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In reply to: Using a theme just for BuddyPress
@kjgbriggs – just took a look at your oblivion thing you like – it appears to be the forums layout you are concerned with here – which may end up being more of a “bbpress” theme-ing issue – not so much buddypress… last I checked you can add “bbpress” as an auto-addon for buddypress – but if it’s not profiles and activity stream stuff – you may need to look up some “bbpress” specific theme things if you run into issues – not sure if they go over all that at bbpress dot org these days or not.. I have not checked those forums / docs in years.
In reply to: Using a theme just for BuddyPress@kjgbriggs – child theme is the same for wp / bp – so you can follow the directions of the link I posted up above to the wp codex – it may look like a lot, but it’s just a few things to do to create manually – once you have your divi child made, start looking at the selectors from your other one and pop the code into the new child – hopefully will be straightforward, mainly css stuff – if your second theme has some fancy javascript called in it’s functions.php (or other unique pages, libraries, templates, etc) in it that divi does not have, that might make for some extra work.
In reply to: Only show posts from selected post categories@joepesci
“see in their feed on my website.” – you mean on the activity stream? OR maybe it would be easier and perhaps more user friendly if this was a widget in a sidebar?In reply to: Registration issues@rochellebarlow
You need to direct this question to the “OptimizeMember” plugin writer.I will suggest if you do not find it easy to work with that one, perhaps look into others like “s2member” or the membership plugins from wpmudev – and others.
Some places provide better tutorials and support than others – some are easier to work with than others.
This is not really a buddypress issue however I do not believe.
(I am not a bp dev, just another random internet user of bp – and I have not looked into your particular optimize things)
In reply to: What’s wrong with my plugin?@azaleamollis – like henrywright said – who knows – maybe they will come back and say – I have no idea, but I had an experience with a similar plugin about a year ago – it drove me crazy – kept saying my pw was not strong enough, I had to enter about 10 different (and each time more complex) passwords just to login into my own site – as soon as I was in I deactivated that thing.
In retrospect, I think it would of been less frustration if it said something like “10 Character minimum, at least 3 non alphabet letters” –
I also expect modern web apps to show a graphic that changes with the strength as I type, showing me that what I have typed is acceptable, before I click save (And get some unruly error message and have to start all over)There are many plugins that will do this for wp these days – so there are many options – and people are tired of being frustrated by technology = especially that tech which is supposed to make them safer – yet in actuality tends to make things less usable.
Random thoughts – may have nothing to do with your plugin (I have not see it), and I have no idea what others may be looking for when decided to rate yours (they could think it’s not asking for strong enough passes! lol who knows if they don’t say)
In reply to: Using a theme just for BuddyPress@kjgbriggs – setting up a child theme is just a way to essentially make a new theme – using another “parent” as your template. When you activate, it’s just ONE theme that it handling everything for your wp/bp site.
You do no provide enough details about your theme names, and what you like about the main one and the one that ‘looks better with buddyprees’ – however, if you just like the layout of the bp components with he second theme more, then yes I believe you could make a child theme from your primary theme, and then go into your secondary theme and start to pull some of the layout code for the bp specific components and add those to your main theme.
If it’s overall colors and such you are trying to mix, like have a red header for your main site and a blue header for your bp pages – that is not going to be so easy..
it’s easy to learn about child themes here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
and a little more digging to learn about bp specif pages and components here:
for minor changes you can keep things simple by activating your second theme that you like with the bp looking better, go to the bp pages where you like the layout, right click on the element that looks good and click inspect elements – this will give you the css rules that are working the way you like.. things like alignment properties, bold, colors perhaps – copy those – put them into your new child theme styles and such..
of course some things can be more tricky if your second theme has fancy functions.php, java and all that included.
In reply to: Cannot Deactivate BuddyPress@chetbutikofer – I have not run into that exact thing – but you can go into your site via ftp or file mananger, under wp-content / plugins and simply delete the buddypress folder. That will usually deactivate just about any wp plugin.
In reply to: Buddypress on multisiteI think it’s tools -> Export to export your posts and pages.
make a full backup is fairly easy – and you could easily recreate what you currently have with a zip file and an export of your database.
just get to your phpmyadmin, export (click add drop table under advanced) –
via file manager compress / zip your whole site.
