BuddyPress.org | David | Activity https://buddypress.org/members/dlabbe/activity/ Activity feed for David. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:52:15 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9d4a5286896f86fc4811cf1e2216f7b3 David R Labbe replied to the forum topic Group Tabs in the group BP Group Hierarchy http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-group-hierarchy/forum/topic/group-tabs/#post-124163 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:11:34 +0000 Nobody has an idea on this?

]]> 3b8857d2a36f6ba8030878bcafd104fa David R Labbe started the forum topic Group Tabs in the group BP Group Hierarchy http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-group-hierarchy/forum/topic/group-tabs/ Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:32:25 +0000 Is there a way to make a group name a tab instead of a group that allows members and activity streams. Another words…I want to make a groups breadcrumbs such as State/City/cityname where State and City are tabs […]

]]> 77bfa35dae16057ce08e8661ca2f2226 David R Labbe joined the group BP Group Hierarchy https://buddypress.org/updates/p/192939/ Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:26:00 +0000 0 d5d8f9759f88742303809792347bc61d David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/?topic_page=2#post-83199 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:03:53 +0000 yes thanks…I was looking at it earlier and starting to get a feel for it. I only wanted to ask as with everything there seems be more then one way to do everything and was hoping there might be a neat little trick BP had up its sleeve. Thanks for the reply.

]]> fa7b9649973ee7cf37a8b622c03d14dd David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/?topic_page=2#post-83191 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:39:55 +0000 @boonebgorges thought I would rehash this old post as what I need applies. How do i validate custom fields that I added?

]]> ffe064265d519f4443e8d0421b1e2358 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic How to query for groups in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-query-for-groups/?topic_page=2#post-83127 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:41:30 +0000 @gerbilo ….I agree…you would think group id would be the easiest to deal. From what I am guessing and hearing it might get easier as new version of BP surface. No complaints however…BP rocks in many ways as social webbing has taken over.

]]> f4914eb24695cad85e1a52cfc8642835 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic How to query for groups in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-query-for-groups/#post-83060 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:40:57 +0000 To extend on Travel-Junkie $group = new BP_Groups_Group( $group_id ); foreach ($group as $key => $value) {echo $key . ' = ' . $value. ' ';} this will break down in list form all the information you need for the group. Here is another nice little trick that works hand in hand with information returned from […]

]]> 7e663f8d770e9927b886925a373e85c1 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic How to query for groups in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-query-for-groups/#post-83047 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:16:27 +0000 thanks guys. As it stands I already have a custom page that I created that has a zip code search( by mile radius)….it loops and displays thru all the groups within that radius. I had to reconstruct the look and feel of the groups directory page into this custom search page. Works really well, but […]

]]> 1307cccb2d3ff88d4f1432cc28fb6eda David R Labbe posted on the forum topic How to query for groups in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-query-for-groups/#post-82957 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:19:47 +0000 thanks that worked great for a single group to show with the slug $arg. Is there a way to pass more then one group into it. Meaning I want more then one group to be returned?

]]> 96418904e65599c58af06430a998f3e2 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic How to query for groups in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-query-for-groups/#post-82871 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:06:12 +0000 @boonebgorges sorry to bother you again…but do you have any ideas how this can be done or a direction to go in? thanks

]]> f72aeedbfc7aae6fca741833e1bdf4a5 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic How to query for groups in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-query-for-groups/#post-82029 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:46:10 +0000 @boonebgorges I know this is a old thread, but it is exactly what I am looking for, but it is not working for me. I should say it is working, but I can’t get one parameter to work. I am using the bp_has_groups() to filter the groups loop and I need to only display certain groups […]

]]> 4f6446eb140a272efe8ba3ab28d23554 David R Labbe joined the group How-To and Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/updates/p/122645/ Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:46:10 +0000 0 32d01ce642934d5de6151468eaf3eb03 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Default Avatar in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/default-avatar/#post-81942 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:39:05 +0000 is there anyone that might be able to at least lead me in the right direction?

]]> cc3b58e851ab3a11af779adff0f0159e David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Default Avatar in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/default-avatar/#post-81549 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:27:57 +0000 can anyone help with this? how does fugly default avatars randomly happen?

