[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

It works for me!

As always first question – as in the other thread – is does it work if you drop back to the default theme?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

What theme and plugins are you running. if custom theme does this occur when using default. If running plugins disable all but necessary i.e BP does it still occur?

Does that link url have any meaning to you?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

The layout of default is a fluid one, the image is going to look diffrent on various browsers depending on their width and screen resolutions.

The instruction to set an image with a width of 1250px is not an indication the image will be fine, an image of that width will only display fully if your browser has at least 1338px width, start to narrow the browser width and the element being asked to hold the background also has to reduce in width thus clipping the background.

Creating graphics and placing them appropriately for fluid layouts is actually a lot harder than it appears.

The method that would ordinarily be used would be to divide the graphics in to two separate slices, the right hand stripes portion would be it’s own graphic this would be placed as a background to an inner element to the main one holding the other graphic, the new element would be left to simply run full width of it’s parent i.e default natural behavior of a block level element the red stripes would then be set as a background to this new element but placed at 100% on the y-axis i.e all the way to the right.

Now what occurs is that the right hand graphic moves independently of the left it will sit to the right hand edge of the header. Drawback to this is that you have to be aware of what has been set as a min-width for the layout if this value is too small it will allow the graphic to move too far together and overlap; min-width need to be sufficient to keep the two images reasonably separate.

I’m afraid that the bp-default theme is not really geared up to handle a graphic of the type you have made, with it’s principle resting on clipping the header image at smaller width thus requiring an image type that still makes sense if pert of it is hidden.

Another solution is to set the bp-default layout to a suitable fixed width and match your header graphic to that width, then the issue doesn’t occur.

Failing all that your last option is to move the stripes to the left by the amount that is appropriate at the layout min-width for it to show fully, now when you expand the browser you will eventually arrive at a blank area where the stripes run out /end so you will need to run the graphic on from the point where the stripes meet the bottom of the header or height, so for ~100px or so you need to continue the graphic albeit it clipped to top and bottom in your graphics software

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Can you confirm whether those files actually exist and in the correct locations within the buddypress plugin folder structure

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Old threads are never really the ‘Right Place’ they’re there as archive material to be read. Generally the correct form is to start a new post for your issue.

Have you not already asked this question a couple of times today in threads?

Please keep to this thread you started on the issue,
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/editing-group-activity-stream/

if no response by the morning give the post a bump, in the meantime keep searching and reading old posts as the solution might well have been covered already.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@Guru06 Please use ‘backticks’ to display code as noted below the posting window or escape the markup.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Then likely you are being rejected as a sender by hotmail servers (do you get to see mailer-daemon failure notices?) , it’s perhaps a SPF policy issue, this sort of issue can arise if trying to send from an address that can’t be checked back.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Then you have an unexpected T_STRING on that line somewhere

It basically means that your syntax is incorrect and you have terminated the line prematurely somewhere with a ‘ or , or ; or not closed the previous line.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Somewhat depends; are you only styling the highlighted li and li elements in comments as that has a bearing on the placement of the graphic.
Only the properties that actually change need be stated so you would really state your more generic li styles first, setting up the overall styling for a list in this parent or antecedent then state the more specific li elements with a class

So all li elements that have styles in common are declared first, something like:

ul.activity-list ul li {}

Then your commnets li styling

and lastly your more specific li.highlightpost-mine class which would carry only the styles needed to override existing ones or add new ones; If that is just a background color then as you have declared previously a ‘background’ stating color and image you would use background-color to override just the color otherwise you would lose the graphic.

If the background for those two elements is as wanted i.e you want the graphic on the activity-commnets li elements as well as the highlight class then it would be easiest to group the declaration and lose the background-position (shorthand statements cover all sub properties) so ‘position’ should be within the ‘background’ declaration

`
ul.activity-list li.highlightpost-mine,
div.activity-comments ul li {
background: #ebf7ff url(/images/ctr.png) no-repeat 100% 99%;
}
`

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

CSS can’t make something beautiful that’s a design consideration, you have the control required now though.
p.s always use shorthand CSS property declarations, unless there is a specific reason to need to state the sub properties so ‘background’ rather than background-color’ initially, background-color if preserving a previously declared background containing an image call or other background properties.

