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Now all I have to do it figure out how to change the default display of tags on the page. I’ve created a tag cloud display for the Forum tags at the top of the forum directory page, and used a custom function like @DJPaul suggested above to change the sizing and limits. But I can’t figure out how or where to change the sort order of the display.
By default the display is showing the tags with the most hits first, and then all the rest in no particular order. I would like to display all the tags in alphabetical order. But how?
@andy — Sorry, I goofed in my write up on Trac Ticked #2163, which you closed so I can’t update: I AM running BP 1.2.1, and I still have the error.
I just tested this on a dev site with WP2.9.1 single user and BP 1.2 and confirmed the error is still happening. If Activity Streams are disabled, the Groups still open by default to a “Home” tab that thinks there should be a Group Activity Stream displayed:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bp_activity_post_form_action() in /var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/post-form.php on line 1And a follow-up question I have on this is, if the Group Activity Stream is turned off, what should be dispayed on the Home tab? I would argue in favor of having the Group Forum list be the default Group home page if Activity Streams are disabled, just as I think there should be a way to fairly easily choose the Forum list as the Group home page even if the Activity Streams are NOT disabled, just as site-wide you have the option of having the blog or the Activity Stream on the home page of the site. (This latter bit is the crux of a trac ticket I filed: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2144 )
@johnjamesjacoby — I couldn’t find evidence of this having been submitted to Trac yet, so I just filed a ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2163
Ok, I was wrong above. @kriskl is talking about the Forums index page, while my other post — https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults — is about changing the default tab view within the Groups pages.
But this is an interesting problem also. I looked at your pointers above, @r-a-y , but I couldn’t figure it out. The Standard Loop page you linked to shows the code for
bp_has_groups()but then below that it has the “accepted parameters” for
bp_has_site_groups()a function which I couldn’t find anywhere in BP. Likewise the “most-forum-topics” & “most-forum-posts” arguments for the “type” parameter of that function.
Here’s what I think it would be cool do do, but I’m not sure how to do it:
Currently, logged-in users see two navigation tabs for displaying forum Topics on the “Group Forums Directory” page accessed by clicking “Forums” in the general navigation (default display tab in bold):
[All Topics (25] [My Topics (12)]
How to implement the addition of a new default tab that lists all of the Group Forums, with the same filtering options? then the Forums page sub-nav tabs would look like this:
[All Forums (11)] [All Topics (25] [My Topics (12)]
I think @kriskl is asking for something like what I was asking about here, but didn’t get any responses to: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults
I’ll take a look at the Groups loop, @r-a-y, though I’m not sure I’ll be able to figure out what to do. Thanks.
@PeterHofman — I upgraded my hosting account to PHP 5.2, and Tweetstream installed just fine, so that was the problem.
Works great, just two small issues I noticed:
1) If you select the option to have the tweet link back to your user profile, URL-shortened link appeared in the tweet on Twitter, but it was not hyperlinked (it was just unlinked text)
2) some typos on the user settings page (“Options”, for instance, says “Otions” — missing a “p”)
Great work on the plugin.
@Dwenaus Nevermind, I just fount the Rate Forum Posts settings under the Buddypress menu in the WP back-end. That seems like a natural place to me to put setting for Buddypress plugins, but this is the first one I’ve installed to do that — the other’s I’ve tried all add their specific settings under the general Settings area. Thanks again for the great work.
Great plugin, @Dwenaus ! I just upgraded, and it’s working fine, but you mention “admin options” and the Readme says, “admin screen to change karma levels, and post highligting [sic] and diminishing values”, but I can’t seem to find the admin options. Is there a admin page in the WP backend, or just a config file. Thanks.
@WPin.me & @blackphantom — yes, my server is running PHP4.4 — I’ll upgrade it to PHP5 and report back. Thanks.
I tried to load the latest version of Tweetstream (1.1.6), but I got the same error I had before with v.1.1.4:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONST, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /var/www/vhosts/……/wp-content/plugins/tweetstream/twitter/EpiCurl.php on line 4
I tried deactivating all plugins except Buddypress, but that didn’t help.
I hacked-up the bp-groups.php file just to see if I could accomplish the above. I got most of what I wanted to do working, but not quite, and I don’t really want to edit any core files.
It would probably require a function, if not a full plugin, to do this right, but those are beyond me. Any solutions to this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
See the end of this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-disable-members-from-creating-groups
Any ideas on how to do this?
Any new ideas about Favorites out there?
