[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

It looks to be a theme issue, the /groups/…./forum/ page should have the class ‘zebra’ on the table element you will either need to add this class manually or contact the authors and ask them to update the theme or they may have done and you’re using an old version?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

and so you now need to follow the instructions I outlined above.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

But you haven’t created any rules for sidebar so it can only sit in the flow??!!

It looks as though #sidebar needs to be placed after your #sidebar-content element has closed as you have rules for a classic source order arrangement with #content-sidebar floated 100% width and it’s first child given a right margin to clear space for the sidebar with this arrangement #sidebar element must be flowed after the main sidebar-container closes. Then you need to actually describe sidebar ruleset that floats it left, set a width and an equal negative left margin to match the width.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

There is already a ticket and a patch for this as well as a support thread expect the patch committed in 1.2.7

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/time-offset-still-present-in-bp-1-2-6/

However you are reporting quite a time difference? but this is a long running issue but should be corrected with this final patch.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Simply go through the BP files and remove the sidebar call!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

@zomex ignore the query string it’s a version string appended when the style sheet is added to the output of the page and is simply a method used to force refresh of browser cache , it’s appended to the file after the fact and no file actually exists physically with a query string, just edit the adminbar.css as r-a-y has shown you

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Added a footnote to the ‘blog tracking’ list item on https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

It perhaps also needs reference elsewhere as well.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

@r-a-y (Sidenote: me thinks we need a BP codex article to setup the blogs component) by that do you mean multi site feature? if so is that not really a WP issue and well covered in their codex, with perhaps BP codex just needing to reference that WP page, subscribing to a variation of DRY therein.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

The link to the patch is here:
https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/2203/omgpizza.patch

ticket is here:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2203

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Sidenote// Can we please not use caps for post titles, it doesn’t gain you attention just annoys people edited! (second time today)

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

@xsimo that generic non specific upload issue? I’m sure Boone will have endless fun committing a generic fix to cover a vaguely defined issue

If you really want help, and not being able to upload avatars is fairly critical, I suggest you start a new thread and describe the problem you are having in as much detail as possible along with WP/BP versions and any plugins running.

I have multiple test installs and production installs none have an issue with avatar upload – however your server! can present issues if not configured correctly but that isn’t a fix Boone can commit.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Locked your duplicate post in other group and have re typed your title here – please don’t shout! it doesn’t get you any faster attention

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

@missyjohn7 Please avoid multiple posts, once is plenty also if you had looked you might have spotted a Jobs Board group where your post(s) should have been placed (granted it’s not easy to find)

Thread locked

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Easy way to check although possibly disruptive to your users is to drop back to default theme and see if the ‘?’ works if it does it’s Suffusion at fault.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

it’s possible and I am sort of working on something like this but when I say working managing to map out all the problems I hadn’t envisaged. At the moment there is a manual-ish approach that can be taken where one (admin) can set profile fields check boxes that correspond to existing post tags, user makes a selection of the tags that interest them and then a post loop is run against the user id and the tags they have selected and posts displayed, I wanted to try and take that further and make it less manual but I may try to run up the widget first then try and build the rest around it

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

I wouldn’t hold your breath for this functionality, there are a lot of issues to deal with and only a volunteer core dev team working away at all the tickets for 1.3. I think that what you seek is not a easy task and would require some dedicated coding over and above what time permits for the core team and those helping out patching and testing.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Well that doesn’t sound like exactly the same problem really. It’s considered bad form to post on the back of another’s thread as it simply confuses the thread when trying to reply to two or more different sets of issues even if apparently related.

Both of you will need to provide some detail on your installations

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

don’t know how it’s suddenly appeared, it’s always been there and it is supposed to be clickable to reveal @mention guidance text, the fact that yours isn’t makes me suspect a custom theme issue and if it just appeared was there a recent upgrade to the custom theme?

If you check a regular bp-default install you’ll see the functionality.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

What is the result if you drop back to the default BP theme and try or for that matter plain WP

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

he who has the last laugh…

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Ah hmm, red rag to a web developer

No need to learn Photoshop, CSS, HTML or other technologies

Well there you go thanks arseseer , makes me redundant

I can’t see that that automated web site creator will present any huge issues as long s it creates standard type static theme files it will simply be a case of identifying those elements and class names existing in one file but not the other.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

This aspect shouldn’t really have anything to do with PHP it’s a markup issue or markup and CSS in respect to matching class or id names, however I’m not familiar with the theme you reference.

I don’t care I just want it fixed… is this wrong??

Not wrong but one has to be careful of the tenor of ones comments/requests, obviously no one is under an obligation to help being that this is a volunteer support forum.

As per my previous suggestion have you tried opening the two files I suggested and comparing the structure? Looking at such elements as say

<div id=”content”> in the BP file and comparing that to your chosen themes file if they differ you need to adjust the BP file to match also look for other elements that may be in your chosen theme file but not present in the BP one. It’s this structure that you need to get to match for the BP files to work, it’s markup/ specific not PHP even though the files might be typed as .php

If this still proves too difficult or demands on your time not permitting (most of us have huge demands on our time ) then I suggest posting in the jobs board group for some hired help.

Lastly The theme Artisteer might just possibly create themes in a manner that is simply not possible to work into a BP theme or at least that presents additional difficulties over more static themes, that is speculation though but I would say that there are a fair few themes that would never work well with BP due to flaws in their construction.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

You add them via the backend, please explore the BP menu options closely.

To output the new fields read through the members loop file or embers header file as there should be comments explaining how to introduce new fields to the markup.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

There have been dozens if not hundreds of posts on this issue due to the fact that this step requires – as I believe it does pretty clearly state – a basic knowledge of CSS/HTML and of how themes are structured and from that point on requires some manual work.

There comes a point where a little coding knowledge is required BP is not a simple application and the requirement to have it use a WP theme not a standard one jivany makes some vaild points about this earlier in the thread. That said it isn’t actually that difficult only requiring basic level knowledge and you do state I have a good understanding of CSS, and HTML but when it comes to PHP I am pretty much beat. a good knowledge is more than is required and as for PHP at this stage it isn’t really relevant.

In some of those posts you allude to there are further explanations of what needs doing , I know as I’ve responded to a few, but a basic pointer in the right direction is about all that can be given the rest is up to the individual, call it if you will the price of admission? Checking those threads carefully might help? Usually it’s only a case of comparing two files and ensuring that the structure matches i.e elements and names they are given page.php is a possible starting point to compare against one of the BP directory index files?

Please note this isn’t meaning to be unhelpful but to ask that members take this further is possibly asking too? much of them. An absolute and definitive guide to the template process is never going to be that easy to do as themes will vary and the steps required change accordingly.

Providing a zip file suggests you hope that someone will take the files and do the work for you this isn’t appropriate to expect of anyone, but maybe someone with time on their hands will, if not as suggested earlier in the thread you might need to hire someone for a few hours to do this for you?

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Continuing from this thread: need-to-display-real-names

This thread might provide you with useful background on user names: Is-it-possible-to-create-a-community-where-people-can-use-thier-real-names

There already exists the ability to set and use ‘Display Names’ is that not sufficient for your requirements.