[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@shanebp Sorry I should have been a little more thorough with my testing but here is what I have found. If I am an admin and say I block user1 which is just a subscriber then user1 cannot see my activity. However if user1 blocks user2 in which they are both just subscribers user2 can still see user1’s activity in the activity stream. It also doesn’t block them on the members page. It seems so far that blocking only works for the admin.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@shanebp And yes you are invisible despite the debug message in the activity stream if you have been blocked.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@shanebp
Sorry I accidently forgot to deactivate one plugin and once I did the below error went away

Also after you press the block button the text “block” turns into “error!”

The plugin that caused the error was a modified version of the friends-only-activity-stream plugin so now its gone. Is there a way to turn those debug messages on and off?
I’m using Windows 7, XAMPP PHP 5.4.7, FF 12, and Chrome.
Hope this helps.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@shanebp
In the activity stream it does block that members activities as well but it shows this message at the top of the activity stream:

activity – where_sql:
WHERE a.is_spam = 0 AND a.hide_sitewide = 0 AND a.type != ‘activity_comment’ AND a.user_id NOT IN (1) AND a.secondary_item_id NOT IN (1)

Also when you press the load more activity button it outputs the same message every time the load more button is pressed.
Once you get these errors debugged this will be a great contribution. Thanks again!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@shanebp
Hey I am testing this as it sounds very handy. I am using WP 3.5.1 and BP 1.7b2.
So far it does block the member your trying to block but when that blocked member goes to the member page this ugly code appears where that member that blocked you would have appeared in the members loop.
`
members – where sql:
WHERE u.meta_key = ‘last_activity’ AND u.user_id NOT IN (1)
`
Also after you press the block button the text “block” turns into “error!”
Another thing is when you refresh the page then the “error!” text turns into “unblock” so far that is the only way to unblock a blocked member.
I hope this helps you debug. I am looking forward to using this plugin. Thanks!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@djaul just out of curiosity is this error a defect of BP 1.6.4 or more of an incompatibility with PHP 5.4+ ? Thanks!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@cikez Sorry but I am not too familiar with Artisteer themes structure. Maybe someone that has experience with these themes can jump in to lend you a hand. My apologies!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@vegaskev
I packaged a similar version that does the same thing for the people who prefer a plugin solution. Feel free to try it. Just download the zip file and install it like any other plugin.
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@naijaping @mercime
Okay I finally got it. Not certain it is totally right but it looks good in both chrome and firefox. I did have to create a div class in the members-loop.php called user-location surrounding the code from step 3 in the tutorial to be able to style it. The changes I made are in the below css in case anyone wants to try this. I also included a pic at the bottom to show the end result. Thank you both for your help! Cheers!
`
/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress Child
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme for the BuddyPress Default theme
Author: bphelp
Author URI: http://example.com/about/
Template: bp-default
Version: 1.0
Tags: blue, buddypress, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-image-header, featured-images, fixed-width, light, right-sidebar, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, threaded-comments, translation-ready, two-columns, white
*/
/*————————————————————-
Custom CSS
————————————————————–*/
@import url(“../responsive/style.css”);

/* Custom member loop avatar styling */
#members-dir-list img.avatar {
-webkit-border-radius: 50%;
-moz-border-radius: 50%;
-ms-border-radius: 50%;
-o-border-radius: 50%;
border-radius: 50%;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
}

#members-dir-list a:hover img.avatar {
-webkit-filter: grayscale(100%);
-moz-filter: grayscale(100%);
filter: grayscale(100%);
-webkit-transition: -webkit-filter 0.2s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: -moz-filter 0.2s ease-in-out;
transition: filter 0.2s ease-in-out;
}

#members-list li {
overflow: auto;
list-style: none;
float: left;
width: 30%;
margin: 20px 20px 28px 0;
border: 0;
}

#members-dir-list ul.item-list li div.item-title, #members-dir-list ul.item-list li h4, #members-dir-list ul.item-list li div.item-meta
{
width: 62%;
text-align: center;
}
.user-location {
width: 62%;
text-align: center;
}

#members-dir-list ul.item-list li div.item-title {
font-size: 110%;
}

#members-dir-list ul.item-list li div.item-meta {
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 80%;
}

#members-dir-list ul.item-list li img.avatar {
margin-bottom: 8px;
}

#members-dir-list a.friendship-button.add {
-webkit-border-radius: 50%;
-moz-border-radius: 50%;
-ms-border-radius: 50%;
-o-border-radius: 50%;
border-radius: 50%;
border: 5px solid #89ac48;
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
background: #a5d156;
color: #ffffff;
line-height: 50px;
margin: 18px 102px 0 0;
}

#members-dir-list a.friendship-button.is_friend.remove {
-webkit-border-radius: 50%;
-moz-border-radius: 50%;
-ms-border-radius: 50%;
-o-border-radius: 50%;
border-radius: 50%;
border: 5px solid #CC0000;
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
background: #FF5050;
color: #ffffff;
line-height: 50px;
margin: 18px 102px 0 0;
}

ul#members-list.item-list li div.action {
text-align: center;
overflow-y: hidden;
top: 18px;
right: 6px;
}

#member-dir-count-bottom {
display: none;
}
/* End Custom member loop avatar styling */
`

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@cikez did you copy the buddypress css directory folder as well as its contents to the root of your theme? If I am correct it needs to maintain its directory structure so in the root of your theme if you copied it correctly there will be a folder named css and inside it will contain buddypress.css

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@karmatosed Actually I got confused because I have various installations of WP and BP on my localhost. Actually on my WP 3.5.1 install and BP 1.7b1 install using a child theme of “Responsive” I just use my child themes style.css to overide any buddypress css that I need too. Reason I do this is so if the “Responsive” theme gets updated then my child themes styles stay intact. Make sense?

