Not sure if this is the right place to ask this – our site is very “activity-stream-centric”. We emphasize the activity stream. Blog posts show up in the stream, as they should, but blog comments do not. Are blog comments supposed to show up in the stream? There is not even a notation that there is a comment that the visitor can click. Is this the way it’s supposed to work? If not, how can I fix it? If so… same question.
Patrick, I’m glad you reminded me about BuddyLite. It does have some pretty cool features. It got me to thinking — maybe if I could play around with the custom CSS enough….
Well, it worked. I got the design I was after, plus the benefit of those really cool dropdown menu functions.
Not using BuddyLite for this project. It just couldn’t quite get the look I wanted. I do like BuddyLite, however, and may have to find a way to get back to it.
What I’m using is a modified version of the Jooc theme. Unfortunately, Jooc seems to be abandoned by its authors…
Problem is, the current theme doesn’t have dropdowns (that I am aware of). What, in CSS (I’m no expert) would “look” like dropdown markup. I.e. – what should I look for?
This is starting to get into the child theme area, which I’m still learning. To import the adminbar.css, is it best to reproduce the inc/css/adminbar.css into the child theme directory? And then import it in the child theme’s stylesheet?
Or, should I do it like ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css, which is how the child theme imports the default.css?
OK. So, is there a way to generically modify functions.php (like another WordPress hook or whatever) so that if I change themes the code you gave me would not “go away”. Or, would I have to make the same changes in a new theme if I decided to use it?
My original thought was to just comment out 29-56, and then add the widget to the sidebar.
But, I guess that’s not really the point. Buddypress seems to be designed around the concept of being “hack free”. And then, what does BP do? Put something in the “core” template that requires a work-around. In the “old days” I had to hack themes and plugins right and left to make them work. I was kinda hoping I could work with Buddypress in the same framework I’ve been used to with WP in general. Guess not?
I want to insulate all of my members from any WordPress panels. So far, THE only place I see the problem occurring is when a user types in a bad profile/password. In that case he/she is taken to the “wiggling” login page. I looked at a couple ajax login plugins, but they don’t really “replace” the default login.
Shouldn’t BP have an option to turn off the default login? Or maybe have it set up so that the default login widget is a pre-installed widget that could be removed/replaced?
