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In reply to: How Do I Find a GREAT BP FREE THEME
although BP works with any theme.. i often find myself add too much BP specific CSS tweaks in the customizer
Im trying to keep things as simple as possible and even with twenty seventeen theme – there are some css tweaks that need to happen.
it makes sense — simply because WP is “blog first” so most content is goofy on how it renders and presents BP pages.
As far as I can tell buddyboss is the only game in town that does a great job of having clean design and straighforward code.
my BP-Theme-wish list
1) BP first *which focuses on great Activity page presentation, Members Directory Presentation & Great Member profiles.
2) Mobile First approach would be super awesome. Most people view profiles and not necessarily doing actual “activity” post. So if someone can figure out a great way to render fast and beautiful activity/members-directory/member-profiles that is very readable on mobile it would be super awesoome.
3) Great use of Menus/Accordions — The way BP works right now on members pages is TERRIBLE on mobile. You have scroll past the cover photo -> then pass the Avatar –> then pass 4 menu items to see any content of the users in the Members Profiles page.
4) Great use of Member Profile Fields — I think by default as a “2 column table layout” to render the profile fields is not great.
**I totally understand that the newest release of BP has interesting pre-built options but even with the default twenty-twenty theme it doesnt look great.
Some thoughts..
— The username in the profile page when too long looks weird and awkward — using CSS to ‘breakword’ is OK.
— The Profile Field Name should be studied on how to render that well..
— The Profile Field entries like (text fields, radial buttos, list, etc..) should have a better readable standard implementation like.. *This one is hard because you dont know the exact uses of each unique BP installs..
— The Menus should be “slidable” on mobile so that the user doesnt have to scroll all the way down to start reading whats on that persons profile.*** It would be great if someone (some BP expert) post an Ultimate BP/CSS guide that shows how to target each of the BP specific elements… without doing theme surgery.. like a cut&paste into the CSS customizer –BONUS if it can include media queries 🙂
anyway.. rant over..
In reply to: How Do I Find a GREAT BP FREE THEMEI think it would be an amazing achievement!
*Ironically – even – though BP “works” with any theme. 🙂Seriously, its a bit of a holy grail to find an official WP theme from WP.org/com that works beautifully with CP.
Most of the themes out there have a “blog first” approach — which isnt bad — BUT I would love to see a free theme that does the basics of BP extremely well.
For now.. I typically tend to use Twenty Seventeen Theme.. or try to use @buddyboss if i have cash to spare..
im deeply bummed that twenty twenty theme doesnt look great using BP
In reply to: Buddypress.org shutting downDoes anyone have a good simple beautiful free theme that just works for BP.
Im using 2020 on a project and its horrible…please please help obiwan save us
In reply to: BuddyPress 5.0.0 is ready!Awesome stuff!
Official Api very very welcome ????In reply to: RTMEDIA HACKED?my sites were on the newest release of rtmedia (i have since removed rtmedia)
In reply to: how do i allow HTML in xprofle fieldsThis is what I have so far
function gawd_allowed_tags() { global $allowedtags; $allowedtags = array( 'a' => array( 'class' => array(), 'href' => array(), 'rel' => array(), 'title' => array(), ), 'abbr' => array( 'title' => array(), ), 'b' => array(), 'blockquote' => array( 'cite' => array(), ), 'cite' => array( 'title' => array(), ), 'code' => array(), 'del' => array( 'datetime' => array(), 'title' => array(), ), 'dd' => array(), 'div' => array( 'class' => array(), 'title' => array(), 'style' => array(), ), 'dl' => array(), 'dt' => array(), 'em' => array(), 'h1' => array(), 'h2' => array(), 'h3' => array(), 'h4' => array(), 'h5' => array(), 'h6' => array(), 'i' => array(), 'img' => array( 'alt' => array(), 'class' => array(), 'height' => array(), 'src' => array(), 'width' => array(), ), 'li' => array( 'class' => array(), ), 'ol' => array( 'class' => array(), ), 'p' => array( 'class' => array(), ), 'q' => array( 'cite' => array(), 'title' => array(), ), 'span' => array( 'class' => array(), 'title' => array(), 'style' => array(), ), 'strike' => array(), 'strong' => array(), 'ul' => array( 'class' => array(), ), ); return allowedtags; } add_action('init', 'gawd_allowed_tags', 10); ?>In reply to: how do i allow HTML in xprofle fieldsHmm maybe I should just allow specific tags?
Though I really want easy styling in the profile fields to prettify it
In reply to: BuddyPress 4.4.0How do we mark the comments above as spam?
In reply to: Buddypress.org shutting downHi @imath
Im a big fan! specially your work on BOWE-CODES
As for your suggestion as currently outlined on https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/ **IMHO –> I think is part of the problem..
1) I think the way the documentation works is a little confusing and are often no longer relevant
The documentation process of how its outlined, the submission process et al is not moving at the speed of the internet.. maybe a “stack exchange” style approach might work?2) Helping out in the forums seems ideal -but- I feel the forum mechanism is also a little outdated
3) The nature of BP makes it a little hard to dial in how to respond to inquiries – simply because its not obvious to the hobbyist like myself to determine if its a template/theme issue, plugin issue or other various possible conflicts..
