[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

avoid looking for the file as I’ve named it though

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Best not to re-define the actual BP settings as those will get overwritten with upgrades – as I mentioned earlier define the constants in your child theme functions.php or use the add_filter approach although simply setting the constants should be sufficient.

If you image is repeating it suggest that your attempt to add no-repeat has not been correctly added but I can only guess as I can’t see your code, also it perhaps suggests that the header width is still too wide for your image width, although you have set the default size and ?uploaded a graphic of that exact size if your #header is still wider than graphic it will repeat.

You may need to overload the function from BP’s functions file that sets the embedded styles for the background image so you can directly adjust the background property.

copy the function `bp_dtheme_header_style()` and paste that in your functions file that now overrides the BP one and you can add to the #header ruleset.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Look in the members account screens.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

There’s nothing that indicates it either way in the functions.php file

yes there is lines 93/94 define the header_image_width / height

If you redeclare or reset those constants you will have a new set of default dimensions that will be used as is in the header upload page in the dashboard

define(‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’, 800);
define(‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’, 100);

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

If you look in the BP default themes functions file you’ll see the constants for setting the header dimensions you can re set these using those examples with your own values and run from your own functions file or I guess bp-custom.php?

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

That sounds like bp_activity_action() the function is located in the core files /activity/bp-activity-template.php

You may not find this an easy function to deal with though and will probably have to build a filter grabbing the $activities_template->activity->action and returning that to bp_get_activity_action judging by the function.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Not a problem glad you have it pinpointed. There are quite few themes that mercime has run through and template converted which may help out with BP compatible themes you find the list in the codex.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Just install WP and use the standard WP theme , ensure WP works before adding any plugins or themes, when WP works correctly then you can progress to BP using default bp theme and test that that works.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

and you are trying registering on the plain vanilla WP install, which suggests something is not quite correct but hard to say where or what. you have installed via ftp upload or unzipped WP files it’s a not a one click install type thing as those are fairly notorious for causing issues. Can you do normal WP type activity i.e create pages and posts, does the site other than registering perform correctly. When you say can’t register what actually happens in the attempt to.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Please I have asked that you stick to the original thread you really don’t help matters trying to re-ask the same question in new threads – I have explained your options for this sidebar requirement, if you are saying that there is a ‘members’ widget region created by this plugin then adding a simple text widget to that sidebar region in the widgets page should display when you visit the members directory list – not however a members account screens, but I’m guessing at that as how that ‘members’ region displays is governed in the code wrapping the sidebar call in sidebar.php.

I would suggest that you pop back to the original thread and paste up the code for your sidebar so people can see what conditional code is being used and whether the sidebar is being called correctly.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

remove or comment out the lines in the template files:

memberr-header.php bp_last_activity()

members-loop.php bp_member_last_active()

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

And have you set ‘Anyone can register’ to yes?

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

> This is for a client so I need this sorted today, if possible.

Please bear in mind that this is a volunteer support forum not a service

Based on the info you have supplied it’s going to be pretty hard to help. Is WP installed correctly? can you register a user under WP (forget BP for the moment and I see you say you can log in so that answers that question WP is installed) if you can and your DB does actually correctly function then activate BP – if you have installed it via some auto install avoid that and upload a fresh copy via ftp or similar.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Have you looked through the bp plugins list? Try the ‘Invite Anyone’ plugin

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

`“For the record you don’t re-name the BP files you just ensure they are copied over ”
– well the walkthroughs/codex/instructions suggest you copy the sidebar/header/footer and rename as sidebar-buddypress.php etc so i was just following that. `

My bad yes BP added ‘buddypress’ into the get_*() calls to allow child themes to call distinct header,footer,sidebar named files for the purposes of combining BP templates into existing themes.

This process of converting BP to be used in a third party theme is a choice though, yes there is a level of difficulty and you will require some basic – very basic – coding skills if you have decided to go this route and those will need to be learnt. It is never expected that an absolute novice could cope with this process, the novice needs to rise above that baseline.

mercime will guide you through the process though, but do understand that you choose to go down a customised route so need to to have a somewhat extended skill set now.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@valuser thanks, good spot missed that lack of php tags completely assumed they would be added

@monchibord you need to add php tags around those first two lines – sorry I made the assumption they would get added.

@valuser sounds as though you have styles conflicting if you are calling BP default styles then you need to kill the float:left on avatars so add a new class to that avatar ? ‘group-creator’ or better still add that as an id to the paragraph tag or whatever tag wraps the text and anchor and amongst other styles add ` #group-creator img.avatar {float: none;}` but you may need to play around a bit to find the right rules to override.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

sorry nor can I, it works for me – can’t see what may be going wrong for you.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@websitevala

Please stick to the other thread as this is all related to the main question you have asked and just gets confusing if you start to create multiple posts.

Get your primary requirements of sidebars/widgets working then move on from there.

Closing this thread.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

You need to move the global and variable to after the `if(bp_has_groups(bp_ajax_querystring( ‘groups’ ) ) ) :` line as that sets groups in motion

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

You’re going to have to puzzle this out, you have a codex page which list all the conditional checks for various BP pages / components so you can locate the one that suits requirements, the WP codex shows you how to correctly register sidebars and then call them correctly in files.

Earlier I explained the approaches you could take , I don’t really understand the question about options for members sidebar, as I said you could create a sidebar that is only called in certain files so you could call a new get_sidebar(‘members’) in your members/index.php file and then you don’t need a conditional check just call a sidebar region into that new sidebar and add whatever widgets you want to it which will then only display on the members directory.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@monchibord

That’s a slightly different question than the opening post suggested, but you can try something like this (doubtless there are better approaches)

`
// Somewhere before the groups loop ‘while’
<?php
global $groups_template;
$group_detail = $groups_template;
?>
// In your group loop li element somewhere you can do

Created By: <a href="group->creator_id) ?>”> $group_detail->group->creator_id , ‘width’ => 80, ‘height’ =>80))?>

`
I’ll leave you to work out how to fetch the members name

edit// for completeness I’ll add – although it was really a lesson for the class – the name
`group->creator_id) ?>`

It’s actually a useful little snippet and could do with being turned into a function to use in groups loop and single group screens

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Not familiar with bp-sidbar plugin as the requirements for adding sidebars and or widget regions with or without page checking is a relatively simple one.

Not sure what you have done incorrectly then if you have tried creating a new sidebar region, added it as a call in the sidebar.php. It’s one of those questions that is impossible to answer without seeing the code really.

All your requirements seem to revolve around creating specific widget regions and adding them to sidebar.php and correctly wrapping the block in an if ( bp_is_members_component() ) or bp_current_action() or something similar.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Please do not post multiple times on a given issue it does not get you a faster response and is bad form

Continue in this thread please:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/shopperpress-and-buddypress-conflict/

Closed!

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Your developer is possibly correct – can he/she not confirm that? and offer a solution? Asking here is less likely to produce a useful response unless someone has direct experience of this plugin combination – your developer however is better placed to pin down the cause.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

I guess you can do a re-direct based on logged in status away from any top level url but that would probably have consequences. You could wrap the index/home page in an if/else saying if not logged in show normal home page content else show something else for logged in users.

Read through this thread as it appears similar to your requirements:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-profile-redirect-question/