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In reply to: URL Shortening
URL shortening is a cancer on the web, and I wish people would just stop it already.
Using them obfuscates destinations, provides cover for malicious linking, and when the companies that provide these ‘services’ eventually wither up and blow away, every single link made using them rots, and pieces of the internet break.
Thanks to the idiotic success of Twitter and its artificial 140 character limit, we have to put up with a profusion of this stuff.
Yeah, I know, I sound like a ranting lunatic about his particular hobbyhorse of mine, but goddamnit, people are breaking one of the fundamental building blocks of the web — that the U in URL means ‘universal’ — because some freakishly popular glorified chat site has somehow captured everyone’s imagination for the last 5 minutes.
Now get off my lawn!
In reply to: Achievements and BP 1.2Yay! I bugged DJPaul so much about the 1.1 upgrade I was afraid to do it again for 1.2….
In reply to: Adding functions.php to theme breaks siteYep, done this a lot, with BP and regular WP child theming. Should work fine if the code’s OK.
In reply to: [BP1.2] External Group Blogs pluginThanks, Mark. I thought I was going crazy there for a while!
Yeah, it’s just the one feed from one site that’s giving me 5 duplicates, actually, I think. Scratching my head over that one.
In reply to: [BP1.2] External Group Blogs pluginWhat I’m saying here is that without being logged in at all, as just a random visitor, you can get to the admin page to edit external blog feeds, complete with Update button, if you know the URL, like the one above.
Testing as a logged-in non-admin user (subscriber level) has the same effect.
Have a look at this URL (http://jobsee.kr/community/groups/jobs-and-work/admin/external-blog-feeds) — you should be able to see the relevent admin page for that group, despite the fact that you have no credentials to do so.
In reply to: BuddyPress LikeErroring out with new version on Admin page for Buddypress like:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/xxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-like/bp-like.php on line 736
(great plugin though!)
(I auto-upgraded, and reverting to 0.0.5 fixed it)
In reply to: How to change the navigation text in 1.2.x themesI just did this last night, using the .pot/.po/.mo thing, and I HIGHLY recommend grabbing poedit from Sourceforge rather than editing the text file manually. It pulls together all instances of a term and lets you edit once, rather than having to find them all.
It’ll give you a couple of critical errors after you hit save to generate the .mo file — just go to the Catalog — Setiings dialog, change the Team to your website name and clear out the plural forms thing at the bottom, and all seems to work well.
Then just add the bp-custom function to call the new language file and you’re good to go. Very easy, and I’ve changed a whole bunch of verbiage across my site, no problems.
In reply to: [Poll] Which development tools do you useNotepad++ as the editor for WinSCP, Firebug+Web Developer, Photoshop.
In reply to: [BP1.2] External Group Blogs pluginI’m talking to myself here, it feels like after all these comments, but MAJOR BUG FOUND (I think).
I can get to the
at http://example.com/community/groups/example-group/admin/external-blog-feeds
without being logged in, and edit the feeds list! That seems like it might be a Very Bad Thing.
That Facebook patent thing makes me want to start punching throats.
Never mind that last bit — I was being dumb.
I just copied over bp-default/activity/entry.php over to my child theme and edited line 28 and it’s all good.
Still think it might make sense as a default, though.
In reply to: BuddyPress LikeYeah, it almost certainly requires BP 1.2+, I’d imagine.
In reply to: BuddyPress-Links 0.3 FINAL is here at lastThings are looking great on my install, MrMaz. No problems to report so far — thanks again for this excellent tool!
In reply to: new plugin: BuddyPress Rate Forum PostsThanks!
Edit: new version seems to be working perfectly… thanks again.
In reply to: new plugin: BuddyPress Rate Forum PostsNo — the plugin is killing all ajax functionality on the backend dashboard for WPMU itself!
In reply to: new plugin: BuddyPress Rate Forum PostsJust noticed on WP single 2.9.2 BP 1.2.1 When this plugin is activated it breaks the sidebar toggle on the options in the admin.
Oh, man, thank you for mentioning that. I’ve been trying for the last hour to track down what was going on there! Going to have to deactivate it until we track down what’s happening there. Seems to only happen with the last two recent updates from the 1.0 of the plugin, I think.
In reply to: Edit single profile viewYou found the right place, patlan.
If you want to edit the files there, though, you’ll want to copy them to a child theme, and edit them there. Your changes in your child theme will override the defaults, and future upgrades to Buddypress won’t end up overwriting your edits.
Search the site here or ask if you need more info on making a child theme. Once you get your head around it, it’s very easy to do.
In reply to: new plugin: BuddyPress Rate Forum PostsGreat stuff, @Dwenaus. What did you settle on for the prefix — bp- or buddypress- ?
Also, a feature request already!
Maybe we could put a user’s total forum karma number on their profile?
In reply to: [BP1.2] External Group Blogs pluginThings are looking good! One last thing I’d like to ask about/request: previously, we could link from elsewhere into a single page that displayed all the RSS items for a group, like http://example.com/groups/examplegroup/external-blog-posts. With the advent of dropdown filtering, that doesn’t seem to work anymore, which I understand, but I’d love to be able to do.
Is there anyway we can pass a parameter in a URL, say, that would autofilter the Group page on load, to show RSS feeds (or any of the other ‘sections’ in the Group)? I’d really like to be able to do this, rather than just linking to the Group with instructions (for non-savvy users) to click on the filter button..
In reply to: new plugin: BuddyPress Rate Forum PostsFixed – I renamed the folder for the plugin to ‘bp-rate-forum-posts’ rather than ‘buddypress-rate-forum-posts’ where it auto-installs to, and it seems to work!
Very nice, minimal-style, plugin. Kudos!
In reply to: new plugin: BuddyPress Rate Forum PostsVery much like to use this one, but nothing seems to be happening after install in terms of UI on the site. No errors on activation, tried activation and activation site-wide both, logged-in as admin (using version from WP repo).
Screenshot and description look great, though, and looking forward to getting it working!
In reply to: Most effective/stable events plugin?Yeah, I’m hoping for a 1.2 version of Erwin Gerrit’s BP-Events, very much. I’m not aware of any that are working out of the box with BP1.2 yet.
I’d also really love to see a usability refresh of this site’s Plugins section, particularly with compatibility metadata and some options for sorting the list and so on, when Andy and JJJ have some time.
In reply to: [BP1.2] External Group Blogs pluginJust upgraded to v1.2.1 of the plugin, and things seem to be working OK! Thanks, Andy!
Will report back if stuff goes wonky again.
One note — I got errors in activation when trying to move the bp-groups-externalblogs.php file to the /plugins root following the instructions in the readme.txt. Leaving it and loader.php in the /external-group-blogs folder seemed to work OK though, so….
Should that be way to do it — just leave the files in the external-group-blogs folder?
In reply to: [BP1.2] External Group Blogs pluginI’m sorry, I’m an idiot. I didn’t read the readme.txt, just installed through the WPMU interface, and only (after months), just now discovered that you need to move the bp-groups-externalblogs.php file to the /plugins folder.
It seems to be working fine now in terms of updating feeds automatically — all that’s left on my wishlist is some UI goodness for BP1.2, and I can go live with 1.2 on my site, I think.
EDIT: Or maybe not. This is frustrating. Suddenly, all the updates via RSS that appeared in the stream have now disappeared again. I am very very confused.
In reply to: BuddyPress-Links 0.3-RC is outLoving the new version, MrMaz, on my BP1.2 testbed. So slick. No bugs yet, but I’ll be sure to let you know as I mess around with 1.2 if any appear.
