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Andrea is right.
You can either take the current BP home and member themes and customize them to integrate blogs as you wish, or you can use the BuddyPress Skeleton Template Theme files to build your own blog-centric custom BP themes.
In reply to: I want to translate it into GreekLiagk-
The primary resource for learning about translating WordPress files is here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
Also, some helpful forum threads:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=171
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1877
Finally, when you’ve completed your translation, it would nice if you would add and link in the codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/
In reply to: bpContents 0.1X Core Code – Dev Sneak PeekBurt, like Andy, I too will look at this over the next several days.
My immediate reaction–okay, we’ve talked a little about this in IRC
–is that this component will be a great tool for media management. I’d love to see BP’s photo album component evolve into an overall media component. Your component will go a long way into helping make that a reality.My more detailed thoughts and comments will follow!
In reply to: Recent posts (sitewide) missing some postsAssuming that you’ve upgraded your site to WPMU 2.7.1 and the newly released BuddyPress v1.0, then carefully read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in this BuddyPress Codex link.
In reply to: reducing the width of buddypress themeIs the height parameter a must, or can you leave it like (800, )?
No. You cannot leave the parameter blank. You could pass a variable into the space if you wanted, but it must have something.
When I tried to remove one WPMU folder I got the error message
“500 Can’t Remove Directory. Permission denied”.
A few questions:
- Have you checked the files / folder permission on your WPMU install? You should be able to delete everything that you personally upload to your public_html. Although, with shard hosting, there could be issues with apache owning certain files and folders.
- Are you using an automatic WordPress Mu install option from your hosting company? I’m not sure if any hosting companies offer that option for WPMU, but it’s worth asking.
The answer I got was WPMU does something at the Apache level and that I can’t do much about it unless mine is a dedicated hosting service.
- Have you contacted tech support for your hosting service provider and asked for their help? This WPMU forum post may prove useful in talking with tech support: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3173&replies=3#post-19388
- Have you considered changing hosting companies or upgrading to a more robust hosting plan? A VPS perhaps?
WPMU really does not do too well on a cheap hosting plan. Here is sage advice from andrea_r, a WPMU guru: http://wpmututorials.com/news/choosing-a-host/
I have a new installation now.
I think the width problem is to be fixed elsewhere.
Please consider these:
As far as figuring out what’s going on with your CSS, this is where the Firebug tool comes in very handy! It takes awhile to learn how to use it. But once you do, you can determine where a given div or class is pulling its instructions from and then temporarily override those selector parameters within Firebug and see how that affects the overall layout. It is a very powerful and useful tool!
Concerning CSS issues with IE6: my personal opinion is to not worry about supporting that browser anymore. It is just a big pain and too much work for too little return–less than 20% usage ( http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp ). Again, that is just my opinion.
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The best place to get an answer about CSS issues with bbPress theming is on the bbpress Forums. Please try there!
In reply to: threaded forum posts ?Erich73-
I’m sure it could be worked to get it to play well with BuddyPress!
At the bare minimum, there are some important changes/additions to certain theme files and folders that would need to be made as detailed here in the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files”.
In reply to: Request Features – Group PluginThanks, everyone, for your thoughts on how to extend and expand BuddyPress!
The best way to communicate your ideas to BP developers is through one (or both) of these links:
https://buddypress.org/groups/buddypress-features
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket –> log into trac using your BuddyPress.org username and password, and create a new ticket for an enhancement request.
In reply to: Add a Favicon to the BuddyPress.orgThanks for the post, Kusal!
I’m not sure if this was an issue when you posted it 8 hours ago, but I can see a BP favicon on the home, forum, and all member pages.
In reply to: BuddyPress Admin Bar in the middle of my page!?Are you running BP version 1.0? Is your old theme a custom theme?
Assuming that you upgraded to v1.0, carefully read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in this BuddyPress Codex link.
In reply to: Where at the Email Settings?In reply to: No CSS – Member & Home ThemeHadar-
Thanks for sharing your issue and, even better, the solution!
