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i am still having this problem and have updated to the latest versions of buddypress and wordpress…
thanks u rock!
ps: why does twenty twelve’s buddypress activity stream comment submission look so good?
is it a separate stylesheet someone made at some point?
ps @mercime, i added the line
add_filter( 'bp_do_register_theme_directory', '__return_true' );to functions.php of the child theme
(it’s the only line)
and well — upon activating the child theme — i get a blank page with just that line displayed — did i do that wrong?
thnks for your help
they’re saying “it looks like the theme or plugin have not installed correctly, or all or part of the css file is missing…”
and they are at least saying that they are looking into it.
i added that line to functions.php & thank you very much 🙂
i have to go back live in a few hours so i’ll either just restore a backup (but i’ll try my child version of bp-default first with that additional line).
are there common factors involved in themes that make the activity stream submission look really good vs. really bad?
best,
dainisso, if i upgrade buddypress with the commercial theme active, i can upgrade buddypress.
then, with an upgraded buddypress, if i switch back to the child theme i created (of bp-default), the site just displays the WSOD, and i need to revert to the backup.
so, right now, i “can’t get” buddypress to work with a child theme of the bp-default theme.
oh well
i:
purchased a commercial theme for $60 hoping it would work out the box. it didn’t.
i created a child theme and it works with the old version of buddypress
i added all the memory stuff to files like .haccess that folks recommend when you get the WSOD w buddypress
i updated buddypress and got a success message:
http://screencast.com/t/2bpHT6m6NZr
now i have the WSOD and back i go to the backup i created at the start of the day…
yeah, made a child theme now and will see if i can update buddypress…
maybe, by some chance, after i upgrade buddypress, the activity stream will display properly using the commercial theme i purchased
…otherwise…it’s right back to bp-default…
here is the activity stream in bp-default
http://screencast.com/t/nfwn03Jc
neat and clean and functional and it works.now i bought a commercial theme and it’s broken:
http://screencast.com/t/KFL1Ywwu4Myeah, just bought a $60 theme — and upon activation — there is an overlap issue on the activity stream.
this is why we need a buddypress default.
for people who just want their community software to work.
i mean, it’s not “massive,” the community in question is just over 300 people, but i just bought a theme figuring eh, i’ll improve some stuff, and maybe eventually, having purchase will “improve” some stuff — but really — i just want it to work.
so it goes:
i used bp-default directly (not child theme)
i updated buddypress
i got a white screen of death
started fiddling with memory etc
still the white screen of death
–good i have backups–
bought a $60 theme hoping it would “just work” the way bp-default did — so i could upgrade buddypress
noticed an “overlap error” in the activity stream…
now, it looks like i need to make a child theme (just in case), then upgrade BP, then hope it works with the child theme — then try the commercial theme…i mean, i “can” go in and resolve these things, it’s just not that fun, and really, it would be nice if there were a theme that “just worked” for users of buddypress.
for one site, i just used bp-default directly because i figured it would always be there and would always work.
but i did find this:
If you are already using bp-default, either directly or as a parent theme, don’t worry.
at the link you recommended…
right now, i am less interested in making buddypress look and feel the way i want it to — than in just using wordpress community software that actually works.
with BuddyPress, over the years, i noticed that the best strategy is just to leave it alone and not try to do anything with it, because then it’s just going to break in unforseen ways — and not even “configuration,” but just implementation can and will be riddled with errors and problems and headaches.
so, for one site, yes, i used a child theme, but for the site in question, i didn’t. i just figured some form of “buddypress default” would always be there — and it would always work.
if “it” changed, i would just configure it — but i would not need to dig around and search for errors and fix things and ask at the forum and have peoples’ emotions flare just cuz i am interested in having the software work — etc.
i also figured it would be a theme buddypress would always maintain and upgrade — and improve. for example, have you ever seen the activity stream in twentytwelve? while there may be classier activity streams around — for 2012 — it was easily one of the nicest looking activity streams available. so — i figured buddypress would notice that — and just continuously improve whatever the “buddypress default” theme was…
i “might” make a child theme now — but i have now looked around at some commercial themes — so maybe i’ll buy one of those.
