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In reply to: Wanting to create moderators
This sounds more a WP question really, you might be best off installing a roles/capability plugin such as Justin Tadlock’s ‘members’ plugin and creating a new role with extended capabilities in the backend to delete posts but at same time ensuring other capabilities are not checked such as plugin access.
In reply to: Buddypress Multi-Group RemoveStart a forum thread – if for any reason the forum wasn’t set up for the group then post in it’s activity stream using @mention author member name.
In reply to: the “support forums” sidebar widgetThat’s the tag heat map thingy, think the OP wanted to recreate the support forum group listing, shouldn’t be difficult but can’t think exactly how to go about it off top of head. edit// in fact it ought to be as simple as a group loop with just titles and description rendered.
In reply to: BP Profile Search ConflictAs per your other thread, you ought to post this in one of the respective plugin groups, try and determine which plugin is causing the conflict, describe the actual issue so that it may be replicated, and see if the plugin author can help out.
In reply to: Buddypress Multi-Group Remove@pawriter you need to post these types of questions to the respective plugin groups to get support:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-multi-group-remove/
In reply to: Setting Users as subscribers automatically?> I’ve seen other posts that were even more forceful on that topic
😆 fair dues – I’ll forgo the experience though
In reply to: Setting Users as subscribers automatically?@shanebp ‘truly awful’ is a rather strong turn of phrase, the developer is quite well known in the community and might be upset by that
– I’ve no actual experience of the plugin so can offer no opinion either way.In reply to: Finding your own posts@giftoly True – no answer to that one sadly. You should be getting your posts showing in your ‘Your Activity’ page though?
In reply to: Finding your own postsIn reply to: Building a website like www.buddypress.orgPlease only post once, multiple posts do not get any faster attention and only serve to confuse if they are all getting responses.
Closing this thread.
In reply to: Setting Users as subscribers automatically?‘Events’ isn’t a feature of BuddyPress as such nor of WP so can’t really advise on that – I presume this is a custom plugin, perhaps something like buddyvents? which I think can make use of blogs for events but not sure that’s a mandatory requirement.
In reply to: Setting Users as subscribers automatically?Apologies you are right MS doesn’t give the same options, network admin settings screen does perform the register enable function but I can’t see how to set a default signup role – another reason perhaps that I dislike MS so much, the backend just doesn’t work.
You can try this though go to yoursite.com/wp-admin/options.php you’ll find ‘default_role’ in there which you can change – likely you have to do that for each site though.
In reply to: Setting Users as subscribers automatically?It’s an option tied to the registration process, you get to enable or disable site registration and then to set what role is assigned to new signups. It will be part of the admin settings for sites rather than network admin if memory serves correctly
In reply to: Setting Users as subscribers automatically?Initial user roles is a WP aspect, check your WP general settings page.
In reply to: 1.5 Child Theme Not WorkingNo if you’re using BP and just creating a child theme for purposes of overriding a few styles then BP will enqueue your child themes style.css file so all you should need to do is add your rulesets in there
If they are not getting applied you may not be adding sufficient weight to your selectors examine the BP rules to see the selector grouping and match or increase the selectors i.e ‘ul#groups-list li .item-meta {}’
In reply to: Better Introduction NeededIf you have specific issues then you need to create a topic for it, explain in as much detail what exactly is wrong, then we can attempt to help you with something specific.
All the information that is available is in the BP Codex, I’m not suggesting that you necessarily write something for it but it is only as good as the effort put in by the collective volunteer community and is acknowledged to be in need of expanding.
@ChrisClayton answered many of your points but if you have further specific issues start a new thread and people will attempt to help you with them.
As for the visual editor issue that is a WP function not BP so suggests that perhaps your WP install is not functioning correctly. The best approach to setting everything up is to to first install WP and simply work with that checking that all it’s functions work as expected,i.e posts, permalinks, registering new users etc only when all that checks out proceed to activating BP using it’s default theme and checking all it’s basic functions are working.
In reply to: Error on registration pageI did cover the image header question in the other thread – no I didn’t copy the code in to the thread as – in all honesty – stating “copy this ‘named’ function” ought to be sufficient to get started with.
I’ll now copy the function I referenced originally – you need to copy this into your child theme functions file, this function will alert BP not to run it’s original version and allows you to manipulate the rulesets that are created for custom headers.
