[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

1/ Do you want a piece of content that is seen only by logged in users: yes / no

2/ Is this piece of content intended to be seen only on specific BP screens i.e when we are looking at a members profile /account: yes / no

You can add content to sidebars that checks whether a user is logged in or not you can see that as an example if you look in the standard BP sidebar and at the ‘sidebar me’ section towards the top.

You can also add content to that sidebar that only displays if you are viewing specific pages, an example of that can also be seen looking further down at the forum tag cloud block.

If you have need to add content via a widget for a specific screen then you may need to create a new sidebar region in a child functions.php file along with a function call in the sidebar to output that new sidebar if on a specific page, then you have a new widget region you can add your text widget to.

That’s not the only approach you could also create a new sidebar file that is only called on a members view and in that simply add a a sidebar region to use from the widgets dashboard page.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Think you need to post up the actual error message as I asked earlier as it’s very difficult to think what this issue is.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

what changes did you make to the core BP file and have you tried reverting those changes? When you say “try another theme” you want to test by running the bp-default theme not any other with all plugins deactivated – other than that it’s very difficult to help further without seeing the actual error.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

And does the error still exist if you deactivate your custom theme and revert to using the BP default theme? As for modifying core BP files you shouldn’t really and if you have we have no knowledge of what those mods are or how they are affecting things.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Well thanks a bunch – maybe we should all bow out and leave things to mercim then as no one else has ever contributed any help on the forum

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

This is essentially a duplicate of this thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-profile-redirect-question/ which has had one response so please keep to that thread to avoid confusion.

Closing this thread.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

You will need to start by actually explaining what the error is, we can’t suggest anything until you provide a little detail, list the error message, what you’re doing at the time to cause it, and the versions of BP/WP, theme in use and plugins.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Before going any further, check out the BP codex theme section as there is now a long list of converted themes courtesy of mercim that may suit and that have had the hard work done for you.

For the record you don’t re-name the BP files you just ensure they are copied over with the same folder/directory structure and then adjust the markup so it matches one of your primary theme files i.e index or page.php, the template pack walkthroughs in the codex do help if you follow them carefully.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/iis7-web-config/

Was going to post this link as it might have helped – if you have any choice in the matter try changing to a LAMP setup it’s really a lot less stressful

email is a function of your server, people do take a shortcut and try and skirt around issues with plugins but really one you should try and sort out at sever level.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

no, cookies are browser based the application sets them but your browser can block them.

If on IIS I wonder if you have ‘Almost Pretty Permalinks set up correctly’? permalinks and .htaccess are fundamental to the manner in which BP & WP functions, IIS does not work with standard re-write engine you find with Apache and has to use a third party module to provide the functionality – more on that can be read over on the WP Codex.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

> You can’t start a group because there are no topics.

Sounds as though you are labouring under false issusion that you have to have forums active in groups – you don’t! You can have groups without forums , your users then use the activity stream for the group to hold ?discussions.

> Nothing but frustration.

Yet you have spent, thus far, so little time understanding the application you are trying to use – don’t jump the gun and vent your frustrations until you have spent a little time learning how something works, then you will be better able to judge whether something really is a frustration, in need of better explanation – go to it write codex guides, we need them – , or simply your lack of understanding.

BP might ‘Work’ out of the box but that is a deceptive phrase, to make BP work for you you need to decide what you need it to do and configure it that way – out of the box simply means it functions in all it’s aspects – but that is including the kitchen sink – and that’s not always required.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

One of the drawbacks of a plugin that requires it’s own theme located within the actual plugin is that if you deactivate the plugin then immediately try and visit the front of the site you will throw an error as WP still has the bp-default theme listed in the DB as the current theme; a child theme has an approach it can take to programmaticaly switch the theme back to the WP default if BP isn’t active.

We revised that code to work correctly as it exists in the BP default theme but it can’t run from that functions.php file but would work if copied to child theme functions.php.

Otherwise after deactivating BP you need to next access the theme page in the dashboard and if not showing a WP default select one before trying to view the frontend of the site.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

It’s a fact of life take note again of what modemlooper said earlier > This only blocks bots, people are getting paid pennies to sign up to sites

If you want to run a WP site with open registration (it’s not just a BP problem!) then you have to learn to deal with this aspect and be re-active in administering your site and members and marking these users as spammers.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Please use backticks to surround pasted code – backticks rather than commas.

As I can’t see what you actually tried I can only guess at what happened – did you copy verbatim what I posted as that will break it’s intended as an example of where the new lines need to be inserted so you don’t want the last line in that first block I showed as that already exists and you don’t want the first line of the second block as that too already exists.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

That’s non standard behaviour so you need to look at what plugins you might be running, disable any one by one to see if messages go away then you know the culprit or it may be a theme issue – although less likely so if using a third party theme and plugins are not the cause – revert to the bp-default theme and check those messages.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Good point, cookies and referrers are necessary.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

As long as you ensure that the profile-loop file matches or doesn’t conflict with your themes markup – and it’s just the loop so should present no issues then make folders /members/single/profile/ in your child theme and copy the profile-loop into it and make the changes to that copied file.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

? bp-members plugin what’s that ? the file I refer to is in the bp-default theme and ought to exist in child themes

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

a simple method of preventing access to profiles would be to open up members/single/profile/profile-loop.php and wrap the contents in a is_user_logged() check something like:

`

`
and end the file with:
`

You need to be logged in to a view members profile

`

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

To be honest; trial & error, play around , a lot, with a test install on your local machine, but also do read through the extensive WP codex pages for beginners especially the theming sections.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

erm no lets not advise people go and directly edit DB

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

You need to visit the themes page to ensure you have reset themes before logging out or trying to visit the frontend as the BP theme was still in effect operational in WP eye’s

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

> This is a design job I’m doing for a client

It may be design but you are going to need to know a fair degree about how BP works and WP, BP doesn’t automatically add a dropdown menu so your theme must be adding it, and you should be able to tell what is happening from examining the template files and the appearance > menu configuration

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@vus firstly you should not re-open threads that are old especially ones that are two years old it is very unlikely they will be relevant to your issue – especially where code is concerned.

Please start your own thread on your issue – rather than tagging on to end of another – even if similar to your issue.

In the new thread describe and detail your present install in as much as possible, theme in use plugins etc.

The aim is to identify why the issue is occurring as it shouldn’t so you do not want to be throwing code into the template files at this stage so remove the code you have added for the moment, until members can have a think and make a few suggestions to resolving your issue.

I’m closing this thread as it should by now be read only really.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

it’s supposed to set bp_get_current_signup_step() to ‘completed-signup’ and that value is checked and if returns true then it should run the ‘Sign Up Complete’ heading so it sounds as though that function is not returning that string but why escapes me.