]]> 9332ab232350b7da4e62ab7c54e9d2e1 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Default Avatar in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/default-avatar/#post-81366 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:42:05 +0000 Great…thanks. How would i go about making random avatars? say have half dozen images that are randomly used so the whole site does not have the same avatar. I am new to php but i am assuming it would use a script or function that would call a random event or something like that.

]]> 0bf3be54d32c46a81b446020ee2a4682 David R Labbe started the forum topic Default Avatar in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/default-avatar/ Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:25:47 +0000 What is the best way to change the default avatar pictures for users that sign up and don’t choose to add their own during setup. I wanted to create my own and replace the defaults with mine, but the best I can see is that they are Gravitars and not stored in the sites folder […]

]]> 468a881f8e55e51db3a5b6f53533baff David posted a new activity comment https://buddypress.org/updates/p/119534/#acomment-119598 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:41:48 +0000 I just did a search a have seen where you added a update for this issue in 1.2.1, but i have version 1.2.4.

In reply to - David posted an update @travel-junkie Hi Travel-Junkie. I finally purchased the Buddyvents yesterday ,but has so many small issues with it that I wrote your company asking about a refund as I felt like it was to […] ]]> 2ef9227cc0192399a1ca6d142a50e1e4 David posted a new activity comment https://buddypress.org/updates/p/119534/#acomment-119581 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:06:36 +0000 I tries to echo $bp->buddyvents->slug and nothing….no value. I checked the backend in the dashboard setting and it is set for “events” but it is not setting the slug.

In reply to - David posted an update @travel-junkie Hi Travel-Junkie. I finally purchased the Buddyvents yesterday ,but has so many small issues with it that I wrote your company asking about a refund as I felt like it was to […] ]]> 7be8edf923a932990553483d0290f0b1 David posted a new activity comment https://buddypress.org/updates/p/119534/#acomment-119573 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:54:33 +0000 @travel-junkie i did some more examining and realized the double slash is because the “events” slug is missing from the link address for the subnav for the group. Another words http://www.mysite.com/groups/groupA//calendar/ from the example above should have “events” between the double slashes like http://www.mysite.com/groups/groupA/events/calenda…[Read more]

In reply to - David posted an update @travel-junkie Hi Travel-Junkie. I finally purchased the Buddyvents yesterday ,but has so many small issues with it that I wrote your company asking about a refund as I felt like it was to […] ]]> 2b8fc51ce0d8a111ef47af897c075ea3 David posted an update: @travel-junkie Hi Travel-Junkie. I finally purchased the […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/119534/ Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:55:36 +0000 @travel-junkie Hi Travel-Junkie. I finally purchased the Buddyvents yesterday ,but has so many small issues with it that I wrote your company asking about a refund as I felt like it was to many issues for what I had paid for. However, after playing with it more and installing it on a live site vs. my local testing machine a few of the issues have…[Read more]

]]> 3 042d77b663f3dec9f98ab16bd487e5c6 David replied to the topic Groupblog Plugin questions in the forum Miscellaneous https://buddypress.org/support/topic/groupblog-plugin-questions/#post-99394 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:39:31 +0000 I final got what I was looking for. Here is the code if anyone wants to try it or use it. Paste it in the functions.php of your child themes. What it does is removes the orginal function for the “My Blogs” link in the admin bar and I then made my own function that calls that original function only if the user has a blog. Thus anyone that is just a…[Read more]

]]> 4dc25020fb358d1c15b2a0b68aa9bb2f David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Groupblog Plugin questions in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/groupblog-questions/#post-80787 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:39:31 +0000 I final got what I was looking for. Here is the code if anyone wants to try it or use it. Paste it in the functions.php of your child themes. What it does is removes the orginal function for the “My Blogs” link in the admin bar and I then made my own function that […]

]]> 12727f0b6d30b62af14c4234afa19e65 David R Labbe joined the group buddypress.org Ninjas https://buddypress.org/updates/p/119333/ Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:37:04 +0000 0 04a51ff00b7ba638abed1c881d1d70b1 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Groupblog Plugin questions in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/groupblog-questions/#post-80783 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:30:12 +0000 I final got what I was looking for. Here is the code if anyone wants to try it or use it. Paste it in the functions.php of your child themes. What it does is removes the orginal function for the “My Blogs” link in the admin bar and I then made my own function that […]

