back to the original part of this topic…was there ever talk of NOT making the 2rd field (recent news) in Group creation a required field? Doesn’t seem so necessary.
looks cool. it may be more than I bargained for. as I said, I’m not sure how far down the rabbit hole I wanna go with this but I figured I’d better give folks a way to suggest and bitch. thx for the rec
Thanks Brad, and nice effort so far on your site. I see those as the two options as well. Just not sure the direction I want to take. If I can easily apply a filter I will but I’m not sure
If I had the time, I’d build a plug-in that 1. added a section to the profile page that 2. worked like myBlogLog in that it showed a bunch of username/profile url fields for the various other social networks and then validated prior to 3. showing on a member profile as a nice icon/button to that site/platform/service. Otherwise, odds are many noob users won’t go the extra mile to paste links or do whatever it takes to make text look right.
David – Love where you’re heading with this. When you say “menu” do you mean Admin bar or the Home/Blog/Members/Etc menus in the BP header. I hacked the latter but would much rather do it thru a plugin such as you’ve developed
I thought about that but I want to retain a “main” blog which the entire community will contribute to…won’t that throw out all blogging ability? If it doesn’t then it’s an easy solution.
Burt – On a serious note – is there a reason the menu item “News” is labeled as such? It is just a listing of the main blog’s postings. In my use case, I have turned off the create a blog option as all site members will contribute articles to the main blog only (it’s not about them running their own blog and I don’t want to confuse the matter…just present them a chance to contribute more in-depth pieces. My intention is to just rename it something more logical but I also want to investigate whether it doesn’t do something else (i.e. some sort of filter )
I did post a trac and in the meantime I made a few tweaks to the directory CSS files themselves which I will transfer to a custom.css if/when the load option gets implemented. All of my skin issues are fixed now. Onto Admin Bar and main nav menu mods!
Thanks for the kind words!. I’m trying to make this thing dummy proof once I turn it loose on all the old Academy grads!
Burt – Thanks for the suggestive. Good call. I’m surprised this hasn’t come up before. You can skin the entire theme and then end up with a bunch of orange on a member page!
I am aware of all the diff CSS files you just posted on. I just need confirmation on whether I need to do indiv mods of each because, right now custom.css mods do not seem to update either group or member pages . Now if we do have to go that route, I assume we’ll have to continually reload on every new ver or write a loader script to allow skinning
that is exactly what I am doing, as in all css overrides I have done in this install. Oddly, none of my overrides of groups css will take even though custom.css is loaded last.
