[@stwc Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

!important can be your CSS friend with adminbar stuff, I’ve found, to keep theme css from overriding declarations.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

I believe (but can’t recall exactly) that it was 1.1.0 (and so 1.1.1 and 1.1.2) that changed to parent/child theming, so unless a theme explicitly declares compatibility with that revision or higher, you may have issues (which you can overcome if you’re conversant with the way that stuff works). I’ve only just wrapped my head around the child theming stuff (and it’s very cool).

There aren’t many great-looking themes out there for BP yet. If you’re willing to pay, wpmudev premium has a couple, but I wouldn’t say the themes alone are worth the price of admission.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Well, I don’t know — I seem to have lucked out, or it’s just that my site is too new and so-far untrafficked, but the few very simple, small changes I made last week seem to have stopped the firstnamelastname19xx signups.

1) I changed the some of the text on the /register page.

2) I removed the “powered by” text in footer.php of my child theme (someone mentioned that it was being searched for)

3) I changed the register slug in wp-config.php

4) Added a functions.php file in my custom childtheme with the following code to redirect signups for all blogs to the Buddypress register page

function rk_signup_redirect() {

if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'wp-signup.php') !== false ) {

$url = 'http://mydomain.com/customregisterslug';

wp_redirect($url);

exit;

}

}

add_action('init', 'rk_signup_redirect');

where mydomain.com is, you know, my domain, and customregisterslug is the slug I changed in step 3.

I don’t think I changed anything else — no captchas or anything — and I’ve received zero splog signups in the 5 days since, after getting a few a day before that. Fingers crossed.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

I just added the Advanced Text widget (there are others similar to it), that lets you include arbitrary HTML/PHP/whatever, and used that instead.

Add Widget Logic as well, and you can display it (and any other widget conditionally, based on whether the user viewing it is logged in or not (or any number of other conditions)! Woohoo!

(both are plugins in the WP repository, BTW)

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Also, thanks for the plugin!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Could I ask that you not use URL-shorteners here? They obscure links, they depend on third-party services which may disappear, and they fundamentally break the web.

There’s no character limit unless we’re talking about Twitter, and don’t get me started on Twitter.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

You assume people are trying. I’m not at all certain that that’s the case. (I sure wouldn’t want it on my site.)

As far as ‘anywhere’ goes, you might want to take a look at this.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Let there be much rejoicing!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Sweet, gotcha. I’ll be playing with this later, if the beer doesn’t intervene. Thanks!

Edit: Oooh, awesome, so if I have users fill out a City field, say, we could optionally sort/group the Members page (on the fly?) to show people in each city that’s been entered, for example? That will kick all kinds of butt!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I want to thank you for this, but I don’t even know what ‘xprofile fields’ refers to!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

OK, created a trac enhancement request per Jeff’s suggestion. Hope I did it right .

Here.

By the way, I wasn’t thinking that this would be implemented as something required or anything like that, or even that it would be used for quoting excerpts of what people have said. But when people did use it (and once they noticed the functionality, further use would presumably just emerge) without really thinking about it, as they already do, it would be kinda delightful to have it provide notification functionality (which could be turned off, too, I guess).

Just a simple link to the posted item, wherever it might appear, that has @myusername in it as notifications in my buddybar and maybe a stream in my messages inbox area somewhere. But those would be implementation details, if the general idea is deemed a good one.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks DJPaul!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Yeah, I’ve had to disable it too. DJPaul’s not been around as much recently, so I assume he’s busy IRL, but hopefully he’ll be able to have a look at this and Achievements, which are my two favorite plugins for engaging users in a new site.

(If you don’t mind, I’ll hijack this a bit to ask that if he does get to a new version, that we have the option of suppressing the flurry of emails sent to the user when the Welcome Pack kicks in (or maybe there’s an easier way)?)

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks for that — I’ll take the ‘proudly powered’ bit out of the footer for the moment, too, and see how things go. Simple solutions first if possible…

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

OK, so I used the code from Xevo in this thread in a custom functions.php in my child theme. It redirects all calls throughout all the WPMU blogs to signup.php to the BP register page, which should help you do what you want, if I understand correctly.

One thing this hack doesn’t do is to pick up any changes to the register slug in wp-config, though, so you’ve got to remember that if you change it.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

As a first attempt, I’ve tried changing the register slug in wp-config and some of the phrasing used on register.php (after copying it from bp-sn-parent to my child theme) to see what happens… will report back on whether or not it confuses the bots.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Just a quick bump to see how things are progressing (if at all)! (No pressure, just crossed fingers…)

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks, jjj!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

By the way, after casting about for a similar solution, I’m using a free widget from http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com (which will generate a plugin or sidebar widget code for you for WP), which has all the same functionality (plus more, including arbitrary email addresses as well as Gmail etc address book retrieval and Facebook and Twitter and the usual), throwing the code into an Advanced Text Widget (where you can add code as well as text — it’s a plugin from the WP repository), and putting the widget on the homepage. Works great.

Yeah, I know, security issues, but.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Tried the plugin yesterday… it’s pretty badly broken, as far as I can tell.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Just a note that I’ve experienced the same issue — was meaning to post about it myself.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Looks great — I await a release that’s good to go with 1.1.2 with anticipation!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks! I just found the Manage Categories tool in the Dashboard as well, which was going to be my next question.

Nice work, man.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

No worries — I take the Sitewide Activity Filter problem back — I had a caching issue, and it’s all good now.

My site’s here, in case you still want a look. Buddypress is at /community.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Another minor bug — when embedding a smiley in the description of a link, the buddy autoreplacement that replaces it with an icon just shows the html code rather than the actual image. (Can’t find any edit/delete functionality…)

Edit: found the admin functionality on the Home for the link item. Sorry, I’m just figuring out where stuff is (and it’s all quite logical according to Buddypress conventions!)