[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@charlietech,

You may want to apply…

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hotfix/

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@modemlooper,

Hhhmmm… okay. My site is not yet production yet but has been operational for about 1 year. I have created many dummy members, and groups. A few months ago, I changed the “members” and “groups” slug to more appropriately reflect the site’s intent per instructions in the Codex. The redirects work fine… or so I thought. All member and group activity created prior to the slug name change redirect to a 404 page when any of them are selected. So, the “hardcoding” you mentioned above applies in this case as well?

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@rgblog,

This is the extent of my understanding: groups/index.php is the file you’re asking for. In it, the groups-loop.php template is referenced. It’s that template that generates those “join” and “leave” buttons; specifically, the following action “bp_directory_groups_actions”. If I’ve mislead, someone jump in and correct me.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@modemlooper,

Thanks for the feedback. Given that restriction, the outcome makes sense. I assume the “hardcoding” decision was made some time ago and there are valid reasons for taking that approach. Do you know if it is still valid today? Is the evolution of a “group” within a community not of value? Its name, and all that’s tagged to it: its admins, its mods, its members, its events, etc over time?

An example would be Steve Jobs. Let’s say that, in my community, he had created a group called Apple Computer Inc (way back in the day). Then, to reflect, the evolution of the company and its commensurate change in name, he wants to change the name of his group to Apple Inc. BuddyPress allows the change in name but the slug still reflects the old company vision. The ancestry/lineage should be handled automatically. I’ll add it to my wish list.

There really isn’t a similar issue with “member” since the slug is the username.

Thanks again, for responding.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@rgblog,

I am running WP 3.4.2, BP 1.6 and I am able to both join and leave a group (thus, the buttons are visible and perform as designed).

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@ubernaut,

I am not able to get a chosen option to stick using BP Default, and using the Template Pack, I can’t see the privacy options at all. I have not turned off all other plugins though, so there could be a conflict with one of those.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@abovenbelow,

give this a shot… I’m about to: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-groups-extras/

You may also want to check out: http://buddydev.com/tag/bp-gallery/ for the Gallery (but Brajesh is working on the next version), BP Media’s BP Album+ could also work for you; and you could give Boris’ Mapology plugin at http://shabushabu.eu a shot as well.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@hkcharlie,

Zippykid.com is outstanding. After you vet them, you will probably arrive at the same conclusion. Tell them your situation, your concerns and they’ll give it to you straight up.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@karmatosed, that’s much better…

@valuser, thanks! That works–but I would change “Admin Only” to what Tammie suggested. The “member” would have to assume that they are the “admin” which isn’t clear. I guess a tooltip would help.

Now, if only it worked for my theme using the Template Pack, too, not just BP Default, that would be awesome!!! One thing at a time…

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@ubernaut,

+1 for your request. Here’s an example and a qualification of its use: a member’s street address. The member should have control over whether or not their home street address is displayed in their profile. Here’s the qualification… If the “nobody” option is selected, I don’t want it hidden from mapping plugins, such as Mapology/Buddyvents. Member-specified visibility of location should also be offered by mapping plugins, which is not a BP issue.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@karmatosed,

Right. I wasn’t clear. What I meant was that if a running history of “notifications” were stored and available, then it should also be available for viewing. So, would that mean that the yellow notifications dropdown under the avatar becomes its own menu item… I figure that it shouldn’t be incumbent upon the user to determine whether a “notification” is worth remembering and thus, have to make a decision to “remember” that it occurred sometime. If I’m still swimming in muddy water, let me know and I’ll give it another shot.

I like the layout, specifically, the customized header. It definitely would get more user interaction and ownership of their own profile if provided the opportunity to customize it–could slot a slider in there… It would be pretty sweet.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@karmatosed,

I prefer your third variation(eyes focus on one area); however, I would prefer having the option of viewing a timeline of notifications, not just the most recent.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

@karmatosed,

I like this. One suggestion: Provide the user with the option in Settings to either show the widgets in the “sidebar” or the “footer”. If “footer” is selected, then this page becomes 2-column, thus providing more content real estate.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

@modemlooper,

Thanks. I had no idea this was possible. Great add to the toolbox.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

@modemlooper,

Well, I’m gonna bite big on that one. How in the world is that done? Are you referring to the proper use of the tags in HTML5?

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

In this case, it was me not realizing that the div I was interested in styling had enough id and classes on that page to target the element appropriately.

On another note, what would be sweet is an app that would run through your site’s css to identify all the redundant css across all of the pages and offer up a way to consolidate. Dream on…

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

@modemlooper,

Thanks, never mind. I figured out how to apply the styling without mucking up the markup (wherever that may be…I didn’t provide a proper description in the earlier message…too early in the morning. Sorry about that.).
@shawn38, thanks for the info. I agree with that approach. It’s what I do. When I ask a question here, it’s because I’ve exhausted all of my sources or it just doesn’t click.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

@rogercoathup,

Your site looks great. Nice styling of the Buddyvents plugin.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

Hhhmm,

So, I don’t have access to any of the database tables, @djpaul –not allowed by my hosting provider (they rock btw!). Anyway, anyone have a suggestion as to how I could get the meta names of the XProfile fields? Thanks!

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

@dadvan & @bounomid,

Why wouldn’t a Group work for you? …much more convenient for those who have an entirely separate and secret family unbeknownst to everyone else.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

@fadebek1,

Thanks for responding. What I meant is that I don’t know what the meta names are for each one of the XProfile fields.

What I’m trying to do is map some of the fields in my FormidablePro form to the XProfile fields. Thus, when the user fills out and submits the form, the appropriate XProfile fields are updated. That’s the goal. It’s possible… but I don’t know how to do it. Getting the meta names is a good start.

Didn’t see your response, Paul until after I submitted… will look at it.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

@kmtrent,

I recommend you post your observations with Themekraft as well. I imagine that they’ve been working with the beta/RC and now final version, so they should already know what may be happening…

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

Thanks, Paul!

It’s due to BP-Gallery… I’ll provide Brajesh with the error:

[06-Aug-2012 17:17:04 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_gallery_is_disabled_for_group() in /home/thedancersportfolio/websites/thedancersportfolio.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/bp-gallery/api/component-extension.php on line 19

Once disabled, the group detail page displays the expected content.

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

@gswaim,

I navigated to your site… I have a question with regard to the implementation of the group forum: In your Gun Chick topic, I see that it includes a video. It does not look like a Youtube or Vimeo video where you posted a link. Was this video uploaded to the Media Library? What I really would like to know is if you are using a plugin to allow group members to easily uploaded video? If so, what plugin? Thanks!

Quint

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

@rogercoathup,

Thanks for your quick reply! I created a new site from the admin dashboard and added a post to that new site… bottom line, it worked–the notification showed up in the Activity Stream.

Another question: I used to be able to create a new site from the site’s front end. The admin bar does not have that menu item anymore. Any other setting to turn on? Thanks!