[@pinhit Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

I did not copy functions.php over

2) did not @import parent theme’s default .css

I followed the instructions given here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

why does start a new post take me to the community page?

anyway had to jump in here because I can’t start a fresh post..

like the title of this blog states (After activating child theme tags and categories not working correctingly ?)

I followed the instructions for creating a new bp child theme and put the following in my new style.css file:

/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress (my child themes name)
Theme URI: https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/my child themes name
Description: child theme for BuddyPress.
Version: 1.0
Author: my name
Author URI: https://buddypress.org/
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, two-column, grey, dark
*/

when I go activate my child theme in admin I lose my sites header banner, and all the work associated with my menus is broken..?

I copied all my previously edited files from the bp default theme to my child theme, but did not move or touch anything associated with the bp default functions.php, should I be doing this even though I do not need to make any edits with this file?

Using bp 1.5 with wp 3.2.1 the bp default template

Many thanks in advance

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 10 months ago]

me too !!

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 10 months ago]

just noticed that my activity stream is now repeating itself after clicking on ‘load more’ and displaying the first page of post updates !!

maybe the above code isn’t nested properly..?

would someone be kind enough to hit me up with a possible cause please.

Also some of the activity notifications are still filtering through for example group joining/friend adding etc again after clicking on the load more button..?

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 10 months ago]

ok I’ve placed the above code in activity-loop.php and it looks to saving me the trouble of manually deleting new member registrations group joining etc which is great! but does not block any posts made to my groups unfortunately (beggars can’t be choosers lol)

I guess I’ll have to look into other areas to prevent group posts from showing up in the activity stream, any guidance would be most helpful !!

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 10 months ago]

@onyx808

will my members still be able to ‘reply’ to the activity updates as normal if I insert this code..?

`function filtering_activity_default( $qs ) {
if ( empty( $qs ) && empty( $_POST ) ) {
$qs = ‘action=activity_update’;
}

return $qs;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_ajax_querystring’, ‘filtering_activity_default’, 999 );`

Also where exactly do I place this in: functions.php please..?

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

the finger of suspicion

anyway, moving on from this

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I cant post a new topic on here so this is the only place i can start a new topic

does anyone know why my site has decided to shift to the left, and this ‘random’ drop down menu has
appeared from outta no where in the top right hand side of the page..?

It’s making the site look dumb, also when logged in if I click on a members name I get logged outta the site but if I click their profile pic it goes to their profile..?

sorry about the topic change but buddypress.org has got the flu or something lol

cheers

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

he posted his page on my page so i thought ok, new guy, bit niave but enthusiastic, anyway i asked him where hes from, the midlands he replied, so i suggested he try creating a page for his part of the country as there was a niche in the market for this area. he then came back and spammed the heck outta my page??

i reminded him that my page was for Londoners, he then went and created a page for Londoners and came back to hit my page again ? some people lol

anyway hes gone on to create a rather nifty wp/bp site and i gotta admit its doing really well. I’m green with envy lol, he must know code pretty well, either that or he knows wp/bp inside out?

I’d swallow my pride and ask but my site got heavily spammed a few times and each attack slapped of his trademark so let sleeping dogs lie as they say !

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

we had a ding dong on fb, dudes an ass lol

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

yeh my topics are lost too, and when I click on the new topic button it sends me to the buddypress.org homepage?

search is screwed up too and displays ‘can’t find page’.
not thats its a problem but uploading a new pic displays some weird error about something to do with the server?

hope this helps guys

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

@joshal99 It worked but it didnt do exactly what I wanted specifically.

What I wanted to do was to achieve something like the activity wall on this site: http://www.swapbbm.com

unfortunately the above code hides the whole of the activity stream and to date no-one has managed to help me nail this issue.

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

I’m bumping this because there must be a way to mimic this sites activity page : http://swapbbm.com/
the method above totally hides the whole of the activity..I don’t want to settle for this because there has been a decline in sign-ups to my site lately partly due to not being able to see anything going on inside.

they must know something we don’t on this other site, it’s a wordpress/buddypress combo as well !

