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In reply to: What’s the best way to add social sign-in
Agreed, closing then.
In reply to: What’s the best way to add social sign-inEDIT – WP moderators have deleted the two posts.
Then we may as well follow suit?
In reply to: Please help with this fatal errorI’m afraid the only real answer here is that you must use latest version of BP unless there is some massive compelling reason not to, errors in running the latest rc should be tracked down and dealt with.
Get BP set up and functioning fully using the bp-default theme before attempting to use / activate a custom one, this way you know your install is ok and any problems thereafter must be theme related.
In reply to: What’s the best way to add social sign-in@savage_jane & @joe-saad you appear to be posting at many places, WP forums, bbPress forums with the exact same questions and responses yet switching roles, so I guess you are reps for this plugin ‘company’, you should perhaps not use help forums in this manner in order to promote a paid for premium plugin. Naturally if I’m wrong and you are not part of this company my apologies.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-to-integrate-social-counters?replies=2
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-social-plugin-for-wordpress?replies=9
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/social-media-logins-and-social-sharing/
In reply to: Please help with this fatal errornew version, old version ? of what, BP? You must use the latest stable BP, sounds like you are using an older version of BP but with newer template files that are using a call to a function that is somewhat new, didn’t exist in older versions.
In reply to: Major Disconnect Between BuddyPress and bbPressBefore you do draw a comparison between ‘Here’ and your site or bp default know that ‘Here’ is a special case in respect of activity, you need to change your display name to other than your username and streams will spring into life. As far as I’m aware this isn’t an issue with a stock install of BP so it’s probably wise to check first that your install shows this issue when using the bp default theme fisrt so we can be sure it isn’t theme related.
@webwarriorwng I don’t see what this has to do with this post, please ask the question once only in the appropriate forum or group.
Closing this thread as it was a resolved one.
In reply to: How to create groupsIt’s a problem with the theme, revert to using bp-default theme to check the function does work as expected. Questions regarding third party themes are best asked on the themes support forums.
This is where searching / reading through docs first is a good idea:
In the BP codex there’s this page which may serve what you’re after:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/bp_enable_multiblog/
In reply to: Edit button in top bar goes to the wrong pageDo you want to be a little more specific? What edit button? the only ‘edit’ button I have in the adminbar is the WP post or page edit link, Does BP add one then?
In reply to: Theming & layout helpActually it isn’t difficult to create a custom site which incorporates BP but it does depend- as with any site development – WP or otherwise – on your coding abilities and experience.
Simplest approach is to copy all the BP theme files to your custom theme, then modify the markup to match your theme markup, then deside if you want to run your theme as a child of BP in which case you pick up the various enqueued styles/scripts or run as standalone and use your functions file to locate the bp script files and either create your own CSS from scratch or load BP styles and add your own to overwrite BP styles where necessary – have a look at the BP functions file to understand what options you have and how you can override the functions in there by stating them in your functions file.Alternatively wait for BP 1.7 to drop which will b a lot easier for you to deal with probably as it’s theme files are /will be designed to inject into standard WP files such as page.php so will automatically have your themes major markup structure.
P.S it’s the weekend, responses are going to be slower, also the general rule is to please wait 24 hours before bumping posts.
In reply to: Spam usersIm surprised the buddypress team did not come with a permanent solution about this major problem ….
What major problem and why or how could BP sort it if – no offence to BP – more mature apps can’t! If a numpty idiot is paid to post pointless irritating spam on as many sites as they can in day then what can you do other than as suggested manually approve, what would you wish to do? Or are we talking about some other issue?In reply to: Guided Tour PluginThere comes a point where setting up a site such as these requires some hard graft, and plugins simply not available, this is one of those aspects where one just has to start writing, perhaps setting up a few jQuery tooltip like scripts linked to a ‘do not show again’ instruction etc etc
In reply to: Spam usersSpammers register on every single forum or community/blog on the net how do envisage stopping them? It’s simply a pandemic that has to be manually dealt with, there can’t be automated / plugin solutions for everything.
That’s a custom third party theme (genesis) activate BP default theme, does ‘Load more’, pagination work? if so then it’s a theme problem and you’ll need to ask on Genesis support.
I tried other BP sites
What sites? Give some specifics, have you enquired how they achieved it? Have they spent money on developers to run up custom code, not all development work is always plugins.
In reply to: Group admin listed as memberShouldn’t be excluding admins the loop passes the arg ‘exclude_admins_mods=0’ ‘0’ being ‘false’ so it’s defaulting to showing group admin/mods you would need to specifically filter them out with ‘1’
No there is no group admin avatar function, but if you wanted to show an avatar to denote a person is a group admin it shouldn’t be too hard to do by checking if user is bp_group_is_admin() and if true calling your own link to an uploaded image in the media library
In reply to: I’m working on the activity stream, need help!https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/
You’ll probably need to work something using the primary_id & secondary_id, but think you are going to be limited in what degree of control you can get.
In reply to: I’m working on the activity stream, need help!A search of the core files would find you this function!
bp-friends-template.php
function returns false if user id passed to it produces zero friends else a comma separated list of id’s is returned thus you have you necessary list to pass to the loop.
As for where used that would be somewhere where you could use the result in the loop ones writing wouldn’t it?
In reply to: Disable group avatarscheck the various templates files you can do a fair amount of that , removing the tab may be harder, can’t recall how that’s implemented but the template file will clue you in.
Visually disabling via CSS isn’t really the best approach though as it’s client side and easily overridden.
In reply to: Disable group avatarsYep delete the markup!
If actually you have more specific requirements then state exactly what you are needing to do.
@travel-junkie Lack of documentation will not necessarily turn developers away but generally the degree to which something is well documented is an indication of how things stand overall and reading how something flows, what is possible or not, is easier than having to trawl through core code to work it out, yes we can and do do that but being able to does not replace or negate the need for a good set of dev docs and having to trawl through core code because there aren’t docs available will turn away many developers..
The answer to those questions was touched upon by JohnJames earlier, a few posts up.
I would love to see really good docs, but it’ a tough challenge, and as said ‘not sexy’ and although rewards not really the point scant recognition for ones efforts, were you aware I contributed one particular page took me almost a day to do it well, testing each point to make sure it was accurate, some ten revisions later by various people and I may as well have not bothered, was it improved ? debatable but probably, that I added the detail to start with more the point ? perhaps, not really sure though so you see one of the issues
However @ethanvan can we keep things on site please not off on private emails, we have already a group or thread on codex matters lets try and keep focussed there.
I agree about the sentiments re attempting to mirror WP codex as much as possible.
We don’t simply want a long list of hooks/filters though we have a complexity of functions that need describing , also we need to explain the basics of how BP works in terms of navigation, core templating etc it’s not straightforward and not strictly in keeping with WP we need examples of how to create new nav items, update and improve examples of the primary loops, group extension etc
erm all developers hate documenting, I loath it no one pays me to do so I always look at stuff shake my head and sigh as I realise I must document something in detail. I fully get what modemlooper means I code, anything that stops me coding, project management, tickets, writing docs etc, all things necessary to my working life I loath, an absolutely necessary evil and project management vital but I just want to make the code stuff that makes stuff happen so I can sit back and smile.
