[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Ahh gotcha.

I thought you made an elaborate PHP coding hack!

Be careful with the CSS content attribute.

As you know, <IE8 will not like that!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hi eyci,

Read the section under “Slugs” on this link:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

BuddyPress is site-wide.

The BuddyPress menu does not reside under the “Site Admin” menu, it is a top-level menu.

Don’t let the placement of the menus fool you.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hey wftman,

It really depends on the developer of the BP plugin in question.

The readme.txt that comes with the plugin is usually the best indicator of where to place the plugin.

There is a BuddyPress menu in the WPMU admin area, but it would be good to know what you mean by “and it sucks that I have to make changes every time there is a blog”.

Re: Pressbox theme… check out the default “bphome” theme, especially the functions.php file. You’ll probably want to copy over some of the functions into the Pressbox theme functions.php file.

Hope that helps in some way!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Ahh okay.

Are you sure you enabled your video plugin on your BuzzTV blog?

http://buzzlyf.com/buzztv/wp-admin/plugins.php

Check to see if your video plugin is indeed enabled.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hi mohitkro5,

It sounds like you’re trying to use WordPress shortcodes in Buddypress fields.

Where are you trying to embed your videos?

BuddyPress doesn’t allow WordPress shortcodes to work in profile fields, wire posts and group forum posts.

bbPress has a few plugins to parse videos.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

I’m up and running on bbPress 1.0 as well!

Integration appears to work!

FYI, I was on bbPress 1.0 alpha 6 with BP 1.0.2.

Here’s what I did:

-Thanks to Burt and Sam (over at bbPress) for their instructions

1) Backup database

2) Backup bbPress forum plugins and themes

3) Deactivate all bbPress plugins from the bbPress admin area.

4) Comment out only the cookie-related lines in wp-config.php (Do not remove your defined KEYS or SALTS)

5) Manually upgrade bbPress to 1.0 (basically download bbPress 1.0 and overwrite the old bbPress files).

6) Download bbPress Integration plugin into your WPMU plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

7) Log in to WPMU and activate the bbPress Integration plugin.

In WPMU admin area, go to “Settings > bbPress Integration”.

Enter in your bbPress URL (eg. http://example.com/forums/) and for WordPress type, select “WordPress MU”.

Hit “Save Changes”.

9) Copy the now-generated “Manual Cookie Settings” to line 2 of your wp-config.php file.

Copy the bbPress define line into your bb-config.php file.

10) Log into your bbPress admin area.

At this point, a bbPress message should pop up asking you to upgrade the database. Do so.

Hopefully, bbPress should have upgraded successfully at this point.

11) Now login into the bbPress admin area, go to “Settings > WordPress Integration”.

Everything should already be set (if you used TheEasyButton’s tutorial for 1.0 alpha 6 that was the case for me!).

Hit “Save Changes”.

12) Reactivate all bbPress plugins.

13) Clear your browser cookies and attempt to login to WPMU and head to your bbPress forums URL. If you’re logged in to bbPress, mission accomplished!

14) If you have BuddyPress group forums enabled, login to your BuddyPress Groups (eg. http://example.com/members/YOURUSERNAME/groups/).

Go into each group’s admin settings area, and uncheck “Enable Discussion Forum” and “Save Changes”. Then re-check “Enable Discussion Forum” again and “Save Changes”.

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This is what worked for me… can’t say it will work in all cases though!

Step #11 will probably differ for some depending on what they did before.

Now I got to update my custom bbPress theme for all the new changes made since 1.0 alpha 6!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

@Indojepang:

WPMU 2.8 doesn’t exist; there is a WPMU trunk version that has WP 2.8 code in it, but that’s not ready for primetime yet.

Do not confuse regular WP with WPMU!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

You can use HTML code in the Text Widget, and probably in the Welcome Widget as well.

Sample code:

<p>This is my message in the widget!</p>

<img src="PATH TO IMAGE" alt="This is my image in the widget" />

Remember to upload an image to WordPress first, then grab the link of the image.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hi Tedmann,

There’s two ways to go about this:

(1) CSS route:

In your /wp-content/themes/carrington-mobile-1.0.2/style.css file, add this:

body {padding-top:0 !important;}

#wp-admin-bar {display:none !important;}

(2) Theme functions.php route:

In your /wp-content/themes/carrington-mobile-1.0.2/functions.php file, add this:

remove_action( 'wp_footer', 'bp_core_admin_bar' );

remove_action( 'admin_footer', 'bp_core_admin_bar' );

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Option #1 will simply hide the admin bar from view, however it will still be loaded if you view the HTML source.

