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In reply to: Beginners Questions
There are very few premium themes built specifically for BuddyPress – although you can enhance existing WordPress themes. I’ve seen some great looking bespoke BuddyPress sites, but I haven’t seen a generic BuddyPress theme with a design and layout that blows you away.
The difference between BuddyPress and WordPress is the number of options available to you. BuddyPress allows you to build much more complex sites.
Out of the box, BuddyPress attempts to be a generic social network that is all things to all men. Of course, this is not what real world sites tend to need – you’ll find that most of the best commercial developments only use the portions of BuddyPress they need, and bend the core product considerably to meet real world needs.
Whilst it’s useful to have an all encompassing platform, it doesn’t make it particularly suited to premium theme designers – sure, you can make it look nice, but with so many options, and so much tailoring to deliver real world needs, themers face an uphill challenge to produce something that breaks away from the out of box generic set of functions.
A further problem is the make up of the code – BP embeds an awful lot of presentation decisions in the core of the product (activity stream contents, default menu structures) instead of in the templates (where you’d expect them to be). So, again, producing any significantly different can be a real chore.
In reply to: Activity Stream Commenting on Blog/Forum PostsOr, even better… an admin panel setting
@dlabbe – if you want to get an answer to your question, it would be better to post it separately and not hijack an unrelated thread
You should also not expect an answer within just 2 hours… This is a voluntary forum. Allow at least 24 hours before bumping your post
In reply to: Beginners QuestionsEach blog can have it’s own theme. Site admin can determine which themes are installed and available to the bloggers.
Sites like h-mag, hello eco living and alike are bespoke developments.. They are not ‘off the shelf’ themes
In reply to: Multiple registration pagesNo short cuts on jQuery – but it’s quite straightforward to setup a simple script like you’ll need: their site is good and full of useful examples: http://jquery.com/
show() and hide() are basic jQuery – and there are plenty of animation options you can apply.
Also, take a look in the WordPress codex re: wp_enqueue_script – their recommended way of loading javascripts.
In reply to: Beginners QuestionsYes, the mu features are now ‘built in’ to WordPress – have a look on the WordPress Codex for WordPress Multisite (and ‘setting up a network’).
We have no problems running BuddyPress installed on a secondary blog on one of our current development projects
Are you using the default bp-custom.php or have you got a bespoke version?
In reply to: Hello Eco Living@jamigre – we built the theme at http://21inspired.com
@perrij3 – thanks for the feedback – good luck with your site
As for favouriting – I think you’ll have to use your browser bookmarks; I don’t think you can like / favourite posts on buddypress.org
In reply to: Mulitiple use of Profilefield(group)It’s not possible with the default BuddyPress, but is possible to code – it is a fairly substantial task.
In reply to: I don’t know…Permalink Snag?Then you have a WordPress / server config problem. You should fix this before installing BuddyPress.
You need to ask your server company and / or go onto the WordPress forums
@johnnyscience – sounds like a javascript / CSS problem to me – are you definitely running with the vanilla BuddyPress install AND the BuddyPress default theme.
No CSS or HTML changes at all?
The default theme uses javascript routines to display a lot of the reply code – if you are using a different theme, you need to also modify your javascripts to ensure they still work
In reply to: I don’t know…Permalink Snag?Go back to a base WordPress install with the default 2010 theme. Then try to set custom permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/
Does that work? Can you go to categories and posts without problem?
If not, it is a problem with your server setup for WordPress and nothing to do with BuddyPress. You should fix that problem before attempting to use BuddyPress
In reply to: CSS mystery…Finally – if your custom.CSS is getting called, and is last in the cascade as you want – have a look at the specifity of your selectors – the most specific one is the one that will be used.
In reply to: CSS mystery…Ps also look in your web inspector for any file not found messages relating to your CSS files
In reply to: CSS mystery…Crank open inspect element in your browser.. I take it you are using firefox, safari or chrome.. And take a look at the chain of CSS files that are leading to the definition for container etc in your site.
That will tell you which files are being used, and which are taking preference? Are you seeing the chain you expect? Is your custom.CSS in there?
Are you sure bloginfo is returning the path you expect – did you check this in your web inspector?
In reply to: CSS mystery…Is this in a child theme from bp-default?
Have you checked the file path is correct to your custom.css file? Do an inspect element in your browser and check the path bloginfo is generating – is it the one you expect?
Also, not sure what you mean by it “it defaults to bp-default/_inc/css/default” … is this a child theme, or have you just tried modifying style.css in the bp-default theme itself?
If you have made a child theme, and followed the standard bp css structure – then style.css will include the default.css in your child theme’s _inc/css folder – not to the default.css in the bp-default theme.
If you clarify these questions, it might help explain which css files are actually being used.
In reply to: Freshness datedate() returns a string, it doesn’t display it. You’ll need to use the ‘echo’ statement to display it.
That’s a basic PHP question, not anything BuddyPress specific – Google “php echo”
To work with the templates and significantly modify BuddyPress look and feel, a basic grounding in PHP is a pre-requisite.
In reply to: Freshness dateYou will need to echo the string returned from the function!
In reply to: Widget: Who is onlineThere was one on this site until a week ago… Don’t know why it was removed – I found it quite useful.
I guess @boonebgorges might know if it was an off the shelf plugin
In reply to: URGENT: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE, PLEASEThis page tells you how to create widgets for WordPress / BuddyPress:
In reply to: If Buddypress, then sidebar and css rulesTake a look at this page: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/conditional-template-tags/
Essentially, something like !bp_is_blog_page() will return TRUE when you are on any page that isn’t a WordPress blog page – i.e. when you are on any of the Social Network (BuddyPress) pages.
Alternatively, the default theme already embeds some class information in the body tag – although there is no single one for a BuddyPress page, so you’d have to catch all the different classes.
In reply to: user created eccommerce storesThis plugin seems to have the right aspirations
http://wpmu.org/announcing-marketpress-a-robust-e-commerce-plugin-built-for-wordpress-multisite-and-buddypress/In reply to: blogs on wordpress singleIn reply to: showing all the user locations on single mapIn reply to: showing all the user locations on single mapIt’s not a default function.
But, yes it’s possible to integrate something like Google Maps and show all profiles on a map. We’ve recently commissioned this for one of our client websites.
Have a search on this forum for a post by @travel-junkie. He gives some tips on how to do this.