(you might want to make a separate zip file of your wp-content folder to easily re-add your pics and plugins and themes and such with new install) – and download that – to upload laterreal instructions here https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
then you could delete all the files in your your folder – reinstall wp (if you use a new db, then your old one will still be there if you decide to revert)
I would do a folder for your /sys and a separate install in /rust or whatever, and put a custom html index.ht page in your root that says welcome click here for my rust group, click here for my game group.. or something like that.. but that’s me and my limited knowledge of what you are going for.
pretty easy to import your posts and pages into a new wp.. if you plan to re-use pics and stuff, upload your wp-content folder and unzip – sometimes this is best done before you import posts and pages with the wp tool – sometimes you click “download and import attachments” – sometimes not. sometimes you have delete all the pages and posts and them re-import them and select the other option (don’t download import pics) or whatever.. I can’t remember which works and which fails – but it’s all fairly quick and painless regardless – and good practice for fixing a major problem in the futre.
In reply to: Secret code necessary for registeringnote sure if these work or not – never used them:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-invites/https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-community/
Let me know if you try them and they fail or work!
In reply to: Buddypress on multisite@mattfl850 – this info will help with that journey:
bottom of the page: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/I am sure this is possible, it’s not the way I would do it… might also want to consider some of the info here: http://halfelf.org/2011/dont-use-wordpress-multisite/ (updated may 2015 😉
Others may agree or disagree, and you may be keeping your server tuned like a well oiled machine – hidden from the SE spiders and brute force attackers and all that.
Of course I am not an expert, or a bp dev or anything – just another user who has tried a few different setups and spent many hours trying to do what it “possible” and should be “simple” – and pulled my hair out trying to make things like that work well :))
Not sure if anything is changed in recent updates, but I will mention that when I did this kind of conversion; I had to install the role scoper plugin (now called press permit) – in order to hide people’s private pics they uploaded – as they were visible in the media gallery for other bp users on my sites who had signed up for a “blog” (not called “site” in multi-site) – that was a painful thing to find out the hard way – maybe things have changed with that and other issues – not sure.
Have fun with that and let me know how it works out for ya!
In reply to: Have a problem with login@ajay25 – maybe the wp plugin “good question” ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/good-question/ ) will do what you are asking (?)
Maybe “buddypress humanity”I imagine there are other similar ones in the wp repo these days
In reply to: All pages redirecting to /wp-admin@colinl255 – I am not sure what your issue is, and I am not a wp / bp expert.. but first thing I would do is make a backup of your htaccess file or rename it.. then make a new – change permalinks to something else, save, then change them back to pretty.. and see if it’s an issue caused by your htaccess file..
then I would make a zip backup of all files in your directory, export a copy of your database through phpmyadmin (check the advanced box to add / drop /whatever is suggested in wp codex for backup / export / migrate instructions)
delete all files in your wp-admin/ folder and wp-includes/ folder – re-upload fresh files from the latest WP download..
try again..
then start deleting plugins and themes (instead of just deactivating)
if it gets to a point where you need to wipe out everything and do a fresh install it would not be that much work.. but hopefully you will find an issue before getting that far.
I suppose it would be wise to check your server’s error log and ask your server support peeps to take a look – there could be some hidden mod sec module out of whack or something.. and they should check to see if your php and sql are up to date.
In reply to: activity stream@jgob – The simple answer would be sure, there is a way, edit the css.
there is no real way to answer your question I don’t think – there are no details. What is messed up? What is cleaner? Who decides these things?
What you are asking is highly dependent on which theme you are using.
As is suggested here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/
Best to have the info so people may take a look.
Without that info – right click on your pictures, inspect elemment, go to your css and change things is all I can tell ya.
In reply to: activate Sidebar for all-members and all-groups page@whiskyharry – you are going to have to direct these questions to the premium theme author – people at bp dot org will not help you with this issue – (99.99 % sure on this)
In reply to: My post on this forum is erased@ggsalas – your post have more than two links in it? – held for moderation for unkown amount of time – others will not see it.
IS your ip addy flagged by akisment ? who knows – could also cause an issue.
Did you say something like “profile field for s3x / g@y, l3sb –
– also causes issues.and other reasons to I imagine – welcome to the “who knows”
I’ve had to re-write posts several times here, removing info from some, changing spelling on others, and in some cases splitting posts into two posts in order to provide the proper links needed for help –
In reply to: Activating MembershipsIn reply to: All pages redirecting to /wp-admin@colinl255 – if you switch to a default theme like 2015, 2015 – does the same thing happen?
Have you also tried the issue with all plugins disabled except BP?
Have you checked that you set “pretty permalinks”?
In reply to: Restrict by role@lorenzoto – take a look at s2member plugin and or maybe the “press permit core” – both in the wp repo – they may do what you are describing – have not tested with bbpress stuff yet – so not 100% sure, but think I saw something in both of them for bb stuff.
I am sure there are other similar options out there as well.
