[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

It isn’t a BuddyPress site though, is it?

Support for themes such as that need to go to the relevant theme writer really. This site supports the BuddyPress plugin for WP/WPMS

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

For anyone having this issue with Topic creation in forums please read and follow the steps I outline in this comment:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forums-not-working-error-when-creating-topic/#post-69618

If this does not solve the issue for you then post a fresh topic outlining your situation with relevant details of setup.

This thread deemed closed.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@jabberjazz
Jane to answer the question from the other thread; yes the support forums are of use, as can be seen by the number of issues raised and solutions provided, of course not all issues are that easy to get to the root of, especially without a lot of detailed info and steps to hopefully reproduce the issue on a local dev install.

I have had this issue before and oddly just a second ago, what causes it ? Can’t tell you for sure, my install was pretty clean no plugins to speak of , forums had been installed, one test group forum activated, create topic -> failure , re-install forums using existing installation , still no joy, create a new group with forum, create a topic -> success ?? something to do with that original group I set up was out of sequence ?

Checking my DB shows that the forum name and id doesn’t exist for the group forum acting up only the default id and group forum recently created are seen.

Soooo I go back to the troublesome group as the admin I go to the admin tab of the group I select ‘Group Settings’ I am shown the initial screen one sees after creating a group and the ‘Enable Discussion Forum’ checkbox. I – unnecessarily – uncheck and check again that box and then select save at bottom of screen – tab back to my DB and yep forum group now is entered!

Attempt to create new topic – success!

So can you give the above procedure a try and report back to us whether it worked or not.

And I hope this changes your opinion on whether there is a help to be found on this support forum

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

There is already a Trac ticket on the issue of adding topic titles to bp_page_title() and in general the function is earmarked to be looked into in more depth I will add a link back to this thread so the issue is logged.

For now I guess you will need to patch as best you can or live with it until 1.3 is released.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

If you have a specific project in mind and are looking for a developer then please post your request in the BP Jobs Board group forum:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

To be more accurate the adminbar is added to the wp_footer via an add_action in the core adminbar file so you would need to remove that action and add a new action ‘bp_after_header’

You would do something along the lines of [not tested]

remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’, 8 ) ;
add_action( ‘bp_after_header’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’, 8 );

Probably ought to be in a wrapper function? and would be run from a functions.php file in a child theme to avoid editing of any core files.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Then you should customise your theme and move the admin bar from the footer to an inflow position after the header, it’s that or use the positioning property absolute (bad idea) or relative using a huge offset value equally not a great idea – to effect the adminbar placement.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

and my main source of income will be designing & placing other local companies banners
To be perfectly frank and not wishing in any way to appear dismissive, if this requirement is to earn revenue from the site then it might behove you to approach a BP developer with a proposal to develop a specific plugin for you, there is now a BP Jobs Board where requests can be posted.

It’s not always the case that plugins can or will be developed pro gratis, it tends to depend on the real need for core features that are judged to be missing and necessary.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

You’ll probably want to create a custom loop then in whatever page, have a look at this page of the codex:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@tedmann have you added all the tricks mentioned? changed footer links? added referer rule to your .htaccess

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@intimez As Paul Hastings says you can view the outstanding tickets for 1.2.6 as you will see there are not that many left and while it is a bit later than promised? there is activity (mainly watching a fascinating very well narrated screencast ) and it shouldn’t be too long now.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

@san61236

Please don’t jump in on others threads if you have a question start your own post.

You might need to check that you have allowed registration in the super-admin settings.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

You raised this ticket though intimez
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2597

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Oh there are many more than that as soon as you start to try and block them a new address will be used

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Not sure of the process but even if you haven’t got bbpress running locate and remove the file. If spambots are managing to get around hidden fields that should remain empty it suggests they are not using whatever form that protection is on.

For CURL try adding this: (but check carefully things still work!)

# trap curl registration downloaders – block in allow,deny rules
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^curl” blog_spammer
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
Deny from env=blog_spammer

Be careful about blocking IP ranges it’s a difficult practice and one that technically you are supposed to notify about in case innocent yet important sites get blocked, you can add further rules to the deny lines above but unless there is a very persistent IP it’s probably not worth it and likely spoffed anyway.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

You take that code and paste it into a file named .htaccess if this file does not exist create it and upload it to the site root.

As for the WP codex page, it has the essential information, sometimes that has to be read a few times to be able to digest satisfactorily sometimes one might have to do little bits of further research if certain terms and processes are unfamiliar.

If problems persist with file permissions you may need to be looking at your server group permissions, in case the server (generally ‘Apache’) is not a member of correct group, the server must be able to write to certain files / directories and it isn’t always simply a file or folder level permission issue.

One other aspect to check is that you are not running PHP ‘Safe Mode’ this will cause issues and need disabling.

P.S. Apologies but I didn’t see your initial response to my comment.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Closing this duplicate. Mark please avoid duplicating threads it’s confusing and ties people up answering what may already have been covered.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

You’re quite correct it does still exist which I find very odd as I seem to have a recollection of comments that said it would be / was removed.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

btw when posting example links use the reserved domain ‘example.com’ reserved for this purpose by IANA

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Sort of suggests your permalink structure is messed up, have you tried reselecting and saving the permalinks?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Thought the stray registration file had been dealt with.

As well as rename the register slug, rename the footer links as they are searched out in their default form. I also added a rule to htaccess that checked the referer page and if it wasn’t the site chucked the request to somewhere else (do need to make that somewhere interesting) also blocked any CURL requests for the register page, finally made the decision that blogs could not be created during sign up, once registered members could create blogs and this made a difference.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Just showed you how!

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

A little more info please.

Assuming you are using the bp-default theme?

The header image is manageable from the dashboard by the user thus the styles are added to the doc head (embedded styles) these would overrule the rules you create in a linked stylesheet, that’s the first C in CSS ‘Cascading’.

In your functions.php file add this line between php script tags:

/* Disable default themes header stuff */
define( ‘BP_DTHEME_DISABLE_CUSTOM_HEADER’, true );

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Not sufficient information for a meaningful response, the single.php in a child theme should override the parent/original for the display of single WP posts.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

beef is simply ‘Graceful Degradation’, creating input via Client Side scripting not a good approach no gracefull fallback, but wondering now whether I read Boones post carefully enough? Perhaps that wasn’t what he was thinking?