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In reply to: Root profiles deprecated in 1.9.2?
As far as I can tell looking through core files there is no deprecated note on this constant, the article has an odd edit by user name not seen before who also does not figure in revision history, checking all the user revision history existing shows no one having added that so must be this mystery user & their last article edit. I’ve removed the deprecated addition for now.
In reply to: Recent comments page linkno nor quite a few others I spotted, sure there were in pre 1.2 versions but that is going back so far now that I doubt those are relevant in a backpat or curiosity sense.
In reply to: Recent comments page link🙂 not that I could, find but only keep local tags going back to 1.2 anything prior to that is simply too old to care about.
I fear looking at other references on that page that many are actually pre 1.2 so in general that whole page isn’t looking in good shape, toss up between going through one by one or pulling page and re-writing.
In reply to: Recent comments page linkmore importantly can you find either in the core files anywhere? If not those references need pulling out with a vengeance.
In reply to: Codex: Activity stream actions page@henrywright ok given it caused me a bit of confusion trying to track down many of those and work out just how the page is a help, and your tacit agreement above I’m going to change page to draft for the moment. Thanks though for the heads up, as it were, it does help for attention to be brought to some pages that may be best removed until they offer correct guidance.
In reply to: Codex: Activity stream actions page@henrywright I think you’re correct however that page and the action section in general needs a lot of scrutiny, my personal preference would be for removing that particular page entirely for the moment.
In reply to: BuddyPress Version: 1.9.2 update@henrywright cool, hadn’t noticed anything but then seldom run that constant, if you spot anything naturally ticket it.
@fkapnist you’re not doing yourself any favours – in life you get what you pays for, know where I’m going with this? 🙂
Complaints? no no complaints here, this is a volunteer help forum.
BP installs just fine in the vast majority of cases, run BP with a correctly written theme and you’ll have no problems unless some errent plugin is at work.
You don’t provide any detail as to the theme your using custom thirdparty, bp-legacy theme compatibility, bp-default.
The problems suggest a custom theme causing the issue, although you do state tha changing to bp-default does not correct problem, it may then lie with this role you have?
As for adding that code directly to a template you would need a conditional check to see if a user is logged in, have a look at the functions file in bp-legacy around line 380 to see how sitewide notices are handled.
Ok what is not clear in that particular guide is the necessity of creating a new forum but selecting ‘category’ rather than ‘forum’ when you save/create it, this category is the groups forums parent and the slug that you would see appear in that select option, the one referenced ‘Groups Forum’ is simply an example name.
Have a read of this other guide to installing bbPress from new written by our own @mercime as it explains the steps very clearly:
The upgrading guide will need a little editing to make things clearer.
I take it you are working in a localhost, dev environment from your reference to Dreamweaver?
If that is the case your topic title was a little misleading and implying something that wasn’t the case – fyi it is considered bad form on lists, forums to use ‘Urgent’ or ‘Emergency’ in thread titles.
Dreamweaver can’t run dynamic sites of any description, it’s frankly a rather bad application in general, the only real use for it is in it’s editor form, avoid any notion of using it’s wysiwyg options.
If this is a a localhost dev issue then you need to setup a proper server to run these sorts of sites from, look at installing something like Xampp or Mampp or search the WP plugin repo as iirc there are plugins to help with setting up dev environments.
In reply to: BuddyPress Version: 1.9.2 update@fkapnist
>What is version 1.9.2 supposed to fix anyway? I could not find any documentation
There’s very clear documentation, right there on the main blog!
https://buddypress.org/blog/
If you want help, you’ll need to provide as much detailed info as possible on your setup, in particular your theme in use and it’s approach to working with BP.In reply to: CANNOT find the right template file…They don’t exist until you create them.
🙂 I’ll go and fish out all the codex guides that have been written on the subject of templating/themeing
Also remember you can use conditional logic to wrap the sidebar in your bp template so if you wanted the sidebar just for user account screens you could do:
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if( bp_is_user() ) :endif;
`The two guides to read are:
In reply to: CANNOT find the right template file…echo echo!
In reply to: header class=”entry-header”That’s WP template code. Look at content-page.php. Please also read through the codex as we have provided guides to help with understanding what files will be in use when running BP theme compatibility.
In reply to: CANNOT find the right template file…Have you read through the guides in the BP codex?
Have you created a buddypress.php file to manage the page.php rendering? Theme compatibility uses the stock WP page.php file – or a series of other templates names in same manner WP performs template selection. You need to customize page.php essentially but not the themes copy but a copy of renamed for Buddypress use which you can then edit, again fairly detailed guides available in the BP codex to help explain the process.
