[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

The mysteries of numbers 2 and 3 may be solved. In Firefox on XP the invite list is way off in the margin and is not see-able unless I use the overscroll bar at the bottom of the page. Site wasn’t designed to have an overscroll bar, so I didn’t think to look beyond the page in front of me!

I figured this out when checking the site on Safari on Vista, where the layout is fine. I had already checked the code and knew that the code was ok.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I am actually a fairly good code hacker – not a programmer, but I can go in and fix most things – and I’m a QA Engineer and I have to say that the buddypress codex that I’ve looked at so far is just about incomprehensible to me. To the point where I don’t even bother to look at it. It doesn’t tell me exactly what I need to know. It gives generic examples. I really need to sit down with a developer – unfortunately I can’t afford that luxury and am stuck figuring this out on my own. BuddyPress, and WordPress for that matter is not my be all end all, it’s a platform that should be usable out of the box – and neither one of them are.

Ending rant. Sorry – I’ve just wasted so much time on figuring this out – and I’ve gotten just about nowhere.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I am actually a fairly good code hacker – not a programmer, but I can go in and fix most things – and I’m a QA Engineer and I have to say that the buddypress codex that I’ve looked at so far is just about incomprehensible to me. To the point where I don’t even bother to look at it. It doesn’t tell me exactly what I need to know. It gives generic examples. I really need to sit down with a developer – unfortunately I can’t afford that luxury and am stuck figuring this out on my own. BuddyPress, and WordPress for that matter is not my be all end all, it’s a platform that should be usable out of the box – and neither one of them are.

Ending rant. Sorry – I’ve just wasted so much time on figuring this out – and I’ve gotten just about nowhere.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

enderpal444 : That is just way to sloppy for me, all I want is a code snippet. I really like the admin bar as it is and just want to add features to it in a way that doesn’t hop all over the universe to do so.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

enderpal444 : That is just way to sloppy for me, all I want is a code snippet. I really like the admin bar as it is and just want to add features to it in a way that doesn’t hop all over the universe to do so.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Any ideas?

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I’ve been looking for information on editing the adminbar for two months now.

Editing links out of the admin bar is easy. Just find the relative code bit in bp-core-buddybar.php and delete it.

Adding is another story because it usually involves large snippets of code. I’d like to add a login form from the adminbar as well – instead of a link that leads to the WP login page.

The other thing I’m looking for is figuring out how to move the side bar widgets up into the adminbar. I want to have all community navigation in the adminbar.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks!

I’m using my own theme.
I haven’t disabled avatar uploads – the form is there for users to change theirs.

It was working in 1.2.10 with my theme.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Anyone else missing the avatar upload form in Step 3?

Is there a fix?

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I’ve decided to manually register users as they sign up. It is the kludgiest of solutions, but I’d rather spend my time registering good folks that hours seeking out and deleting bad.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I’m still not seeing the Users Settings page …

I am using my own theme so do I have to run template pack again? I’m afraid of losing my configuration … Does template pack only create new pages, not recreate everything?

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Thank you!

Weird that page doesn’t come up in either a site or google search …

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I’ve noticed this on my WP Multisite when I post something to both the main blog along with posting in one of the subdomain blogs. I assumed that Buddypress was posting twice into the activity stream because it was in actuality seeing the post twice.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I would so much rather get dirty with code and create something wonderful than use something out of the box! I’m surprised more people don’t want to do this!

Yes, thank for the direction to that plugin. Usually I don’t like to use plugins when I can code, but I may just go for that one!

I did try and copy and paste the widget code into the buddybar Of course I got a fatal error, but it’s good to be reassured that I was moving in the right direction! So thanks for that – it just means I have to focus a little more and do some code editing!

I was hoping that someone had done it before and could just pass along the edited code … wishful thinking!

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Thank YOU!!!

Finally something that worked!

I had backed up all of my BuddyPress files before I upgraded so I just replaced the bp.css file in the plugins/bp-template-pack.

Now, on to see if I can make BuddyPress do what *I* want it to do rather than having it eat up my whole site.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I’ve checked everywhere – they are all set to 100%.
I’ve even played with the min/max width settings. I think at this point I deleted both of them. I’d have to go back and look.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

So far that hasn’t worked either …

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Bummer – I am way beyond all of the stuff you are telling me to do – been all over this and can’t figure it out. I think it might be that I’ve been trying to configure this for too long and now I can’t see anything.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Yes that is what I’m referring to and I’m using Firebug. But I can’t find the place in the CSS to edit – I have edited everything that I can find – which is why I’m asking here.

I will see if I can PM you the URL.

Thanks!

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Any idea how to visit a random blog according to theme it’s using?

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Anyone have any ideas as to where I should look next in the CSS or the code?

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

This is exactly the same problem I am having except in the opposite way – my sidebar is fine, it’s my content area that is at the bottom level of the sidebar.

I noticed that playing around with the float tags in the the CSS might fix it, although that only fixed part of my problem.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Yes and no. I’m doing something similar by configuring/hacking buddypress within my own theme. I used the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin to get the pages I needed but it’s a lot of editing from there. And I think that the S2Membership plugin will further the control by you if you want to make certain parts of the site public and other parts private.

I think BuddyPress is designed to take over a site, not sit side by side. Although that is what I’m trying to do.

I’m fairly proficient at hacking WordPress and I’m still running into roadblocks with configuring BuddyPress.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You might look at the “Three WP Broadcast” plugin for broadcasting posts across multiple sites within your WordPress install.

The “Multisite User Management” plugin manages user permissions across a WP multisite.

[@kkradel Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

Actually, plugins aren’t better, as they take up memory (I’m now on a VPS, so memory usage has become a concern) and they create a lot of doorways for hackage (not the good kind). I like, and would rather, hard code where ever I can, and I do, but I just don’t have the time or the bandwidth to do what I want to do on my own with BuddyPress, hence I’m stuck with plugins.

Before using Multisite, I hard coded as much as possible – all the header/footer stuff, links that I knew were stable. If I found a plugin that worked by adding one line of code, I just found that one line of code and added it by hand instead of using the plugin.

Currently I’m already using 30 plugins in a WordPress multisite and I’m still not getting all of the features that I need.

Already using BP Template Pack plugin. Already created my pages, which are fine, the problem is hacking the look and feel of BuddyPress elements within those template pack pages. Things that should be hardcoded, like the navbar, subnav, elements that should be automagically installed and configured, like the ones I mentioned above, are not.

Because I’m not using the BuddyPress theme, I can only guess that those elements are hardcoded into the theme instead?

I’d much rather be spending my time trying to hack a way for my BuddyPress members and my WordPress members to be integrated – or trying to make my already existing NextGen Galleries work as an “Album” within BuddyPress … but instead, I’m trying to figure out how to unscramble the stupid subnav bar.

Thanks for the code snippet links … I’m sure those would/should have shown up on my google searches if they had contained information that I was looking for. But when I get the time, I’ll peruse them and see if they contain the hacks I need. The stuff I need is really basic though and I don’t understand why it’s just not on the BuddyPress site, unless I am really missing something, which I could be …

Thank you for trying to help … !