[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Puzzled by this what are you running and in what configuration, your users – if they are simply subscribers – shouldn’t be able to do much anyway. Is this dashboard link coming off the back of my ticket and code example as I had written it with user capabilities in mind it was only meant to show for users elevated to super admin.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Apologies for not getting back.

If I had my brain in gear would have remembered the remove adminbar constant – thanks mercime.

Also this page in the codex will give you an idea of how the adminbar is created and manipulated and perhaps how you could re-position those links:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

If elements cause an issue then that needs to be addressed and is a presentational matter, Semantics is a different subject and dictates that the correct elements are chosen to describe the data, regardless of presentation which comes later.

A ul won’t collapse the layout, however if you floated the li elements then you would need to ensure that you had used an appropriate method of ‘containing floats’ e.g ‘overflow:hidden;’

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You are perfectly able to move the adminbar, style it, create a positioning context of your choosing.

This is a styling issue and as such you should do this work on a child theme to preserve any changes you make to stylesheets and/or files.

As to how complicated this is is a question of your coding knowledge and BP/WP structure.

Giving any more detailed advice is difficult without having specifics to hand on what you wanted to do.

I’m puzzled by you remarking that you can live with the adminbar scrolling as this is not the default behavior, by default the adminbar is positioned ‘fixed’ i.e stays at the top of the browser viewport.

Actually taking the adminbar links and placing them elsewhere – in effect removing the adminbar is slightly more complex but doable but again you would need a good idea on where they would be going.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@roy27 Please don’t double post always choose an appropriate sub forum and post once.

Closing this thread, please continue in ‘Creating and Extending’
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/how-to-move-the-admin-bar-functions-into-the-template-and-remove-the-admin-bar/

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

A table construct is not an appropriate structure – this is not tabulated data if anything it’s a list and a ul would be the structure best suited.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Raised a ticket on this a while back and gave example code I was using to add dashboard links to adminbar and believe there has been a patch added and committed for 1.3.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

One approach might be to configure php.ini to use the smpt localhost and port lines (i.e uncomment) and set an explicit sendmail_from address or simply configure sendmail,

I’ve never had an issue with sending email reg confirmations from a test environment but then I scrabbled around and worked out how to configure ‘fake sendmail’ which essentially amounted to stating a true smtp server to use e.g my main email account.

This is one of those issues that is not really application based necessarilly but more server OS oriented and finding a solution may be quicker focusing on these aspects rather than WP/BP and perhaps trying in a WAMP forum? or XAMPP? for a solution?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Not in disagreement necessarily and get your point. I’m interested in this as I don’t know myself why this approach has been adopted (probably should have been paying more attention in those dev chats )

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Interesting points. Working recently with trunk prompted the same thoughts vis-a-vis disabling BP and being left with a heap of odd pages, but then I simply removed or unpublished those pages.

It would be interesting to hear the comments of the core devs who are :

@jjj
@djpaul
@boonebgorges

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You will need to make that child theme then. I would add to your child theme folder structure the _inc/css/ structure as you have edited the main style files simply copy them over to this child theme directory, your child theme style.css in theme root will call those files in the same way as default does. Copy over any main files you might have edited such as footer, header etc to child theme.

When you have all the files you have edited safely copied into the new child theme download a fresh copy of BP and replace the files you edited with copies of the originals that way you can drop back to the default theme if need be.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Are you saying you know how to or asking how to?

fwiw you shouldn’t really use that attribute as it’s been long deprecated. How a link is opened is a user issue you as a developer should not force your desire on the end user and their browser, i do not want or allow new windows, if i want to spawn a new window then I will choose that action otherwise I’ll expect my default behavior of a new tab; also new windows is a usability issue for users that are unfamiliar with browsers and they get confused when they find their browser history broken.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Glad you got it all working. You sorted the issue with the functions file, which seemed the main thrust of the thread ?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

@thealchemist do bear in mind that Multisite is a WordPress feature (and therefore really a WP support issue rather than a BP one) even though we are happy to help where we can with non BP support issues

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Do I not recall this issue being raised a while ago? Are we talking about the *Default* WP admin acount created at initial signup and of the practice of then changing or masking that accounts displayed name by editing the DB entries?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

As Boone suggests these are just styling concerns aren’t they? Tabs are simply artifice, an illusion created through CSS; thus for bp-default you must create a child theme to allow you to re-style those links in the manner you wish.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Your English if fine

This may not help, but I seem vaguely to recall a similar error when I tested, but think (can’t remember for sure) I had hacked the template files around a bit and I think removed some link along the way? So question is have you modified anything?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Don’t worry too much about submitting tickets (and they don’t have to provide a solution) if you have a fair idea that something is of the nature of a bug – as you had hear – and can describe the nature of it as technically as possible with steps to reproduce if required then a ticket will definitely be reviewed and dealt with in one fashion or another. The Trac application is geared to tracking and logging and is far easier to find items when submitted to it than entering on the support forum where they may get lost, although it doesn’t hurt to start a forum post as well with perhaps a link to the ticket for reference.

Trac also may be used for adding ‘Enhancement’ type tickets so if you had a idea of an improvement that might be made or feature added that is the place to raise it as well.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

However tend not to think this is a php script mem limit issue.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

what does phpinfo() actually report back for main and local values?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

where’s your original thread?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

@mark211 rather than resurrect old posts (bad) please have a hunt through the support forum threads as the issue has been covered in some detail, if those still don’t help you please start a new post with a detailed explanation of your problem.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

So chestnut rather than sign off posts with ‘Anyone?’ submit trac tickets they get better attention from the core devs.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

@djpaul so I was basically completely wrong with the above then! that will teach me I’ll keep my mouth shut in future.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Oh so emails are being sent then!

As mentioned work in just WP ensure that option to allow user registration is set and test again and send to an account that you has no issues i.e accounts like hotmail can be problematical as they implement iirc SPF records and will likely reject emails coming from a domain they can’t verify so ensure the sending address is real. There are quite a few threads on the support forum on this subject that cover most of what I can suggest and more, so they are worth tracking down although I admit searching can be awkward.