]]> 8c918a0103e0c23e5e62c3f3ec9140ba David R Labbe started the forum topic Groupblog Plugin questions in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/groupblog-questions/ Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:28:00 +0000 @MariusOoms This can actually be for anyone that can help. First the pugin is perfect for what I need, but just trying to get used to how it all functions within the site and how the member roles play. My issue that I am trying to solve is as follows. I have groups that i create […]

]]> 432775fb8772c3a53c6f392aff6220e3 David posted an update: @travel-junkie I got it working. Thanks. I will download the […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/118007/ Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:21:23 +0000 @travel-junkie I got it working. Thanks. I will download the events plugin this week. Great work!

]]> 0 ac13758b51333dfe4c8caad51181d6e0 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Buddyvents 1.2.2 in the group Third Party Components & Plugins http://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/buddyvents-1-0-2/?topic_page=2#post-80102 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:09:23 +0000 @travel-junkie thanks for the reply. I will get it this week for sure. I tried getting the signup plugin, but every time i tried to log on in the processing checkout it did not recognize my username or password…any ideas?

]]> 7fd748c604b01d8f593e7e961e48347d David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Buddyvents 1.2.2 in the group Third Party Components & Plugins http://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/buddyvents-1-0-2/?topic_page=2#post-80038 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:12:43 +0000 @travel-junkie I am in the united states and would love to purchase the plugin. I went to the site and tried but it kept asking for a domain license when I tried to add it to the cart. What is that? and do I need it? also what is the conversion rate for US dollars? […]

]]> e76530141d36cd89a899bf5e0086ad9b David R Labbe joined the group Third Party Components & Plugins https://buddypress.org/updates/p/117886/ Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:12:43 +0000 0 e34f59c4bafc576d9f4f8bcaa2c61eb8 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-80009 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:46:34 +0000 @boonebgorges I got it working….it was white space in the php. I did a search and others had the same issue. Something so small can turn into hours of hair pulling. I am for sure getting a crash course in php, but loving it. Thanks again and I think everything is the way I need it […]

]]> 88c2dccff5fc659c2e5f111364d4b437 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-79985 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:38:22 +0000 @boonebgorges works perfect! thanks. I have hopefully one last issue that completely has me stumped. It works on my testing machine, but when I put it live I get errors. It has to do with me including the above idea but using my own custom data table. I insert my own form and add it with […]

]]> 8c389ca4345eda403e8109f86df8027f David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-79978 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:29:29 +0000 @boonebgorges Once again thanks for the help. I used the code above but noticed that the database dose not take in the data when the group is created. It will only work if once the group is created and then I re-enter the information in the “country” form and the submit that the database updates with […]

]]> a4ba2acb38b2cb105fcde56e5b3f6b9f David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-79410 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:56:58 +0000 @boonebgorges My plan has hit a snag. I am having trouble using what you gave me above to include more then one set of form markups. Let me explain…if I include something like function bbg_extra_group_fields_markup() { ?> this form is for a new data table that I created } add_action( ‘groups_custom_group_fields_editable’,…[Read more]

]]> 68f09443c047442c4ae36c6edf308e09 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-79314 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:18:48 +0000 sorry yes bp-custom.php. That was a bad on my part in the post. I used “bp” in the site. I think i will just keep things the way they are as they are working. Thanks again.

]]> b998eb05209a8db957df81f4b2c7c335 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-79305 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:17:37 +0000 @boonebgorges thanks for the help! My php skills have increased a notch from just playing with this….not to mention of having a better understanding of BP. I used the trick above, but put a major twist on it. I took it to a new level and created new tables within the database so I can organize […]

]]> 15cc1aee58d280522fc7b7b923e51846 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-79147 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:25:40 +0000 Just tested it. I made a functions.php in my child theme and it works….well not really. I have the extra form field showing, but it is not working. I added the extra field to the database, but it is not working. I will have to test it more, but at least I now have some […]

]]> fcde1de5457bc12e16c4727b2aa55284 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-79145 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:07:43 +0000 thanks so much for the reply. The code all makes sense…. just a question of where to insert it? I am working with a child theme so can I create a custom function.php file within my child theme? Also…is that all it will take is to insert the functions into the functions.php file(if that is […]

