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  • @takeo

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    16 years, 9 months ago

    Or for a low-tech non-destructive solution add this to custom.css:

    #bp-adminbar-visitrandom-menu {display: none;}

    @takeo

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    16 years, 9 months ago

    So has the original developer abandoned bp-events?

    @takeo

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    16 years, 9 months ago

    Hash… but Hush. Neat idea. Although it depends on the user knowing and typing the tag correctly. The shorthand ‘code’ that Twitter uses is very confusing to newbies. Ultimately… a “publisher” like Facebook has would be cool… but a lot of work… and a long way off. Still… thinking out loud… one of the options could be to post to a group… with a drop down list of your groups.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 9 months ago

    If you’re using the default theme and don’t want to mess with the theme files… you could also just do it via CSS in custom.css or site-wide.css… this should do it:

    #search-login-bar {display:none;}

    @takeo

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    16 years, 9 months ago

    Interesting that Photo Albums are mentioned on the About page as a coming feature but not mentioned in the Road Map. The About page predates the Roap Map.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, a media library / manager makes more sense… with wire integration and bulk uploading hopefully. Now… if a user has not just a BP Profile but also a Blog… they would then have two media libraries… their WordPress Media Library and their BuddyPress Media Library. But I guess that makes sense. The Blog is almost like another world. Right?

    @takeo

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    16 years, 9 months ago

    Your call Robert. No one can predict the future. If your site is that heavily dependent on photos maybe you should wait? But you could be waiting a long time I imagine.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 9 months ago

    I think the only way you could have a 1-click option would be if… at some point… there were a buddypress.com like wordpress.com. That said… all of these projects are auttomatic projects… so maybe at some point in the future they will all merge into one product? Who knows.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    If you happen to use a Mac… CSSEdit is amazing. It a CSS development tool that let’s you see your changes in real time as you type your code. Similar to Firebug… except that it’s an actual development tool / editor.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Ahh. I see! I gotcha now.

    I have seen this behavior in IE when you try to put a width on the body tag… which the default theme does. The simple solution is just to get rid of any width declarations on body (or maybe 100% would work) so the entire problem goes away. Just add a wrapper div around your entire site and put your page width on that. Open it as the first thing after body and close it just before the close body tag. Give it an id and then apply your width to that… so…

    HTML

    <html>
    
<body>
    
<div id="wrapper">
    
[everything else]
    
</div>
    
</body>
    
</html>

    CSS in site-wide.css

    body {
    
min-width: 100%;
    
max-width: 100%;
    
}
    

    
#wrapper {
    
width: 970px;
    
}

    Of course… this means editing your theme files (header and footer)… not just overriding some CSS. But I think this would be a better solution than relying on javascript hacks. Also, I have not tested this in IE… so I’m not 100% sure it will work. You might have to edit the base.css files to completely remove the min-max width declarations rather than just overriding them with 100% in the site-wide.css file.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Yup… use custom.css or site-wide.css… that’ll hit everything and you can leave the original theme alone. When the theme gets updated… just make sure to save your custom CSS file.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Rework your changes as a custom functions file (bp-custom.php) or plug-in. Modifying the core directly ends up being a HUGE pain because you then have to remember and reapply those changes every time a new version comes out. Either that or never apply any updates. But that’s not a good option. Many times updates include security fixes. It’s always best to be running the latest and greatest.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Let me know if that works. It would go in wp-content/themes/bphome/css/site-wide.css

    When I saw you all talking about using Javascript just to center a theme and give it a fixed width… I sensed someone somewhere along the line went down a rabbit hole :) LOL.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Javascript?! Good lord. Just make a site-wide.css file with one line of code in it

    body {width: 970px;}

    Does that not work?

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    It won’t break any functionality. You’re not modifying the core. You’re just creating your own theme based on the default theme. When you update, just make sure you don’t overwrite the entire wp-content directory (there the themes are kept).