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@naijaping @mercime
I removed #buddypress from the css and here is what my style.css looks like:
`
/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress Child
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme for the BuddyPress Default theme
Author: bphelp
Author URI: http://example.com/about/
Template: bp-default
Version: 1.0
Tags: blue, buddypress, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, editor-style, featured-image-header, featured-images, fixed-width, light, right-sidebar, rtl-language-support, sticky-post, threaded-comments, translation-ready, two-columns, white
*/
/*————————————————————-
Custom CSS
————————————————————–*/
@import url(“../responsive/style.css”);

/* Custom member loop avatar styling */
#members-dir-list img.avatar {
-webkit-border-radius: 50%;
-moz-border-radius: 50%;
-ms-border-radius: 50%;
-o-border-radius: 50%;
border-radius: 50%;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
}

#members-dir-list a:hover img.avatar {
-webkit-filter: grayscale(100%);
-moz-filter: grayscale(100%);
filter: grayscale(100%);
-webkit-transition: -webkit-filter 0.2s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: -moz-filter 0.2s ease-in-out;
transition: filter 0.2s ease-in-out;
}

#members-list li {
overflow: auto;
list-style: none;
float: left;
width: 30%;
margin: 20px 20px 28px 0;
border: 0;
}

#members-dir-list ul.item-list li div.item-title, #members-dir-list ul.item-list li h4, #members-dir-list ul.item-list li div.item-meta
{
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}

#members-dir-list ul.item-list li div.item-title {
font-size: 110%;
}

#members-dir-list ul.item-list li div.item-meta {
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 80%;
}

#members-dir-list ul.item-list li img.avatar {
margin-bottom: 8px;
}

#members-dir-list a.friendship-button.add {
-webkit-border-radius: 50%;
-moz-border-radius: 50%;
-ms-border-radius: 50%;
-o-border-radius: 50%;
border-radius: 50%;
border: 5px solid #89ac48;
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
background: #a5d156;
color: #ffffff;
line-height: 50px;
}

#members-dir-list a.friendship-button.is_friend.remove {
-webkit-border-radius: 50%;
-moz-border-radius: 50%;
-ms-border-radius: 50%;
-o-border-radius: 50%;
border-radius: 50%;
border: 5px solid #CC0000;
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
background: #FF5050;
color: #ffffff;
line-height: 50px;

}

ul#members-list.item-list li div.action {
text-align: center;
overflow-y: hidden;
top: 18px;
right: 6px;
}
/* End Custom member loop avatar styling */
`
Here is another pic to see the changes but it still needs some adjusting.

Hope you guys can help! I appreciate the help you have given so far! Thanks!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@pollyplummer @mercime, is there anything you can help me with to get this adjusted? Thank you both very much!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

Sorry the above had a typo:
use this instead:
`
/*
Theme Name: Whatever you wanna name the child theme
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme name for whatever theme you chose
Author: your name here
Author URI: http://example.com/
Version: 1.0 or whatever you want to number it
Tags: whatever tags is appropriate if it is a a theme specific to buddypress then you will want to add “buddypress” to the tags sense 1.7 adding buddypress tag is not a necessity.
*/
/*————————————————————-
Custom CSS
————————————————————–*/
@import url(“../whatever theme name you made a child theme of
“case sensitive”/style.css”);
`

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

If your using a theme other than buddypress default within a child theme then things are gonna break when if you copied the bp-default themes style.css into your active theme. If your using a child theme based on something else then you need to add adjust and add this to your active themes style.css

/*
Theme Name: Whatever you wanna name the child theme
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme for whatever theme you choose
Author: your name here
Author URI: the theme name you made a child them of "case sensitive"
Version: 1.0 or whatever you want to number it
Tags: whatever tags is appropriate if it is a a theme specific to buddypress then you will want to add "buddypress" to the tags sense 1.7 adding buddypress tag is not a necessity.
*/
/*-------------------------------------------------------------
Custom CSS
--------------------------------------------------------------*/
@import url("../whatever theme name you made a child theme of
"case sensitive"/style.css");

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

Try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/remove-dashboard-access-for-non-admins/

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@mercime
Hi, yes I did add the members/members-loop.php to my child theme with the changes per the tutorial. That doesn’t seem to be the issue. Its the CSS styling that isn’t correct. I added the styles she had on the tutorial to my child themes style sheet. Anyway here is a pic so you can see whats going on. Thanks for your help! 🙂

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

The error occurs in PHP 5.4+
This is not really a fix but it should stop the error. Add it to your active themes functions.php
`
/* Stop errors if any */
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE);
/* End stop Errors */
`

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@cannedbear shared servers suck. Just from my experience I had a small private community with less than 10 members and I did a lot of heavy development on it and after one year the host scrapped and locked me out of my account saying it was a resource hog and that I would need to upgrade my account without any prior notice. Anyway, that is my experience.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

IF you added
@import url(“../yourchildtheme/style.css”);
in your child themes CSS then you may need to add !important to overide the import css.
Example:
#some-style {
text-align: center !important;
}

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@txrunner have you reverted back to the default theme and deactivated all plugins other than BuddyPress?

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@singfa sure you are silly 🙂 for not mentioning your setup details lol! It would be helpful to know what you have installed that may be a culprit!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@singfa setting up a group is a prerequisite to creating a group forum. The group has to exist first before a forum can be created for it.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@mareksgregs It restricts access to all BP pages. I have tested it but maybe you have some plugin, theme, or custom functions that conflicts with it. On a fresh install it works as it should.