[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Maybe start with the settings for the group. There is a checkbox for forums that sometimes is not checked when a group is setup.

admin –> group settings

domain.com/groups/the-name-of-the-group/admin/group-settings

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

This appears to be a job for a child theme of the bp-default and start changing the css in a newly created styles.css file.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Hopefully that should get you started.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

hmm.. ” headers already sent by” is a new error created today after the modifications. I didn’t see it until you pointed it out! Ouch.

This seems to be a problem in the functions.php that I created. The php functions are now combined and the site wiki appears to load properly now. Thank you!

The practice tests are created in ExamView and saved as html. These were uploaded via ftp and linked by a page created in BP. I hope that makes sense.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

I’ve been making more modifications today and previous to today. The sidebar-me, posting css, and sidebar widths are now unique. Thanks to others on here – I’ve even changed the posting behind the teachers so that their answers are more clear. The goal is to make this as easy as possible for students to ask questions and get reliable answers.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Roger, I placed this in the styles.css file.

ul#topic-post-list li:first-child {
padding: 4px;
background: #FCEC8F;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
-moz-border-radius: 6px;
-webkit-border-radius: 6px;
-moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #dddddd;
-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #dddddd;
}

I then removed my div tags that were working in the topic.php (restoring original) … and the first post failed to load with a different css.

Update
OK! I found my mistake Roger. This works – except the whole post with the avatar is surrounded and I just wanted the post content.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Roger – that doesn’t seem to work for me – have you tried it and does it work for you? Maybe I’m doing something wrong.

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Beautiful !!

http://www.thechembook.com/groups/first-year-chemistry-learners/forum/topic/mr-heinys-chemistry-class-2009-2010/

Now – that works when == 1 … is there an or statement possible?

$topic_template->post->poster_id == 1 || 53

Something like that?

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Oh – well – I don’t want to slow down the site. Hmm.. Is there a way to grab the userid from WP or BP?

I was thinking of something like this in the functions.php – is that cached?

function my_admin_post() {
global $bp;

if ( $bp->displayed_user->id == 1 )
return true;

return false;

Update
— Alas that didn’t work

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Thanks for hanging in there .. but that just doesn’t work for me. I copied your function and placed it in the functions.php file for the child theme. Next, I added the line above (fixing the quotes) – and the posts do not load. I get the header ..and that’s it.

Dang – I hate not being able to post code here!

Update
OK. I got it!!!

Thank you! OK. I had to rearrange this a bit by using a div around the post content instead of the li … but it works

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

I guess no one has an answer. This is sad.

it is simple in bbpress
#position-1 .threadpost { add the css here }

Why not buddypress?

[@lph2005 Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

Does this help?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/custom-avatars-arent-shown-on-single-blogs-in-wpmu/

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Sorry. I’m not having any luck here. I can get the css to change based on who is logged in (admin or member) but want it to always show admin background in one color OR at least get the initial idea which is to have the first post show with a unique css.

Any other suggestions? Sorry, my skills are too limited to figure this one out.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

This site appears to use (copied from the Google Chrome Developer tool):

div#sidebar .avatar-block {
overflow: hidden;
}

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

@yocalif

Yes, BP takes time to learn. I’ve been working with it for a few weeks and discover something new every day. This support forum is checked all of the time and I try to follow answers given by several key people.

http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/4856/allinoobkidknife.jpg doesn’t appear to be an image. So, first, find an image and use the html img tag (See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_IMG.asp ). You can even use the height restriction to limit the size of the image.

In terms of links, simply add the full URL into the post and it is automatically converted to a link. (See http://www.iusmentis.com/technology/www/relativeurls/ ).

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

• Why when I log into buddypress.org am I automatically taken to my profile instead of either staying on the page I’m already viewing or taken to the front page? How can I change this?

>> I don’t know of a way because this is up to the theme designer and bp.org theme is set this way. The default theme is not.

• I have tried multiple time to upload an Avatar here at bp.org and always get this error msg.
“There was an error handling that image, please try again.”

>> Yes. This is a pita. I use images *not* square and this works.

• I have stated I’m a wp/bp noob, my previous sites were forum or cms sites using phpbb3 or SMF, or joomla, so I am super frustrated with bp forums no bbcode, no preview, no easy way to add categories or subcategories? Here at bp.org how do I quote someone, or post an image , or post a link?

>> Again, bbpress installation on bp.org is default. On your own installation you can add plugins to a “my-plugins” directory under wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress

>> A better solution on your own installation is to install the buddypress plugins for the forums (such as Forum Attachments for BuddyPress).

Update:
I decided to try to post with an inline image and it worked.
http://www.thechembook.com/groups/announcements/forum/topic/test-of-inline-images/

Example for this site:

• How do I know if plugins will work with the latest version of BP 1.2.4.1 if the plug-in show (Requires: 2.9.1 BP 1.2)?

>> Hopefully you have a test environment and are not trying to change things on a live site. Otherwise, have backups and try the plugin. If it fails then there is a process to go through to remove the plugin.

The best part of the buddypress.org site is the support given by other people using the product.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Using

if ( $topic_template->post->post_position == 1 ) :
blah blah
else
a different blah blah
endif

with php tag wrapped around it … almost works. When there is only 1 post then I get one type of css and if there are more than 1 posts then I get a different one.

Almost there.

Which brings me to a different question that I asked earlier … what if I wanted css different for admin and moderators .. looks like I just need to know a listing of the functions and how to use them here.

For example

if (post by admin) <— however that looks
blah blah
else
a different look
endif

Something like that .. and just need to know the post by admin function

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

@rich! @ etiviti, thank you. I’ll try to play around with the idea. Let’s hope it works

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

I’d start by using FTP to the server and see if the bp-template-pack.php file is present.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

@cavamondo – It might be as simple as the theme activation. Go into the wp-admin and change the theme (e.g. twentyten). See if the site loads after the de-activation.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

This is the bookmark on my browser:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/

as well as

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Roxanne,

What versions of BuddyPress and WP-Mu are you using? What other plugins are you using? What is the directory structure? Have you checked permissions of the directories?

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Great job. It loads a little slow but I really love the top “featured” area. Is that your own work or a plugin? I tried something similar in the sidebar but found it fails on certain pages in a multi-blog situation.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

This same problem exists in WP 3.0 RC1 and BP 1.2.4.1

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

I received several more of these last night. There are no members on the site – yet – the activity stream shows “joining” of a group.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Maybe this document will help.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/