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In reply to: [Resolved] Need guidance about member links
If you want username/display_name instead of ‘My Profile’ or whatever:
In reply to: hide date and permalink from page – Status ThemeDoesn’t look neat
Really? Please explain. If you mean that they display on all pages that’s what they are meant to do, if you are building your site using WP pages for everything I suggest you copy page.php rename it page-plain.php give it template headers so it’s selectable in the create page view and then strip out all but the content loop .
In reply to: Fighting Spam User Registrationsbuddypress is not doing anything to stop it.
And pray tell what is BP supposed to do about it? Be nice to get some suggestions!
fwiw spam is a pandemic or appdemic issue it affects nearly all CMS / forum apps out there on the net, the issue is not one that can be effectively dealt with one can only stem the tide and also fwiw it’s up to you the end user of this frely provided software to put you various traps and safeguards in place, and to be massivelly pro-active in the fight, if on the other hand – as some have wailed, that they return to their site after a week and it’s all full of spam well…
So posts – and they are quite frequent – that point the accusatory finger at BP ought to stop doing so, it is NOT BP’s issue it’s yours!
And there are a whole heap of approaches one can take and a million threads on the subject, oh and it’s not just above specific apps or plugins a little knowledge of how to manipulate resources such as .htaccess can help.
In reply to: Buddypress & Continuum Theme…Help!!!A lot of these requests are not necessarily that straight forward, if you do not have the level of technical skills required you probably ought to be considering hiring a WP/BP developer to get your site running, especially as you have a somewhat unrealistic timescale involved here.
Getting BP compatible with your chosen theme, does require a little coding knowledge, basic level. You need to look through the BP codex documentation for the template pack walkthroughs which will guide you as to how to make BP template files compatible, also there’s a long list of themes already put through this process so check yours isn’t on it first.
More detailed help might be forthcoming but this isn’t the greatest time of year to be seeking detailed help as many on extended breaks at the moment.
If wanting to modify WP at this level you must have got some fundamentals under your belt, basic understanding of html markup and PHP in terms of their syntax, tags formation, line terminating is pretty crucial as is understanding the fundamentals of WP themeing, all this will help you better understand the processes involved. I would urge you do spend a little time on the WP Codex which is a pretty good reference for beginners.
In reply to: increasing width of the sidebar in status themeModing this theme isn’t that simple, it’s a child of BP and wasn’t really intended to be modified as it’s a complete custom theme, in layout respects (colours/backgrounds , logos being an exception and user customisable)
You could try adding override styles to style.css for #content & #sidebar widths ensuring they are more specific than the existing but when / if we decide we need to upgrade the theme the mods will be lost.
Alternatively you could write a simple plugin wrapper for a file to run an wp_enqueue_style() function based on whether the active theme is Status.
In reply to: [Resolved] alt= is somebody else’s!You really should not post links like this on a open public forum where any age group has access, at the very least you MUST preface your op with the acronym ‘NSFW’ to warn people not to click on the link, but really considering the nature of the links it’s extremely poor form of you to post them at all here.
You should have described the nature of the issue in as much detail as possible and allowed other to see if they could re-create.
In reply to: Multisite Removal (BuddyPress on Network)I (myself) wanted to have my 5 websites in the multisite. 1 main site (BuddyPress) + 4 sub-sites Just WordPress (Not BuddyPress). I don’t offer sites to members.
Then why didn’t you continue with that?, you don’t have to offer sites to members. Why did you try what is really ill advised once you have a production site running – unless you have experience of these matters.
The backup size is because that is a server backup, and I would guess being done in the same fashion as a control panel backups, including the zipped backup probably, is that a normal size? hard to say, it’s large but those types of backups often are being designed to restore more than just your site.
If I were you I would probably leave well enough alone and just disable anyone can regieter a site. and keep yours, if not then follow exactly the advice given on WP forum and by mercime.
In reply to: How to remove header image in BP columns?what he said above! plus :
opening php tag <?php and closing one at end of file ?>
In reply to: Robot modeI would deactivate BP by renaming it, and focus on getting you WP install correctly setup before you add any plugins to it. You haven’t got a correctly configured install your wp login page site title attempts to redirect to WP.org not your site. you may need to do a fresh install.
In reply to: Robot mode‘Robot mode’ ?? ‘cpanel’ ? cpanel tends to be a proprietary name for a server GUI control application did you mean ‘WP Dashboard’ the Wordress backend, and you’ll need to explain ‘robot mode’
Can you try another explanation with a little more detail?
