[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Hmmm…well, the bulk of the front page is now linked images of items to buy, with a “new in the shops” graphic to signify them as such. I changed the “open a shop” header menu item to a more direct “SELL”. Does that help at all? I tried to keep all of the shopping stuff that you can do w/o logging in in the header menu, and the more profile specific “call to action” links in the sidebar *shrug*

I’d welcome any ideas!

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

If you want to pull blog posts from your WPMU child sites, you’ll need to use Donncha’s Sitewide Tags Blog plugin.

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

front page post-makeover makeover is in progress, but the top part of the page is the way it will stay, I believe

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

@hnla: yep, my plan is actually to leave the features area where it is now (where the green “I recycle” logo is), and replace the news block with thumbnails of the latest shop items, similar to what is seen at the bottom of Etsy’s main page: http://www.etsy.com. My “features” area is actually meant to show 2 linked graphics at a time, which lead to site news posts that will be about cool events RC vendors might be holding, or a product giveaway that one of them might want to do through the site. Those will not be “paid” ads, but stuff that is written about to highlight sellers that are helping the entire site out with something they’re doing, KWIM?

@modemlooper: I see what you mean about Shopfly, but I’m going for a setup more like Etsy’s site (also check out http://www.hyenacart.com, though the styling doesn’t particularly appeal to me at all)…less a hosting sales page and more of a shopping portal. To clarify, RC doesn’t actually involve blogging (at least posted to the main site) by the WAHM vendors. The system I’ve got set up DOES use WP blog posts on the child sites for the posting of items, so in “our” vocabulary, blog post = item. The profiles on the main site are for anyone who wants to sign up, whether they’re vendors or not, and is mainly for the purpose of keeping their personal wishlists of items across all RC vendor shops (child sites) The personal activity streams and profile update abilities are just icing on the cake, and there for anyone who wants to kind of hang out with like minded people while they shop. That’s definitely something I’ll ask my users about, though (whether they’d like to get rid of that stuff as well).

ETA: and I’ve made progress on the sidebar! I think I’m happy, except for the avatar area for logged in users and the form area for logged out users. Not quite sure yet what I’m doing to those.

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks guys

And of course I can’t just be happy and leave things alone…I already have some ideas for rearranging the home page, lol! I’m thinking about making the news less prominent, doing thumbnails only in a grid of the latest items posted, and also moving the stuff that now resides on the “Shops” page to the home page somehow.

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

That would be one of the nerdiest tshirts in history. And I love it xD

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks

And yeah, what good are bells and whistles if your users are confused by them?

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Nevermind, figured it out!

had to add `style=”background:none;”` to the list item the search bar is in.

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Hi guys! Awesome thread, but can someone help me get rid of the little downward triangle from the “visit” item? I removed the item according to the code @nickbwatson posted above, but the little arrow thing is still there, showing behind the text of my new admin bar search’s submit button. It goes away when hovered over, if that explains anything. I’m kind of at a loss.

Here’s my site. The search bar in question is at the far right of my admin bar, and the submit button says “find it!”

TIA!

ETA: I guess a link would help, lol

http://www.riotcart.com

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

@marcycapron, did you ever figure it out? I need to do the same thing you were after (changing the default screen that loads when a member name is clicked on to “Profile”).

[@justbishop Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

bump. Anyone know if this is doable?

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

thanks but I don’t Twit (tweet?), so that won’t help me

so…I guess I just post it at the wp jobs board then? This is kinda lame

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

Awesome! Just tested it out on my live site (I live on the edge, lol) and it worked perfectly! I do have a request for future versions maybe, though…checkboxes next to each member for bulk admin (promote/ban/remove)

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

just adding my vote for a much needed remove but not ban feature

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

a thought on the application shop…I’ve experimented lately with hardcoding a pay pal bin button into single.php, and setting up custom fields for the unique info that it needs. that way, you could just use normal posts for the purchasable items. to make things super easy on the sellers, just use the custom field template plugin to give them a very descriptive place to enter the bin button info needed.

for the record, the only reason this method won’t work for my purposes is that I need some sort of inventory control. I don’t see why it couldn’t work for something like software, though.

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

Is there a BP default theme folder in your themes directory as well? I’ve been using my child theme for so long that I can’t remember how a vanilla install is situated.

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

bump

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

I believe it’s a known bug, but if there’s a fix, I’d love to know too.

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

Something like this should work (or at least get you going in the right direction:

http://pastebin.com/LJbGQpr2

And further reading on conditional tags:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

ETA: oops, I assumed that the “blog” page was your index. In my pastebin example, you just want to replace the text “Your index page title” with the title of the page you DO NOT want the widget showing up on. Or, I guess you could also get rid of the exclamation mark and insert the title of the page that you DO want the widget on. If you literally only have the one BP page and one blog page, either method should work.

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

There are a few ways that I know of…

1. *NOT RECOMMENDED* Hack the core widgets code of BP to place a conditional around the groups widget itself.

2. Hardcode the groups widget into your sidebar, and put a conditional statement around it there.

3. Create a new sidebar widget area in your sidebar, place the conditional statement around the widgetized area, and put the groups widget in that.

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

I didn’t read through your CSS, so I can’t promise it’s not an issue there, but when this happens to me, 100% of the time, I’ve found that I either had a missing closing div tag or one too many closing div tags somewhere. Is this happening on every page of your site (check sidebar.php) or just the index and maybe other pages that list posts (check index.php)?

Good luck, stuff like this can be infuriating!

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

The “blog” tab here is to the main BP site blog. If you want to offer each of your members their own individual WP blog sites, you’ll need to activate Multisite in your WordPress installation (WP 3.0 or higher only):

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

I have WP 3.0.1 in Multisite mode running the latest BP, and it’s working great for me. I manually create the child sites, though, so I can’t vouch for how things work if you want to allow members to register their blog sites themselves (but I don’t see why it should matter).

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

bump!

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

^ all of that! Great ideas

[@justbishop Member 16 years, 2 months ago]

They wouldn’t have to have a blog…they would just post to the main site (so, they’d h ave to be registered members of your BP). I allow my users to post to the main site, I just limit what they can see of the admin panel using a few other plugins (Adminimize, etc.).