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@meetsos, if you haven’t solved the problem yet:
I believe you should be able to create a functions.php file in the Randy Candy theme. (Or go one better and create your own child theme based on Randy Candy, so you can benefit from published updates without losing your modifications.)I doubt I can help much, but I’m sure whoever does help will need more details. Here are a few follow up questions for you.
How did you try to install buddypress, exactly? Did you add the plugin from wp-admin or by uploading to the plugins directory via ftp? Were you able to activate the buddypress plugin? i.e., when you say you just “tried to install” it, is that because it gave some error directly (and therefore you never saw buddypress in action at all or altered the default settings), or because you haven’t been able to log into wordpress since then?
Hopefully with some more details, one of the generous wp/bp gurus on here will be able to sort you out.
This chart might help: WP Roles & Capabilities.
Depends on your priorities, I guess. Are you talking about the default when they visit your domain without specifying an exact page, the place they’re directed to immediately after logging in, or just the place that’s linked to as “Home” in a navigation menu somewhere?
Excellent. Maybe even take a screenshot if you can manage. (And then just upload it to tinypic or your favorite photo-sharing site.)
There’s a good plugin for that, something like Restrict Group Creation. If somebody doesn’t beat me to it, I’ll dig up the link.
EDIT: Here you go: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ or get it the WordPress plugin directory.
No experience using it (obviously), but I did just see this plugin that limits the number of groups a user can create.
It is rather easier to work with if you’re starting a site than if you’re modifying an existing one, I’d imagine. I’m sure you’ll find other ways to engage people. (I did briefly look at Mingle, but can’t say as I feel strongly one way or another about it.)
It is rather odd the tags aren’t actually used in the bp-default theme.
Not-entirely-a-tangent: I wish I could mark a favorite reply from here, rather than having to find it as part of an activity stream somewhere. .oO(Am I just misunderstanding how favorites are intended to work?)
What page are you on when Admin sees this message?
… yep, shows up in both people’s activity feeds.
Doesn’t it show up in both theirs and yours here on Buddypress.org, too? Guess I’ll have a re-looksie….
Uhoh, lost some code in your last reply here. Members has also gone away. DId you disable BP in frustration, or is that a result of whatever changes to index.php you mention?
(Sorry, the problem with forums, we’re in and out of windows and sometimes slow to reply)
To be a bit clearer, here’s the info from the style.css file on making a child theme:
Instead, please read this codex page on how to build a BuddyPress child theme:https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
And if you decide not to make a child theme, make sure you put any modified styling info after these lines:
/***
* The default theme styles.
*/
@import url( _inc/css/default.css );/***
* The admin bar default styles
*/
@import url( _inc/css/adminbar.css );Actually, I believe this is the more relevant code:
ul#nav {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
right: 15px;
list-style: none;
bottom: 0;
max-width: 65%;
}
ul#nav li {
float: left;
margin: 0 5px 0 0;
}
ul#nav li a {
display: block;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 15px;
background: url( ../images/60pc_black.png );
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 3px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 3px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px;
}
ul#nav li.selected a, ul#nav li.current_page_item a {
background: #f5f5f5;
color: #555;
}
ul#nav a:focus { outline: none; }Are you just using the default theme?
If you’re going to mod very much at all, you should technically create a child theme and work from there, although it’s easy enough to save your CSS as you go.
(Hey, smart forum members, is there already a skeleton theme somewhere? I could probably post one, if not.)Anyway, assuming you’re working from the default theme, find the folder “bp-default” in the “bp-themes” folder in the buddypress plugin folder. Then open style.css and, working from the above, after the existing lines in the style.css file, add only the parts that pertain to color (e.g.,
ul#nav li:hover > a{background-color:#330033; color:#9900FF;}). That way, as long as you remember to backup this file regularly, you’ll know exactly what you’ve modified from the original.
If you want a menu with dropdowns, we’ll need to add some other code. Can pretty easily modify it to use WP3’s new custom menus. You can also remove (some or all of) the buddypress bits from that top menu if you want less clutter.
I can’t pull up your site at all, or I’d give it a go. Shouldn’t be a hard fix.
There’s also WP Hide Dashboard: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hide-dashboard/
Looks like you have two separate divs with id of “container.” You only want to use an id once per page….use classes for multiple similar instances within a given page. I’m not sure if that’s THE problem, but I doubt it’s helping your code.
+1
Just found this, really excited about it….
I had two users apparently never get the activation email. (One is me, so I know it didn’t go through, but the other attempt belongs to someone I don’t know. They MIGHT have simply never opened the email.) My first attempt used a hotmail (live.com) address. The other person’s is a personal domain.
I thought I was having a problem with ALL activation emails, but when I tried a new user registration with a gmail address, it worked. I suppose I should test new user creation with some more email addresses and providers.
In any case, if you don’t have tons & tons of new users, one thing you can do while “we” figure this out is to check the Users list under the WordPress settings (from wp-admin), as even unactivated users will show up there. Then visit any problem user in buddypress by manually typing in the address for their profile page (you know, something like http://www.example.com/members/USERNAME/). Then in the admin bar, you’ll find an option along the lines of “Admin Options->Mark user as not a spammer”. That’s probably not the exact text.
Ah. The ticket is for custom links. I’m not sure what that means, actually. I could be wrong, but I don’t think that’s the problem on my site.
Interesting. I hadn’t noticed. Also it doesn’t happen on second-level pages, just first-level….but second level pages don’t show the full breadcrumbs in title. I’ll visit the ticket, too.
Genius discussion.
EDIT: I’m just not quite clever enough today. Can this be made to work with Relevanssi? My search results are horrible, and I’d like the nicer excerpts and such that Relevanssi provides, also.
@covana: Sorry, nothing much to add–like @kasper777ny, I’m making a note to myself to look into this later. I’m not a huge fan of the separate tabs, either.
