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In reply to: How to make a private community?
@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.)In reply to: http 500 internal server errorI 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.
In reply to: Limit Group Creation to AdminThis chart might help: WP Roles & Capabilities.
In reply to: Activity as home page for logged in usersDepends 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?
In reply to: Admin can’t see other forum topicsExcellent. Maybe even take a screenshot if you can manage. (And then just upload it to tinypic or your favorite photo-sharing site.)
In reply to: Limit Group Creation to AdminThere’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.
In reply to: Require VIP membership for group creationNo experience using it (obviously), but I did just see this plugin that limits the number of groups a user can create.
In reply to: Some issues integrating BuddyPress with Custom ThemeIt 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.)
In reply to: Displaying forum topic tagsIt 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?)
In reply to: Admin can’t see other forum topicsWhat page are you on when Admin sees this message?
In reply to: How to use activity… yep, shows up in both people’s activity feeds.
In reply to: How to use activityDoesn’t it show up in both theirs and yours here on Buddypress.org, too? Guess I’ll have a re-looksie….
In reply to: Some issues integrating BuddyPress with Custom ThemeUhoh, 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)
In reply to: Changing the color of the menus?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 );In reply to: Changing the color of the menus?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.
In reply to: Changing the color of the menus?I can’t pull up your site at all, or I’d give it a go. Shouldn’t be a hard fix.
In reply to: How to hide a dashboard for non-admins?There’s also WP Hide Dashboard: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hide-dashboard/
In reply to: Some issues integrating BuddyPress with Custom ThemeLooks 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.
In reply to: Buddypress.org’s New Plugin Review Functionality+1
In reply to: New Buddypress Groups design.. Group HierarchyJust found this, really excited about it….
In reply to: Members cant register using BP Registration FormI 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.
In reply to: page title in BPAh. 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.
In reply to: page title in BPInteresting. 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.
In reply to: BuddyPress.org’s Unified Search – How can I get it?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.
