[@frostdawn Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

Checking back in- my original post got lost several pages in the jumble and I hadn’t heard anything. Anyone have any feedback about PMing groups?

[@frostdawn Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

Almost forgot:
WordPress v 3.3.1
BuddyPress v 1.5.4

[@frostdawn Member 14 years ago]

Hmm, I think I’m okay now. Giving everyone the ability to collaborate together via sitewide forums trumps group forums, and having both active at the same time introduces possible confusion and usability concerns. For example, if you post a topic, how will you remember where you posted it? You would have to scour 2 separate forums to find your post which can prove aggravating. I overlooked the setting in the dashboard Components config screen – I toggled off ‘discussion forums’ in the available components section. Once that was done, I no longer have a forums link within the groups view which was all I needed.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years ago]

Thanks for your response mercime. I’ve built out the template, and it winds up looking like this:

| ___________ . header _____ . ____________ |
| ___________ . content _____ . ____________ |
(blank space) | widget area 1 | widget area 2 |
| ___________ . footer ______ . ____________ |

I need ‘widget area 1’ to span 2/3 of that row, not 1/3- and it’s starting from the center of the page, not the far left. Even putting a div with a css clear:both after the content area doesn’t solve this. I’m not even sure if widgets can span more than their standard width. The alternative layout to the one above is this (haven’t gotten close to this yet since I can’t seem to get the first widget area to even render on the page):

| ___________ . header _____ . ___________ |
| ___________ . widget area 1 . ___________ |
| content ____ . ___________ | widget area 2 |
| ___________ . footer _____ . ____________ |

So the same basic layout, just swapping out the content area for a full width widget- if I can get that to work, it would be preferrable since what has to go above the footer will be a pain to code with pure html.

Basically I need a widget that is a non-standard size. How can I define that?

Thanks

[@frostdawn Member 14 years ago]

==So if you want Group Forums, click on Install button, then after you’re done, enable Forum for each you in Group > Admin==

I’m not sure I understand the latter half of that sentence, particularly the ‘enable Forum for each you in Group”.

Considering the member usability in the aforementioned codex, I’ve decided I’d rather stick with sitewide forums instead. And seeing as how I was getting an HTTP error trying to activate them, I’m using bbPress directly vs through BP. However, I don’t want users going into the groups and trying to use the forums link within them and finding it doesn’t work. Is there a way to hide/disable that link instead?

Thanks

[@frostdawn Member 14 years ago]

Whew. Upgrading to 1.4.4 of the bp corporate theme fixed a few things and broke a few others- but the broken things are tenable. The community navigation and sublinks for the buddypress designed pages went away, but can be manually added back into the navigation (actually better behavior). The upgrade also fixed the older problem I had with the logged in user name (where it was displaying the entire directory structure leading up the active user’s name). I need to go back and fix a few things, but the main part is, the members page is working again! *Snoopy dance* Also, the bbpress forums look MUCH nicer- once I get things worked out, I’ll try and tackle the sitewide forums for BP again. Only issue left is the Nivo slider. No good options out there unfortunately. ‘Easy Nivo Slider’ simply didn’t work (at all). ‘Simple Nivo Slider’ works, but requires you to post each and every image for the slider as a featured image within blog entries- not very practical to have a blog category of nothing but images- that will confuse users. And the OIK Nivo Slider is needlessly complex and interdependent on about a dozen different plugins of varying version levels. Last but not least is the dev7 Nivo Slider that is paid to access, but they openly admit it won’t work with deluxe themes (which bp corporate is if I’m not mistaken). Sooooooooooooo close.

Thanks so much for your assistance mercime.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years ago]

Okay. deactivating everything and re-uploading BuddyPress and activating bp-default cleared out the basic problems so that it worked as expected. Then I found 2 things that individually break the Members pages. One is the BP Corporate theme (MAJOR part of even considering building the site in the first place). The other is the plugin for “Nivo Slider for WordPress” which is killing me since this was one of the best and brightest plugins on the site for the client.

Recommendations?

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

Linux. Single WP. WP/BP is installed on the domain root.

As for forums, I had a standing question about that a month or so ago since sitewide wouldn’t work (groups were beautiful though- c’est la vie)- I was told by Paul (if memory serves) that sitewide forums was a known issue that was expected to be sorted out by BP 1.6 with the inclusion of bbpress 2.0 or something along those lines.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

@mercime– thanks, I’ll double check those resources. This is really baffling.

