Hey thunksalot
You have to upload widgets to your theme directory, never modify the contents of a plugin directory.
So e.g. add a “widgets” directory in your theme directory and upload it to there. Then you should see a “Smart BuddyPress Sitewide Notices” widget in the WordPress backend. Activate that and disable the default one.
I checked out the code and sadly, buddypress only seems to notice if there isn’t any notice to display while displaying them. I had to write a slightly modified version of the widget to get the desired functionality. For anyone who needs this too, feel free to use this: https://gist.github.com/chlab/ad608eafe2e1262140fb
It’s no more than a copy of the regular widget which fetches the notices in an output buffer and aborts when there isn’t any content to display.
Ok so I activated the widget and it works! So thanks for that!
However: the widget box shows in the sidebar even when the notice is closed. Is this normal? Is there a way to get the widget to disappear when it has nothing to show?
danbp: yeah I saw that comment but didn’t try the widget because I didn’t see it in the backend and I was too lazy to find out why I don’t have it 🙂
Thanks Hugo, that helps. It was the style.css. It hat a Template: bp-default in it. I didn’t notice it at first because our theme is named similarly and my mind read it as the title of our theme. If I remove it, my templates are included.
Now I have to find out how to upgrade the theme so it no longer relies on the bp-default theme.
I copied my theme/buddypress directory into the twentyfourteen directory and now my files are being included. So the problem is with my theme. What could cause the template hierarchy to be ignored in a custom theme? I’ll try getting rid of as much as possible to see if I can get it work.
Thanks for your answer.
I don’t care whether or not the template shows up there 🙂 but I am interpreting this as a sign that it is still in use somehow, which should not be the case.
