[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Andy posted Checking if BuddyPress is active code for BP plugin developers

– https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/checking-buddypress-is-active/

Andy started topic for BP Plugin Developers

– https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/plugin-hall-of-shame-plugin-devs-please-read

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Tested it once, BP Template Pack activated does include the basic CSS necessary to style the different core components – http://svn.wp-plugins.org/bp-template-pack/trunk/bp.css

You could customize template pack’s css in your WP theme’s style.css to match say, link or background colors to match your theme

Btw, check the source view of your BP-enabled pages and see if the link to the bp.css from template pack is rendered there, it should be.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Three ways to go about it depending on preference and how site is used:

1. define ( \'BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG\', true );

add this to your wp-config.php after the DB collate info will allow BP to function on different blogs of your install

Reference: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ :

OR

2. You can copy source view code of the navigation in home site and paste it to replace relative navigation links in header.php your child theme to get the URL of home page navigation correctly. Caveat – you would have to do this every time you add new navigation link in home page.

OR

3. You could add the following codes before and after the navigation menu in header.php of your child theme

before main nav assuming BP site is at main blog

<?php switch_to_blog(\'1\') ?>

then after main nav

<?php restore_current_blog(); ?>

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-profile-widget-for-blogs/

– enables blog admins to show their BuddyPress avatar with link to BP profile page plus own xprofile fields

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-attachments-for-buddypress/ – you can upload different file types … images, swf, etc.

edit- depends on what kind of attachment site admin allows, of course.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

You can add the code in wp-config.php right after “The Database Collate type…” section of the file

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Used this in WP installation and is working in WPMU/BP

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

BP Child Themes and BP-aware Themes

https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/ –

http://buddydev.com/downloads/themes/free/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

+1

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

It would help if you included details about your installation like WP/WPMU, BP in root or directory or subdomain, redirect plugins used if any, etc. etc

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Hmm, never had a theme break because I added dispay: none to login link in admin bar – what broke in your theme?

Another way is to add this in your bp-custom.php

function remove_login_link() {

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_login_menu', 2 );

}

add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'remove_login_link', 2 );

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Or, just keep the wp-adminbar and add this to your style.css to hide the login link

ul.main-nav li.bp-login { display: none; }

Or, go to Dashboard, BuddyPress > General Settings and check Yes for “Hide admin bar for logged out users?“

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

That reminds me of Lester Chan’s Post Ratings plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/ as well as this other one https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vote-it-up/ , but both are for posts and the latter one is reported broken.

What good about Lester’s plugin is that you could call the highest rated posts in a page via template tags or using the widget in sidebar http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-postratings.html

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@Travel-Junkie – site looks great.

Windows – Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox OK. As one might expect, in IE6/7 which may not be important to you, sidebar moves under the content EXCEPT IN http://travel-junkie.com/news/

Perhaps you might want to redirect the Register link in sidebar of user blogs to official register page, otherwise

This page could not be found!

Don’t feel too bad. These things shouldn’t happen, but sometimes they do. It might not even be your fault.

Maybe you got the URL wrong or maybe that URL just doesn’t exist anymore. Whatever, let’s not point the finger. You’re here, so we should at least give you something interesting:

Barbie’s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

Barbie’s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@thekmen. BP Gallery has its own template files that are BP 1.2 compatible and thus, working well with child themes of BP 1.2 bp-default theme.

What BuddyDev members have downloaded right now for testing, bug reporting and UI suggestions were the beta version and then the RC1 version of BP Gallery plugin. Since RC1 has been working well in my development install, I have taken a calculated risk to install it in existing site even if Brajesh has warned re using it in live installs. RC2 version will be released soon and after some more testing, debugging and improvements, BP Gallery stable version will be released.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

What peteranselmo said. In addition, you might find it easier to adapt existing WP theme by using the https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Sweet, just when I needed it. Thank you Travel-Junkie and peteranselsmo. Thx to rossagrant for starting the topic

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I say kudos to the developers of both plugins. And, to each according to online community’s requirements and site developer’s preferences as well.

@gregfielding –

I prefer BP Gallery plugin even in its RC1 version and I am using it in private membership site. As for people “shunning” a free outstanding plugin, I really doubt it. Right now, users can upload to group and individual albums and I’m waiting for the BP Gallery shortcode for user’s and group blogs, plus ability to upload albums in blog posts to appear in BP activity stream and sitewide gallery directory.

@foxly –

Get off your high horse. I find it weird that you would be dissing the BP Gallery plugin which has not been released as stable yet and which the developer has mentioned will be released as free after it’s been tested by paid members and cleaned up further by Brajesh. You are insulting both Brajesh and those who chose to support Brajesh in the development of BP Gallery just for your own self-serving promotion.

What’s weirder is that you’re getting all huffed up about the delay of BP Gallery releases when I among others who shelled out at least $30 to aid in development do understand the causes for the delays and are not vitriolic like you have been in this forum.

If you’re raising hell about BP Gallery to generate attention because you’re getting involved in BP Album and want to promote it, then you’re going about it the long way. As it is, shooting from the mouth in this forum just gives an impression of a totally unprofessional developer. Free speech and all that, your comments above leave something to be desired as you don’t even have the facts correct as Bowe mentioned above.

As for Brajesh releasing it free to the community after stable version is out – I’m all for it.

Do not presume to ascribe to all members what your negative preferences would have been.

@Brajesh – way to go man.

@Modemlooper – you’re on WP 2.9.2 and not WPMU 2.9.2 right? You have GD library enabled?

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@etiviti (rich!) Thank you for the plugin. I have been looking at ways to do this exactly to control the group creation and other new plugin-generated group functions like creating group blogs and group wikis, etc.

I have just uploaded it to test install and set roles/capabilities to level manage_options in all fields given i.e. Site Admin for that install. At first, after saving the new settings, I got the WP page that prompted me that I needed correct password etc to create database. So I went back to wp-admin and this plugin’s settings were still default settings. The second time I input manage_options and saved the settings, it finally went through. So far, initial testing shows results I’ve wanted for this setup. Will be testing the plugin again later.

Thanks again

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@designodyssey, it’s pretty much the way you see it in screenshots https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-tags/screenshots/ and when you click on the tag, the page will show groups that are tagged e.g. “plugin”

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[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

This is just way too cool. Two plugins in one afternoon? Priceless. Thank you.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I am enjoying it! I will be changing icon colors to RED though, didn’t see the icons at first in my custom theme Thank you.

edit – Just to add that I also enjoy the fact that Site Admins can rate as much as they want, hehehe.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Voted

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Congratulations.