[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

This plugin allows you to change the redirect URL. What link have you folks used to force users to their profile page versus the default homepage?

Cheers

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Will this same solution exclude User 1 from the Recent Blog Posts widget? Perhaps in bp-blogs-classes?

scotm

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Update: My bad, I had commented out the wrong counter…works fine.

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Burtadsit et al

“In /mu-plugins/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-widgets.php line 47 is: <?php $counter++; ?>

Comment that out and you’ll get the excerpt for all the posts instead of just the first one.”

I’ve tried this in the latest release and it doesn’t work anymore. I’m trying to have more than one recent blog post listed in the Recent Blog Posts widget using BP Home Theme.

Any ideas?

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I hear you. I’m already aware I messed up something in the CSS that has affected those pages. I’ll do a re-install and if I can get that nice register page I can move on. thanks for the input…

Scot

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Well the sign up link was hard coded to wp-signup.php, but I’m pretty sure I have the latest combo downloaded in the past week.

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Trent

That is Buddypress Home theme (modified)…but even so, the drop down menu, verification and about me box is missing on my page. Hmmmmm….

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Trent

Holy smokes, you’re right. With the admin bar and so many variations of the signup process it’s a bit confusing. My register page looks nothing like that, however. Is this a widget I’m missing? See: http://sportstwit.com/register

Thanks

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Finally. I had GD Image Library re-installed and voila! Avatars…

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I have tried both of these solutions and neither work (edit of .htaccess and edit of bp-core-avatars). I’m using wpmu 2.7 beta and the combo download of a few days ago so it could be a 2.7 issue at this point.

I currently have my original user (admin) with a working avatar (gravatar attached to my original email address provided during wpmu install) and a new user via the wp-signup form with the ability to upload an avatar, but the cropping is not quite right (jumps to full but won’t allow adjusting) and when completed the avatar/image doesn’t appear.

Not sure where to turn here, but it seems to me the avatar process in BP needs to be fixed, or perhaps someone who read my earlier post regarding making Gravatars the preferred avatar solution can make it work.

Thx

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Bumpety bump…

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

PerS

Yes, I’ve looked at that exact plugin. Unfortunately, if you read the comments it appears the plugin is not working since Automattic acquired Gravatar.com. Does that make any sense? You would think Automattic would do everything it can to speed up the use of gravatars and to make it easier to signup within WordPress. Surely someone smarter than me can use that plugin as a base for what’s needed here?

Andy, can you chime in here?

Thx

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I still believe the universal solution is to sync buddypress with gravatar.com within the profile area in BP. Rather than have users upload an avatar, have them sign up for a gravatar and be done with it. The cropping issue is in part tied to the presentation of the larger avatar, a feature which I believe is pointless anyhow.

Does anyone know a way to do this?

Thx

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Surely someone has an answer to this question? How are WPMU users linking author or member links in posts from their non-buddypress home theme to the profile page in the Buddypress member theme?

Cheers

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I don’t want to confuse buddypress with the various microblogging tools (twitter, laconica, etc.) but Openmicroblogger.org has taken the Twitter Tools for WordPress plugin, for example, and made it work with their platform so that you can post to Twitter from within Openmicroblogger (much like how it works wth WordPress).

More importantly, the OMB platform lets you ‘subscribe’ to your Twitter friends or other users so that their tweets complete with Gravatar can appear in your stream on the OMB network of servers. Having this ability to ‘pull’ your subscribed network of users, over and above a lifestream of your own tweets or whathaveyou, whould make the ‘social’ plugin in Buddypress even more powerful. Hope I explained this in some manner of clarity.

Cheers

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

dimensionmedia

This may not be possible, but it might be nice to include users of Identi.ca (and Laconica servers) plus Openmicroblogger.org servers in this stream. Both use the OpenMicroBlogging protocol enabling users to post to Twitter and subscribe to friends on each platform.

Openmicroblogger.org in particular is heavily tied to WordPress plugins and themes already.

Cheers

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

fishbowl81

This is pretty much what I’d tried, although I’d forgotten about the custom.css file idea. I may have figured it out.

Thx

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

nicolagreco

Ok, you have to share now…

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

wardeh

I’d thought of that, but it doesn;t allow you to show the gravatars, plus the style is pretty barebones, but your idea is exactly the kind of thing I need.

Cheers

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks for the input. I chose burtadsit’s suggestion and it works fine, but I realize now that I need the News page as a widget or some other solution. Here’s my situation:

1. I don’t want to have member blogs, only users posting to the main blog, so that means not installing bp-blogs in order to hide it across the site.

2. I do need the recent blog posts to arrive on the buddypress-home theme, but without bp-blogs installed the widget isn’t available. So I’m thinking if I could get the News widgetized it would pull posts to the home page instead.

3. I could install bp-blogs to simpley get the widget (what I have right now), but that means removing all instances of ‘blog’ throughout the site including buddypress member areas and that seems like a bad route to go.

4. I have the Prologue post-form installed on the buddypress-home theme just above the three columns of widgets, thus eliminating any need for users to ever see the wpmu admin panel. This should allow me to keep all users as members vs. blog owners.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I’ll try this again.

Anyone know how I might limit the Sitewide Activity widget in the Buddypress Home Theme to show only blog posts? I’ve looked in the bp-activity-widgets.php but can’t figure it out.

Cheers

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

Solved this issue by installing latest version of Prologue 1.4.1. I was using 1.3 and they’ve obviously fixed the problem with the latest release.

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

Trent

Interesting. Actually, when posting on the main page with Prologue, it just kicks me out to the wp-login page without executing the post, but I remain logged in.

I can remember having this issue with WPMU before as well now that you mention it, but since I have the latest wpmu install (2.6.5) and no site-wide tags plugin, it must be a Buddypress issue. I notice Andy doesn’t have Prologue as a theme choice for blogs on the BP Demo, so perhaps he’s aware of the issue as well.

I’ll try your idea re: disabling bp-blogs and report back.

Thx

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

Upon reflection I suspect this is a WPMU and/or Prologue issue…

[@scotm Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

Has there been any progress in fixing BP Member theme issues in IE6/7? I still see the header images for the individual sections displaced (down and to the right) while viewing in IE6 using Trunk r579.

Thx