@ Paul- as far as I can tell, the issue doesn’t reside with the gravatars. How close is v 1.6 to release? I recall you mentioning that bbpress 2.0 was going to be integrated with it with fully functioning sitewide forums with that version, correct? In 1.5.4 I could only ever get group forums to work in BuddyPress- sitewide wouldn’t work so I’ve had to shut down the BuddyPress forums pages and am using bbpress as a standalone plugin.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

But I’m running BP v 1.5.4.
Speaking of which, I changed my theme to ‘BuddyPress Default 1.5.4’ (to match my BP version) and the problem was still there. Page errors on everything I tried to do in terms of interacting with the members page- next page results, sorting, searching, etc.

I’m a little reluctant to upgrade to 1.5.5- the upgrade to 1.5.4 changed enough things to set me back a week or 2 with features I had to account for, and how it affected plugins that were already working. Speaking of which, any updates on the bbpress integration beyond group forums? (ie have you guys had any luck with getting sitewide forums working yet?)

If necessary, I’ll do the upgrade, but hoping you understand my reservations.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

WP v 3.3.1
BP v 1.5.4
The theme is bp-corporate, but those pages have to be using some template, but I’ll be darned if I can figure out what.

Thanks

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

Any updates or suggestions? Anybody?

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

I’d also like to point out that the way the logged in user id renders, it seems to have gone wonky AFTER upgrading to BuddyPress 1.5.4. When we were running in earlier versions, the user id displayed perfectly. There is also added text now for the search feature (to the left of the user id) in the form of “Search these:” prior to the combo box where you can search ‘members’, ‘groups’ and ‘posts’. Not a major nit, but it does eat a bit into the horizontal space afforded in that subheader section.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

`<form name="login-form" class="mylogform" id="login-form" action="” method=”post”>

<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" value="” onfocus=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ”;}” onblur=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ”;}” />

<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" name="rememberme" id="rememberme" value="forever" title="” />

<input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" value="”/>

<input type="button" name="signup-submit" id="signup-submit" value="” onclick=”location.href=”” />

  /

`
This seems to be the pertinent section. I added ‘test’ text in the template to narrow the focus, then added in the section immediately preceeding my findings to hopefully shed some light on the issue. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

note- the actual tag causing the issue seems to be ` `

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

Sorry for the post bump, but I never got a response…..

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

Last I heard, this was supposed to be addressed in BuddyPress 1.6 where there will be better integration with bbpress 2.0. Where that process stands I have no idea. I ran into the same problem myself and wound up NOT using forums inside BuddyPress and instead am using the bbpress plugin. It’s ugly and very basic, but at least it works.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

What I did was take a page template that I liked, then made a copy of it and renamed it. Then I created a copy of the sidebar (and registered it with functions.php). Then, in the template copy, under sidebar, I swapped out the listed sidebar for my custom sidebar. Done. This way, you can have a page template with a different sidebar. Not sure if this is the ‘proper’ way of doing things, but it worked for me. Good luck.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

Paul- sorry, using BP Corporate 1.4 with BuddyPress 1.5.4. I misunderstood the question.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

That did it, thanks mercime! (I can now put down the paperbag I was breathing into)

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

Also of note- I’m working in a multi-site environment where BOTH sites are exhibiting this behavior (I wanted to rule out this being a problem isolated to the second site by checking both for the bad behavior)

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

Nope, I’m using BuddyPress 1.5.4. I noticed this behavior as soon as the upgrade was up and running. As noted in another thread (component crash note) we had to systematically shut down the different components (including BuddyPress) to troubleshoot the problem. When we deactivated Buddypress, the user name displayed properly again. When we reactivated BuddyPress, the user name was screwwed up as noted in my message above.

The display for the username is right below the main navigation, in the light gray bar to the right of the search for members/groups/posts by the login/logout controls.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

Note- if you run into the above issue, you have to systematically deactivate the different components, then just reactivate the core BuddyPress. You will then have access to the components view where you can toggle these settings back, and then reactivate the components.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

I had to create a ‘create’ subpage under groups in order for this to work.

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

I guess it’s back to using bbpress and attempting to style it up so it doesn’t look so bad?

[@frostdawn Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks for the update Boone. Is there a rough ETA on BP 1.6? The reason I ask is I’m working on a site that is due soon, and I’m really fumbling with forums right now.

Also- still can’t create forum topics in groups forums OR sitewide. Any suggestions?

Thanks again