[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 16 years, 11 months ago]

Well, letting an admin upload a logo is just the oppoite of keeping it simple. It’ll require some extra coding that the majority of users just won’t need or use. You can add a logo with just a few lines of CSS. Now that’s keeping it simple. I’d hazard a guess that stuff like that will never make it into core. Thankfully! Nobody really needs bloated software…

CSS is easy to learn and very intuitive as well. You can learn how to add your own logo within 3 minutes.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hmm, that’s too bad. I need a classifieds plugin and I cannot/don’t want to use the blogs for that. They are being used for something different. Would you mind sharing your code with me so I could finish it off? That’d be great. No point in reinventing the wheel…

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 16 years, 11 months ago]

You could write a plugin that does the embedding for you. You could provide your users with a shortcode that only takes the video url as an argument. Something like this:

[youtube url="http://youtube.com..."]

Then you could set a width in the plugin code.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 16 years, 11 months ago]

As far as allowing certain tags in various components, have a look at the filters files in the various components folders. Pick the filter you want to get rid of (strip_tags for example) and then just add a remove_filter call to your functions.php file.

It’d be a very good idea to write your own function that adds some kind of security back in, though. You don’t want to leave your front door wide open…

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 16 years, 11 months ago]

threaded forums and such is kind of a different matter to using @username, erich. it’d be more like twitter, where you can see what has been said about you in one place rather than having to go to the forums, the wire or anything else.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 16 years, 11 months ago]

This is being handled with functions like these:

bp_core_new_nav_item

bp_core_new_subnav_item

bp_core_remove_nav_item

bp_core_remove_subnav_item

All of these functions (and a lot more) can be found in buddypress/bp-core.php. They are well documented and you can always have a look at the various core component how they use these functions.

To the admin bar you can add links like so:

function sv_add_link()

{

global $bp;



$link = '<li><a href="'. $bp->loggedin_user->domain . 'my-page" title="'. __( 'My Page') .'">'. __( 'My Page') .'</a></li>';

echo $link;

}

}

add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'sv_add_link' );

Removing links also works with actions. Using the example from above you’d have to put this into your functions.php file:

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'sv_add_link' )

You have to remove an action at the same priority as it has been added, so if you find an add_action call like this:

add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'sv_add_link' , 7 );

you’d have to remove it with this:

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'sv_add_link' , 7 );

Otherwise it won’t work.

Hope this helps you along a bit.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 16 years, 12 months ago]

Well, personally I’d use VideoPress if I wanted to host my own videos/images. If I didn’t want to do that I’d probably write a YouTube/Vimeo/Flickr plugin.

Not a big fan of Kaltura. I tried it when I was toying with the idea of using Elgg, but back then it was clunky and unintuitive. Might have changed, though. That was about a year ago…

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 16 years, 12 months ago]

I know what work I’d pick if the choice is between backbreaking rice fields, backbreaking shipyards and captcha solving. So, please support Bangladesh and leave your captchas intact $1 per 1000-5000 captchas sounds like a pretty decent salary for the subcontinent…

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

audiobookstef, you’re using free software, that is being made by now two core developers. Things take time and won’t be fixed within a few minutes.

The proper way to do this is to open up a ticket, just like Erich73, and then, in the meantime, use a redirect from wp-signup.php to your normal BP registration page, which is easy to do.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

I mean the registration/register.php file in your theme folder.

Found out that the code does work, btw. Was something else that caused it to break.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

You need to put the var_dump stuff on its own line below your original date function

Just had a look at the forum functions and here’s what you need to do.

global $forum_template;

echo date("j", strtotime($forum_template->topic->topic_time));

Let me know if it doesn’t work.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

Hey,

actually, the j should only give you the day of the month and nothing more. If you want the day and the month you need to use “j M”.

The rest should work just as you wrote it if you have access to the variable $topic. Try this:

var_dump( $topic );

and see what it outputs. If there’s nothing or NULL, then you’ll have to populate $topic first.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

They do make PoEdit for PC as well, you know?

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

These functions should sort you out, garynagel:

function sv_check_current_users_blog( $active_signup )

{

if( ! is_user_logged_in() )

return $active_signup;



if( current_user_can( 'YOUR_CAPABILITY' ) )

return $active_signup;

else

return 'none';

}

add_filter( 'wpmu_active_signup', 'sv_check_current_users_blog' );



function sv_remove_create_blog()

{

if( ! current_user_can( 'YOUR_CAPABILITY' ) )

bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'blogs', 'create-a-blog' );

}

add_action( 'wp', 'sv_remove_create_blog' );

You need to place these functions in your themes functions.php and replace YOUR_CAPABILITY with whatever capability you want to check for. You also need to have blog creation enabled. I’m using a slightly modified version of this to restrict users to maximum 1 blog, so I didn’t test this code at all.

The first function uses a filter to set the variable $active_signup to ‘none’ if the current user does not have a certain capability and for that user blog creation will be disabled. If the user has that capability the variable is not changed.

The second function removes the blog creation tab from the submenu. You probably need to modify the registration page as well.

Hope this helps.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

You’ll have to write a plugin for that or modify an existing one.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

@deniscarr

it’s the name of the folder holding all your theme files

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

Here ya go: https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

Should get you sorted:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/getting-a-consistent-look

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

Try adding this function as well as the original from JJJ.

function example_page_setup_root_component()

{

bp_core_add_root_component( BP_EXAMPLE_SLUG );

}

add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'example_page_setup_root_component', 2 );

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

Hey Mfgmk,

I know this is a bit late to reply to your comment from two weeks ago, but I just only read it now.

You shouldn’t copy functions.php from the parent theme to the child theme. It’ll throw errors. There’s another way to get rid of that third sidebar. Create an empty functions.php file in your child theme folder (all the functions from the parents functions.php will still work). In it you put this piece of code:

function sv_remove_sidebar()

{

unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-4' );

}

add_action(  'admin_init', 'sv_remove_sidebar' );

In the above example 4 is the ID of the sidebar. If a sidebar doesn’t have a specific name to identify it with WP will give it automatically a name like sidebar-ID, which is the case with the default parent theme. Then you set the sidebar you just unregistered to display:none in your CSS file and you should be all set, plus you didn’t touch any parent theme files.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

I guess so. I need that much just to run most of my single WP blogs.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

it’s

bloginfo('stylesheet_url');

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

Hey,

yep, you can do it that way.

Just fyi, get_header() also accepts one variable, $name. So if you write this in a template:

get_header('blog');

then WP will look for a file called header-blog.php in your theme files and include that one instead your normal header.php file.

Have a look at the get_header function. Maybe you’re lucky and there’s a filter applied to $name. Then you could just write a function that does it all for you and you won’t even have to touch the header.php file in your parents theme.

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

have a look here: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/conditional-template-tags/

there’s some examples as well.

so you could do something like this:

if( bp_is_blog_page() ) {

include( 'blog-header.php' ); // include this file on blog pages

} elseif( bp_is_directory() ) {

include( 'dir-header.php' ); // include that file on directory pages

} else {

get_header(); // otherwise use our normal header

}

[@anonymized-96400 Inactive 17 years ago]

Hey Erich,

in header.php look for this bit around line 47:

<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" value="<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>" onfocus="if (this.value == '<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = '<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>';}" />

Use this instead:

<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" value="" />

Don’t forget to copy header.php into your child theme.