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function bp_dtheme_header_style() {
global $post;$header_image = ”;
if ( is_singular() && current_theme_supports( ‘post-thumbnails’ ) && has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ) {
$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), ‘post-thumbnail’ );// $src, $width, $height
if ( !empty( $image ) && $image[1] >= HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH )
$header_image = $image[0];} else {
$header_image = get_header_image();
}
?>#header { background-image: url(); }
#header h1, #header #desc { display: none; }
#header h1 a, #desc { color:#; }
<?php
}
`Now in the other thread I explained how to adjust the image dimensions by setting the define(‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’, 400) that will be displayed on the dashboard settings page and that represent the sizes the image will size and crop to, so you should still have that aspect in place.
If you leave the BP default layout unchanged then the header element width is likely wider than your background image ( the header width is stated in the stylesheet, the background image is set from the embedded styles in the code above) and that background image will repeat – but we went over that on the other thread, with the code above you can now add the required properties to prevent that.
Now code does need to be copied carefully and any stray code that may be causing issues might still affect things. Headers already sent errors have a number of reasons and are not necessarily easy for us to diagnose, I explained one possible cause but only you can determine if that is a reason.
On this issue of instruction; as I have said and now mercime this is a volunteer support forum, we are not obliged to provide absolute instruction we attempt to help and guide, also when one is a web dev professional there will be a level of expertise expected in general terms regarding coding experience. You are attempting to customise buddypress past what it offers in the default so you must expect certain aspects of doing that to be less than utterly idiot proof and there are aspects of BP that many of us struggle with.
In reply to: Error on registration pageWendy BuddyPress customization isn’t for beginners you do need a degree of dev experience definitely a basic understanding of PHP / CSS/ and markup.
In reference to the header I thought that was sorted out in the other thread? In which case it oughtn’t to be raised again as it’s a bit misleading, if however it is still an issue post back on the other thread.
I noted that your child custom themes functions file had the BP enqueue function along with it’s wrapper function:
`<?php
if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles’ ) ) :
function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {}
endif;
?>
`That doesn’t look right, I would remove that unless the child theme actually handles loading styles somewhere else as this will prevent BP loading any styles – which may be the intention, mercime may be able to confirm that this is correct.
As for the headers sent error this may be due to having white space in the file after php tags are closed, that is after the final ‘?>’ you might have an actual carriage return which acts as actual parsed data if that’s so it needs to be backspaced out.
In reply to: Pictures not showing up.@kramugs I’ve deleted that link, could you briefly explain what you think the solution is and then how the link helps – as it stood the link looked to have no relation to the topic in hand especially given the query appended ‘?=african mango’
In reply to: How can I make the logo display? [RESOLVED]cool, glad it’s working.
In reply to: How can I make the logo display? [RESOLVED]@wendy-cockcroft wendy I just looked at your layout and stylesheet and I simply added ‘background-repeat: no-repeat; to the #header ruleset that is all you really need to do, not really sure what you tried previously that didn’t work but try that – I would avoid copying over any functions code as I think it’s just going to be problematical.
But I would add the two definitions I showed you earlier to your functions file so your image dimensions are not overwritten with BP upgrades.
P.S The code rendered as text as it looks like most if isn’t contained in php tags when it was copied and pasted over to your functions file – but remove all that for the moment – if your image is correct dimension and you are keeping the layout at present width just add the background property above and you should kill the repeat.
And I agree with the issue as encountered it myself, but not sure there’s a whole lot one can do about it given both forum and group updates are running in a group.
Of course one rather crude and hackish approach might be to simply wrap the textarea update in a conditional to only show for certain groups or non at all, remove it from view so it’s not an option to post into the activity stream.
In reply to: site registration@idowu My apologies that was a little misleading as I could have sworn there was a button on the members account screen for ‘Sites’ what I was thinking of is the buddybar where you have a set of links, under ‘blogs’ there is a ‘create’ link in addition to the large button on the main BP blogs dir page. I would spend a little while having a good rummage around all the links and screens in BP so you’re familiar with what is where.
In reply to: site registrationPlease folks don’t jump in on anothers thread, it’s a bad practise, always start your own topic unless replying to the OP’s question.
In reply to: Alternative to BP and Mingle?? What issues are you having exactly? You may get some help resolving the issues if you describe them rather than simply making a statement of condemnation of these apps.
BP is staggeringly simple to install and after some very basic configs in the dashboard works out of the box without any effort on the part of the user so ‘lying’? no sorry it’s not lying it is as simple an installation as things are ever going to get.
