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In reply to: Good for troop? 3 groups only with 100% control?
There was a useful BP utility plugin called ‘buddypress-restrict-group-creation’ writen by Rich
== Description ==
This plugin will restrict creating groups and group settings to certain WP Capabilities and various member thresholds (forum posts, friends, status updates, days since registered, achievements)
In addition, this plugin will auto-demote the group creator to group mod to ensure group settings may not be modified after creation. You may also define a group admin and mod that will be auto-assigned to all new groups. (requires adding 2 config lines)
It’s no longer being supported so will likely need overhauling to work with BP 1.3 when it arrives. The plugin should be in the BP plugins group somewhere.
In reply to: site is too slow to browse around……FF has a history of bad memory management, and too many open tabs doesn’t help, restarting the browser usually clears the memory down a bit.
In reply to: site is too slow to browse around……@naved I thought I had ?
/wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/footer.php
your-theme-name equals whatever theme you have installed and are using if you are using the bp-default theme then it’s in:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/footer.php
But you don’t really want to edit the core theme as the changes will be overwritten when you upgrade so one uses a child themeto make mods to bp-default theme files.
activate BP default theme disable all plugins except BP if you are still experiencing slow times then it’s your server that is the problem and that we can’t really advise on.
In reply to: site is too slow to browse around……It’s slow on initial get request with times approx 8 secs ( that feels reminiscent of the issue I had that I tracked down to a WP DB update running) it’s hard to say, however, exactly what is causing this subsequent pages are better @ ~2secs. one thing that ought to be corrected; you are trying to call the reset.css file twice, BP is loading it ok through it’s @import but your theme ‘Unplugged’ appears to be trying to load it from it’s local directory and it doesn’t exist so that’s throwing a 404 error file not found and taking 13/5 secs to time out also there a few other 404’s that ought to be tracked down and corrected.
All in all there is a whole heap of script calls and css being requested, and is going to slow things down to a degree although browser caching should help that once the browser has initially downloaded and cached a file.
One thing your server doesn’t appear to be doing is using mod_deflate content encoding to gzip files before transfer, this does speed up file transfer by compressing contents and letting the browser unzip them it’s end, so maybe speak to your host and ask if it isn’t enabled could it be.
In reply to: how to test the site ?You wont send emails from your localhost machine unless you configure a mail relay such as Sendmail to use an existing smpt server i.e your ISP’s. You don’t need to send/receive the emails though simply create a new member in the backend, assign them a password and then log in as them
In reply to: site is too slow to browse around……I keep a test site live running WP 3.1/BP 1.2.8 a few plugins , some test stuff -generally I expect it to be a bit of a mess yet after the initial page load of 1.5 secs( too slow ) all pages load in around 600ms @naved your times suggest something very wrong but where is hard to say without monitoring and testing, however custom functions can slow down page loading a lot as I found the other day with a function I was using to update the meta of a series of WP pages, it was slowing the page down to approx 8 secs until I wrapped it in a conditional to only run once.
@4ella really the only thing I can think to advise is to disable all plugins then benchmark a page load and start to add plugins back in. 60 plugins is almost certainly going to load the site to some extent, if they’re not well written could well be conflicting; on the other hand the problem could rest with the server especially if you are on shared hosting where you might have 100 sites all trying to grab cpu cycles at the same time
In reply to: [Search4plugin] A new Post Page…This is a WP matter, there are a handful of plugins that provide this, have a search through the WP plugin repository. (adding posts from the frontend is not normal though and I don’t see that users should, how hard is it to grasp using the dashboard of which a ‘contributor’ gets a very simplified view )
In reply to: Drop down menu in main nav bar stopped workingDuplicate cross forum post. Please only post once on an issue double posting does not get a faster response.
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@naved I’ve removed that posted file as it was causing issues and wasn’t the right type of file.
In reply to: how to change the footer of my website ?in the theme folder that has your BP theme files. What are you actually running, is BP installed and activated, and are you using the default theme? if so the theme files live in the buddypress plugin directory but you shouldn’t edit them directly.
