[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Update:

I’ve abandoned the idea in the footer and tried to add the php code into the sidebar.php. It works wonderful when I’m logged into the site but when not logged into the site then I get no groups showing nor does the activity stream below it load.

Dang, I wish I could just show the code… but for now .. here is a link to an image of what I’m using.

http://picasaweb.google.com/layne.heiny/20100522?authkey=Gv1sRgCIzDy-349MzQSw#5476771696217301394

Again, the code works fine when logged into the site but does not load properly when not logged in…

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

I figured out why the activity stream failed for some people. The registration options in Super Admin –> Options were not set correctly.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Thank you mercime. While working on a child theme, I copied the code from activity stream and forum index into the /index.php and sidebar.php and changed the css to get a nice width.

Unfortunately, some of the activity stream is showing up blank. The member icon shows but not their username .. etc .

URL: http://www.insanepolitics.com

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

OK.

I’m making a little progress. (http://www.insanepolitics.com/). I have the activity stream now on the right side of the page and adjusted the widths of the blog postings area.

Next, I’ll have to figure out how to get a “featured post” and only show the headlines of the rest.

Thank you hnla for your help.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

I see the differences now. The image I linked has the activity stream to the right (the sidebar for the default). There is no sidebar plugin for the activity stream. Plus, I used the term complex to describe that there are spaces for a featured blog post, blog headlines, forum headlines and the activity stream on one page. I have not seen a design like this for BP.

Again, the idea is similar to http://buddypressthemes.org/theme-preview/BuddyPress+Corporate/ yet the right is not 2 sidebars but 1 with the activity stream in it …

Therefore, I’m thinking you might know something I don’t – and you are thinking that the activity stream is the frontpage and the sidebar is moved from right to left and widgets are added there…. I’m not sure what you really have in mind.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Thank you for the reply but I’m not sure my original post was clear enough. I was hoping the image would show the complexity.

Yes, I agree that the theme would be a child-theme of the default (the header is just the default). I should have put that at the original post.

My basic understanding is that the theme would not require a simple adjustment of the widths because this is a mixture of activity, blog postings, and forum posts on the same page. Maybe I’m wrong.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Opened ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2403

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Same problem exists for BP 1.2.4.1 and WordPress 3.0-beta2-14822.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Turns out I can get this problem to occur using a different domain, different version of WP 3.0 beta 2 (WordPress 3.0-beta2-14697), different Linux server, I can get this error when trying to activate BP 1.2.3. Now I just need to figure out how to resolve the issue.

Plugin could not be activated because it generated 2 characters of unexpected output

Has anyone else observed this activation problem?

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Perfect timing – I just started to look into this for a website. Hopefully someone has information written up or can describe the best way to add a widget to a page.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years ago]

Good Morning!

Last night I decided to do a database restore. I couldn’t get BP 1.2.3.or 1.2.3-bleeding to activate. This allowed me to bring the site back online. I never figured out why it wasn’t working and I still don’t understand the error. A Google search brings up different plugins with similar issues but I didn’t find a resolution.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I got it working. It turns out that I had “whitelisted” the domain chemvideos.com – misunderstanding – that adding it to the whitelist blocks the loading of the videos in the activity stream and forum posts.

All works wonders now! I can actually just use the URL of the chemvideos – and it shows up in the blog posts, activity streams, and forum posts.

Cool!

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

OK. The developer of the phpmotion script oEmbed has it working on his WP site by adding to the wp-includes/class-oembed.php

‘#http://(www.)?chemvideos.com/.*#i’ => array( ‘http://www.chemvideos.com/oembed’, true ),

This allows the URL http://www.chemvideos.com to be embedded in a WP post simply with the URL such as

http://www.chemvideos.com/videos/42/reduction-oxidation-reaction

You can see it working in this blog posting: http://www.thechembook.com/2010/05/15/student-presentation-redox/

However, I would like this to work in the activity stream and the forums.

For YouTube, I can just add the URL in the stream or forum – but not for the chemvideos site (which works in a WP post now).

This is what I put in the functions.php file (I also tried in the bp_customs.php file):

# php wp_oembed_add_provider( ‘http://www.chemvideos.com/*’, ‘http://www.chemvideos.com/oembed’ );

Ugh – I’ve tried all sorts of combinations to get the code to show — sorry – but it is getting stripped out. And yep – even surrounding it with code still strips it — so — just imagine that the line is surrounded with angle brackets.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Since I’m trying to embed a video uploaded to a phpmotion script, the following mod was purchased a few minutes ago – and maybe the oEmbed feature will work with phpmotion. This way I don’t have to worry about a custom.php file.

Mod: http://www.phpmotionmods.com/?p=163

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You’ll want to provide more details for everyone: what version of WP, BP, plugins, site URL, etc.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Yes, this has been an issue with beta 1 forward (even WordPress 3.0-beta2-14597 has the issue). Hopefully it will get resolved with BP 1.2.4

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Hi James,

Thank you for looking at the site. In the wp-config.php file add

define( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘tutoring’ );

That should do the trick.

Update: You could also add the same statement to a bp-custom.php file that you create and place in the /plugins/ directory. I just tried it and it worked, too.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@elbaina The memory_limit on that server is set to 32M and that may be too low. You should start your own thread that is specific to your server configuration as well as the version of WP and BP. Others here can help.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Maybe my question belongs as a feature request for 1.3 + …

Oh – No offense M but I didn’t download your plugin. With so many plugins now on the site I’m always concerned about one tripping over another.

Jeff, good point. I absolutely need to donate to a few more plugins. I did donate to the ajax chat plugin but never got a confirmation email from them. Oh well. Hopefully they received the money.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Thank you for the reply. I look forward to the addition of the component then …

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Thesis and BuddyPress do not work well together (yet). There are some good threads about BP and Thesis on the Thesis support forums. You might want to start reading there.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Yep – reading helps on my part. Sorry.

“You can do this with any template file in the parent theme. However, if you want to override a template file that is in a sub folder, you must also recreate the sub folder in your child theme.”

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

But now I’m on my way to getting this fixed

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Oh – I’m making this far too complicated. First, simply create a directory in /wp-content/themes/ and create a style sheet with the proper tags, etc. Next I copy the register.php file I modified into that directory.

This should do the trick, right?

My confusion is that register.php is buried down a few levels and wasn’t sure if the child theme needed to have that same hierarchy.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

In the meantime, you might be able to use avatars if you upload rectangular shaped images and crop at that point. At least that works on my BP installation.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Hi everyone,

Well, as promised, I asked the kids and got as far as asking the first 3 class periods. The problem I ran into was that kids from my classes started talking to each other prior to coming in .. and a select few were just making things up. So, I stopped asking.

Here is the image of the classroom white board. One kid was at the board in each class as the teams read off their list of reasons for not using the site – or not liking the site – or things they wanted changed.

http://www.google.com/buzz/102401255420058194378/hsRtrNUnoGP/Posted-via-email

The funniest ones were –

“What website?”
“I don’t like to study”

Or this exchange:
Student 1: “Checked but didn’t see anything new”
Student 2: “When did you go last?”
Student 1: “August”

Anyway – The room became really quiet when someone said, “Google is faster” – and others chattered – “that’s true.”

Maybe buried in all of the feedback, from approximately 100 kids, there are a few gold nuggets. I already started working on the navigation.