[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

@dre1080, @eborg9

If you view the members directory, you’ll view people with display names:
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/5892/20100522200509.jpg

I can’t duplicate what you guys are experiencing.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Not true! Take a look at testbp.org and on bp.org.
Every name in the activity stream is using the display name.

eg. https://buddypress.org/community/members/DJPaul/ – Take a look at Paul’s activity stream. What name is displayed in the activity stream?

In fact, some people wanted it the other way around (using usernames instead of display names)!
Do you have the BP Usernames Only plugin installed? If so, disable it.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

A default install will allow users to enter their “Name”.
eg. http://testbp.org/accounts/

It’s supposed to show your “Name” across the site by default… excluding the @mention names, where in particular are you seeing usernames ?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

@jesperpopma

Your avatar URLs appear to be missing the leading “http:”. I think I remember reading about this bug before.

You can temporarily fix this by defining your BP_CUSTOM_URL in wp-config.php to:
define( 'BP_AVATAR_URL', 'http://nijmegeneet.nl/club/wp-content/uploads' );

See if that works.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

@ruffrazor @twob @erich73 @snark @3sixty

Here’s how to set the “Forum” tab as the default in groups:

I took Boone’s former code and tweaked it with a little URI trickery! Requires no core hacks and complicated function duplication

Paste the following in /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php
http://pastebin.com/j3n17CVe (you’ll probably need to tweak the code for BP subdomain installs!) (updated)

If you want to reorder it so the “Forum” tab is displayed first, add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php:
http://pastebin.com/eTNKwgCR

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

I can confirm that blogs are missing after upgrading to BP 1.2.4 on a WPMU 2.9.2 install.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

@xberserker – yup, when you upload an avatar, it outputs two files, that’s why I check if the file count is less than two. If it’s less than two, you’ll know that an avatar has just been uploaded. You’re right that the /avatars/USER_ID/ folder gets created on the first upload.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

PMs are disabled on here for now due to spam; I’m guessing the old messages are still in the DB though.
Awaiting further word about this from Andy.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

You still want to keep blogs, but want to hide it from the navigation correct?

Use CSS!
li#blogs-personal-li, a#bp-admin-blogs {display:none;}

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

It’s because the registration function [bp_core_validate_user_signup()] only looks for lowercase usernames.

A ticket has been filed for this already:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2207

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Such a plugin doesn’t exist yet.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Profile works for me:
http://thesillycupid.com/wordpress/members/shawna/profile/

Using the BP Template Pack plugin is not plug-n-play! What you need to do is alter the CSS of your theme to make BP better fit the design of your site.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

@pcwriter – Doesn’t work for profiles at the moment. I guess I could look into adding x-profile support, though I’ll probably disable it by default.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

What Andrea_r said.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

You probably already tried this tutorial:
http://www.michiknows.com/2007/02/12/who-else-wants-to-hide-their-wordpress-admin-folder/

The other technique is hacking WP core files:
http://www.socialblogr.com/2009/09/how-to-change-folder-name-on-wordpress.html

You could also try applying a filter to “admin_url”, but when I tried this awhile back, it didn’t work:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2584706/wordpress-where-the-admin-url-is-set

I should note that I’ve never done this and strongly advise you not to as well.

—

WP should have a defined WP_ADMIN_URL variable similar to WP_PLUGIN_URL and WP_CONTENT_URL, but it doesn’t.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-definitively-display-buddypress-avatars-in-bbpress/

Make sure you have enabled deep integration in your external bbPress install:
https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func
or:

Deep integration of bbPress with WordPress

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

@anointed – There is no audio chat! It’s all text. What you read is what actually happened.

WP 3.0 isn’t even out of the gate yet; when WP 3 actually gets released, we’ll see where Andy and the core devs take it.

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@modemlooper – if you check out what the BP Wiki component does, it already uses custom post types (it’s a development version). So custom post types for BP is possible via plugins. However, for the core (as stated above), it’s whatever the dev team decides.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Try adding this to the top of your httpd.conf

Options +FollowSymLinks

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

You’ll have to wait for Google to check your site again.

You can expedite this process by signing up for Google’s Webmaster Tools and requesting your site to be delisted.

Also make sure your WP site is blocked from search engines:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Privacy_SubPanel

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Easiest way to remove favorites is to use CSS:
li#activity-favorites, li#activity-favs-personal-li, a#bp-admin-activity-favs, .activity-meta a.fav {display:none;}

This will hide all favorite buttons and tabs (I think).

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

BuddyPress is overkill.

You want to use a front-end posting plugin. There are a bunch of them out there.

Here’s one thread:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/365980

Make sure your users have a WP role of Contributor or higher:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_SubPanel

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Such a discussion was briefly brought up by @sbrajesh today on the dev chat.

BP components will be full-on pages in BP 1.3.
However, there are currently no plans to implement custom post types for BP components.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

See if a .htaccess file is written in your /wordpress/ folder?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Add the following snippet to your theme’s functions.php:
http://pastebin.com/Jpc9GnAx (updated)

This will disable RSS feeds in BP.

You’ll also have to manually get rid of the RSS feed buttons.

There are two ways to go about this.

1. Use CSS to hide the RSS buttons
2. Remove the RSS feed buttons via a child theme

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 5 months ago]

Try these solutions posted here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-menus-give-404s/#post-47915