really — it is about immediate functionality and convenience. it needs to work, first and foremost, and it needs to “look good” as well (but it needs to actually work — first).
anyway — what this development at BuddyPress did — is it sent me searching for a commercial theme to upgrade to. not sure if that was the intended result, but it’s what it did in my case.
best and blessings and thanks for all the work you do, let us know if you ever plan on releasing a kind of “default theme” in the future ok?
sincerely,
dainisif i remember correctly, some plugin fixed it. but i can’t remember what it was called. also, i’m pretty sure i asked the initial question several years ago — not 10 months ago.
let us know how/if you resolve the issue. i haven’t checked on this issue in quite a while and honestly can’t remember how the solution/workaround i have on my 2 buddypress sites.
hi i made a test user here:
http://www.curetinnitus.org/members/testeruser1/profile/public/
but if you’ll notice all other buddypress functionality redirects to a registration page, and that redirect is handled by wishlist member.
if you go here
you’ll get redirected.
BUT — obviously i only want profiles visible to logged in users. the rest of the site looks to be functioning properly.
I’m using the twentytwelve theme and have a child theme set up — and am using that.
Does the above info mean that I would create the directories
/members/single/profile/
and create fileprofile-loop.php
?
i’d like to rephrase that – it’s “my” goal that all comments for specific content appear both under posts and in the activity stream – maybe others have other configuration goals.
the idea is that if someone comments on Content, that the comment appears wherever comments are gathered.
so, we have posts w comments and we have an activity stream where excerpts of the posts appear, but you can expand the content to see the whole thing.
the goal is: regardless of whether you are at the post itself or if you are in the activity stream — your comments appear in both places.
Original Content has a “stream of comments” that same stream of comments should appear in the activity stream – and that same stream of comments should appear under the posts.
Does this feature work yet? I think it kind of did for a while on one of my less trafficked sites — i don’t have a BP site that has a lot of use — partially for these configuration reasons…
ideally, of course, when people comment within the activity stream, they would not have to “leave” the activity stream to participate at a website.
ideally:
user makes a comment on the activity stream and that comment also shows up at the blog post as a comment
and
user comments at the blog post/page — and of course the activity stream is updated, because the user commented on the contentis such a set-up possible — where the activity stream is more functional?
otherwise — it’s kind of a post stream — but if two different sets of comments are generated then the functionality is unusable.
if the “out the box” BP functionality is unusable/counter-intuitive — then of course i need to “disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts,” but actually — by how that sounds — that’s exactly what i want to “enable,” because i want visitors to be able to post within the activity stream — and on the blog and forum posts — and have the comment stream under the “original post” be the same (since it is about the same content).
i’m using “a lot of words” to describe something quite simple, but maybe you can sort through the verbiage and see what i mean.
Same Content
Same Comments
Regardless of Whether on a Page/Post or within the Activity StreamLogical, Simple, Functional, Intuitive.
i think i remember what i did a few years back — i forced users to jump out to the posts themselves to make comments. i think i did this by just not displaying the comment buttons in the activity stream … something like that.
thnx for the vid, Boone rocks!
(note: this is only part of the solution for me, I also want an entry which was made on the activity stream also as a wordpress comment…) — there is a plugin for that and i installed it and it worked for me…
i think the right one is “BuddyPress Activity Stream as Blog Comments”
google indexing my site does not make blog comments appear in the activity stream though…
c’mon crew — give me a clue!
these topics relate:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/activity-stream-not-showing-comments/don’t have a solution yet — btw: what’s the easiest way to figure out what file is being discussed in the codex?
best,
dainisthis relates http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/custom-post-types-comments-and-the-activity-stream-in-bp-1-5/
but i’m not sure how to code the fix.
it’s probably a tiny little ‘false’ changed to ‘true’ somewhere — but where?
(or something like that)
best,
dainisthis relates but i can’t put it together — http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/custom-post-types-comments-and-the-activity-stream-in-bp-1-5/
i tried turning the setting mentioned here off then back on again and i still do not see page or post comments in the activity stream: is there a solution available?
having the same issue, would love to find a resolution
ahh — i was going to do that but gave the “private buddypress” plugin a shot and it worked.
i am relieved and grateful
best,
dainis