Anyway.. Im suggesting that perhaps BP.org should be change the approach to the community.. idk maybe something like a how CUNY Commons approached it? idk.. it maybe helpful to have an FAQ thats crossed linked to a forum discussion — it might also be helpful to change -or- update how the forum is organized? *it might also be helpful to somehow incentivize for-paid organizations like @buddyboss & @buddydev (I think a paradign shift is needed)
Theres a lot of great nuggets of information thats either SILO’d in private-for-paid-organizations, or buried somewhere in stackexchange, or somewhere in the internet (how do we herd-those-cats)
Suggestion: What if BP allows private companies to ‘sponsor’ this forum and what the companies will provide is basic quick easy answers and BP in return can have a VERIFIED badge on their profile and that company a section on a forum that is something like “ASK Company XYZ”
anyway.. idk.. I just feel that we’ve been doing the same thing for so many years and we arent getting any better at supporting the community
cheers
In reply to: Buddypress.org shutting down@boonebgorges I really appreciate you.. especially your work with CUNY Commons & PressForward
and my post – by no means – is intended to provoke or diminish your work and contributions to the community at-large.I personally appreciate your work and always look forward to anything put out.
In reply to: Buddypress.org shutting downIm not a programmer
so .. can i at least clear out spam?
or work on documentation or something?To Be Fair. (and Im not trying to be a jerk)
*I* think that waving the “Its free” flag as a blanket defense is what BREAKS the goodwill on both side.. (of course no one should ever take each other for granted)
But.. OPEN-SOURCE – FREE –IS—INDEED–an– Actual business model.
Again not to be a jerk (but *ITS FREE* is not a shield) — again, lets face it.. WP makes money off there software.. the FREE part is a component that makes the system work.. (im not gonna bore you with the nuance – Hacknernews does a better job at it)
Anyway.. I respect everyone that are in the BP team and all of the contributors — but i think we can do it better — I really dont want to see the promise of BP and its potential fizzle away..
and in my opinion — waving the the *Its Free* banner when someone says something – is what breaks the “FOSS” ecosystem…
-Frankly.. Although there are upcoming updates… the pattern of BP reminds me of other projects — maybe something like ‘O2’ – Breathe/p2?
I guess — It still feels like BP is at its last leg… (?)
In reply to: Buddypress.org shutting downLooking at https://buddypress.org/support/view/no-replies/
– its startling to look at the raw amount of un-responded post.
– over 200 post un-responded
– over 200 posts thats at least 2+ weeks old.. some are MONTHS old..if you look at WP.org / plugins that are similar in live installs the response from the developer is far more active and helpful.
In reply to: Buddypress.org shutting downIm sorry to say that despite of the “updates” — BP is an extreme bear to wrestle..
1) SUPPORT of any sort seems to be very lacking
2) The usability (ui/ux) is sketchy –> its one of the reasons BP adoption is klunky (it takes too much work)
3) the “THEME” (look & feel) is awful
4) Theres SPAM on the support forum
5) Documentation is getting sketchier & sketchier
6) Between Buddypress, The Built-in wordpress-user/author mechanism AND “wordpress.com user-system” –its just confusing
7) The Buddypress plugin ecosystem is a big gamble (most dont work right)
8) WP community ALWAYS preaches to have as little plugins as possible – but get getting buddypress to be usable takes at least a dozen***SUPPORT OF ANY SORT IS LACKING*****
In reply to: Buddypress.org shutting down@sbrajesh WHOA! Im a big fan!!! There is no site I launch that doesnt have at LEAST one of your plugins or buddydev!!!!! Im often troll your site sniffing around and mining for tidbits of very useful buddypress insight.
In reply to: Buddypress.org shutting down@buddyboss I LOVE what you do! and i have one social and boss installed on some of my sites.. I’m considering trying the new platform – but I’m very hesitant for many reasons..
Anyway keep doing what you are doing. You guys are doing great!!!!!
In reply to: @mentions on POST not workingHey Guys…
Im still having trouble with getting @mentions to work on post. I have reinstalled WP & BP and changed themes.. Still not working. Is there a ‘filter’ i can add manually to my functions.php to make this happen? @shanebp do you have any insight or a things I can try. 🙂 Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks
In reply to: @mentions on POST not working@boonebgorges @r-a-y @hnla Do you guys have any suggestions… I have tried adding
add_filter( 'bp_activity_do_mentions', '__return_false' );inside FUNCTIONS.php
Though I wonder what the benefit of creating a new fork/platform over – separate paid-premium plug-ins and hyper tuned themes..
Still I love buddyboss themes – but being locked in is a headache I would not ever try to think about..
Frankly I’ve always been deeply frustrated with buddypress though..
I use buddyboss and I LOVE what they do…
but.. im a little nervous .. with the change over.
Its worth pointing out that there OUTSTANDING themes are still available for normal buddypress..
In reply to: Username Link when using @username in Profile fields@ukai-themes – That worked!!!!
now im trying to get it to work on blog posts
In reply to: Username Link when using @username in Profile fieldsHeres an example
https://hellofoodie.la/members/latimesfood/profile/
(im using the legacy template)
I would like the @usernames to be linked when mentioned in the “about” profile field
In reply to: Activity Streamwhats your website?
In reply to: Requesting a demo of buddpressHi,
You can check out https://www.buddyboss.com/themes/
(not my site)In reply to: Doesn’t inspire confidenceYeah.. WP/BP is a little weird like that.. i mean.. look at the twenty nineteen theme as a recent example..
BUT im a fan of it regardless because it allows me to prototype really fast and understand what needs to happen next within a few hours.. anyway..
you asked for an example/demo.. https://www.buddyboss.com/ is pretty good.
In reply to: Customising the look of BuddyPressyeah.. there is a way.. — but — its a long and tedious “surgery” (i would dare say it would take maybe 3 months to get it done)
i use buddyboss and default twenty seventeen themes on my projects..
