[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Oh yes and one thing I really like on your site @peter-hamilton is the links to activity, profile, friends, etc on the top left. Is that a widget? Or how can I set up something similar?

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks @peter-hamilton I already have the activity feed on my homepage, but what I would like is to enable users to post directly to the activity without leaving the homepage – the same way you can post on your feed page on Facebook. Is that possible?

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

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[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks @shanebp 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks @danbp I (think I) have successfully set that up – my first bit of php file editing, I’m quite proud of myself! 😉

Any suggestions on how I can allow members to post updates directly to the activity stream from the homepage (Facebook style) and for members comment on each others’ posts from there too?

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks @danbp showing site activity by using the topic filter sounds good. I went to this link – https://buddypress.org/support/topic/changing-the-default-activity-filter/ – but the posts there were a bit over my head as a beginner to be honest. However, the link in that thread to this article was useful: http://wpmu.org/how-to-customize-the-buddypress-activity-loop/

Problem is I can’t find the the /activity/ folder in my theme. Where do I need to look for that?

Also, is there a way I can allow members to post directly to the activity stream from the homepage, Facebook style, and for members comment on each others’ posts from there too?

I appreciate the help.

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks @peter-hamilton. Your site looks great!

I already have the GD attachments plugin, it’s a pity it won’t let you embed images inline in posts, but I hear that’s coming.

I’ll check out the activity plus plugin, sounds good.

Have you been able to enable users to post directly to the activity wall on the homepage (Facebook style)? That would be nice.

And what does the FB plugin do? Or is that just to enable people to login with FB?

Really glad I’ve seen your site, I’m feeling a bit more hopeful about creating something my members will be OK with now. Thanks. 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Yes @henrywright, like I said, my username and display name are the same on my site. The screenshot wasn’t meant to illustrate the issue with @ mentions. Here’s another screenshot showing members who have different display names and usernames. They just get confused that they can’t use display names for @ mentions because they are used to Facebook even though the @usernames are displayed below the display names. That’s something they will get the hang of I guess, the other things I mentioned in my original post are more pressing.

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

That sounds promising @danbp any idea when it will be ready?

Do you have any suggestions that might help with my other questions in my original post please?

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks @Henrywright, I’m not sure what you mean, I have it set up so @usernames appear below the display names like in this forum here. Perhaps it was confusing in the picture because my username and display name are the same? The image was just to illustrate that ip addresses are showing, but it turns out that’s only in admin mode so that’s fine.

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Hi durkk, thanks very much for the reply. I’m already using a theme meant bbpress and buddypress from Themeforest, it’s called Buddy. I’m generally happy with it and like how it looks (apart from what I mentioned above), I spent a lot of time getting it how I wanted so I’d be very reluctant to change themes. I’m hoping I can find plugins or some css I can drop in to help.

Good news about the ip names, didn’t think to check if it was just in admin view. 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks Henry. I’m not a developer and only know the basics I don’t think regular expressions is something I can really use. But I’ll check out plugins and post over in the bbpress forum. I get a bit confused about what to post there and here, though this might be a buddypress one as might be available in groups and other things across the site too.

I appreciate the response. 🙂

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks danbp, that’s encouraging. Yes, allowing all users access to all site media is not ideal, but I’m moving my community from a Facebook group to my own private members site and they are used to regularly including images within their posts and comments. This is something all members do very regularly and if I don’t include this function they’ll be clambering to revert back to the Facebook group so I can’t see another solution, having images at attachments just won’t be the same as having them inline in posts. Obviously they won’t be expecting the functionality of my site to be on a par with Facebook but they will expect standard forum features like being able to upload inline images.

I have installed the bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab, but it doesn’t seem to work. The Add Media button has appeared which leads to the Media Library and it is possible to upload or select an image from there, but the Insert into Post button does not work. Any ideas?

Do I need to also use the snippet you posted above? I don’t know how to do that, should it go into the CSS settings in the Themes editor?

I don’t build sites for a living, just trying to create a site for my business so I’m not an expert on the technical stuff.

Really appreciate the help.

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks shanebp. I have installed that plugin but it seems to only allow images to be posted as attachments. I have posted in the bbpress forum so hopefully someone will help, but from searching through it looks like lots of people have asked the same question and got no reply, which seems to indicate it’s not possible. Looks like I may have to choose another platform for my site. Shame, it seems such a basic thing. I appreciate your help.

[@julia_b Participant 12 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks Shanebp. Seems like a pretty basic function – most people using forums expect to be able to insert images into their posts nowadays. Any plans to include this in Buddypress? Sounds like it’s going to be tricky to get it work with those plugins.