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Another dead link @umagokhale Rather than post more links to your site if you want to help people try writing a codex page or using pastebin to show the code.
How about adding some of these tips to the BP codex perhaps?
If you are going to leave links to your site please check those links are correct, also I would advise that you turn off PHP error reporting on a production server it’s really not very smart to announce to the world your server paths.
In reply to: Buddypress 1.7 style problem or something missing?@lchief What theme are you using as it’s managing to re-instate the bullets that the buddypress.css sheet removes using a pretty selective and specific ruleset selector group using the parent #buddypress id token.
You’ll need to code this, adapt your styles for this type of display; Or find a BP theme that already styles lists in this fashion.
@maphorn You will lose those changes each time you perform a BP update, creating a child theme to hold style adjustments is the recommended approach.
Oh and this is a two year old thread 🙂
now having to write this a second time as bp decided I wasn’t logged in for some odd reason after I submitted so this is brief.
Watch your syntax, don’t wrap those functions in strings, ‘;’ line terminations in an array ought not to be there. You don’t need or want to echo out those functions at this point simply pass the function through so simply the ‘get’ function.
This is a working example of two:
<code>
$wp_toolbar->add_node(array(
‘parent’ => ‘user-friends’,
‘id’ => ‘friend-requests’,
‘title’ => ‘ Friend Requests ‘,
‘href’ => bp_loggedin_user_domain() . bp_get_friends_slug() . ‘/requests/’,
‘meta’ => array(‘html’ => ‘<span>’ . bp_friend_get_total_requests_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) . ‘</span>’ )
));</code>
<code>
$wp_toolbar->add_node(array(
‘parent’ => ‘user-messages’,
‘id’ => ‘messages’,
‘title’ => ‘ Messages ‘,
‘href’ => bp_loggedin_user_domain() . bp_get_messages_slug() . ‘/view/’,
‘meta’ => array(‘html’ => ‘<span>’ . bp_get_total_unread_messages_count(bp_loggedin_user_id() . ‘</span>’ ) )
));</code>
This isn’t ideal but all I can see to work with in add_node() but there may be better approaches, and to get this working I mainly had to study the code page to see how the ‘meta’ was handled.In reply to: Buddypress REGISTER link not workingit’s whatever you’ve done with your custom theme, those register links behave differently from page to page, how does 1.7 theme compat work if you drop a WP default theme like twentytwelve?
In reply to: Buddypress REGISTER link not workingYou’re logged in!? Try logging out.
Continue in this thread:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/downsidespotential-risks-for-not-updating-buddypress/
Three threads on what is clearly the same overall general question is a bit fractured. Explain what you are trying to do in a little detail and people may suggest a better course of action than that which you tend to be suggesting?.
You are sort of splitting what is the same question across different threads – not a lot of point really, stick to one please it’s a lot easier :
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/downsidespotential-risks-for-not-updating-buddypress/
Closing.
The most fundamental thing to correct is the notion that you edit any files that comprise the core, you never ever do this in WP , BP, or any other OS or otherwise app.
Do so and then never update core for fear of losing those changes will potentially be a disaster. BP is a young and rapidly developing, changing project it must be kept up to date.
WP has a system API that allows you to filter and hook into functions, BP enables this ability where practical and this ought to be the way you approach customizations.
What exactly are you attempting to change that requires editing of core files?
In reply to: Can’t create Forum topicsBP ver 1.7 does away with group forums
Funny that, I’ve just set up group forums on a 1.7 beta test site, think maybe what you meant to say is that BP as of 1.7 does not bundle the older bbpress that was packaged along with BP core. From 1.7 on you need to install the standalone bbPress plugin if you want forums period, but having done so bbPress will allow you to create group forums if you wish and also to import existing group forums if on an older install being upgraded.
WordPress is the #1 CMS in the world because of the low technical point of entry. It’s intuitive, easy to use, easy to install, well documented, and quite easy to hack. It’s usage has eclipsed both Joomla and Drupal because they are not. I think many people think BuddyPress will be as easy to install and use as WordPress itself, and it’s just not (yet).
#1 cms is an opinion and regardless WP is a blogging platform trying to move processes into a more CMS like app but it’s not there yet.
No it’s utterly intuitive (in fact that’s not really a great description) when you get deep into certain aspects, yes it’s quite well documented but is still lacking detail in some areas, and just cos there’s a page on something doesn’t mean it’s all good info. Joomla has never been worth passing comment on, comparisons between Drupal and WP erroneous they are two different platforms, Drupal is a CMS built to be as such and Druapl is not and never was designed for non coders it’s a developers platform.
Despite all that and reservations about various parts of the WP API it’s still essentially a nice platform to develop on and it’s primary feature/role as a blog blows all competition out of the water.
