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In reply to: Forum content in meta and topic title in title?
You need to look at the following:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Meta_Tags_in_WordPress
and the file bp-forums-templatetags.php in the bp-forums folderYou can then build your forum SEO tags, just the way you want, in your theme’s header.php file
In reply to: Profile-Specific Ads in BuddyPres?You should ask these as two separate threads:
For adverts – I suggest the following:
Build your child theme with ad zones (perhaps as widgets in sidebars). Use OpenX or Google Adserver to manage your ads, and integrate the codes appropriately.
You can put any logic you like into your child theme templates to make decisions on which advert to display. Of course, this isn’t trivial, otherwise Google wouldn’t put invest so much time and resource building Adsense! If you use Adsense (or equivalent) code snippets, they will automatically display adverts based on the content in the user’s profiles.
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Yes, you can modify the words. See this article: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/In reply to: Blog Theme / Buddypress ThemeIf you are converting an existing theme to BuddyPress, you should probably take a look at this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
It’s not something I’ve used, but there are a number of developers who go that route.
Have a look at the plugin / instructions. Also search on this forum for bp-template-pack, there are lots of threads.
In reply to: Beginners question: URL to page mapping? (BP 1.1.3)to add the a static image page to a member profile, and corresponding url – you are looking at adding a new component to BuddyPress (unless there is a quick hack fix).
Search creating a new component on here.
It’s not trivial though, upgrading and using the existing plugin may be the quicker option.
Anyone else got thoughts on this one?
In reply to: Beginners question: URL to page mapping? (BP 1.1.3)I suggest upgrading first to the latest version of BuddyPress: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/
And then using something like the Media+ plugin.
You will have to do some theme re-work for compatibility with 1.2.x, but you’ll be making it a lot easier on yourself for any changes.
If you don’t want to upgrade, it might be worth putting 1.1.3 in the thread title, to solicit more direct help.
As @djpaul says live demos are the modern day equivalent of “don’t work with animals and children”. Great if you can make it work, but so many opportunities to go wrong.
You are talking about why it rocks, not an installation tutorial, so I’d also steer clear of any talk about platforms and servers. As @mercime points out, showcasing is where it’s at if you want to talk rocking.
I’d go with the following structure:
1. Whet their appetite with a quick showcase of a few real world sites
Use different types of sites – I see 3 main types in practice:- just niche social networks, pretty much the default BuddyPress with a little bespoke styling; complimentary ones where the niche social network is still obvious but there’s some additionality like a magazine (hmag, tasty kitchen, or our own Hello Eco Living or Fisherbook); and the ones where the social network is in the background supporting the main function (Travel Oregon, Volkswagen, GigaOM).
You could also show by vertical – in education (CUNY), big companies (Daily Telegraph Blogs)
Keep this short and sweet – leave them wanting more!
2. Tell them what they get out of the box
Do it with visuals of a group, activity stream, etc.
3. Tell them what they can add to the box (plugins)
Just a few strong examples – easy to appreciate ones: – e.g. EventPress (running your own event registration) and Media+ (photos, videos, who doesn’t want that!)
4. Finally walk them through one of the most exciting sites in more detail
Use screen dumps / graphics throughout (it doesn’t need a bullet anywhere – although a couple of big number slides is nice – a la Steve Jobs)
Ask them questions throughout to engage attention – “Who’s ever built a site where it would be great if they could get visitors registering?” – then show them an example in BP. “Have you ever wanted a twitter like stream on your site?”. “Have you ever wanted a site where your visitors could post from the front end, and see responses in real time?”, etc., etc.
This way, you’ve got them thinking already: oh yeah, I need that in my site, imagine what we could do if we added this, etc. You’ve painted the picture for them.
And for a bit of humour – you could always risk a live activity stream playing in the background – where a buddy sends a few ‘helpful’ messages as you talk.
Hope that helps!
