[@porscheheritage Participant 13 years ago]

Theres gotta be another way to fix the problem.. (i cant change the PHP) on my VPS any work arounds?

[@porscheheritage Participant 13 years ago]

Hi @r-a-y

Im on BP 1.5.1 and have removed any plugins except for Buddypress and I have removed any theme and using DEFAULT.. the problem persist.. the site is http://fireusergroup.com

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

I was also concerned about compatibility with themes and plugins i install in the future.

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

@rogercoathup (hat tip)!

Documentation seems indicate that this is a recommend practice. Though, Im always fearful in making changes like these..

I was wondering if there was a different method.

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

anyone? help?

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Couldnt you use the existing user roles… built in to wordpress?

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Can anyone recommend a technique or a plugin so that i can customize the wp-login.php” screen

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@Ekine @Gpo1

i’ve always felt that every BP installation should come pre-packaged as a built in oembed provider for the users content, micro-format provider (hCard) — that would be cool

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

too bad its ruby and not php (kids!)

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

*Hat Tip*! @rogercoathup thanks for the input!

I dont think the folks I CC’d have such tender sensibilities that they would be offended to CC’ them. besides.. its a community thing.

just frustrated with it all.. heh…

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

You know..I just realized that the writing a plugin or making changes to any files is a terrible way of addressing this. It should be a default User Experience behaviour of Buddypress… thats its purpose. I dont under stand why a “reply” button cant be default and if they arent a member or not logged in it should ask them to log in or start an account. its just really basic.

CC:

@johnjamesjacoby
@DJPaul
@apeatling
@jeffsayre
@crashutah
@boonebgorges
@nuprn1
@pollyplummer

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

But.. Shouldnt this basic user experience be built into buddypress? (btw Thanks @nuprn1 )

I’ve been taught not to mess with those files because when update day comes im screwed.

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks for the reply guys!

Hat tip* to @rogercoathup @crashutah

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Good to know @boonebgorges

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks @rogercoathup

So, I can just copy the CSS and mangle that to taste and not copy the “template files”

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks @boonebgorges

So… do i just make a “child theme” of “BP-Default”? meaning “copy the content of that” into a new folder “myChildTheme” and make that the “child” of “bp-default”

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

great site!

though, im not a fan of the “must fill” (required) stuff when logging on via twitter. but still very cool.

oh, and the site seems a little sluggish..

nevertheless – very cool!

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Oh boy, I love this.. it was exactly what I was searching for. searched “Share” and this was the first hit!

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@techguy

creating a whole new “child theme” vs.. ONE LINE of httaccess

seems like an easier choice to just add that one line of httaccess

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

any thoughts on this guys?

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

You can try by adding “DirectoryIndex” by way of modifying the HTACCESS file.

The way I did it was I added the line:

DirectoryIndex my-main-landing-page-on-my-home-page.html

this tells your webserver to use that file as the main “index” instead of the “index.php”

it seems to work well as “maintenance page” while keeping all of the functionality of buddypress intact (blogs, members, sign ins, etc) still seem to function.

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

nicely done! nicely done! would you release a copy of your theme or some variation of it… pretty please… well done !

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@techguy

gotcha! let me fiddle with it!

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

any ideas from anyone? searching the docs hasnt yielded anything!

[@porscheheritage Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

I would rather have the MAIN site direct to a different page? Anyone have ideas how to do this? HTACCESS ?