[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

users might jump to the conclusion that they are a part of the site navigation

Ok that’s all you needed to have said in the first place – so the reason I asked skill level was because this is a fairly basic thing to do, but as has been said above you will need some ground level CSS knowledge – I gave you a pointer on how to do that if that wasn’t clear then you perhaps ought to have expressed that rather than taking a cheap shot at me

Further than that it’s difficult to help with we don’t know the theme so can’t give absolute answers only guidence.

In a stylesheet somewhere in your theme you need to add a rule along the lines of .forum-signatures a {color: red;}

but you will need to identify what element is the parent of the anchor for the correct class or id to use replacing my example ‘.forum-signatures’

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Why will users be mis-guided? the purpose of colouring links and/or adding cursor definition , underlines etc is to highlight a section of text to be a link or serving a further purpose than just readable text, in that respect the styling of links isn’t in the main to denote a type of link.

Of course you can style links in page sections differently if you wish and you would simply do that via your stylesheet using, probably, descendent selectors to style the link based on some specific parent element i.e something that tokenised the element as ‘forum’ or something similar that was unique.

What is your skill level when it comes to HTML/CSS? This is a fairly straightforward thing to accomplish.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@newpress Please post only if you have something relevant to add to the thread.

As for limiting your member base from commenting / posting too frequently I simply don’t get the point, doubt you’ll ever grow a healthy content rich site by doing that, but each to their own.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@newpress We’ve discussed you pushing this app newpress and I stated that it wasn’t really appropriate on this support forum. On this thread the OP is asking about BP themes and others have responded with some ideas, Oxwall is NOT a BP theme it is not even related to BP or WP so please stop mentioning it on this forum, thanks.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

The action fix is necessary if you want your GF forms working on/from a BP screen, it was originally a fix I requested of GF support when attempting to process a form rendering on a bp new account screen which was simply failing silently, this was their provided solution.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Those that haven’t made their minds up would be searching around the web for the alternatives then.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Then all you need to do is open the sidebar file and edit the register and login section i.e remove it should start with if( bp_get_signup_allowed() ) and ends with:
`

register link and form markup…

`

you remove from the first line to and inc last line above.

if those don’t exist exactly then you are running a customised theme and will need to look at the bp-default sidebar for this code so you can recognize it and then scan through your themes sidebar for same .

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

I wouldn’t trust anything reported by a automated scanner, how does it know what is being done to sanitize user data?

WP has a range of functions available to deal with data sanitization, as BP is built by a core team extremely familiar with WP functions and best practises and including a WP employee amongst them it follows that all best practises for handling data are adhered to.

If you think not then you will probably need to run a few more tests that are known as reliable and report your findings directly and privately to one of the core BP team.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@newpress why on earth have you posted this site here? This is a forum for Buddypress this app you are trying to promote is not even WordPress based, and thus entirely inappropriate to posts here, please do not do so again.

If you do not want people messing around too much then really you should think about posting an admin loggin on a public forum. I feel you haven’t learnt much from the other post where you blindly downloaded a script and uploaded to your live site? If your Host is troubled then it is firmly your responsibility and you must think about that before leaving links like this.

I am removing the link as not appropriate to this forum.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

These are not theme issues, they are php errors in the page you need to look at your syntax and ensure it’s correct.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

The maps were working the only issue was/is the admin setting screen and in MS only but that I can’t figure out or at least can if I simply set the plugin to work on site_admin not network admin which is perhaps what I should have done in the first place even though I rather carefully went through and set it up to work as network true – I blame MS though never did like the change over and it’s as confusing to deal with as ever .

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@newpress Please don’t throw accusations around like that. If there is a problem with the plugin please just state so and request in the thread that the link be removed which is what I’ll do for the moment.

And also a lesson learnt perhaps? Do not just download php scripts or any scripts from unknown and untrusted sources and let them lose on your machine or worse you hosting account where they may also compromise far more than just your site – there’s a level of responsibility that has to be taken on the net.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@djpaul this is a extremely vexing issue been backwards and forwards over the menu settings all I can establish is there appears an issue with ‘network true’ so have removed that altogether but still have plugin feature on both plugin screens, add_action(network_admin_menu, $function) just doesn’t appear to work regardless of changes I make i.e simplifying things right down with no if/else choices, I used if bp_core_admin_hook falling back to add_action(network_admin_menu) or (admin_menu) I get no menus even in site_admin, the only way I can get settings screen to appear is to comment out everything bar add_submenu_page and add_action(‘admin_menu’

Not sure where to take things from here other than to try and remove all mentions of netwok settings and be done with it.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

You reply suggest you haven’t read through the guides I mentioned above?! If not please do so as they have been written to help users.

You have to match those files to your themes primary html markup as that is where things differ, your theme will have certain major layout elements e.g id=”container” the BP files must match to your themes markup, generally you would use index.php or page.php as your themes example to follow

The list of themes already put through the process by mercim are listed here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@elbowrobo What help do you want from the community? When you say you are at a complete loss what is the issue you are having, it would help to know what you have tried and what the issues are that you have hit.

The template pack is only meant as a helping hand, starting point – it does require that you do some manual file editing of a basic nature and for that you do need rudimentary HTML skills and ability to understand how read code and copy paste it around. Without those skills you might struggle and perhaps need to be getting a developer to help you or choosing a theme that has already been template packed.

Have you actually followed the guides written by mercime in the BP Codex? these are extremely helpful walkthrough guides to working through the steps involved including the manual step 3; or look at the general list of themes that mercime has added and maybe choose one of those instead?

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

erm pretty much exactly as Roger has explained above

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

what sort of help do you want?

Your requirement is one of a developer nature – if there isn’t a plugin to do what you want and you haven’t the necessary PHP/HTML?WP skills to run this up yourself then You may be best of posting on the jobs board and hiring a developer – it’s essentially a simple CPT with some form of front end submission and will likely cost you in the region of $300 – $400.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

likely permalinks needed re-freshing accomplished by visiting permalink structure page

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Go in via ftp/control panel or whatever access you have to your hosting account files and rename the BP plugin folder this will force a deactivation and should let you back in to your site admin, then you might need to investigate what PHP memory limit you have and if low get it raised.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@all ever tried doing global maps and dealing with google map api, I’ts not simple, I worked on a custom site app that had one to display properties from a side column list, getting those map markers and overlays working effectively was not easy. If traveljunkie has coded this up then I would use that, I made the deliberate decision not to attempt a global map as it’s far too much work for bp-user-profile-map a plugin I released for no profit.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Glad it’s working, wasn’t that hard in the end thanks for posting your example.

i’ve opened a ticket to see if the comment text in the file can be amended with new example.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Why are you looking in bp core files? Dont! Please read through the thread again all the answers are there – you need to be working in /single/members-header.php

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4319 asks the question whether comments shouldn’t be updated.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@shanebp xprofile_get_field_data() is useful if outside of a loop, but this issue is in a members loop so the above function appropriate – but as Roger says why on earth do we still guide people to use bp_profile_field_data() if it effectively doesn’t work?

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Try using:
`bp_member_profile_data()`

works for me!