In reply to: Buddypress pages empty after upgrading to 1.9.1Have you checked the sticky posts for guidance on info to post to help us help you and basic troubleshooting steps?
Are you using a custom thirdparty theme, if so can you activate a theme known to work i.e one of the WP default themes and see if things then start working, this way we identify the theme to be the issue- or not , and work from there.
In reply to: HELP ON USING A BUDDY PRESS THEME!No not a blank file, you copy over the existing file, the crucial aspect is that you retain the same folder paths to that file so members/single/index.php if found in your child theme is the one used, or in the case of that plugin you might need to us it’s templates in place of the BP ones.
If you are set on using bp-default then you probably ought to copy over all template files, and all assets css, js, etc to your theme along with the functions file parts necessary to locate BP ajax, scripts, styles and add the line add_theme_support( ‘buddypress’ ) in your themes functions.php file and run as a full theme.
In reply to: HELP ON USING A BUDDY PRESS THEME!It’s going to be a matter of understanding how themes & templates work in, in that respect the BP codex is your friend, I encourage you to read as many of the pages in there relating to BP themeing.
>does this mean i can build a theme on bp-default without creating a child theme… …without it being overwritten when i update after 1.9.1
No, and you never could, if you wanted anything other than the stock display produced by bp-default you had to create a child theme to carry your styles or template overrides.
I noticed your other thread, firstly you asked the same question on the plugins support forum, but haven’t really left sufficient time for the author to respond, asking the same question here will probably not get any quicker a response or solution as this is a third party plugin issue.
Having said that you mentioning you have copied /bp-default/ to your theme doesn’t sound right, to overload bp-default templates in a child theme you copy the folders and templates that exist under the bp-default folder; think of the folder name ‘bp-default’ as being translated to or being the equivalent of your theme folders name.
One last point, best advice is really to try and work your theme using theme compatibility, the general encouragement is to try and use theme compatibility rather than the older process, that eventually won’t get any significant updates or support and will only exist in a backwards compatible manner to ensure themes previously built on it continue to work.
In reply to: HELP ON USING A BUDDY PRESS THEME!@gfam105 Ok so most of these themes are built on bp-default, this theme is to be retired, a process begun with BP 1.9, this doesn’t mean it can’t be used and is still bundled in the core plugin for the moment, existing sites using it either directly or as a child of will still be able to work but new installs will not see the theme appear in the WP theme page as a selection, this is by way of encouraging people to use the new Theme Compatibility process which allows any theme to be used.
If you need bp-default as a parent try adding:
add_filter( ‘bp_do_register_theme_directory’, ‘__return_true’ );
to your functions.php or bp-custom.php files to force the theme to register in the WP theme page.
In reply to: HELP ON USING A BUDDY PRESS THEME!Several of what BP themes? BuddyPress works with any well written theme following the WP template principles, as you don’t mention what themes you have tried, try activating one of the WP standard themes bundled with WP then you’ll be able to see BP in action, also please do check the BP codex documentation as you’ll find helpful guides to getting started there.
P.S. Why are you looking for a bp-custom.php file what prompted you to do that? This doesn’t exist by default and is created as needed and the file is specifically to run code that affects BP core operation across any theme which may be installed; it isn’t required to simply run a theme or BP.
You will need to contact your hosts support desk about this issue, it’s server related rather than BP.
You probably want to be using bp_core_new_nav_item() hooked to bp_setup_nav the new nav item takes an array ‘name’, ‘slug’, ‘default_subnav_slug’, ‘screen_function’, ‘position’
‘screen function’calls a function that in turn hooks a template function to ‘bp_template_content’ and bp_core_load_template() which for ease use plugin.php
Then in your function that is hooked to ‘bp_template_content’ you’ll run what ever ‘stuff’ you want to display on the screen.
In reply to: Page Group like thisWhat’s the question? 🙂
You can do that, essentially all you need is the group permalink to hang a graphic off and dump all the rest of the groups index loop detail.
In reply to: BBPress themes in BuddyPress themeThese are probably questions better asked on bbPress forum – remember although bbPress integrates with buddyPress it is a standalone plugin.
I doubt however you need to overload all the files as above.
In reply to: Buddypress doesnt do anythingI would strongly urge you to first have a good read through what articles we currently have in the codex to familiarise yourself with basic setup & operation:
Then if you have further questions post back with a full outline of your setup – check the forum stickies which tell you what information to provide in order to gain help here.