@drwebstein – this thread might might help you: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/adding-more-fields-to-groups/
In reply to: how can i allow each user to have blog?This is the same question you’ve asked in your other thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypresswp-multisite/ and also in your PM to me.
Please don’t open more threads to ask the same question.
In reply to: buddypress+WP Multisitethen you will need to change your hosting provider, or go for the subfolder install option.
It’s all covered on the WordPress page I pointed you to.
In reply to: Blog posts on activity stream and permalink problemDo both sites have the same settings in the .htaccess file?
Are the permissions on both .htaccess files the same (644)?
I can’t think of anything other than that…
…maybe one of the server experts can pick up on this one?
In reply to: Blog posts on activity stream and permalink problemYes, I can see there is a problem with permalinks for your main blog. Although, the permalinks in sub-blogs seem to work fine.
What happens if you de-activate your theme, and try using the default BuddyPress theme… do they work in that case?
What type of server are you on? Can your site write without problem to your .htaccess file?
In reply to: Blog posts on activity stream and permalink problemOn the permalinks: what settings do you have for your permalinks (in wp-admin … settings)?
Please post as much information as you can, e.g. the url of some of the pages that are failing.
On the activity stream: only new blog posts (not existing ones) should show up in the stream. What happens if you create a new blog post, does that show up?
In reply to: Blog posts on activity stream and permalink problemDo your blog post permalinks work with BuddyPress disabled?
@faberuna … you’ll need to edit your header.php file.
@buddhist – you can upload files (PDF, jpg, etc.) without problem into posts within BuddyPress.
However, I think for what you are looking for (groups with their own documents), it would be best to look at the Group Documents plugin: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-documents/
Yes, the display is off in Safari as well, and the page load times were ridiculously slow.
p.s. If you have any problems with this theme, it looks like you bought it from wpmudev (judging by the copyright notice), so it might get a better response if you ask direct on their support forums
You need to go into your theme and edit the theme files (.php – probably index.php or home.php for this page, or something similar)
@helverk – if custom permalinks (/%category%/%postname%/) don’t work for your WordPress without BuddyPress installed, then the problem is in your basic WordPress server setup, and not to do with BuddyPress.
You need to make sure you can run WordPress correctly with permalinks, before moving on to the BuddyPress installation. Unfortunately, the WordPress forums would be the best place to get an answer on this one.
@helverk – I think the crucial difference between your site and Christina’s, is that you are experiencing your problems trying to set up a local test server.
Does your site function correctly without BuddyPress installed? Including using custom permalinks (e.g. /%category%/%postname%/). When you switch to custom permalinks without BuddyPress what url’s do you see? Do they still have index.php in them (it shouldn’t be there)?
If they do, the problem is probably something in your basic server / WordPress setup, rather than a BuddyPress problem
In reply to: Help updating bp on my site@hnla – same point I made when direct messaged a few minutes ago about this one
In reply to: Help updating bp on my siteDid you try following the instructions on this page: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/ ?
You’ll need to know what version of BuddyPress you are on already. Go to plugins in your wp-admin backend and it will tell you the version.
In reply to: Janrain Engage tested?@smuda – I don’t think it’s compatible yet. Have you tried installing it?
Here’s a discussion thread on their site: http://feedback.janrain.com/forums/62331-janrain-engage-formerly-rpx-/suggestions/147536-make-a-buddypress-plugin
You can also look at Gigya – try searching this forum, there was a recently active thread
In reply to: Changing default INDEX?you can do this very simply from your wp-admin backend –
Goto “settings … reading … front page displays:”
[if you want to do anything more complex, child themes (as suggested by @crashutah) aren’t too much work – you can create a bare bones one just with style.css , and inherit everything else from the bp-default theme. If you are making any mods to design / layout of your site, this is the way to go anyway.
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ ]In reply to: Is there a widget available for recent forum topics?ok, you could also look at these plugins by @nuprn1 : https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-forum-extras/
