[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Sounds like a transition from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 and custom theme pages not updated .

`do_action( ‘bp_directory_members_actions’ )`

Is where the buttons in question are called from now

Do you still have “?

This lists the changes between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6:
`https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F1.2.5%2Fbp-themes%2Fbp-default%2Fmembers&old=&new_path=%2Ftags%2F1.2.6%2Fbp-themes%2Fbp-default%2Fmembers&new=3916`

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

@boonebgorges yep that makes sense .

Just found and read Jeff’s update as well as the potted history writeup he made, makes one both a bit sad and angry.

Just deleted two hundred odd words I wrote here on this subject of GPL, free work, download and moan thought what’s the point?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

@travel-junkie Thanks for the update wasn’t aware of this, real shame that Jeff has been worn down by negative comments when he’s undoubtedly put so much time into this plugin. I really feel that many simply do not get what hard work and time is involved in development of any nature and when it’s essentially done for ‘free’ it’s doubly galling when people take the work for granted, complain or just request endless ‘Features’ as though there was some obligation to provide endless fixes, updates, improvements etc.

If only all those probable 3000+ downloads that one would expect to see with a plugin like this stumped up a dollar each then at least the developer might just feel their hard work rewarded slightly!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

I’m fully stocked stationary wise, got two pens on the desk as well as the pencil .

So why hasn’t Jeff released this then?

Following on from ML’s comments Privacy is always a concern as is fine control over permissions and and moderation of users that it ought to be a serious point for roadmap discussion regardless of route taken to achieve it.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Pencil it in for brief mention Wednesday?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

They’re certainly one of the more interesting hosts in the re-seller market, shame they don’t do VPS packages although do do dedicated.

It’s interesting to hear first hand experience of them.

You definitely want to find the time to do the re-branding though

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Interesting, default values for this and it’s sibling CPU directive is ‘Unset’ but suspect sharedhosts set this to protect from too many spawned child instances crashing servers, surprised that they let this be modified really, but a great and fast response.

I had wondered about Heart but tended to dismiss them due to the rather too? cheap packages they offer.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Lets draw a line under things now and leave the thread to continue on topic if it needs to.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Hmm…

Do I really come across as a girl? clearly I need to start writing in a far more butch manner.

Special treatment? what special treatment do I / have I received?

The reality is that I have spent far too many years helping people than I care to think about, my coding knowledge? actually it’s quite extensive

You’ll be pleased to hear that I can’t ban you as in truth moderators powers on this site are very limited.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

@TheAlchemist if you’re seeing php scripting outputed by the browser then you have possibly left out php tags wrapping the function? depends on how your functions.php is arranged but generally as it tends to contain various disparate functions and snippets of code including markup php tags tend to be opened and closed on a per item basis.
@pcwriter There appears to be a bit of confusion over two separate requirements here; this sniipet of code is quite old and I think was actually written by r-a-y and perhaps ought to have been duly attributed! the function always did work in functions.php quite happily and I’ve been running it since early last year so it’s been around a while, your original request was for the profile tab a component and the ticket you raised for the constant to be defined in functions.php which in theory and practice is impossible as constants are pre-defined set values and have to be set before BP loads thus they can only work in wp-config or bp-custom.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Yep decedent selectors are actually the space you might leave between the selectors, a space says that the selector/element on the extreme right has to have a parent or ancestor/antecedent that matches to the one on the left thus:

#my-element a {} means that the anchor will only have these styles if it is nested at some point in an element named as #my-element.

At some point is important as a descendant selector denotes a hierarchy to any level or depth, that anchor can be further nested in a dozen elements.

So if you had styles for avatar that ran something like this:

li div.item-avatar a.avatar {}

but you wanted to change it in some way for say the account page ‘friends view’

then you could do:

body.friends li div.item-avatar a.avatar {}

It all depends on how the original has been styled as to how you override it and you have to be aware of the specificity of the selector rule or the ‘weight’, if the original styles using selectors like this:

#some-id #another-id li div.item-avatar a.avatar {}

then you new rule will not override it as each selector carries a weighted value and ID’s carry the heaviest value so their selector group trumps yours, you would need to add a few IDs or match IDs until your selector set had a higher value.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

If you look at the body element and swap between the pages you should see various different classes applied depending on page being viewed. You should be able to use these classes to effect descndent selector styling, in other words you will add a class from the body element at the start of your selector group e.g:

body.groups #id .class {}
body.directory #id .class {}
body.profile #id .class {}
etc

The question of these classes has been raised and improvements to them have been committed to 1.3 to make it a little easier to use these hooks for styling.

At the moment you might find that to, say, style all the single member pages you have to group styles as there isn’t a class that covers the general members account/profile pages views.

working in a child theme yes you can copy over files and add extra classes where you think it helps and/or add custom styles to the main stylesheet in the child theme to override the default styles. When copying files over preserve the directory structure that exists in bp-default so your files get found and used in preference to the default ones.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Your post says it all really. I do not wish nor will I get involved in discussing this much further, my reason for the comment was to point out in general the importance of following certain advise when provided or at least acknowledging it, but you express the sentiments above that really don’t tend to go down well , i.e “quick fix” , “I did not want to simply “try” any more fixes, I wanted to “implement” the correct fix”

Sometimes you are not going to find someone with the exact same issue or the perfect answer and that is where you will have to get involved in ‘trying fixes’.

