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@kookidooki Are you using the bp-default theme or a custom one here? Providing all pertinent detail is very important. Rogers guidance in his first post pointed out that there are actually instructions on how to add further xprofile fields, if you have created new profile fields then it should now be a simple matter of following the guide in the member-header file, let us know if that is proving an issue and perhaps provide an example of the code you are trying to add.
In reply to: Stop users accessing /wp-admin? hmmm was going to post a variation on the above code but bp.org refuses it *shrug*
‘groups widget’? If you mean the groups directory loop, then look at the file /groups/groups-loop.php in the loop section you will see the call for the group avatar and it’s arguments passed back to set the size `’type=thumb&width=50&height=50’` you can change those to ‘full’ and ? 150 if you prefer.
If you mean the groups avatars as seen in the activity loop then I doubt there’s an easy way to change individual avatar sizes.
@djpaul I’ll try and check it over later today if I get a moment – have a feeling this is likely more a ‘my bug’ than BP’s as I did a somewhat hasty last minute adjustment to move settings out from old BP menu parent to ‘general settings’ seemed fine in 1.6 trunk though.
In reply to: BuddyPress 1.6 Beta 1 is ready to testHmm bp-upm is me but I did recently upgrade it to work with 1.6 and haven’t spotted any issues, but will have a look again when there’s a moment, (possibly I got network paths wrong – do hate trying to figure out multi site admin)
Rogers code works perfectly well, I have just modified a 2011 author block to display author link as bp profile if bp active or fallback to the 2011 author block, the code Roger showed you gives you the new code to insert into the href=””
In reply to: Avatar crop preview wrongYour theme is possibly trying to make fluid images that resize in a responsive manner if those rules happen to target the crop screen then it will muck it up.
In reply to: Improved Support for BuddyPressactually didn’t take it as criticism, it’s just a difficult area support forums for OS apps are run by volunteers, the ones that can answer questions effectively are more than often working pros so haven’t that much time for in depth help.
There are a few private forums or sites dedicated to BP you could try buddydev or bp-tricks? but not sure of the level of support those can offer.
In reply to: Improved Support for BuddyPressWhy do you place this emphasis on moderation? We have approx half a dozen moderators which is more than enough and I’m not sure I see what you require us to be moderating?
In reality I would say most questions do get answered, however questions along the lines of “I need to do xyz but have no idea how” can tend to receive a perfunctory response if it means that something has to be coded up for them as this forum – obviously – is not a service and manned by volunteers.
Paying for BP is not an option it’s open source software, maybe someone needs to create a fee paying membership forum where users can expect dedicated help, but that starts to become a full time job for someone – forums take a lot of management and dev time to maintain.
In reply to: Issues with Activity search_terms= and ”Load More”It’s really a bit too early to be bumping your post fabi also when you do that it sends the @mention email a further time. mentioning people to try and attract their direct attention is not considered the thing to do really. Paul, myself, and mercime all work and have to earn a living our time is limited and you must have patience someone will get around to your thread in due course.
In reply to: User RolesPlease, only post once on a topic – posting in different sub forums will not get you a faster response.
Closing this topic, see https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/user-roles-4/
As you’re building this site for your company it may be an idea for your company to hire a developer just to get you past this stage?
Also am assuming you’ve attempted to follow mercim’s excellent guides to custom themes in the BP codex.
In reply to: BP Templates via a pluginnot really, what you ask for actually sounds a far more complex affair to pull together than simply running through the template pack and copying a few files over with minor adjustments to markup to suit your custom theme.
Google of no help??!!
any of those pages will help you understand what an .htaccess file is and where you may find it located – I would suggest that actually unless you have a real desire to learn how to configure standalone web servers on osx you install a LAMP package from the likes of Xampp:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
Or MAMP as mercime has suggested/linked to.
bp_member_add_friend_button() you would find that by looking in the bp-friends-tamplate.php and to find it was in that file meant looking at the members loop to see how the action buttons are handled and tracing the do_action handle back to that template file you’ll then realise ‘bp_member_add_friend_button()’ echoes bp_get_add_friend_button() with passed args so you then need to trace that function to see further how the friends button works.
In the profile we trace back to functions.php and find ‘bp_add_friend_button()’ that traces to various files, bp-friends-template.php the one of interest again.
In the first instance you really should try and get support and help from the themes own support forums http://aquoid.com/forum/
In reply to: What’s the filter for “is current user’s profile”?You will probably find examples of how you do this now you have found the BP Skeleton component – it’s pretty extensively documented.
In reply to: SPAM ON ACTIVITY PAGE!And a parting final comment or two on what does tend to become a wearisome topic:
Spam is pandemic across internet sites, all internet sites that have a member/registration system suffer from spammers – it is not! a problem that BP has more than any other app.
It’s annoying to have to go in every day and delete these users
And here is the rub so to speak; you DO! have to go in everyday and manage your site, how could you not think that wasn’t important or even vital? Any site of the type ‘Forum’ or ‘blog’ has to be managed and that really has to be realised why run a site if your not prepared to… run it – it’s why there are ‘admin’ roles!
I perform admin / moderator duties on a fairly large tech forum running Drupal we number six mods and each and every day we each deal with two or three spammers each this is over and above the measures put in place to deal with spam bots.
There are primarily two types of spam bots(automated) and humans(real people) There are a number of tricks and tips to dealing with bots and by and large there are actually pretty effective, these approaches and been linked to quite often so search those out and implement. As for humans this is the real issue, there isn’t a lot you can do about people registering on your site then posting garbage – not unless you close of membership or restrict membership – you have decided to run a open registration member site so really you need to get with the plot and understand that you WILL be spammed, if you find it too much trouble to visit your site once a day or to appoint further admins in your community that can deal with it then expect, when you do finally visit to have a lot more spam to deal with and for those spammers to have had the luxury of unfettered access to promote their links or harass your members – It really is your choice how you run your site but please please stop hunting round for this magic ‘thing’ that stops all spam dead it does not! exist.
In reply to: Remove (not hide) Page Titleswhich makes it look unprofessional
Really? considering BP is developed by professional web developers that’s a sightly surprising statement to be making.
The titles you refer to on pages such as ‘Forums’, ‘Groups’, ‘Activity’ are heading tags, h# tags are a semantic tag that defines the document outline there are six levels and you use them to assign document section headings, these tags are mandatory and it’s very unprofessional not to have them so take care in removing them and also remember that search engines look for and use these tags for index information.
If you are removing these tags then you need to locate these sorts of lines in your index files `
` and simply delete them, this is basic level stuff so as an IT literate person should be within your means as it’s simple editing of text files but it is going to help you enormously to learn some absolute basics where CSS and HTML are concerned.
Lastly you are going to need to make these changes in a child theme otherwise whenever you upgrade your changes will be overwritten, a clear step by step guide to setting up a child theme can be found in the BP codex.
In reply to: Activity timestamp errorA quick search through Trac produced this :
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4090In reply to: Activity timestamp errorIt’s not time zones, this was mentioned to me by another dev in passing as one of their clients had run up against this. I think, but not 100% sure, they created a ticket or forum post on the issue. It sounds as though the activity is recorded for a post according to it’s creation, and it’s not aware the post has actually not been ‘published’.
In reply to: Date picker not workingDuplicate post – closing.
In reply to: Date picker not workingNot a core function of BP try plugin author for help.
Pretty much – unless you want to start going down the frontend posting route, but that can start to get tricky.
Not BP’s fault – MS fault!
You can try going to /wp-admin/options.php and set the default user role from there.