In reply to: Buddypress on multisite@mattfl850 – so you just need to the basic functions of BP with each? (not give each member a separate blog/site as well) – is what I am guessing…
I imagine these is a graceful way to put a wp/bp install in your root directory and network activate bp to create separate members and mesh this with multi-site to make it so that /sbs is a new “site” and /rust is..
but if I was going this (And I am not a bp dev or any kind of wp expert) – I would just install wp/bp in /sbs and do another separate wordpress install in /rust and add bp there.
That may be the simplest setup for what you describe as the current goal. Others may have a differing idea.
In reply to: Check if page is visible to user@ronz – have you poked around https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/ ?
I am would not bet things are as up to date as they could be, but I think there is some useful info there.
what do you mean “page is visible” to user logged in?
In reply to: activate Sidebar for all-members and all-groups page@whiskyharry – what theme are you using?
with all of my buddypress sites I have the same sidebar on all pages.
In reply to: Can I give users project pages?@ravan – I would think multi-site is the best way to go for this. Use like a new-blog-defaults plugin to auto make their new sites a certain theme and have pre-populated content to make it easy.
Of course you would setup a single site blog, give each new user editor privelages and manually create a page for each person.. I did that once.. I think the way multi-site seperates things is a little less messy – and a “full blown multi-site” is not that big a deal these days – back in the early wpmu days it was a lot – these days adding the couple lines of code and telling wp to put the new blogs -err “sites” into a subfolder is not much to deal with.
I have found as long as you use a blog defaults plugin to set a bunch of settings for each one automatically (users must be logged in to comment) – stuff like that – you can save server resources and not have to worry too much about users who are not paying attention to comments spam and the like.
In reply to: Error in WP-File@whiskyharry – what theme are you using? Have you tried disabling your other plugins and then see if it is one of them that is the cause?
I would manually delete everything in the wp-includes folder and re-upload a clean wp-includes folder from a fresh d/l of wp. (of course you may want to wipe and re-upload your wp-admin folder as well.
make a backup of your whole site files just in case – but you should be able to wipe and reinstall those files without any issue.
In reply to: BuddyPress and WordPress@natmba1 – places like dreamhost are good at doign some hand holding with wordpress issues, so I would suggest them, or bluehost – or someone similar who really specializes in WP hosting for those who are new(ish) to the self hosting game – their tech have more knowledge about common wp issues – and they have some extra layers of security that help a bit with common wp things like brute force login / hacking attempts.
Just about any host out there can run wordpress fine – I try to avoid windows hosting platforms – as the setup for running wp quickly and easily just seems smoother with the ‘nix based servers –
I am sure others have good recommendations as well – I will tell you from my recent experiences I am really liking tmdhosting.com – as their support has wowed me this year, and they have strong mod-sec setups to block multiple password fails already running.
Some people look for price first – I say support is more important than anything else. I could give you a long list of hosting places that have completely failed me when it comes to support – and if your site goes down and the server needs to be restarted, you don’t want to wait 48 hours to here back from some level one support guy that does not fix the problem, no matter how cheap the place may be.
Obviously I have not tried every hosting company in the world, so don’t take my experiences as the only voice on this.
most hosting places have one step installs for wordpress these days – like I said earlier, I usually suggest dreamhost for total newbies – but I am more familiar with the standard cpanel admin server backend that places like tmdhosting and hostgator provide – I get a bit lost in the dreamhost panel sometimes – but if you have not already gotten used to finding things in either panel – then that would not be an issue for you.
The good thing is that it’s pretty easy to change your wordpress hosting to a different place if your needs change – so I don’t think you need to worry too much about picking the perfect place right off the bat.
I should probably check to see if I have an bonus code or something from these hosting places, but not sure it would jive with the bp group to provide you with an affiliate link where I got a kickback if you signed up.
If you were looking for dedicated servers I’d have more suggestions – but I don’t think you’ll need that kind of server power for a while (if ever)
In reply to: Buddypress on multisite@mattfl850 – I run a few multi-sites and a few bp sites – and after reading your first post I still don’t understand what you have as a setup and what you are trying to accomplish.
I have awp multi-site with bp activated in maindomain dot com – the profiles and social layers are all based in the main root – if someone wants to create a “blog” aka “site” then their site becomes “usersiteOne dot maindomain dot com” – so each of their blogs (sites) are on a subdomain.
Of course it is possible to swap that so they appear as maindomain dot com / usersiteOne
All the groups and activity and such is run through the main root level..
are you trying to get each user to have their own buddypress layer layer – with their own groups and such that is completely separated from the others?