In reply to: Dispaly Nickname instead of usernameOkay,
Try this instead. Remember you’ll need to set the $member variable in your foreach:
<a class="group-link" href="<?php bp_the_site_member_link() ?>"><?php echo bp_core_get_username( $member ); ?></a>In reply to: reducing the width of buddypress themeMaythil-
You’re welcome–although I don’t know how helpful I’ve been.
With FTP, you should be able to go into your web root and do pretty much anything you want–that is assuming your hosting firm gives you FTP access privileges.
ie6 only displays 800px screens. is there a way to trick firefox or chrome into behaving like that?
Well, it seems that you are trying to do just that via the CSS. I’m not sure what the issue is though?
I suppose you could use JavaScript to force a resize of the browser window but this would only work for users you have javascript enable (most do) and have not set the Firefox Option that prevents a script from moving or resizing a window. Look here: http://schleichermann.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/javascript-resize-window/
Another great FireFox Add-on is the Web Developer Tools. It may help you gain more insight into what is going on!
In reply to: Skeleton Theme helpEzd-
You can customize the home theme to accomplish that goal. To make sure that no one can enter the community until they’ve registered and logged in, you could try implementing some of these suggestions.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=39
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1651
The community pages would be your customized member theme.
In reply to: Skeleton Theme helpEzd-
Have you worked much with CSS before? Have you designed a custom WordPress theme before?
If not, here are some resources I recommend for starters:
- First, if you’re not using the Firefox browser, do so. Also, install the FireBug Add-on.
- Second, the WordPress Codex is a great resource for theme designers
- Finally, BuddyPress themes are unique themes in the WP family. Andy has written a great BuddyPress Codex on BP theme loops
In reply to: Dispaly Nickname instead of usernameOkay, the number is not created by the code I asked yo to try. It is created by the previous code. The “You” is created by the code I provided.
A couple of questions:
1. Do you have three, separate user accounts each with a different email address?
2. Are you logged in when trying this out? If so, log out, clear cache, and try again.
3. Would you paste your misbehaving code in http://pastebin.com/ and provide a link?
In reply to: How do you change the main “Social Network” image?In reply to: reducing the width of buddypress themeAh, that could be causing an issue. Do you have a FTP client? If so, you should be able to delete any file and folder in any of your domains.
BEfore deleting and reinstalling, just make sure you’ve backed up any data that you want to save and any custom theme changes. Also, make a note of which plugins you’re using just in case you accidentally delete them out of the wp-content folder.
In reply to: Dispaly Nickname instead of usernameReally? Does it still say “You”?
In reply to: Fatal Error when activating@Squashroby & @Tyviris-
It appears that both of you are using WordPress single user version. BuddyPress must be used with WordPress Multi-User version (WPMU).
You can download it here: https://mu.wordpress.org/download/
Start over from scratch. First, delete all the files (except any custom themes you may have created or downloaded). Create a new MySQL database. Them go though the install process again:
- Install WPMU — the multi-user version! Follow these instructions
- Next, install BuddyPress following these instructions
In reply to: reducing the width of buddypress themeMaythil-
Hum? That is strange since that directly addresses the admin bar styling. What browser are you using? Is it FireFox?
When go into FIreFox and make those changes, I see your site’s admin bar set to 800 px. Did you use the !important declaration?
In reply to: Dispaly Nickname instead of usernameLars-
I’m just trying to see what may be going on. So, try this and see what it echos out for member name:
<?php echo bp_core_get_username( bp_the_site_member_user_id(2) ); ?>In reply to: BP Theme ContestAnd for all you theme designers out there, remember that Andy recently updated the BuddyPress Skeleton Theme to version 1.0 standards. It is bundled into the 1.0 download package. But, if you need a new copy, you can get it here:
In reply to: threaded forum posts ?Erich73-
He doesn’t have a threaded forum, it’s a threaded comment system. Better yet, it’s available to you if you use the P2 theme!
