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In reply to: How to change buddypress profile fields text color
Once you have your files copied to your child theme as explained in the guides so that you may safely edit files such as buddypress.css you will need to use a browser dev tool such as Firebug for firefox to inspect elements on the screen which will then show you what rulesets govern the visual styles and where in the file they live i.e line number.
In reply to: How to change buddypress profile fields text colorIf you already have a child theme in use then that’s great you do not need to repeat that step, you will use your child theme to hold copies of various buddypress files so that you may modify them safely.
Please always check the documentation that is available as we have some guides on tackling this aspect of overloading BP files to child themes, these guides will explain how to proceed.
If/when you have further questions do post back to this thread.
In reply to: Connect Extended Profile to WP Standard ProfileWhat you ask would require some custom functions being created and that would require fairly extensive php skills and knowledge of BP.
There are some connect plugins around that are BP aware, nextend google connect springs to mind as one that does populate BP profile fields with user data so it may be worth hunting around for other plugins?
In reply to: [Resolved] Installing Buddy Press 404 errorAnd what are your permalinks settings? Are you running with ‘almost prety permalinks’ or are your pages/posts references as something like ?p=.
Running under IIS does have issues with setting up permalinks which Apache doesn’t, BP does have a strict requirement for permalinks running. I would check out the WP codex for articles on ISS and permalinks unless your happy those are working correctly on your install.
In reply to: Major Css IssuesIf you choose a theme that says it’s compatible with BP then really first port of call for issues needs to be the theme authors.
tbh looking at those pages doesn’t suggest any particular issues with BP, but you will need to be specific as to what you consider are issues. Always try to describe issues rather than just link to pages as then people have an idea of what to focus on and help will be more forthcoming.
In reply to: Template / Theme Question@osirisravenwood to answer your last question, you work in the child theme NOT the parent, as soon as your running a child theme all work happens in that theme not the parent for the very reason you state earlier in requiring files re-adding back to theme on any updates, and the reason child themes exist in the main.
Please do read links left on posts though, the one left earlier by mercime referencing the codex article was written to explain this aspect.
Users are either meant to ‘close’ the message or the one responsible for issuing it deactivates it while leaving the widget in place – having the widget activate is about the only check that made sense at the time as a means to cancelling out the default message positioning as a overlay across top of site, remove the widget and that default behaviour will restate it’s self.
However some of what you’re describing sounds as though it may well be theme related?
I can’t replicate this issue on a fairly standard install running trunk, yes the BP display strings are wrapped in paragraph tags(nothing wrong in that) but I do not see that transposing to any edit screens in backend or on adminbar. Is it possible you have plugins running that might be involving themselves in the profile process?
In reply to: Buddypress 1.6.1 to 2.0Moving your files under a folder in root of theme as either ‘community’ or ‘buddypress’ with the folder structure as seen under BP’s bp-legacy folder will allow you to overload all the templates to be used by BP first if found in preference to it’s own copies with the benefit of using the bp functions file and other assets styles js both of which are also copyable to your theme, but best to leave all but css under bp control, however theme compatibility was made as flexible as possible by design and you can move the whole thing i.e functions.php and create a new instance of the theme compat class referencing your own paths and files etc.
When you had your BP files directly in the theme root you were effectively telling BP that theme compat mode was disabled as it’s setup to run a check for files in certain paths and bail out of further theme compat setup, this is a tricky area though and the best advice is to work with theme compat as really there’s no good reason not to.
The two articles – which I think you have read already – are a good reference, be sure to read the second one that goes into more depth on the extended template hierarchy for BP templates.
In reply to: 2.1 top features@simple-man you might want to read the release docs more carefully 😉
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/member/pending-users-admin-screen/In reply to: Badly need some help with a profile field@jonbie you already have a more recent thread running on this same question, please stick to one thread per question to avoid splitting responses & confusion.
Closing this thread.https://buddypress.org/support/topic/placing-a-set-profile-filed-beside-users-name-in-h1-title/
Why did you not use the given example in the file?
bp_member_profile_data();
That’s a self echoing function so need for ‘echo’ & it can be used in a members loop.
You can pass the args as an array but as ‘field’ & ‘user_id’ but again in the example it shows you simply (‘field=my-field’)
You can use the function as you have but no need to use it’s ‘get’ version unless you want to prevent it displaying but you can only pass the two args as mentioned ‘field’ & ‘user_id’ if you leave out user_id it defaults to displayed_user_id.
