[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Haven’t run that plugin under IE, need to look at that.

Point taken about the pwd confirm, and sign up rates and for a app like Facebook the figures perhaps justify. One thing I would say is that I am in favour of initial simplified signup processes, there is nothing that puts me of more than over complicated lengthy signups.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

A password confirmation is not a barrier to entry it’s a ‘Best Practise’ to be honest if you have users put of by having to enter passwords twice you are probably better off without them

Just because Facebook does something a particular way doesn’t make it a best practise

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@mercime @fsdasdfasdff

That Username Availibilty Checker has been incorporated into the bp-xtra-signup plugin by Travel-Junkie which also provides password strength feedback. This is a plugin I would recommend people make use of.

However this issue is not ‘Username’ as there can’t be the same username twice

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

In fact I would go further and advise the use of travel-Junkies bp-xtra-signup plugin for it’s password strength checker and other touches. Stop them doing user name ‘bob’ password ‘bob’

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

User blogs are a function of WP rather than BuddyPress. You need WPMU or the newer WP 3.0.1 installed and if installing WP 3.0.1 then you have to manually enable the Multi Site functionality; you will find a guide to doing this on the WP codex.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

As well as Roger’s pointers, you probably need to read through the docs pages as some things like this request will require a little bit of inner workings knowledge.

I would suggest reading through this page which will give you all the clues you need to be able to remove an adminbar item and relocate it somewhere else, also this isn’t a hugely difficult thing to achieve.

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Thinking about it you may want to increase the max_execution_time to perhaps double? never needed to adjust this figure myself but with 50,000 blogs to cycle through that execution time might be too short? In fact I would try adjusting that before the mem limit to see if it helps.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

256 is pretty big, what you set it to depends on what is available, and also bear in mind what the limit is actually put in place for which is to prevent a script crashing your server, if you set the limit to all available memory you would be in trouble if a badly written script looped and started to use up all your system memory. If you can try increasing the memory allocation in chunks testing each time to see if that is the problem and at what point or extra amount everything settles down and works, then add a bit of headroom.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

50,000 users and blogs, really!? that’s certainly going to put BP through it’s paces. What’s your PHP script memory limit set to out of interest.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

In all honesty this isn’t the appropriate element to use for a list of thumbnail images; tables are for tabulated data which a series of images isn’t, these should really be a ul li which ultimately you will find easier to style and control.

If you’re persevering with the table then I would suggest you create a Conditional Comment file for IE 8 or perhaps [IE lte 8] and run some checks for IE 7.

The issue looks to be Modern browsers shrinkwrapping the tr/td to the content width i.e the image whereas IE is creating a td that adjusts to the table width. You could use a fuller set of table attributes and specify cols and their widths but this is getting into advanced table constructs.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@mercime Thanks for the heads up

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@kikkoroma there is a jobs board group for posting job requests in, could you repost in that group please.

Closing this thread, anyone interested can contact directly to the email address.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@brlc Please don’t duplicate posts , you won’t get any faster a response and it’s bad nettiquette

Closing this thread please continue here

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Not sure where I demonstrated Sarcasm? But don’t thank mercime in order to help me do it because… well it’s simply courteous? )

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

😆 think that’s known as ‘Left Field’

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@boonebgorges and from this day forth thou shall be known by the name ‘Divine Oracle’

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

I don’t get this response?
Can anyone gimme feedback on this please? Would be greatly appreciated.

Was that not feedback that mercime gave you? and it seemed to answer your original question quite succinctly; not really sure how we get from subdomain name to redirects pointing to user profiles, you must have amazing prescient sense Boone.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

and it would be stupid to get a developer to do it! Yes and no and a large proportion of this site membership are probably developers by trade and in some senses it’s actually easier to do it than explain how to do it!

The advice was right though set up a child theme which simply uses a new stylesheet that can contain overriding rulesets. To avoid getting in a mess keep two copies of the stylesheet one named .css.bck and switch to that if things go wrong both sheets call the bp-default styles so swapping to the .css.bck will simply call the original files without any changes or you having to change themes in the admin.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

The issue of Avatars has been raised and looked at.

The links, tend to agree, they’re a lot of changes due for the site so maybe that will be considered as well.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

It’s essentially already being done, if you look at member-header.php you will see that ‘last activity’ and ‘latest updates’ for the member being displayed are fetched by passing in bp_displayed_user_id() that function returns the current displayed user so all you need to do is an if displayed user == ‘ID’ do some stuff else carry on and do latest update.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Perhaps you could repost this in the appropriate group for seeking buddypress developers:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/

Thread closed.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

!important might work but all in all it’s abused by the community If the specificity is matched then the ruleset coming last takes precedence and an adjusted rule should come after the one being trumped – !important also further compounds the issue of BP themes working or at least having a semblance of working with IE6 (A browser not yet having reached the end of it’s life sadly)

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

And did you install Firebug? It may be a case that you need to increase the selector specificity by adding in parent selector elements , which might also be shown by firebug if you inspect the element and then look at the applied rulesets, it could show a number of antecedent selectors such as:

#item-nav .item-list-tabs {}

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

It’s probably not a great idea to do something like this via client side scripting especially given the circs for wanting to do this. A filter function ought to be created to handle it.

It’s worthy of looking at with a view to creating a plugin or functions.php function, shouldn’t be too difficult to do and I might have a look later time permitting or hopefully one of the more skilled members with the BP API might suggest an approach.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@travel-junkie

Just been having a play around, although can’t yet see an approach to change the mismatch notice when > 0 characters I did add in a stronger warning on username password matches.

I changed //password1 == username to return ‘badPassUsername’ leaving ‘badPass’ to work for the score < 40

Added a new var badPassUsername = 6

added new ‘case 6’ to the switch and made relevant adjustments to the var pwsL10n in bpxs-core.php

so now on my copy a username == password1 match informs the user the password is insecure as username matches password, that’s the polite version anyway

What I wanted to work further on is to then halt the process until user had made a change as at the minute despite the warning the registration will still submit that numpty password.