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

sorry to but in, but has there been a change in here, I can’t start new topics, and my previous topics are unable to be found?

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

sorry to but in here (totally un-related) but I can’t find my topics, can’t submit a fresh topic, or edit my profile on here, has their been a recent change to this site lately..?

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

well I’d like to say this matter is finally put to bed but with respect I’d like to keep this thread open for now
in case someone else has another work around if nobody minds

It would be ideal if there was another way of showing the avatars in the activity stream and replacing the updates with the login notice as originally planned but many thanks for your input so far guys !

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

not sure if this is related but have you gone into general settings in your admin area to check if the ‘anyone can register’ is ticked next to membership..?

hope this helps

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

your welcome,

yes I’m running both plugins together as I found that it won’t work if one of them is not present.

hope it sorts things out and good luck with the launch !

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

yes I did set members profiles to show only to logged i users.

I will try see if it makes a difference.

I also made a wrapper in: members-loop.php to restrict the viewing of the members directory page to save fiddling around with each post relating to each member. In an ideal world what I’m trying to achieve with the activity stream (i.e. only exclude activity updates) is exactly what I was aiming for with the members directory page.

If push comes to shove I will probably leave things as they are (totally locked down) as my site is being abused by disgruntled ex-users of my facebook page at present who have been banned and coming through to my domain with revenge attacks lol, (very childish I know)

** update ** ok I tried it and no change to activity stream I’m afraid but no worries for reasons as mentioned above

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

didn’t quite mimic what the other sites stream is showing but what the heck

would have been good to show each avatar but restrict the viewing of each update post.

heres the end result on my site: http://www.londonbbmpinswap.co.uk

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

thanks dude, your’e a star !

gonna go get my hands dirty

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

help I’m stuck lol

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

i had tons of trouble with this.

Don’t know if you tried these methods but they worked for me..

I used two plugins:

Mail From and WP-Mail-SMTP

with mail from I had to create a myname@mydomain in the email section of cpanel because my site was stuck in default ‘noreply@mydomain.com’

It kinda splits your email send outs as: username @example.com
I chose: eMail Address admin@mydomain.co.uk as the Current address WordPress is sending mail from

With the other plugin I noticed one major edit solved the whole issue for me in terms of my site sending out the registry email verifications.

First I chose to send out the emails with my newly created email address (made in cpanel)
then I checked the: Send all WordPress emails via SMTP box
then I chose: SMTP Host = localhost
then this was the was crunch that seemed to make it work..I changed the default SMPT port from 25 to 26 and it worked !
I also chose: Authentication No: Do not use SMTP authentication.
sent a ‘test’ email out to a test account on my site and all was ok.

I don’t know if this will work for you..but all I can say is it worked for me so no harm in trying.

This issue took me 3 weeks to solve !!

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

bump

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

I am ‘getting stuck in’, you’ll notice in my posts I’ve at least tried to have a go myself !

theres so many files, and so many are similar in name but unless I ask someone who has experience with these things I could end up ruining my site.

If you take a look at this link: http://swapbbm.com/ you’ll see ‘exactly’ what it is I’m trying to achieve and that is to display a similar notice in the activity stream: ‘please login or register to view the bb pins’ .

so this would be done in the ‘activity’ files you previously mentioned right ?

** update **

I tried on about 4 attempts to create the wrapper on that page and 2 out of 4 attempts in various different places made this come up on my site:-

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home2/pinhitco/public_html/londonbbmpinswapco/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/activity-loop.php on line 37

I tried

[@pinhit Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

you mean this code example right ?

`

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Then add this to close the conditional just before the closing padder div tag:

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ok, if you could just let me know what file/s to edit I’ll be able to have a go at it

thanks

* oh this is to hide the members details on the members ‘page’ by the way, as the original post was closed.

similar to this: http://swapbbm.com/members/