[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

#1 there are a couple of options actually in your network admin network settings.

#2 you can also network activate the themes if choose.

#3 correct

#4 not necessarily if they understand css it should be fairly easy also depending on the built in them options they will not be able to “modify” the them files themselves

#5 buddypress certainly makes the whole site creation process more visible since a normal wordpress install doesn’t really do that at all (at least i don’t think it does).

#6 yes thats why they can’t do it only the network admin has the ability to add new theme/plugins.

#7 the only difference is the ability to admin their own sites but there are different settings to where they couldn’t even create them themselves (you’d have to activate any sub sites if you choose that option).

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

streams are not related to profile fields. stream is created by site activity. i don’t think theres a decent way to hide that other then for admin users using a plugin or by modifying code stuff.

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

another plug in that might help you is called ban hammer it allows you to blacklist specific emails or entire domains

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

@Gregykos believe it or not a lot of those “robots” are actually people.

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

@mercime i will try but i might not test this for a little while yet.

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

that looks like a winner

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

the “maintenance mode” plugin has always worked for me and definitely blocks all pages (bp included) for all non-admins given the correct settings

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

@sorbic you’re probably right about it being an example or whatever cause i tried it with new fields and those didn’t work either at least for us.

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Didn’t have the best luck with WP open graph myself kept crapping out or working unexpectedly. Anyone know if the jetpack JSON API has any bearing on this?

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

So just to be clear we should be ignoring the warning on that screen that says:

‘Using the Forum Root is not recommended. Changing this does not move existing forums.’

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

anyone tried the addthis social signin with buddypress yet? does FB Twitter and G+. i use their link sharing plugin and was planning to try out the new signin plugin asap:

Introducing Social Sign In for WordPress

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

ah gotcha indeed!

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

@mercime i have this plugin installed with current BP/WP it seems to be working just fine just curious if there were any issues that you were aware of that i was not.

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

shawn38 thanks for the info was wondering how that worked with current version but hadn’t had the time to test myself

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@billmc site wide forums use bbpress theres more info there but i found the process pretty strait forward personally for site wide forums and topics i think you’d want to use separate forums in the main forum list for your categories. check bbpress.org for more info on that stuff.

any group or site wide forum post should generate an activity entry.

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

@_dorsvenabili looks like they have incorporated this into the next version of buddypress so we either got to wait or make some modifications of our own.

@djpaul would the files from that track ticket work if they were dropped into a 1.6.x version of buddypress or are they dependent on being part of a 1.7.x branch of buddypress? does that question even make sense? thanks!

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

i tried testing that on our install but I’ve found that none of my users can create topics and in fact all of our group forums have disappeared at some point tried un/re installing but its till bork sorry tried!

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@qrahaman hum odd we should be getting such different errors thanks for the feedback!

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

can anyone actually verify this plugin boone put up works? it appears to have the option but when i tested it the policy is not enforced and even logged out users can see the private fields on our site at least.

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@valuser thanks i guess i was being a bit slow and didn’t even notice the zip download thanks again!

@djpaul my slowness again not very good at searching or contributing to those tickets ill try to get better and thanks to you as well!

and @karmatosed yes i believe thats what the old school plugin said. thanks all around!

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@valuser thanks for sending that but i don’t think i know how to install it never baked my own plugin before do i just create a dir and add those files to it inside the plugins dir?

@qrahaman yup thats exactly what we are trying to do we use groups to make contests. prior to 1.5 there was a plugin which basically did this same thing and nobody was an option worked great (not that that means its important to everyone but certainly a good option to have).

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

Anyone want to carpool from the Bay Area?

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

yeah its called ban hammer can exclude specific emails or entire domains

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

looks like they have something for Q&A at wpmudev.org but most of those aren’t free.

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/qa-wordpress-questions-and-answers-plugin/

[@ubernaut Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

the setting is in the main buddypress settings under the settings tab.