A for where it goes that’s up to you, can’t really tell you where to place it that depends on what looks right for your layout.
A familiarity with BP templates is going to be essential here so if you aren’t first step is to check the codex and give a quick read to the guides on working with Theme Compatibility which will help explain how to create copies of the BP templates for modification; then an understanding of how WP child themes work so you can safely modify files without losing the changes.
Then if you open member-header.php you will actually see a commented explanation on how to do what you want, you will then need to move the function to a position you want in that file i.e above/below the heading markup, wrap it in a suitable html element e.g ‘<p>’ or a span if you want to use it within the heading tag and style as wished.
In reply to: display profile fields in member header@barney92 Not really the best way of responding nor is having a ‘lousy week’ an excuse I’m afraid, lets just back off the forum until we are having a better week is generally the best approach.
In reply to: display profile fields in member header@barney92 A final warning: Please do not resort to insulting forum members, it’s not to be tolerated.
In reply to: Making Plugin activity show in Activitiy StreamIt is not a case of not being willing to help but as @shanebp pointed out how to help is the problem, generally on tech forums an idea of what has been attempted or what exactly is the issue run up against is looked for, you mention a link to the codex but state your skills are not sufficient thus the only advise that can really be given is that which shanebp did give.
@barney92 A gentle warning with my mods hat on: Please tone it down a bit, if you have nothing constructive to offer that helps the OP’s question then it’s better not to post at all.
In reply to: Configuring W3 Total Cache with BuddyPressYes I removed the links, especially to this thread which actually offers zero advice on dealing with caching 🙂
In reply to: Bugs between bbpress and Buddypress@inget Sound like issues probably better raised or made on the bbPress support forums.
In reply to: Mobile StylingHowever don’t simply expect to suddenly find BP functions like a dream on teeny weeny weeny screens, if you really want that you’ll probably need to put some custom work in or find a plugin that renders a more app like view of the site on mobile devises.
In reply to: bp-legacy in bp-templatesIt’s an understandable assumption but sadly an historic nomenclature that can’t be changed now. In some senses though that set of templates will become a legacy of the older bp-default standalone theme that was provided before ‘Theme Compatibility’ arrived in 1.7 as essentially they were revised copies of the existing bp-default templates, when we get the Template Pack project added to core, hopefully in 1.9.1, those will represent the best and latest set of templates to use with theme compatibility. Not sure if that makes anything clearer though 🙂
>Thanks everyone for this hard-to-find-info!
Well we have attempted to provide some guidance in the codex.
As for the general point about naming I have raised the issue of ‘bp-default’ on trac as when this old theme is finally moved out from core and added to the WP repo I for one would prefer that it isn’t any longer referred to as ‘default’ as that is confusing as it isn’t the default theme, theme compatibility is the process BP uses now and as such that isn’t a theme more a set of templates designed to work in conjunction with any chosen theme.
In reply to: Configuring W3 Total Cache with BuddyPressHaving resurrected a 4 year old thread for no apparent reason other than perhaps highlighting there’s an issue it would have helped if you had provided a clue as to which , of the many pages in the codex, brought you to this thread so we could deal with it!
In reply to: View Topic Post prior to postingPlease ask specific questions on the appropriate forum:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/live-comment-previewIt’s not BP related, a third party plugin, and we’re not necessarily going to be familiar with it’s setup and configuration, also we have no knowledge of what theme you are using or how that’s setup or where they may have put the comments form code.
In reply to: View Topic Post prior to posting? Is this a BuddyPress related question, if so you’ll need to be clearer on what you want to do.
In reply to: Disable admin barThere are times when it’s worth remembering that a theme is not necessarily just a bunch of visuals but the directory that contains the crucial files, without which a site will not function and that not all sites hop around changing themes on a whim which would be very poor practise from a business site point of view. I get why people say a theme should only contain theme related code, but this applies to themes as they might be released to a repo for general download and can not have any notion of what a site user might need to do and then yes theme files mustn’t contain this sort of function, but as asked in this thread and as long as the OP understands what it means to keep that code in a theme that then isn’t portable across themes although perhaps a must always have requirement then it’s fine to add to functions.php.
In reply to: Widgets DissapearIt’s a difficult one to help with, would need to see how this plugin links page selected widgets to page sidebar/page id. You’re going to have to trace back and try and find where this plugin stumbles, which I know isn’t much help really.
There’s probably an alternative one could take coding things from scratch, but again to be able to suggest what goes slightly beyond what’s possible on a forum and needs detailed look at things.