Buddypress will likely be a whole lot easier to use for non coders with 1.7 now but still they will imagine the earth and want to have it but realise it’s not that simple and BP does require coding skills if you want to progress beyond simple out of the box installs into whatever theme you’re running.
As for documentation get in there and help write some please – it’s an aspect few want to get involved with, not enough glory I suppose?
It’s all there for you to study, nothing for us to help with really and not really BP related 🙂
But frankly unless your frontend skills are strong you might struggle to copy the styles used and relationship to backend markup transposed to the markup used for front end WP menus.
You’ll need a tool such as Firebug to let you examine the rulesets related to the dashboard menu items.
Are that tricky to sort out these notifications? I’m not sure what to suggest without running code and playing around with it which I’m not sure I have time for at the moment, but try and get your working code up in a copyable form on pastebin/github so we can, if necessary, download and play around with.
In reply to: Register Button not completing sign up@jacobmclaws You must start your own thread about issues not tag on the end of old ones and describe as much as possible your setup, what versions, what themes , custom? if so have you tried reverting to BP default, does it now work?
Have you actually told WP to allow registrations in the WP settings?
In reply to: Heavily mod a members pageHow am I supposed to learn
Like we all did by practising then practising a little more, then a lot more, by constantly reading guides, trying stuff out, it’s a pretty standard paradigm in this business. If however you expect things to be a lot quicker than that you stand to be disappointed, hiring a dev might be an option if you want quick results.
What you seem to be trying to do does not sound utterly straightforward, there are likely aspects that will be harder to deal with and most certainly not necessarily a copy/paste process.
How you’re helped with this is debatable, what have you got thus far? Have you a page up where you can show your efforts to date so we can see where things have got to, see where you need help etc?
Sorry but flashing back to @mercim comment , are you running BP? If not then asking the questions you are on this support site is inappropriate, and as suggested they should be addressed to the theme author or to the general WP forums.
In reply to: Admin bar modification@chouf1 is that your code on that linked page http://www.php-ease.com/code/wordpress-style-admin-bar.html ?
In reply to: Courseware: Confused about the installHave either of you actually directed these questions/issues to the appropriate places?
https://github.com/Courseware/buddypress-courseware/issues
or the WP forum for the plugin.
I would also be seeking to get an understanding of whether this plugin is to be supported going forward as there seems to be some differings views I’ve seen and knowing one of the authors they are extremely busy with other projects.
Be very careful about building sites based on third party plugins, you have to have a fair idea they will be supported or learn the necessary skills to keep them running.
There is an issue if you deactivate the plugin but then don’t deal with the theme, you need to visit the theme page – iirc that ought to be all that’s required as the bp theme is no longer available so WP will default to one of it’s own.
BP does have provision for trying to deal with theme switching and it was looked into and revised on a ticket last year but it’s a tricky aspect as that’s running from functions.php in the default BP theme.
In reply to: [Resolved] How to add images to a custom toolbar?Has @Chouf1 not answered that question on the lst comment on this thread he linked to?:
Those various references should point you to the functions you need to work with.
In reply to: Buddypress 1.7At the moment testing trunk against WP standard & MS installs is a good way to help, reporting any issues found to the BP trac https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ or look through tickets and see if there are any that you might be able to help with return patches for or test if feedback is required.
In reply to: Individual blogs for each memberbut can’t seem to find a solution that works.
How about actually saying what solutions you have tried rather than letting us guess? It helps if you provide a little background info.
As Ubernaut says enable MS and each of your members can have a full WP blog on either a subdomain or on a url such as /user/my-blog/
If that is not what you meant then what exactly do you want blogging from ront end, from user profiles? There are plugins around that attempt to bring a little blogging capability to the front end for users but not sure how well they work.
In reply to: Issues with MediaTemple + BuddyPress + bbPressSimple answer get of MT grid service not sure really why it was recommended by ML of course they won’t shut you down much better to keep you running and slap you with a a huge bill – for the money you may end up paying in overage you could get a semi-dedicated or VPS server and simply be monitored on bandwidth transfer.
As for Ajax it is being used far too much, people don’t seem to get why it oughtn’t to be or when it’s even suitable to be used – people love gimmicks and that’s all Ajax is – even if I do like using it myself.
Oh and $20.00pcm is cheap hosting! Verging on ‘Super cheap hosting’
If you site is worth something to you get it moved immediately to a proper server either VPS or dedicated. Expect to pay ~$50 -60 but for that get a far more responsive server with it’s CPU and system memory dedicated to your site alone.
At a pinch move it on to the MT VPS range, then you’ll know pretty much what your monthly costs will be.
In reply to: [Resolved] How to add images to a custom toolbar?It’s in the codex searching on ‘WP plugins_url()’ ought to find it.
It may not work if you have odd folders but yours look standard-ish oh and if you copied my example I added a typo _incl / _inc – personally much prefer ‘assets’
