates/comments made by a friend who is a member of a hidden group … not only can you read content made to a group that you should not be able to read but you can also use the ‘reply’ to add a comment”
ACK! Are you serious? What is the trac #?
yikes…. cross-posting might become an unintended consequence of the new site design. On the old Forum setup, there was no reason to cross-post, since the Forum Index made it easy to catch up with all new forum posts at a glance.
“I think it will but that raises the question that should the forum moderators move any threads in the wrong place? I think we should. Once, of course, someone creates that functionality”
This functionality exists. I wrote a plugin that allows you to move topic threads. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-forums-move-topic-planned-split-and-merge-topic/
I think what you’re saying is that, for example, in Forum posts: if you’re a logged in member of a private/hidden group, you should see private/hidden posts in the overall Forum Index, and obviously, nonmembers would see the same Index minus the private posts. I agree that this seems like it should be the logical default in BP. On my site, keeping private/hidden posts it creates a “parallel universe” effect where users of private/hidden forums have to visit a special place to see that protected content. As a result, private/hidden forums get less usage than they should.
I have no idea if this is planned for BuddyPress, but I would put in a strong vote for it. In the meantime, it could be handled by a plugin or rewrite of code.
“I noticed that the drop down list contained a couple of group names that I thought I had edited in the past. I had created 2 groups in the past with an extra word in the title that I did not want. I had edited these successfully but your plugin had picked up their original name in the DD list.”
This is unfortunately related to a BuddyPress bug – when you update group names, BuddyPress does not update all the necessary database entries. I need to look at this, but hoping BuddyPress bug fixes will make this a moot point.
It looks like a website to me.
Can you be more specific about what functionality you need?
bingo. I need a step 2. It’s always step 2 I forget about!!
I will play with this. My goal is to generate a generic “skeleton notification” system that other folks can adapt.
THANK YOU!!
When something like this happens, and it does a lot, I usually do this to discover the cause:
Disable child theme and go back to bp-default theme (disabling all theme fuctions.php in the process)
disable ALL plugins
remove all htaccess modifications
delete bp core files and reinstall (because sometimes I’m naughty and modify them)
disable bp-custom.php
Did you do all this?
You are using a child theme… right??
ha HAAA breakthrough.
I figured out this much. But is there any logic or autodiscovery to it? Or does it just create “dumb” objects that you have to push around by hand (such as, “if you are on the groups page, display breadcrumbs x, y, and z”). In the readme.txt, JJJ says automatic adding of breadcrumbs is planned, so maybe that is the “smart” phase of this.
<style>
.breadcrumb-wrapper { border: 0px solid red; padding:3px; height:25px; clear:both }
.breadcrumb-list { border: 0px solid green; height:25px }
.breadcrumb { float:left; margin:2px; border: 0px solid blue }
</style>
<?php
/* put function bp_breadcrumbs_add( $name, $url, $desc, $parms, $img ) in places you want to add a breadcrumb */
// global $breadcrumbs_template; var_dump($breadcrumbs_template);
if (bp_has_breadcrumbs()) {
bp_breadcrumbs_add('Members', '/members');
bp_breadcrumbs_add('Groups', '/groups');
bp_breadcrumb_display( ' > ' );
}
?>that’s weird. I have never seen gmail “eat” a registration email. AOL is really bad at this, in my experience.
does your domain include any text that might result in it being “flagged” by gmail as junk?
I would really, really love to learn how to create new types of notifications.
I’ve been tracking this topic for a few weeks now. I’ve figured out the functions for inserting a notification into the database, but for some reason, a notification is not generated to the user:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-create-a-notification
I still can’t figure out how to ping the user. This would be a good topic for Buddypress Gurus to think about for a FAQ or developer guide.
maybe it has to be an internal url, like /activity.
That turns out not to be the case:
= Does this plugin check against existing slugs? =
No. It takes whatever
$urlyou give it. This makes it fairly flexible for any BuddyPress installation with any component.Wow, cool. I didn’t know this API existed. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-breadcrumbs/
I’m trying to figure it out now, but JJJ provided no documentation so far, unless it’s in the plugin file itself.
I tried this but it didn’t do anything:
bp_breadcrumbs_add('testcrumb', 'google.com');and
echo bp_breadcrumbs_add('mycrumb', 'yahoo.com');maybe it has to be an internal url, like /activity.
I’ll open the plugin file now.
This ticket doesn’t really look like a BuddyPress bug – more like an issue with a custom theme:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2313
I noticed that r-a-y already closed one of your other tickets as “not ticket-worthy”, presumably because it’s an issue with atahualpa theme, not buddypress?
This is the best place to post problems with themes, I think, not trac.