On a sidenote as a rule of thumb adding markup should be considered a last resort, especially ‘divs’, unless generating actual new elements.

As is often the case dynamic site apps such as WP, Drupal et al have a tendency to divitis or markup bloat, generating much markup where it’s not absolutely necessary, not a huge problem, but slows page loads, and creates overcomplicated DOM structures.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

V3 API removes the need for a key, If people ask nicely I may post my revised map code

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

No you won’t lose data, upgrading a plugin such as BP is best done by removing the old version first rather than overwritting files.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@lespaul I’m afraid you won’t find a lot of help tagging on to the end of a thread in this way. Please start a fresh topic, describe your issue, detail your setup; versions, plugins in use, themes in use, etc and someone hopefully will be able to help.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Don’t think it’s a reversible condition, but this is a WP issue and perhaps would be better addressed to the WP forums.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Not sure the answer to his other than further deep testing to establish the exact reason, I tend to experience the same sort of lag that you speak of but not necessarily so long.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

So on that basis I guess the next step is run through the plugins one by one to try and see if it’s a particular plugin that causes speed issue?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Topic closed. redirect to:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-site-painfully-slow-1/

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

How did you write it as the category name? as travel-junkie shows? it should work on a single post page in or outside the loop.

Blank page suggests a critical error in php syntax somewhere.

You might need to show the snippet of code you added

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You would simply need to add the members username to a title tag on the img or anchor element then that would display on hover.

edit // Actually spoke too soon; no it’s not easy as the avatars are returned via template function so there’s no direct access to the markup, so sadly a convoluted filter approach will be required if it’s possible.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@bowromir I was trying to ensure the thread didn’t necessarily run on seeming to be focused at your site, this was trying to be kind! As for Moderators hat actually no it can’t ever be left off that is one of the burdens incurred in the responsibility, and I definitely do not feel the need to act tough and I trust that was a joke as for showing power that is the mark of a BAD moderator I’ve been doing this sort of thing for far too long to be feeling as though I needed to demonstrate power, also too old to think that’s important.

I’ll close the thread though now which is about the only power I do have

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@kimprasannanielsen welcome to the help forum, firstly the forum is not a coding service as such we can’t do the work for you but will help you where you get stuck.

If you find an aspect confusing then please explain what stage you are at and what you’re stuck with and someone with experience of using the template pack will hopefully be able to guide you along.

If however you do want professional help then rather than post your email address here post a request on the jobs board group for help getting this sorted.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

As Roger has pointed out the thread has gone off tangent so I’ll invoke ‘Hittler’, ‘Nazis’ on it and if there are no further comments by the participants we’ll close it off.
(if unsure of the ‘Hitler’ rule stw )

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@travel-junkie Along with due attribution should also go the common courtesy of requesting permission and of not assuming that because something is posted publicly that that means it’s free to be copied as this is generally not the case.

With a tiny moderation hat on I would state for the record that this thread, should it continue, is not about bp-tricks in particular please, lest it feel like unfair judgment is being passed, which isn’t deserved.

On the matter of ‘tips & tricks’ getting lost on this project home site I would agree but that is an issue that is to be addressed by the reworking of the codex for the site and that this is where many code snippets will be gathered and presented as things progress, as for that being replicated elsewhere I pass no comment either way.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@janismo Spam post noted containing 200,000,000 links no wonder IE couldn’t cope, it will be flagged up.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

There you go that is the approach written for you, however do check the codex and docs because they are written for a purpose, to help with this sort of request, quick check there first, will likely get you halfway to a solution we can then fill the rest in if necessary.