That’s what you super knowledgeable non-newbs can do
and remember that you all – the non-newbs – have an important role sometimes: just to tell the newbs what to do because you can.

And pray explain to us why we should? Most of us started out with as little knowledge as you but step up and learn, every day I have to apply myself to things that I haven’t a clue about but have to study, read guides, become familiar with I do not expect nor ask that others do this for me or expect them to simply give me the benefit of their experience just like that, yes at times it helps but I always remember that first and foremost it is I that have to do the leg work and demonstrate that fact.

Manual installs? easy as pie, you needed to have attempted one , if you came unstuck or needed help with that you would have received it, but clearly it would have saved a lot of time.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

@espeon I’m a forum moderator, what forums have you been frequenting where it’s acceptable to pass a comment like that to regular members let alone a site moderator. Passing comments like that get noticed and you will find that there will an unwillingness to help in future so I would advise against further comments like that as they will not help your case regardless of what may have prompted them.

All said in a very friendly advisory manner my young friend

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

@espeon
If you had actually read that codex page in the second link without dismissing it as not what you wanted (what did you want? I suspect what has been offered above!) then you would have noted this line:
We’re going to modify the ‘My Blogs’ menu without changing the core code

Operative words there are “without changing core code”

When you come to a tech forum that offers help you need to bear in mind that the prerequisite to gaining that help is that you demonstrate a willingness to get involved and to be seen to help your self as much as possible; please do not think that on a voluntary help forum that there is any obligation to help people it’s a co-operative process, and attitude of any sorts is never taken well!

You now have a function that looks on the surface to do what you require, and which you now test by adding to your functions file in your theme.

it’s important though that because some code has been provided that this isn’t perceived as the norm or that the forum is a coding service – the provision of code in this manner is up to each and every member to decide if they wish to provide and often it will be but it mustn’t be taken for granted.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Please read through this post and try a manual install for the reasons noted in that post.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forums-posting-problems-the-definitive-post/

That needs to be attempted before being able to help that much further, this issue of forum error creating new topic crop up frequently and the solutions covered a few times in threads, it’s a cas of finding the right one for the circumstances.

Also please try searching on a topic before posting as you may well find the answers or steps to follow without needing to post afresh.

Try a search on ‘forum posting’ it returns quite a few threads on the subject.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

bp-default theme – which admittedly you are not running – doesn’t use the newer WP menus system yet will do with 1.3 release.

Sadly with BP disabled and no drop downs working it’s hard to sat what’s the cause, not really sure why someone suggested you post here, this forum supports the BP core plugin and default theme with neither in operation your issue rests with the theme you are using or some change you made; what happens if you drop back to the WP default theme twentyten?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

I have too little knowledge on this matter.

Well you said it

Email is a deep and complicated subject however setting up servers to be able to forward mail relatively trivial how that mail is dealt with though once it is actually in transit around the net is where the problems start.

With your lack of admitted knowledge you are best advised to take the issue to your host to resolve really. This isn’t so much a BP or WP issue as a server one and the use of these plugins is a hack to avoid addressing the real issue as far as I can tell, I have encountered all manner of issues setting up LAMP servers and email but have always resolved by correctly installing and configuring mail functions at the server level.

I have a feeling that you simply haven’t configured the plugin with a proper smtp server url to use, I use Gmail for domains on a regular basis configuring the MX records with the main DNS for the domain and have generally no problem using the sendmail programme with WP/BP
You might also be running a mail server and the mx records might not have been set correctly?

Also I must add that of all the many threads reporting issues with email the majority are with bluehost.

Open a ticket with Bluehost as their continued issue are tending to become a PITA and they are supposed to be a WP friendly host.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You need to some simple and basic trouble shooting here.

Disable custom theme what happens? disable BP revert to clean WP what happens? etc

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You have done something very odd with those links and managed to get non ansi characters in the link text how did you add the text, copy and paste from some app?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

BP doesn’t work with the newer WP 3.* Nav menus at least not at present release it will with the 1.3 release, so trying to puzzle what you have set up.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Please don’t post links that are under http auth, it’s pretty pointless.

If you do require help and this is Buddypress related then you will need to post far more detail on what you have done and versions / themes used . Third party themes though can only be tackled in a very superficial manner here, as said, theme support must be sought from the authors in the first instance.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

seems pretty fast to me!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Yes Ray is a very nice and helpful person but that doesn’t mean it’s correct to directly call someone to help – this is somewhat a convention and has been stated by other mods.

Yes sorry you didn’t ask for a 20 minute class but you got one nonetheless The statement about Rich was probably unnecessary

I’m sure Ray will be along to provide you the code shortly but tends not to be around till later.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You shouldn’t really call out specific members in this manner – members are not here to provide a coding service

To a certain degree if you want customisations then you will by necessity need to develop your skill level to effect them, his forum may be enviable but the amount of work to achieve that will have been quite detailed – getting BP the way one wants it does actually require a fair amount of work .

Please don’t just say to go to the etivite forums because he abandoned them.

Do you know this for a fact? If not then I wouldn’t state something this emphatically – I doubt he’s abandoned his site he might just be very busy? and simply because he runs a BP site doesn’t necessarily mean he’s available or obliged to support any and all issues that are dropped in his lap

This plugin by Rich may be useful – doesn’t add that topic started/latest stamp as far as I can see but adds a few refinements that can improve forums:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-forum-extras/