[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

“and I modify the buddypress files shown in theme editor to add things like an addition sidebar and such.”

This is why your changes get blown away.

If you need to modify the original files for a child theme, don’t.

Take a copy of that file, add it to the child theme folder, make your mods there.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

No, the bp defaul theme uses a function to call the main BP site. You need to replace it with the standard wp function to get blog_url.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

You can disable themes under Site Admin -> Themes. It;s built in, no plugin.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

That’s pretty much the process used on regualr WP themes that include plugins built in.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

“This is the same for Sense and Sensibility, btw. white screen o’ death “

Did you have BuddyPress activated before you switched to S&S? If not, that’s why.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Ugh.

okay, I shall test again.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Have you tried asking the theme author? She has a complete support forum for her themes.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

“I really do like WordPress/Buddypress, I am just unable to structure the forums in buddypress in a true forum layout.”

If you’re just looking for a forum, then look at bbpress or any other forum package. BuddyPress has its focus on the social networking aspects. the forums area are minimized on purpose.

It sounds like you want a just a forum, not BuddyPress.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Hosts that offer unlimited bandwidth usually put a cap on CPU proceses. I’m betting that’s where they caught you.

If you really have that little members, find a new host.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Ah, okay. I know there were issues with this 2-3 weeks ago. I’ll see if I can go find out what’s up.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Which version of WP out of trunk did you use? Was it from the last 2-3 weeks?

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Did you create a new page and apply that page template to it?

Though I woudl really go the route of using the widget logic plugin.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I know you just marked this as resolved, but isn’t the original question basically you wanted to use the My Page Order plugin to control how the tabs look in the default theme? The tabs with links to the BuddyPress areas?

Those are not page titles. Likely will never be seen as such.

If you want to restrict aces, then use a privacy plugin for BP.

The page ordering plugin shoudl still work just fine on the regualr WP pages, or when 3.0 comes out, you’ll have that functionality (if andy adds it to the theme).

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Having run though a number of themes, yes. Some are more complicated than others though.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

It is definitely a theme thing. Same as the way the custom header has to be declared in the theme itself for it to be accessible in the backend.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Blank screen = errors.

Go in via ftp, delete the theme. Then make sure you have the absolute latest version of the theme and the latest version of BP.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

You can hide the entire Plugins menu under the Site Admin -> Options page. there’s a checkbox. you, the site admin, can still see it though.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Look at the html source of the page. He’s made 3 columns with css. Each one pulls a custom loop pulling posts from a particular category.

It’s purely theme dev here. You may have more success searching elsewhere for this particular technique used in WordPress themes in general.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

/.*\.info/

that might work. it was buggy at one point.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

There’s also /members/single/home.php

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

You don’t have permalinks enabled.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

That string is also translatable, meaning you can replace it. Doesn’t have to be with another language.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

“It’s not any ONE fully qialified domain for me… it’s dozens of different domains all ending in .info.”

Yeah, I know, Believe me, we’ve gone around in circles over that one issue in the mu forums. I’ll have to dig up the command.

A lot of plugins like hascash are recommended because they work. I see a lot of people not try them because they think it’s just for comments. On most sites I’ve tried it on, it just works.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

“as far as the forum, many people have well established forums with 1000s of posts and members so they cant just ditch them. “

Isn’t there a way in the backend of BP to hitch it up to an exisiting forum? I’ve always set up a new one, but the choice is definitely there to use an existing bbpress install.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

That won’t harm anything, but it won’t stop signups from that domain, just requests.

In MU, there *is* an option to block certain email domains. There’s a funny way to put in wildcards though.