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Easy

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve always been of the opinion that drop down menus are evil. To each his own? Drop down menus hide options from users. They also stop people in their tracks and encourage them to start poking around looking all of the second level options… essentially studying your site map instead of browsing your site. The thought process goes from “oh… this must be the link to click” to “oh… there’s more options in here. Hmmm… I wonder what all of my other options are”. Worst of all are the fly-out style menus (like in the Buddy Bar) that are difficult to use and require pixel-perfect mousing. If you mouse even a single pixel out of bounds… they close. DOH!! Also, most web-based fly outs will close if you try to make a diagonal beeline from a menu option to one of it’s sub-menu options. The Buddy Bar suffers from this problem since it’s pure CSS I assume. A little javascript can be very helpful in this case to add a delay on mouseout and allow for diagonal mousing. But if you must use drop downs, I prefer a single level that is stacked vertically. No second level. No fly outs to the side. I really hate the Buddy Bar menus actually.

    As for your issues with the theme. Personally… I think it’s pretty well done. I think the two side-by side menus in the profile sections are actually pretty revolutionary and work really well. It takes a second to “get it” because it’s not a scheme I’ve ever seen before… but I think it’s great. But it’s just the default theme. It’s not hard to make new themes that would have drop downs, fly outs, vertical bars, horizontal bars… whatever you wish. That’s not to say the default theme couldn’t be improved. I’m sure it could be.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for that Jeff. Disclaimers noted :)

    p.s. I got the server in a clearance sale… so the RAM was pretty low and there wasn’t an option to upgrade anything (as-is sale). It’s only $29/month though! Hard to beat for a dedicated box. And more than sufficient for the sites I’m hosting (so far). I don’t have unlimited disk space. All I have is what’s in the box… no upgrade options. That could be a concern if the WPMU users start uploading media files… but we’ll see. My freelance work may go full time within the year… so if that happens I’d bite the bullet and upgrade to a newer box anyway… and my client base would cover the costs.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Okay… so what might be some example of server recommendations for different installations? For instance… I have a dedicated server but it’s not exactly high-powered. The specs are:

    – 3.06 Ghz Celeron

    – 80GB HDD

    – 512 MB RAM

    – 1000 GB Traffic

    – 10Mbps uplink

    Nothing fancy! But I’m only serving half a dozen small blog sites now with very low traffic. Mostly just small personal sites. It’s awesome for that and being dedicated allows me total control and I don’t have to worry about my ‘neighbours’ getting my IP blacklisted… etc.

    Now… let’s say I launch a public BuddyPress site with 250 registered users, pretty low traffic from non-registered users, the bpPicture plugin, chat plugin, bbPress and NO personal blogs allowed (just the main blog). Is it gonna go boom? This client can probably afford to pay more for hosting if needed.

    I have another potential BP project which would probably also be a low traffic site… but where the client wants users to be able to create blogs. It will be a true community site. It could have… let’s say 20-30 blogs. It would also have forums, photos and chat. This client is a friend. It’s a simple pro bono thing with no custom theming or coding. Problem is, she has no money for more ‘iron’. Not a cent.

    I know this is all very hypothetical and hard to judge… but even a rough idea of server recommendations for a few different scenarios would be extremely helpful.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    So you’re trying to add a new link to the main horizontal navigation? You would do that in the header.php files… not in the CSS.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Personally… I’d wait… because Joomla makes me nauseous. But that’s just me.

    So Jomsocial has a wall “publisher” like Facebook that allows you to add links, video etc. directly into the activity stream?

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    This will do photos on your profile. No video. And not in groups I don’t think. But I imagine in time there will be a lot of solutions out there. BP is really new.

    http://manojkumar.org/bppicture-album-plugin-for-buddypress/

    Not sure what you mean by a magazine style front page… but there’s a widget to show a list of latest blog entries.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks J3! Very cool.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Looks good Rohan. It’s kind of a pain that we have to create three themes for a consistent look… a BP home theme… BP member theme… and bbPress theme… but I guess there’s really no way around that.

    How did you get the BuddyPress bar to show up on the forums page? Copy/Paste? I haven’t played with that yet. I found that I had to hard code my main nav bar in the forums header template as well. Which kinda bugs me… but that nav will rarely (if ever) change.

    Thanks for the answer about the account. I was pretty confused about that.

    @takeo

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    16 years, 10 months ago

    Ah. It was a cookie thing. I cleared them all and now I can login. I wasn’t able to get the cookie integration options set properly when I installed bbPress. I’m still confused by step 1 however. Do you need two users? WP Admin and BBPress Admin? Or can you use the same for both? And how do you create the use “on the BBPress” side. Do you do that during installation or after?

    p,s, are you aware that on Safari Mac you get a “strong” tag in this forum post editor every time you click in the editor window?

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