[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@travel-junkie Great idea for a plugin but I’m having an issue with it.
It seems to be demanding a mailchimp api key even when I don’t have the mailchimp section set up.
I only want to use the TOS section but it won’t let me save ANYTHING if I don’t supply the mailchimp stuff.

Can the TOS be used on their own without activating the MC stuff?

I’m using WP 3.0 and BP 1.2.4.
Cheers!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1

thanks for the new code! I have this working now!
the only thing that is happening now is that the widget is displaying a ? in a black diamond before the title of each topic in the widget.

I am using WP 3.0.

Is this something to do with an unrecognised character or something?
Cheers.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1
When you said ‘make sure to change “Whatever_You_Named_It_Latest_Topics_Widget” to the name of the widget class’

I don’t think Im doing this right. I have just copied your original code you supplied so what class do I need to put in the function?
I keep getting a white page when I try.

Cheers,
Ross

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1
Ahhh, that must be it then! Does this go in the bp-custom.php file too or elsewhere and if it does go in custom.php should it be before or after your code?
Thanks!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1 thats the only thing, it isnt showing in the widgets section. There isnt a latest topics widget to drag across.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1

So sorry, I just can’t get this to work.
I have copied the code from your post to my clipboard and pasted it between php tags in my bp-custom.php file but no widget is showing. Do I have to activate any of the forum extras plugins for it to work?
I just need this widget and not the forum index.

I have other code in my bp-custom.php file that works so not sure why adding this code in there doesn’t.
Apologies once again as I’m clearly doing something wrong but I just don’t know what.
Thanks for your patience!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1 Hmm… maybe I have done something wrong but I have pasted the code in and yet I can’t see a widget?

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1 Thanks so much.
So I have pasted that code into my bp-custom.php file.

So should the widget show up or do I need to activate the sub plugin. Will that not activate the forum index with it? I just need the widget. We’re nearly there!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1 Sorry for having to ask such simple questions but I am exactly that… Simple!

Wen you say ,’place this class BP_Forum_Extras_Index_Latest_Topics_Widget extends WP_Widget into the bp-custom.php file’

What am I actually placing in the custom php file?
I’m not sure how much of the code I am cutting and pasting?

So sorry, I’m just learning!
Thanks so much!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@nuprn1 Great stuff! This is exactly what I need but I only need the widget and not the index. The index is a great idea but I have 2000 groups so isn’t really suitable.

I’m a bit of a numpty when it comes to extracting code but would really like to hear how I can use just the widget without the index! I’d even pay for this to be made into a standalone widget.
Cheers
Ross

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Any news on the simple chat plugin from buddypress dev? @@miguael

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

That sounds awesome! Perfect timing! Any specifics on what it does from Buddy Dev?

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

The ajax chat that is out right now isn’t all that great from what I hear. I’d love an integrated Facebook style chat.
Surely someone out there must be working on something like that?

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I too would love a basic and reliable instant messaging solution on BP. I haven’t found one yet. Anyone know of or developing a decent one?
Thanks!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@r-a-y cheers for that. I’m still totally rubbish at coding anything but it now works a treat!

I’ve got the forum as the default tab now and have it first in the list of tabs. Is there a simple way to rename the Home tab to ‘Group Activity’ ?

Thanks again r-a-y

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I think I have made the php file properly and pasted in the code but on my site it just shows the code in the header. I must be doing something wrong.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@r-a-y thanks for this mate! I can’t see a bp-custom.php file in my wp-content/plugins folder though. Should it be there or do I need to create one?

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Anyone got any ideas for this. When you click on a group, would be nice to go straight to the forums page.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@pcwriter

Love your design of the signup page! I use S2 Member too. How did you design the table with the subscription options. I only have one membership level but I’d like to lay it out in a table like you have done. Any ideas?

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

No problem, glad I could help!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

You are in the BP settings there. Click on the WP settings near the bottom.

Settings—> General you’ll see it in there!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Should have read, restrict group creation. I’m not awake yet!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

The plugin you need is Buddypress restrict group forums. Search for it through your admin panel and set the permissions accordingly.

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@dwenaus I think total karma points should be the default setting.

At the moment as my site is very quiet I don’t get any karma showing when I select one of the PLUS or average settings. That is what led me to believe something was wrong with the setup.

It’s a really great plugin though! All I would do to enhance it is award rankings at certain levels. If an admin could set the rank names that would be great and maybe a ‘badge’ of some description could be displayed in a user’s profile for hitting a particular rank?

Great work though!

[@rossagrant Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@dwenaus

I have just changed the settings for Karma to ‘Total Karma Points for quiet sites – this shows the simple total of karma points. example: 110’ and the points now show up.

I previously had it set to ‘Mixed Karma Points PLUS for normal sites – this is a higher value mix of total points and average points per post. example: 60’

I’m not quite sure of the difference here to make the points value not show up.
Could you shed some light on it?
Thanks once again!