I don’t consider this a “generic” feature request, but an important element of increasing usability. Microblogging is fine for small to medium-sized “trusted” community, but not for the site I am redesigning, which has a forum with nearly 20,000 users. Most users are short-term, looking for solutions to a problem, and once they get what they came for, most never return. I’m hoping to change that with the new BuddyPress design.
The site I am developing is all about a variety of user interaction in one place, and allowing 20,000 strangers to each have their own blog would be a disaster. Most people don’t want or need their own blog any more, and prefer to publish and interact in one centralized, standardized location — hence the popularity of Facebook.
So, I think the real value in BP is Groups + Forum: Groups for looser, more spontaneous communication, like Facebook, and Forums for more structured, searchable and archived collections of information. If you @Peterverkooijen are not interested in Forums, but want to give your users blogs, that’s fine — just use WPMU, or WPMU + BuddyPress but disable the Forums.
Forums have great value for many types of sites — we’re successfully using one right now, in fact.
There is a new plugin I just found called BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts — https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-rate-forum-posts/. I haven’t tried it yet, but I plan to. It allows thumbs up/down voting on Forum posts and in the process users receive “karma points” for the quality and frequency of their posts. So, in theory, spammers would get bad karma scores from other users, and you could search for users with bad karma and then delete them.
Yes, that makes sense, until there are hundreds of IP addresses to try to ban. Also, WP isn’t logging the IP addresses, though I suppose I could install a plugin to do that.
Philosophically, it goes back to the debate over sending new users a confirmation email or not. I’m in the yes camp, because many forum spambots will sign up for memberships with a bogus email address, so if they have to confirm via email, their memberships will never get confirmed. But I suppose there’s a performance trade-off to sending out a high percentage of emails that end up bouncing.
Ideally I can figure out a set of methods to stop most spam registrations from happening in the first place, greatly reducing the amount of user editing I would otherwise have to do after the fact.
Still looking for a member management solution. At the very least, if all of the above isn’t doable yet, can somebody suggest a way to lock all users below a certain level out of the WP admin back-end?
Right now all user levels, including Subscriber, can log-in and at least see “Dashboard”, “Profile” and “Tools”, but since blogging is not allowed and users can access their Profiles through the Buddypress front-end, I’d prefer to shut everybody below the level of “Editor” out of the WP back-end. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Running single-user WP 2.9.2 / BP 1.2.1. Downloaded v. 1.1.4 of Tweetstream, but got this error when trying to activate it:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONST, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /var/www/vhosts/……/wp-content/plugins/tweetstream/twitter/EpiCurl.php on line 4
Here is the complete code this is working successfully for me to block anybody with a user role below “Editor” from having the option to create new Groups:
<h3>
<?php _e( 'Groups Directory', 'buddypress' ) ?>
<?php if ( current_user_can( 'delete_others_posts' ) ) : //only admins and editors can see this ?>
<a class="button" href="<?php echo bp_get_root_domain() . '/' . BP_GROUPS_SLUG . '/create/' ?>">
<?php _e( 'Create a Group', 'buddypress' ) ?></a><?php endif; ?>
</h3>Man I’m dense — too many sleepless nights doing this are taking their toll on me. I already asked for help on this in another thread, received help, and even successfully implemented it. I thought it seemed like deja vu all over again. Doh! See this thread, especially the last few posts:
The solution by intimez near the end of the thread is basically the one above, but with the button code included.
Ahh, now it’s all coming back to me…
I too would like to do this — I searched around for awhile, and found the subject mentioned in a few places, but I couldn’t find a resolution. I want to make it so only WP users with Editor or higher user roles can create new Groups. Is this doable?
This would be a handy admin function. Any ideas out there?
@ousep: Thanks for all your work on this, I really appreciate it. The new tweak works great, but if you ever get around to getting the count inline — [Favorite (23)] — I’ll be looking forward to it here.
Ok, I get it. I added “favorites” to your code, so now it displays “(2) favorites” instead of just “(2)”, to give it a little more meaning for users. Any way to add a conditional line to your function so that if there is one favorite, it will display “(1) favorite” (singular) and if there are two or more, it will display “(x) favorites” (plural)? If this is too nitpicky, or if the favorites plugin in development supercedes all of this, then no worries, I can live without it.
The other “Favorites” display issue I’m trying to solve is to get the Profile sub-nave to display the Favorites count like it does in the activity stream. Right now, they differ in their displays, like this:
On Activity Stream: Favorites (2)
On Profile Sub-nav: Favorites
Thanks!
