[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Second time you’ve posted this exact same comment on month old threads, not a lot of point really dragging up old posts.

Please start a new post about your issues and someone will try and help.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Check out the Trac to see the state of development. There are three core developers with commit privileges they do all the work – mostly – and they work on a voluntary basis as this an OS project, members also help to move it forward and the speed at which it does develop is largely governed by the effort we all put in and other than the main three developers not many of us are contributing at the moment!

As for themes ? what do you want, again these are written on a voluntary basis and themes for BP are of a magnitude harder than a bog standard WP layout and are not a trivial matter and take time, but there are themes around if you look.

So no the project isn’t abandoned.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

As a very skethcy outline of the top of my head you might follow something along these lines:

Using a custom xprofile field set in a new fieldgroup so that it didn’t appear on the main signup group ( or not as may be desired) you could have this field gather a user set url or portion of i.e if the feed url has a particular parameter to id the users WoW you could ask they supply that as a string for the custom field.

Now you have a unique value for this user you could try using simpleXml library to fetch and parse the feed, so using probably $xml_feed = simplexml_load_file() pass in the url of the feed plus the users xprofile field string to create an object specific to that user then you would simply need to render the parts of the feed you required $xml_feed->channel->item.

That is obviously a very patchy example, but in principle should be workable.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

I’m afraid that you do need the services of a coder really, you can post in the jobs section for some help or as I said earlier try approaching the themes author which really you should try first as they wrote the theme know their code and how to adapt / modify it.

I’m afraid I no longer help privately on small jobs as they cost too much time, happy to help on support in public posts where I can though.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Ought to have added that these are issues that while SC might show the problem without actual sight of code it’s difficult to suggest a course of action.
Depending on the method used to fashion the layout elements there is a technique that might work where you overlap borders to create a continuous one, then the sidebar and the content area would have a border-left and border right respectively with one of the elements having a one pixel negative margin so that it’s border actually overlapped the other.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Firstly these are not bugs as such they are styling issues, your column doesn’t descend down as it’s height and border is dictated by it’s content height.

These matters really are best addressed to the theme author.

With a voluntary support forum it’s important to remember that the volunteers are not paid to help so it’s best not to flag posts as ‘urgent’ or ‘ASAP’

If you are going live shortly and are not especially a coder yourself it may be wise to employ one to sort these issues out?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

This was an issue but it was attended to with a workaround by Boone with a little help from me ( well I discovered it ) it predates the favorite issue and shouldn’t be apparent but it’s a while since I looked.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Not so much ‘free’ as Open Source under a GNU license. ‘Free’ has such an ugly ring to it

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

You’ll have to make a child theme as mercime mentioned four posts up.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

But ensuring a certain theme is always used for new blogs? is that the question? If so in wp-config add

`define(‘WP_DEFAULT_THEME’, ‘myCoolTheme’);`

There was also, and still is, a useful plugin for managing various default settings for new blogs, think this works up to 3.0 but not 3.1 but may be wrong:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Cool we can all get our Scouts BP Patch Tester badges

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

I am not going to sit around a log fire singing kumbaya and testing patches!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

It can be done and I’ve seen it done where the blog is more akin to an extended profile and created on the fly per user but it really isn’t trivial and I don’t have the actual detail and even if I did it would take a lot of explaining, it’s very much a bespoke piece of core customisation – one draw back of a site for every user is that with a moderate user base ~800 -1000 you have a pretty large DB in terms of tables and will need to ensure your server DB is tweaked and optimized as much as possible as backups can fail trying to lock tables numbering in the thousands.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Easiest way to research how is to examine the two core files responsible for the adminbar/buddybar:
buddtpressbp-corebp-core-buddybar.php & bp-core-adminbar.php

CSS is only a presentational language, display:none not the best way of hiding/removing something

to remove the site name completely add to your functions.php file in a child theme or in bp-custom.php in plugins folder this line:

`remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_logo’, ‘bp_adminbar_logo’ );`

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

You need to look at the other section in dashboard ‘Network Admin’

? Are you sure you have MultiSite enabled ?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Hosting is a minefield, finding a good host a draining experience. Packages vary wildly with few conventions apparent, one has the disk space you want but only moderate memory, the next one the reverse.

Why are you after cloudhosting? is there a specific reason? or, and forgive me if this sounds rude, is it simply as it’s the buzz word of the moment?

Is there a reason EC2 hasn’t been mentioned? it’s ability to create some unique setups and recover things within seconds unique, however I think it expensive to run 24/7.

Rackspace cloud? next biggest one after EC2 probably.

One thing be sure of good, reliable hosting and ‘Cheap’ do not go together it’s an utter fallacy – expect a good – but moderate spec RAM/HD to start from £30.00pcm something with better allocation all round is going to be closer to £50.00pcm

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

As I’ve mentioned emails not being received is not really a WP/BP issue it’s a server configuration / email records spam filtering one, certain hosts are known to cause issues -many employ plugin solutions to bypass problems although that doesn’t really resolve issues.

I would suggest you try a search of the forum posts as there have been many threads started on the subject.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Can they register? do you have a registration page? when that is completed and submitted is the issue that they don’t receive an email verification code? if the system is not sending emails correctly then you neeed to look at things from the server level first and establish that you can actually send emails correctly, or if not sure contact your hosts and ask for help.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Not really. Have you actually tried what I suggested earlier? Create a user in the backend and then log in as that user?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

No

Multisite allows you to create a network of blogs as subdomains or subfolders. You do not need multisite to run a WP/BP social network that can run on the single primary blog and naturally have users sign up to it.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

You would know if you were using Multisite as setting up a WP install to run in Multisite mode is a manual procedure where you have to first add a line to wp-config then a new option appears in the dashboard to set up a network.

If you’ve added users from the backend then log in as that user on the main site.

Non receipt of activation emails could be any number of issues but generally it’s a server based one rather than WP and/or emails from the server are getting rejected by the receiving server if it thinks your server is not allowed to send emails from your domain name, also check spam boxes ion case they’ve been dropped in there

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Then you need to enable site registrations, people then need to register, receive their activation email activate their account login and do something then they should appear in BP members directory. You will need to ensure BP settings allow users to create groups and that forums are setup.

What type of WP install are you running? With multisite users are added under Network Admin users list in the dashboard and have to be manually added to main or other sites and given WP roles if required.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Again not quite sure what you mean. If you are referring to people joining the BP community or for that matter simply registering at the WP level then you need to enable the option to register.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

That’s ‘Safe Mode’!

Are you running one of those control panels like Plesk *he shudders*

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Whom do you mean by someone else? super admins may create users but not just anyone if you mean other site admins then you have to allow them to add new users