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Thanks! Works! This is actually basically what I had done but you accomplished it in a much better way!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! Halifax Regional Search and Rescue thanks you 🙂 And by the way… I found out why my attempt “broke”. It actually didn’t break. Not exactly. I had been trying to send […]

Thanks! I’ll try that. I did get it working but I had to duplicate functions and hack the core… etc. Such are my limited skills. Then my “working” fix stopped working mysteriously a few days later. Argh. Anyway… thanks. I agree that this is plugin territory and the ticket should probably be closed.

greg makes good points about groups and friends. There is almost no benefit whatsoever of Friends within BuddyPress. As far as I can tell it only enables three things. 1. Stream filtering 2. Group invites (altho’ there is the invite anyone plugin) 3. Autocomplete help on “Messages > Compose” That’s it. You can still message […]

@mikepratt Well, I built my first website in 1994… shortly after Netscape 0.9 beta was released… but I’m still a whining code monkey some days 😛

I agree with Mike. It does seem like the community is not as active as it was. That may be due to the new website. I’m not sure all these groups are helping. I think the previous simple forum may have been better… for a developer site at least.

@andy: I agree there is much more to life than code… but soccer? Seriously? You mean that “game” where guys run around for 2+ hours and never score a goal? Now if you’d said hockey or any other actual sport… I’d be right there with yah. LOL 😛 Sorry. Just teasing (obviously). I’m fine with the […]

Re: Forum vs. Activity – I have no doubt that it is harder than is seems, but that’s not relevant to the discussion. The issues being discussed are usability. Any good and usable design begins and ends with users… not programmers. Re: Autocomplete (my pet peeve) – Sorry, doesn’t make sense to me. I’m free […]

I also hate buddypress.org since they started to “eat their own dog food”. Ironic. I find is very difficult to find past postings. And the whole “comment on a forum post in the stream *OR* in the original thread” is absolutely insane. When a user makes a comment… don’t make them THINK about where to […]

I don’t understand the question. To add new html, you need to add new same-named templates to your child. So to change the header HTML, add a copy of header.php from the default parent theme to your child theme and then modify. Alternately, if you only want to add HTML (not modify) you might be […]

p.s. This inglorious hack also depends on having the pointless (for us) “Friends” feature enabled. Oh well.

I solved this but only in a fashion. My solution is not update-proof. All I did was copy/paste/modify the relevant functions into my functions.php file. Relevant functions (copy into child theme’s functions.php file): – search_friends() in /plugins/buddypress/bp-friends/bp-friends-classes.php – bp_dtheme_ajax_messages_autocomplete_results() from…[Read more]

How do I get my child theme to override a function in the bp-default _inc/ajax.php file? The comments at the top of the file say that you can simply create your own ajax.php file but that does not seem to be working.

I’m getting closer! I got it working by changing one line in the search_friends function. This function is found inside the BP_Friends_Friendship class in the bp-friends-classes.php file. This change will break all other friend searches but at least I got the autocomplete working so that it searches on ALL members instead of just your friends. […]

Just FYI… 3.0 has been Release Candidate for over a week now. Since May 28th I believe.

Why the new thread? Anyway: 1. Make a new folder inside “themes”. Call it whatever you wish 2. Make a new “style.css” file inside your new theme folder 3. Paste this code into your “style.css” file and then activate your new child theme /* Theme Name: My Theme Description: My BuddyPress Child The,e Template: bp-default […]