[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

You have already asked this, please be patient it’s the weekend and late, posting twice will not get any faster a response.

Closing this thread ;continue in the original please.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-social-metwork-like-the-above-with-buddypress/

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Oh ok fair enough, however some of those directives you are trying to state should in fact be set in httpd.conf already e.g FilesMatch should be set to deny access to .htaccess, and do you know then if AllowOverride ALL is set as I would expect a host to restrict that to a specific set of directives only.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Do you not have access to your httpd.conf? Your .htaccess is starting to read like a primary conf file, as a rule use of ..htaccess should be avoided or be kept to a minimum where possible as it’s a big performance hit on a server.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@milordk can I ask what you mean by this comment:

It makes no sense to prove that it is better
I seriously hope it’s not directed at me I am not trying to prove that one plugin or another is better or worse, nor did I start this thread or the two others laboriously debating these two plugins.

Both your plugins have strengths and weaknesses I favour neither over the other however others are asking which to use. from my brief glance at the two I noted with surprise that your plugin does not generate maps ? if that’s wrong my apologies, and by generate I don’t refer to providing a url to google static maps, but mercime seemed to think the plugin did generate maps so perhaps I misunderstood how things work?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Haven’t looked at Drupal in a while, probably worth checking how they handle things. I might try and grab a few minutes in the morning and see if there’s a better way of doing the matching, although my jQuery/JS skills have become sadly rusty over the last year.

It’s easy for us to overlook how things are perceived by less experienced users, I knew instantly the password would match when I had finished typing but I also knew I was typing the exact same password so my experience is not a useful guideline? I know users that would be thrown, try a few times then think they had mistyped the original, changed that and now be in a mess

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

One thing occurred to me, and purely from a user perspective, is the password matching; it would be nice if it would only compare the two passwords when the user had finished, on blur or something; to have the text display ‘Mismatch’ from the off might confuse some people who will think they have entered a character incorrectly

I agree about the extra requests they will tend to build up if not careful with many and various plugins throwing JavaScript around.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

These two additions to the signup are excellent, password strength always worries me and had been looking at the various scripts around, and it’s a nice UX to let the person know that their chosen name is already taken. All in all a really useful compact little plugin.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Start a group rather than dragging up old threads please!

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@erichosting this is too old a thread to be dragging back up. Why don’t you create a group for the plugin? or just simply start a new post to announce the plugin.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Mea maxima culpa

EventPress

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Do they??!! Eventpress does couldn’t see the Jet equivalent .

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

I would admit to having done that myself, but I won’t

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

what do you need from the system how about maps

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Fairly pointless running this thread on further thoughts / questions can be added to this one:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/events-plugin-1/

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Now have two threads running on essentially the same the same topic *frown*

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

So you’re saying Jet Events is stable and Eventspress still in beta? which is probably accurate, EP seems pretty stable though with a few oddities, JES I found required attending to styling markup and oddly having to hack the plugin to integrate GMaps

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

What;’s in the config file? old access values?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Essentially copy over the file you want to work on, while maintaining the folder/directory structure, if in doubt copy /members over.

There is a fair bit of documentation in the codex and probably threads that cover a similar requirement.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

I should have been more literal .

In WP set up to run as Multi Site you have a Super Admin set of links one of which is ‘Options’ if running as single WP then that isn’t available and you need to use the Settings > General link as Paul described.

Worth bearing in mind BP is a registration/member led application it is nothing without ability for members to sign up but traditionally WP was a single bloggers tool and probably most never allowed or wanted people to sign up to the blog but simply place comments to posts so default state is registration disabled.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

#1 look at the /members/single/member-header.php file in there you will see a commented out line of code that will enable display of extra profile fields, if you have created them – exact positioning of that data is down to where you decide to output it in the theme.

#2 undoubtedly yes, but it’s a slightly big subject to give a simple explanation of. In a nutshell: given that we can check the displayed member id then in theory you could use that to run a conditional to render different markup depending on the member profile being viewed.

#3 ? not sure what you mean by this.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

What exactly do you want to customise? You can add new profile fields from the BP dashboard options

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Have you enabled registrations in admin > options

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

I have just been playing around with eventpress and am very impressed, find the plugin file layout a little different than used to in it’s use of a MVC pattern and the new custom pages but the results look very good, seems pretty stable.

Jet events is also worthy but I did have to customise it to add google maps picked up automagically from event address fields, the plugin does look to be in ongoing development which is good, although the same can be said of eventpress.

Jet events tables can be changed just create your own templates it’s what I would have done.
As for authors just check the files as they carry that information.

Best thing is to have a play around yourself with both to get a feel for which suits.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

bp-custom.php never exists it’s user created, it can contain nothing at all if you wish.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Presume this is while they still have an active session on the go?