]]> 025149987118dd691e6f663d71e06e79 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/#post-78958 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:39:13 +0000 any help would be greatly appreciated…thanks

]]> 47b65256e9d0f8d3ff5c788c63f2344f David R Labbe started the forum topic New Group creation fields in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/new-group-creation-fields/ Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:09:32 +0000 I am learning php and I am not at the level in how BP is written so it is hard for me to break down all that code at this time. So with that said I need some help. I would like to create a new field in the group creation process. For example…when someone […]

]]> 2cb99a430d915e8d24a701fe89446c8e David R Labbe started the forum topic admin and moderator checks in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/admin-and-moderator-checks/ Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:57:50 +0000 What is the best way to check if the user of the group is a admin or moderator?
I am looking for something like this in the group-header.php

if (group_admin)
display this

if (group_moderator)
display this

I am looking to add some custom fields, but just looking for the condition logic at this moment.
thanks

]]> 4e764dd7ffa9cfcf34c351549f4f4a08 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Adding mass amounts of groups through database in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/adding-mass-amounts-of-groups-through-database/#post-77446 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:40:07 +0000 not sure that helps. I will try to explain. I want to build a directory of the groups as such. Country—->State—>County—>store location. I would like each to be its own group as well…meaning I want people to be able to join the State, County, and store location as groups they can join. Is there anyone […]

]]> 05ddc689581835506b8a40c0737db697 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Adding mass amounts of groups through database in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/adding-mass-amounts-of-groups-through-database/#post-77100 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:10:58 +0000 can someone please spend a few moments to explain this? I am in much need for any assistance…thanks.

]]> 401c4f0c93c74c41f2b4551396754754 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Slugs in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/slugs/#post-76758 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:23:38 +0000 I got it working…not sure the issue but did a quick re-install. Might have been all the tweeks in the past few weeks. Now…what is the best way to change the text itself in the navar? I simply changed it in the header.php file, but is that the best and only way?

]]> a1381b06ca2bf6128bf72dc96a3c2266 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Slugs in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/slugs/#post-76736 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:42:03 +0000 I need to make a correction. The nav only acts strange if I leave the name field blank such as define( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘ ’ ); I only did this to test to see if there was any type of recognition. If I insert the desired name like define( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘players’ ); then I get no […]

]]> 5280fb3066de44386e6d449899e6dfa2 David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Slugs in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/slugs/#post-76735 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:22:35 +0000 I tried both locations wp-config.php and bp-custom.php with no luck. I included it in the wp-config.php right before /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ Like I said nothing happens other then make the nav act strange. I tried it on a local site and live site with no results. Any ideas? I am […]

]]> b514bc341c30ffe82775eae3cbe056da David R Labbe started the forum topic Slugs in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/slugs/ Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:24:40 +0000 I have tried to change the nav text by example below in my wp-config.php file as well I tried to add it in a bp-custom.php file in wp-content/plugins folder. Nothing is happening…no change. What am I missing? define( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘players’ ); UPDATE….I tried some more testing with other things such as defining avatar size and […]

]]> a5335068e260aab27bec9c54a0a0563c David R Labbe posted on the forum topic Adding mass amounts of groups through database in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/adding-mass-amounts-of-groups-through-database/#post-76581 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:52:28 +0000 Ok…what is the best way to insert groups from the backend?

]]> f8acb49f513df6acecdafe53c3bdb8cd David R Labbe started the forum topic Adding mass amounts of groups through database in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/adding-mass-amounts-of-groups-through-database/ Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:37:14 +0000 This might seem a little confusing for what I am trying to accomplish, but I will do my best to explain. I want to create a large amount of groups within my social site created by me and not the users (so I will be disabling the “create group” button…I know how to do this). […]

]]> fc58c98e4e8c05345281306934835aa7 David R Labbe started the forum topic functions.php and bp-custom.php in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/functions-php-and-bp-custom-php-1/ Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:46:15 +0000 I am new to BP and in my early stages of learning php so please be easy on me. I am trying to learn the inner working of BP, but I can’t find the functions.php nor the bp-custom.php files. can someone please direct me to where I can find the file. I have read to […]

]]> 9f960caa02b1d32bffcf0df7bcb7ff93 David R Labbe joined the group Miscellaneous https://buddypress.org/updates/p/102898/ Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:46:15 +0000 0