[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Personally not downloaded a zip as I use SVN to grab the branch, but if you don’t have a folder after unzipping called ‘buddypress’ then yes you’ll have to rename it, it’s one of those suck it and see questions reallly.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.3

zip file bottom of page. Not a great idea downgrading though!

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Why do they find they can’t post anything?

You need to take a little more time to play and test your install, create a user ensure you have enabled create user blogs in the main options under super admin on the main blog then logged in as that new user create a new blog or register a new user and create a blog at same time., and re read my post above re upping the users capabilities/role, you don’t for a user blog.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

But how do you want to handle notification of any critical issues? open tickets under 1.2.6?

And “nice coincidence of dates” what for you lot partying in NYC and eating loads of pizza :p

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Hmm just wondering whether ought to create a thread to hold any comments on issues that people might find, then it can be decided whether they are fixed before full release or moved to 1.3 milestone. Trouble is of course there may well be issues that are already known and ticketed but awaiting dealing with under 1.3

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You mean ‘Roadmaps’? Last discussion we had seemed to think they were not that important.

https://trac.buddypress.org/roadmap

Or:

https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

You can create a ticket under the 1.3 milestone as an enhancement.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@questus5

Look at your bp admin section, you will see the custom profile link you use that to create new groups and fields, as long as a new group is created under the ‘Base’ level then it will appear on the registration page.

@dorothysulzmann
As a workaround I would move the three type selections labeled ‘Fan off’? to just after the primary details and use the tree types as just that to confer a user type to each member but also run a simple jQuery show/hide on the further groups so all are hidden and then a check is performed to catch the radio selection and the appropriate group revealed with perhaps a ‘none’ control selection default.

The proper approach would be to complete a section and then pass the form control fields in a session or buffer to the next view to complete further sections but with BP that will likely start to get complicated, as techguy says there is no quick easy way to do this but with client side scripting it wouldn’t be that difficult.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Yep, reckon around a googols worth I’ll handle the first 700,000 but it will require a big push from the community to handle the rest.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

It is an interesting idea, yet when one thinks about how groups are often used i.e to provide separate and distinct content, then merging one into another would perhaps not be wanted, as the merge to group suddenly has a lot of odd content in it that doesn’t belong. If the ticket is created then I would suggest – perhaps obviously – that it would be an optional choice to either delete for all eternity or to select a group to merge data to.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/postponing-buddypress-1-2-6-until-this-w/

Not utterly sure why.

Ideally we need to be testing this proposed release candidate as much as possible I’ve run 1.2.6 or more accurately the 1.2 branch on local test installs for a while and it feels solid, if others wish to try on test installs and they can grab a zip from:

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

<snip>permalinks other than the default setting. But when I do that my links to my pages don’t work. What to do?
And when on the permalinks screen and having saved new settings what does the screen say? Are there any messages?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@janismo take a care asking everyone and their dog to look at your problem you must allow some time, generally the people that can help are pretty busy themselves.

Last post I saw mention of ‘Can only get one value for radio button’ radio form controls can only be in one state or value, if you were needing to see if a profile should do something based on a number possible radio selections can you not do:

if radio == ” || radio == ” || radio == ” it’s probably a little long winded and better done by doing something like an array compare or some other more elegant approach.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

No I test on my local test installs.

btw you need to append NSFW every time you post that url please.

Your site is too customised to really be able to help with there could be any number of reasons why that search is being broken, as in your other post you show a lot of plugins at work, you will have to do some basic troubleshooting to arrive at the root cause for both your issues.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You have got a huge heap of plugins running. The first rule of troubleshooting is to reduce down to the most basic functionality to produce a test case that demonstrates the issue or not, ideally one runs the basic installation which will not demonstrate the issue, then start to add back in plugins one by one checking each time to see if the issue kicks in again, or work that in reverse and start disabling plugins one by one checking as you go so that you know what plugin causes the problem.

This is exactly the same reason we ask that people drop back to the default theme as doing that tells us immediately if an issue is related to BP or a custom theme.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Not really possible to help further, the issue is too light on detail and as I have said I can’t replicate the issue both search boxes on the members directory page find members without apparent trouble.

It might make sense – given the issue – that you try the unified search?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Look through the user edit options in the WP backend.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

This isn’t an issue I can replicate or that I can recall hearing of before, and the same probably goes for the others, thus it’s very difficult to help further.

I assume you haven’t any plugins running that may be having an untoward effect on replies, or have grabbed any functions to put into functions.php. You have checked all your BP options carefully, nothing disabled?

You are running latest stable BP?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You’ve sort of taken two slightly different responses and tried to meld them into one, you originally asked about users being allowed to contribute/provide content ; I pointed out that you can allow selected users to write content on the main blog that BP runs on, it was also mentioned that MS blogs could be enabled, if you have enabled MS you now have two options to allowing users to contribute content on the site.

You do not create user blogs yourself the user creates the blog themselves and in doing so is automatically the admin for that blog, bear in mind that these blogs are full standalone WP blogs, I doubt you want to be creating them manually on behalf of your users, you could do though.

The other option is as I mentioned originally and to which you allude to in asking “and grant them the author level manually?” you would be doing this if you wanted to add authors to the main blog.

You might need to clarify for yourself the distinction between user blogs and what is often referred to as the ‘Main Blog’

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@janismo I’ve slightly lost track of what you are trying to do and need to reference the other threads, if this is running in a profile loop then I’m not sure there isn’t a simpler approach than this one outlined here (not sure you really need to do xprofile_get_field_id_from_name), but it’s late , I’m tired and not thinking clearly

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I’ve added to the ticket, can’t replicate the issue.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@nuprn1
fwiw – the wordpress backend checks if the same user_nicename AND user_login exist. if it does, it will attach a suffix (this is part of wp-includes/registration.php – wp_insert_user)

So does that imply it’s not strictly a BP issue/ in which case the ticket really needs directing to WP if it’s to be dealt with.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

edit// ignore my ramblings: Previous two posts added while writing – mine null and void

Are you sure this is a BP issue though? I can’t replicate your issue on a local test install, that you have a customised site with members listed in some manner of grouping is suggestive of a plugin at work possibly? I may be wide of the mark though on that.

As was asked is there actually a ticket on this that we can look at or do you have a link to the post you made raising the issue.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

There’s no a simple approach to his – well there is but you have to start doing a little hand coding – there is already an element in the header named ‘logo’ it does buggar all at the moment, the approach BP takes to setting a background on the header doesn’t really allow for linking a logo , normally with sites one would add the background to an anchor and set that to display block then the entire header would be clickable but there are many ways to skin a cat and many consideration to take into account.

You might have to disable the bp header arrangement in the backend and set the graphic on the element #logo

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

That’s a theming / presentational issue which you need to address through the CSS / markup.

In this case if you are referring to (Please be explicit about where you see issues) the space above the swf then you have an empty paragraph tag there for no reason; you need to remove that to close the gap.

As for the horizontal alignment I’m afraid you have a fixed width element in a fluid layout and will always have issue with narrower browser widths the fixed width now dictates the min-width you must set the site layout to work with.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

two things first please,
One: topic titles need to be descriptive of the issue, not a genaralised plea for help, we know you want help otherwise you likely wouldn’t have posted

Two: Please refrain from writing in caps, writing in capitals in lists and forums means that you are shouting, we would rather you didn’t shout at us.

Some useful reading on how to do things the right way on forums:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

As for turning that code into a widget have you considered approaching the plugin author? perhaps a small donation might help things along? After plugins are not really free, that’s a popular misconception they are very costly in development and testing terms.