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Ryan you really need to actually state what you have tried and what the issues are that you are having. To simply hope that someone leaps to it and sorts it out based on the above is unreasonable
So you have a theme you like? what have you attempted in order to make it BP compatible have you tried running the:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/Paul the question of core committers is a thorny issue, but your views run in tandem with my own on the subject and this aspect and many others have been thrashed out in a long winded thread in the moderators group, where I think I have tended, probably, to make myself a little unpopular as I will keep re-iterating what I see as major issues in order that they don’t simply get talked about a lot and then simply fade form everyone’s mind (not that I think they will but…)
At the moment the best the core dev team and members such as yourself who do have the ability to create patches, test patches etc, can do is keep that side of things moving with vigor, I think that the more that can be patched and tested the less work for the committer/s to have to do however I acknowledge one important factor here, one of disillusionment when people jump to it do ‘stuff’ only to see it languish, unattended to; but concerns like this are uppermost in the minds of that core set of devs you reference.
What is positive is that we do now know from the dev chat recently that Boone has the access he needs to be able to start to pull this site together – when he has dusted down his copy of ‘SVN – the Myths and Confusions unraveled’ and managed to create that local working environment?
– What is a factor and a factor that we have to keep at the forefront of our minds is the one huge drawback with OS community projects ‘Time’ in this world we can’t expect people to drop their day to day professional work in favour of unpaid voluntary work so we have to be patient- too an extent I think, personally, getting the site running effectively is a hugely important step ; at the moment I find it a painful and off putting experience and it shouldn’t be, it’s the home of the project and needs to reflect the project in the best possible light. Also mercime has apparently been hard at work re-factoring the codex layout – as also mentioned in last dev chat – which looks impressive and I am eager to see that in place so that further documentation can be started as this is another rather weak aspect of the project at the moment.
@pisanoim 1.2.6 will hopefully be out soon, I think though it will be 1.3 that stands as the revision that sorts a lot of the cruft out and adds enhancements that will mark a defining point for BP? We will need to get behind the patching, testing for that release to help out as much as possible as there – last time I looked – were a lot of tickets to be covered.
@rogercoathup WAMP MAMP knew it was one or the other
still localhost shoulsn’t be any file write permission issues on Windows windows has no security to speak of We will let this thread drift back now to the other question raised by…?
Edit// Roger beat me to it
When you say if I put %category%%postname% sites go not found is this without BP activated?Helga please check the other thread and just confirm (here) whether you can write to the .htaccess file correctly if you can then the issue lies with your server setup running under http://localhost/wordpress/ or whatever url you have to use.
Regardless of having what might appear to be the exact same issue, it is bad practice posting in anothers thread it’s referred to as ‘hijacking’ ans causes all sorts of confusion
Please in future always start a fresh thread for you own issues.
also please be a little patient someone will help out but the support forum is not a service and bumping a thread before a day has passed is also bad practice.Sorry to sound harsh
glad I spotted you found that, was thinking the only way of working things out was going to be running the function locallyThere are no alt tags in urls and ‘alt’ is not a tag it is an attribute of an element
What would you consider Google should be picking up on as keywords for this page?
Should it be avatar images? Is Google picking up this word due to it occurring most frequently?
As things stand alt=”avatar image” is a poor use of the img alt attribute if anything it should really have been left as ‘alt=””‘
If a patch were to be submitted, as Paul suggests, what would/should be the string to output in the alt tag, as these are members probably the only option really is the user name any thing other than that would be as equally wrong as the current state.
This is an interesting and valid issue, and actually has a solution as follows:
The alt attribute has a deliberate and important purpose, first and foremost it is NOT something designed for SEO purposes that is a secondary benefit[sic] The alt attribute serves to provide; text only readers, users browsing with images disabled, and most importantly! those who have to use assistive devises with a descriptive passage of text to replace the image. This is why the ‘alt’ atttribute is a mandatory requirement for img tags and failing to provide one fails the absolute basic accessibility validation of a site.
Thus given what the images are for with those images disabled the text replacement would need to read along the lines of ‘Paul’s avatar image’ it’s not so much a SEO issue as respecting the fact that we do have to observe that there are those less fortunate than the majority and who deserve equal access to the resources of the internet and all of which was part of TBL’s vision for the web and the reason we have the WACG
@djpaul Paul if a patch is added it probably needs to be ‘[username] avatar image’ not sure it can get better than that but the present output isn’t right and would be better left as an empty string.