Far too much code to post, please don’t just copy complete files.
Go and look at your wp dashboard at the nav menu option and see what options you have for placing custom menus.
In reply to: bpress works how i can center the textIt’s simply that you haven’t followed the manual steps completely the bp pages lack the markup structure that your theme files have, there is a detailed guide in the codex that you can follow.
In reply to: bpress works how i can center the textA little background information would have helped, yes the image shows things are not right, and by looks of things shows you are using a custom theme or a WP theme that you are trying to make compatible with BP? if that’s the case have you used the template pack? have you followed all the steps exactly i.e step 3
You won’t be able to unless you can code up a plugin yourself I guess, the mentioned plugin sounds as though it’s likely a WP one not written to work with BP, but have a hunt around the plugins in case there is something that is BP friendly.
This is a WP question really you can add links via the nav menus if your theme has a menu registered for the footer area, create a WP page as usual and then add it to your footer nav menu.
In reply to: how to change the footer of my website ?look in footer.php – make any adjustments in a child theme rather than in bp-default files.
Oh ok ; yes I’m with you now, usually think of duplicate content from the perspective of www and non www it’s really googles issue though, the url refers to the same thing ultimately.
However google trawls links in a page and the links are trailing slashed, from the perspective of inbound links that might not have the trailing slash added it could be an issue I guess.
In reply to: bpress works how i can center the textYou will need to be a little clearer on what you mean with perhaps code and or a link. What display? All of it? What should be centered?
Not sure why this is a problem? the trailing slash is in essence a nicety in that it means one is asking for a directory rather than a file and it helps the server otherwise the server first searches for a file named /foo before checking if /foo is actually a directory /foo/ but you’re right although all my test sites links terminate correctly / I can manually write the url without and it’s not added but it doesn’t cause any issues – however I may well be missing the point of what you are explaining
In reply to: Registration email not being sentAs Andrea_r pointed out earlier Not being sent and not being received are two different things You need to establish which of these two you are actually refering to. How have you tested your email functions? Have you checked through any mailer-daemon returned undeliverable notifications? What sort of accounts do the people have that are not receiving anything, Hotmail or the like? Have you set up PTR RDNS records and SPF records? failing to set these two records will almost certainly cause certain PITA email servers to bounce the email straight out and won’t even pass it as spam.
Ran a quick check and you appear to have no real mailbox/email server as your domain reports no MX records so not sure how people contact you under that domain, you have what looks to me a correct ptr record and it reports a canonical cname record that I’ve not seen appear in the context of a ptr check, there is no record of a SPF entry which isn’t unusual but some email servers will reject based on lack of available SPF record to lookup. It would be worth you checking with whomever set your dns records that all is correct and with your host that RDNS is set up and correct. These aspects can and will cause issues if not correct.
In reply to: Call to arms – Own your task
Ive provided the option to move header to footer and footer to header written a stylesheet called btt.css and written a JS function to switch browser scrolling from top to bottom to bottom to top and turned the sidebars and content upside down and am going to market this to them that live down under .In reply to: Call to arms – Own your taskI know how hard it *should* have been
oooh pardon us for breathing
I’ll get back to doing something interesting, I might provide an option to flip all sidebars horizontally.In reply to: Call to arms – Own your taskOr one could take the approach of not moving the sidebar but of providing a second one that using a conditional check for is_active_sidebar() shows the sidebar and also sets a variable to use as a token then you can have an alternate set of rules ready to adjust content margins etc as needed; there is many ways of skinning this cat.
In reply to: Call to arms – Own your taskat its most basic, switching sidebars is usually changing the floats in the css.
Yep it ought to be adjusting no more than a few rulesets, easily set up using a token on html or body to hook contra styles onto, always set up non wp/bp sites with this option to easily adjust the site layout by simply changing a token in the header.php extending that through to user control if a backend exists.
It should be simple to set up for bp-default and not break anything.
