I stripped my bp-custom.php down so that it is almost empty. @modemlooper’s code works great now. Must have been something in there causing a conflict.
+1 to that idea or any way of encouraging users to add an avatar during sign up.
A big improvement could also be made to the activity stream. Currently it isn’t possible to have personal activity AND friend’s activity in the same feed. Would be nice.
The activation page is used to activate a member’s account manually (as an alternative to automatic activation after clicking the link sent in the activation email).
Both the member and site admin are able to enter the activation key manually. Useful if the member is having problems receiving the activation email.
Sometimes a little humour is needed! especially as i’ve been pulling my hair out over the past 2 days trying to get this blasted code to work :}
the way you comment your code sounds like good practice to me. That way you can write code once, reuse on new websites you’re working on, let people understand what you’ve written, easily go back to old code and so on.
you’re right i suppose, it does depend a lot on the plugin. After all, a plugin can be a few lines of code in a single file or a huge folder full of badly written buggy spaghetti code.
I’m trying to get this to work purely for my own satisfaction now as I had it working at some point in the past.
@tbermudas thanks for the idea, i used to have it working (without the need for a plugin). Thinking using a plugin for this is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
How about accounting for usernames, first names, surnames across multiple components such as Activity, Profile…? Only a plugin will let you do that, unless you want to write some bulky custom code.
Although Yoast’s WordPress SEO works perfectly with WordPress, it isn’t currently compatible with BuddyPress. I suggest you try a plugin such as SeoPress. There are some problems with that plugin (lacking 404 page support, registration page title buggy, incompatible Friends component etc) but on the whole it is about the best option on the market at the moment.
Thanks for getting back to me. The file is complete and unmodified.
The error was echo’d to the “Update Plugin” screen during update from v1.7.1 to 1.7.2. I was making use of the function in my functions.php to remove the mentions tab:
function remove_mention_nav() {
global $bp;
bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $bp->activity->slug, 'mentions' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'remove_mention_nav' );
I’ve not come across any problems since adding the function back to functions.php so perhaps it was just a glitch.
Completely agree! Content is the most important thing.
For the site i’m building, my SEO efforts are more for the end user’s benefit and less for search engine rank improvements. When a user looks at Google’s search results I’d like them to see a meaningful page title and description. I class the page title and description as “off-page content” which is just as important to the end user as the “on-page” information they are reading.
Yoast isn’t compatible with parts of BuddyPress @ubernaut – try seeing if page titles for member profiles work for you. I’d be interested to know.
@megainfo SeoPress is fantastic actually, seems to be the only plugin that tries to be compatible with BP. As for the 70%, that sounds spot on. A few bits could be improved
