[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Can someone please change the awesome skeleton plugin to reflect these important changes – I like Boone, spent about an hour trying to work this out. Until stumbling on this thread. The skeleton loader uses bp_init to load the files, it should use bp_include and the functions in the plugin core should be updated too.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

this handy code, https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/make-your-plugin-buddypress-aware-v1-2/, should probably be added to the skeleton component. Because I believe the problem still persists with the skeleton component in that bp_setup_globals never gets called in time. ugh. but not sure if even that fixes this perplexing issue. bp_globals_doesn’t seem to fire still.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@robcwright can you post the exact email they get. That will help a huge amount.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

can you post the exact email they get. That will help a huge amount.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

i solved this with a child theme by copying activity.php from the default theme to my child theme in the same folder structure (group/single/activity.php) then totally redoing the whole thing. This is using wordpress built in template replacement. good o’l wordpress.

Now I’ve got recent forum posts on the left with activity feed on the right. and the post update box at the bottom. I put them at the bottom because I wanted people to use the discussion forum more than posting updates.

here is the new improved group home page: http://shambhalanetwork.org/groups/beta-phase-discussion-group/

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

done

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

and obviously for members you can do this:

// add pagination links to the bottom of the members directory
function add_bottom_members_pagination_links() {
?>

<?php
}
add_action( ‘bp_after_members_loop’, ‘add_bottom_members_pagination_links’ );

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve updated the group tags plugin again. fixed the bug where tags are not saved during group creation. ( a bug that was introduced in version 1.2.2) the new version is 1.3

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

sure send me it if you want, and I can see if there are any goodies I can add back to my version.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

version 1.5 – my own version, as I’ve forked it for my own use. I’ve left the trunk behind because I changed it drastically.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

bump in response to this topic
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/activity-replies-too-much-indentation

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

@paulhastings0
I prefer the simply approach taken by facebook: one level of indent. in my opinion, nested comments are an ultra-cool headache.

like posted above, my solution at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-calm-down-comment-nesting/ should do the trick.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

hi @nit3watch, all donations are welcome, even small ones keep the developers happy . send paypal donations to deryk@bluemandala.com.

I don’t need anything from their website, I think I might still be a member- ( i bought three months). And yes, as far as I know it is fully legal. what you pay for is membership and access to the plugins, but the plugins themselves, by law, need to be GNU license. There are sneaky ways around this for some plugin developers, but WPMU-DEV has not used them. share away, but be conscious, For example, if WPMU-Dev is activity supporting a plugin, then sharing it with the community without continued support might be a dis-service. also forking a project and not supporting it in the future is also a dis-service to the over-all community. That is if they actually support their plugins, which the do to a degree.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

this code put in the function.php will remove the filter:

remove_filter( 'bp_directory_forums_extra_cell_head', 'rfp_after_topic_title_head', 3 );
remove_filter( 'bp_directory_forums_extra_cell', 'rfp_after_topic_title', 3 );


[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

removing an action is a little tricky, as you need to remove it exactly as it was added. perhaps it might be simpler to hide the stuff you don’t like with css, or remove it with jquery. but i’ll look into it.

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

I officially hate the calendar plugin developed by WPMU-DEV. It took me about 15 minutes to fix this simple problem because there was so much code cruft in there. there was a function that SHOULD save the group activity update, but it was hooked in improperly. so then there was another long-winded function which was totally unnecessary because a built in BP one already exists. any way – very poor plugin. I don’t want to support it any more so I’m not re-releasing it. total crap.

Fix: at the very end of the bp_group_calendar_reg_activity() function ( around line 390) add this:

groups_update_groupmeta( $bp->groups->current_group->id, 'last_activity', gmdate( "Y-m-d H:i:s" ) );


good luck!

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Hi, with my limited experience with them I think that WPMU-DEV is heavy on slick marketing and soft on support and coding quality. They did not code this plugin themselves – they hired it out to a very junior programmer who did a so-so job. But maybe they are providing the community some service, not sure, maybe their other plugins are great and worth it, but this calendar plugin was border-line.

@nit3watch, I’ll look into this issue…

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

let me know if it works now

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

i’ll update this right away

[@dwenaus Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

hey, I’m still actively developing this, but with the BP forum favourites feature removed, it’s tough to stay current. I’ll fix this and post an update. @nit3watch your work sounds interesting, I’d be interested to see what you are up to with the plugin. Also, I’d really like to create an admin panel for the plugin so that people can change their settings and not lose them on update, if you are serious about this plugin, a small donation would pay for this change. otherwise i’m too busy to add new features.

[@dwenaus Participant 16 years ago]

yes it is, I havn’t looked a Burt’s code. And I’m pretty sure that other project is dead, there hasn’t been a peep out of burt for months.

[@dwenaus Participant 16 years ago]

I have been doing this, it is very painful. look at my group tags plugin for code that you can use. not very elegant, and maybe there is a better way. I sure wish there was. Right now i’m experimenting with going with no-ajax and see how that pans out.

[@dwenaus Participant 16 years ago]

I’m going to try this out, looks promising. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/qtranslate-buddypress-make-it-work-but

[@dwenaus Participant 16 years ago]

@johnjamesjacoby – did anything happen with the multi-site project you were working on.

I tried to use WPML with the Buddypress component they released, and while it works somewhat there are some serious bugs. The biggest is that if you have a group name that ends in en/ such as groups/tennis-open/admin that gets changed by WPML to groups/tennis-opadmin. Very not good! And there are myriad other small issues.

I’ve posted multiple times on their blog and forum with zero response. very strange. so for now stay away from this plugin.

anyone else know of a way to do this, perhaps only with cookies. I just need a simple front end only language switcher based on cookies. any direction would be greatly appreciated.

[@dwenaus Participant 16 years ago]

I managed to solve it. It seems like at first all urls were this way /members/username/component/actionvariable1/actionvariable1 but I was used to groups where it is not appended by /members/username
I was able to get it to work with by using a nice url like /members/username/my/region/