Option #2 will completely remove the admin bar from the HTML source.

Not completely 100% that code will work, but give it a shot and report back.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

_cK_ is a tried-and-true bbPress plugin developer; not sure if she’ll step into the confines of BuddyPress! But if you don’t ask, you’ll never know!

It’s probably possible to extend Nicola’s BP-TinyMCE plugin to add a filter for profile fields as well… you’d have to bug Nicola about that.

Here’s a post which explains how someone added a filter to profile fields:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=604

I might write a filter as well regarding this… we’ll see.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hi Burt,

I’m assuming that you upgraded from 1.0 alpha 6.

Did you remove the “cookie” lines from wp-config.php before you activated the bbPress integration plugin in WPMU?

And re: #3, Are you sure don’t need to activate the BuddyPress Support plugin in bbPress?

I’ll give this a shot soon. Just wanted to get some detailed instructions before I do so!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Cool! I made a post on the WordPress plugin forums about an hour ago asking about 1.0.2 compatibility for this plugin!

Looking forward to the update, Giovanni!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

To elaborate what DJPaul said, you’ll need to modify the admin-bar.css so the position is fixed.

Just an FYI, IE6 doesn’t like position:fixed.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks Boone!

Using your filter helps to delink sensitive information like first name, last name, etc.

I have one question though, let’s say I filter two fields named “First Name” and “Last Name” from search linking, and let’s say I have a user with a first name of “John” and a last name of “Smith”.

If someone uses the search term “john” or “smith” on the BP member directory page, would BP return a match for John Smith?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hey yairnazz,

Add this to your /bp-themes/bpmember/style.css

body {background:#fff;}

If you do not see a change, try this:

body {background:#fff !important;}

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

I guess you would need to elaborate on what your “custom info for alerts and updates” are going to be.

The rest of them can be remedied with what you said.

But, the cool thing about BuddyPress is you can enable/disable various components, so say you don’t need groups or blogs or friends, you can disable that in the BP admin area.

It sounds like you really only need profiles, and perhaps the wire, or maybe groups, to faciliate the alert service. The bpEvents plugin by Erwin Gerrits can help you for events as well.

There’s also a Facebook Connect plugin available and a Twitter plugin in the works.

Hope that helps in some way!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

One way of doing this is to create a new textarea profile field entitled “Signature” and call it within each BP component you want to use it in.

I know one of the BP mods, John James Jacoby, does this for one of his BP sites, specifically the bbPress forums (eg. a forum thread – http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/topic/what-will-your-next-mugen-part-be), but I believe he only uses it for the bbPress forums and nowhere else across that BP site.

However, I don’t think it would be *too* hard to call it within the group forums and the wire (I say *too* hard with a little skeptism! hehe). You just would need to edit your BP theme in a number of places to do so.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Can’t wait to test it.

Thanks for coding such a complex BP plugin, Burt!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

While Andy’s solution will work, you can bet Mozilla is going to address this bug, so I wouldn’t really worry about it too much.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Or you could use a widget plugin like Widget Logic to control where and when a widget should show up in your sidebar.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Best way to do this would be to integrate the P2 theme into your user blogs.

Ahh yes! Totally forgot about the P2 theme, John!

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2

I forget if P2 puts a character limit on post entries like Twitter.

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Also I did some digging just now and the WPMU plugin that John and I are talking about is the “Menus” plugin by dsader:

http://wpmudev.org/project/Menus

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hey Allen,

You might want to check out the /buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php file.

Specifically line 749 for the BP_Core_Members_Template class and line 884 for the function bp_has_site_members().

Hope that helps in pointing you in the right direction!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

This is a WPMU issue and not a BuddyPress-related one.

There are some great WPMU plugins by dsader that limit the WordPress backend:

http://wpmudev.org/user/56/

I suggest checking those out.

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[EDIT]

Just read over your post again and you say you want to eliminate the entire backend? Off the top of my head, I don’t know if that’s possible.

I don’t think anyone has attempted this in BuddyPress yet, but I could be wrong.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Hey Dewey,

Do you mind sharing your fix with us?