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@pollyplummer r-a-y showed me how to do this for blogs, thought i’d flip it for the groups loop and it seems to work. this was from a couple versions back there may be something new as it was said there would be an easier exclude parameter for has_blogs but i haven’t seen it. anyway try
php while ( bp_groups() ) : bp_the_group(); if(bp_get_group_name() != “Name of your Group”) :
then add the ?php endif? before the endwhile.
are there any themes that have backend stylesheets to match the front come standard. theme developers maybe should start thinking in terms of doing this for wpmu and bp themes. i’ve done both functions to style the backend and custom frontend post forms…styling the wp dashboard to look like the front is definitely easier, you should check out wpengineer.com on how to do it.
*come to think of it, i’m going to reach out to the theme devs of the themes i use and ask about that
@butterscotchproxy i’ll revisit this…I had implemented it and didn’t like it, it was a bit junkie but it worked…maybe I’ll take it further this time around, i’ll get back with where to put it, i forgot and will have to look again.
I really like this idea and would like to begin tinkering with it and learn how to do it. Can anyone with the know how kindly give some suggestions on where to start. I’m sure its pretty simple just need to see where to begin changing the activity filter menu to a listed icon menu. maybe it’ll inspire a plugin…
the main site was assigned to members a while back in an earlier version 1.1 round abouts(i remember because i had asked about it a while back because I was having issues with the limit blogs per user plugin)….it’s been “fixed” since then not to assign the main site as one of your blogs.
– topic tracking – favorite topics – some way to bucket open forum topics or add a topics menu item to my profile page with a listing of all my topics AND make that the default landing not the activity
– self forum activity search, “i remember saying something about XYZ, let me search my own activity” from my profile
– deactivate post update only’s, new group follows, in main activity stream – maybe even remove activity component all together.
– group landing pages should default on the forums not /home with the activity stream.Anyone have a clue how to show object nav tabs only if they exist for a member for example if blogs(0), links(0) tab then hide!
@gasparking i think you’d be looking to work with post_type or post_title(i think), i’d start here https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/get_blog_post – sounds like something i’d like to try too.
@anointed any progress here…any ideas on how to make use of post types, custom fields, etc.
@r-a-y i have a tough time understanding it myself! just crazy tinkering I guess, there is probably a simple solution….
I think you’re right about super admin.
I’m talking more about other members, who have posted on other network blogs. If you look at my profile sidebar, you’ll see “my videos” and “my posts” links. Each should take you to the author template page for those members on the corresponding blogs.
My Videos ==> site.com/author/ray
My Posts ==> site2.com/author/rayget_blogs_of_user method works to display only the sites members have posted on sitewide – it will however show primary site of a member regardless of posts.
get_blog_details method forces all member profiles to display the links regardless of having posts or not. It will just link to the author page with “no posts for this author’ message as part of the author.php template.
the issue i’m having with get_blogs_of user, I have users who make one time posts by way of a frontend form. They own that post but they don’t have a role on the blog. I think that is the reason why on some users, the links don’t display even if they do have posts.
both methods are useful depending on how you want to use them.
i’d like to be able to use the get_blog_details method because it lets me define what links to display. and the issue i have with that is that the links are always present, I’d like for them to only show up if the user has posts.
make less sense now! hehe, anyway it is a very specific feature, some people may like to do something like this.
@Psyber yes you can, it can be done with CSS.
I think i’ve even done it before using just CSS and the table classes for those profile fields > tr.field_twitter, tr.field_facebook class and i didn’t even need the snippet above, I think i did that to put icons directly in the profile/public page and the snippet i used in the sidebar.
http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-a-custom-default-avatar-for-buddypress-members-and-groups/
I’ve been trying to find/develop something similar…creating an advanced “change avatar” plugin that allows admin to supply a set of custom avatars that members can choose from on the /profile/change-avatar page.
http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-a-custom-default-avatar-for-buddypress-members-and-groups/
These two links is as far as I’ve gotten, well I haven’t put too much time into it…just been looking around at this point. It would be cool if someone with the bp component making skills could do something easily.
any help
wow didn’t know any of this was happening on this post but it looks like progress…will look into the updated feedback very soon as I seem to only use custom fields in posts nowadays. thanks all. btw what is the best way to subscribe to my own forum topics activity, sheesh…
I have a favorites plugin in place now that allows you to favorite any post with a “like” button on any post of any blog and have the favorited post’s thumb/title/excerpt appear in your profile under a tab called my favorite posts. it also has a widget that can be placed on the single blog posts page or page sidebar to display all members who have favorited. it takes alot of steps to get it up and running but it works. would be great if any one would like to test it, help package it more neatly to a few steps as a bp component plugin. you can see it in action on my site.
@foralien thanks, works like a charm….
Anyone have an idea how to get activity to look for custom field images to display in stream not only images inserted in the post.
I was just about to create this topic. Also lost sitewide avatars after the switch to Multi 3.0+1.2.4.1.
@xevo Yes the same can be done with post types within the same blog I guess i was using a whole other sub blog to act like a “post type” in a way…it hasn’t really been too much work from my end to do it the way i said but yea I will be moving to post types and I imagine it would be the same amount of work with creating the frontend form for users to add videos and customizing post templates to display the posts and archives in more of a video layout….still would need to figure out how to show author’s video posts separate from other post types to display as “my-library” and customize video post archives templates different from other post-type archives to give you the video community look and feel that @cavamondo is referring to. you can see sample on the channel section of my page.
bpalbum could work as well in a limited way, I like the control and all the options of using Posts, archives and authors. You would have to put in all that work you talked about into figuring how to manipulate all the user bp album videos for the site to display them in other pages, sections and search, when you could just inherit that from wp and inherit plugins too like ratings.
If on MU just create a secondary blog that is just for video posts. Connect your author profiles and bp profiles – (is something i’m still trying to figure out in a neat way) – The biggest tweak you’d need is a frontend form for members to be able to make their video posts. This way you inherit all the wp goodness for your videos only.
I like the idea to make the filter icons and/or checkboxes…i don’t think they’ll apply here since its meant to be the default, i’m sure with a little tinkering the list in activity/index.php could be made to work as a list of icons or even the multiple checkboxes which i like the idea of too. i’m going to try to do it. I’ve started here http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html if any one wants to drop hints or give more direction. it looks like it could be simple enough