In reply to: 500 Internal Server error on installationWhat if anything do your logs say?
Instead of deleting the plugin directory just try renaming it.
In reply to: Dealing with 500 errors after BP deactivationYou have to tell Google to de-list them then don’t you? From past experience on having to deal with pages needing de-indexing, there is a provision for telling google about page usrls to ignore or remove from it’s index, this is more a question for google webmaster tools though.
In reply to: [Resolved] Why all my text stay in the middle?and always link directly to a page that shows the issue and explain where and on what elements it exists, don’t make us hunt for for things, make our lives a little easier 😉
In reply to: Left sidebar not visibleHelping with homework is generally frowned upon on coding forums 😉 even more so when it’s a case that “it has to be handed in soon“
In reply to: [Resolved] Why all my text stay in the middle?Where is all the text in the middle, that’s not what I’m seeing, be more specific about issues please.
In reply to: Need help on somewhat mangled BuddyPress installedit// Xposted Mercime beat me to it – sad to hear your running that theme it goes against all that Standards based coders have struggled to steer people away from, I would urge you re-consider the use of that theme most strongly.
If you simply employed a consultant to import data then that’s really a WP matter, BP would not really play a part in that process for them, if you didn’t employ them to build a theme as well and clearly state BP was to be used then activating BP later would probably require customizing of those BP templates to fit your theme.
There is a template pack plugin to help migrate templates from BP into your theme, this requires a manual step where the markup of the major elements needs to be matched to your themes ones, this process is detailed in the BP Codex documentation so you may want to re-employ your developer to perform this last stage for you.
Alternatively if you can wait for BP 1.7 to drop then it’s less of an issue as this release will work with any theme.
In reply to: InconsistenciesDo a checkout on the BP svn trunk you’ll be able to study the newer theme compat files that will represent the newer approach to providing template files, the markup for this change is able to be and is being completely re-written and basic styles to suit installs on any theme being fashioned.
In reply to: InconsistenciesPersonally I never build a child theme ever unless I’ve built the parent, in respect of BP don’t create a child theme, create a theme that simply uses aspects of BP functions.php and that calls ajax.php/global.js, bp will work fine you then overload every BP template to your theme and modify the markup exactly as you need it, considering you’ve started CSS from scratch you really should be overloading the templates as well if you are a developer.
These issues you raise are well known (did miss the admin.php though) and where it’s possible some of us attempt to provide patches, but with a default theme there are many issues in changing things that might break existing sites thus the approach I’ve outlined for devs that know what they are doing.
In reply to: Groups DirectoryYes build a custom page and drag into it all and many various loops filtered on the logged in user id to show their data only? or locate a plugin that does a redirect to the users profile on logging in where naturally all their personal stuff is like the groups list that they are members of.
In reply to: Inconsistencies1.7 template files are completly new. I wouldn’t worry unless you are not going to upgrade
Only problem there though is a quick update and check of the errant file shows exactly the same markup sans it’s get_header/get_footer so unless it’s a case that this file has yet to be dealt with the same mal-formed markup will filter through.
Has a ticket actually been raised?
In reply to: InconsistenciesProblem with the global.js is that it was built with the default theme in mind, and while I would tend to be in agreement, think it’s far too complex to break up and/or may simply cause too many issues, we as custom theme creators of course have the option not to use it, or write our own.
I too have recently had the hassles of dealing with the whats-new-textarea on separate sites, so it is something that could do with an approach along the lines you suggest of splitting the files up and enqueueing separately so we could easily dequeue or overload.
One thing we did do was to go through global.js and remove a lot of the selectors to just classes or id so we could in fact re-format markup without fear of breaking functionality.
Where is the incorrect use of labels? yikes yes you’re dead right never ever noticed that and I’ve been through these files a hundred times, that is terrible *shakes head *
One thing though bp-default might be considered somewhat redundant now with the release of 1.7 impending.
In reply to: Cannot log into wordpressI’m closing this thread as it’s a duplicate of your other one, you should not create new threads on the same topic it just confuses matters.
follow my instructions above! Yes disable all plugins and once back in activate each in turn until you find a culprit , speculate on what else it can be after you have rulled out plugins.
In reply to: Cannot log into wordpressNo limit. Take your install right back to basic WP only i.e NO plugins activated – rename the plugin folders to force deactivate them; then see if you can log in, if you can login with plain WP start re-activating plugins one by one.
