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by that, I meant we will use the WP admin bar if we have time. Otherwise, the current solution is that we hide the WP admin bar when used with BuddyPress.

Well it’s hidden! can’t say why as it’s a custom theme.

if you want to see if it works enclose the ruleset in comments

`
/*
#wp-admin-bar, #wp-admin-bar.padder {
height: 0;
display: none; /* Hide it- not required. */

}
*/
`
Of course this will depend on whether the original styles for adminbar are being called and whether they suit the layout as to whether anything is seen.

This is something that is expressed from time to time i.e “More friendly interface” but it’s one of those things that slightly puzzles me again this is WP and the method of running it is the dashboard and that shouldn’t be a barrier for people really. There are however a few front end posting plugins which essentially drag the dashboard create post page/function to the frontend of a site that may make things a little simpler for users, but not sure on user blogs whether it’s easy or possible to then further abstract or hide the dashboard.

Any new update on this one?

ok… two solutions:

1. the nasty hacky – adding define (‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, TRUE) in our theme’s functions.php

Why nasty hacky: well it inserts inline CSS into our footer to hide the adminbar and remove the padding; that’s nastiest enough in itself, but it also uses !important to override anything we actually want to do – even nastier.

2. the cleaner – adding remove_action( ‘init’, ‘bp_core_add_admin_bar_css’); in our theme’s functions.php

That does the job!

Unfortunately, we have to add that in the functions.php of any additional theme we want to use. Let’s get all this presentation stuff in the default theme where it belongs (not in the core)… I’ve said this a lot recently.

I have this problem too. However, I can’t see where to set-up user registration in the BP admin section – these are the options I have under General Settings –

Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?: Yes No
Hide admin bar for logged out users?: Yes No
Disable avatar uploads? (Gravatars will still work): Yes No
Disable user account deletion?: Yes No
Disable global forum directory?: Yes No
Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?:

@questus5

Look at your bp admin section, you will see the custom profile link you use that to create new groups and fields, as long as a new group is created under the ‘Base’ level then it will appear on the registration page.

@dorothysulzmann
As a workaround I would move the three type selections labeled ‘Fan off’? to just after the primary details and use the tree types as just that to confer a user type to each member but also run a simple jQuery show/hide on the further groups so all are hidden and then a check is performed to catch the radio selection and the appropriate group revealed with perhaps a ‘none’ control selection default.

The proper approach would be to complete a section and then pass the form control fields in a session or buffer to the next view to complete further sections but with BP that will likely start to get complicated, as techguy says there is no quick easy way to do this but with client side scripting it wouldn’t be that difficult.

I’m not 100% what you need, but you can rename the default field “Name” to something else on the wp-admin -> BuddyPress -> General Settings screen (“Full Name field name”).

Just have: No can’t create a blog from the initial registration page, but yes can create a blog once signed in which is pretty telling really. You do not have a clean install at work here it is a modified one, remove any and ALL mods made, any plugins that might be messing things up, add the admin bar back in while testing, in fact do not hide the admin bar as it’s still creating mal-formed markup using the admin option to hide it which I thought had been fixed after I raised the issue/ticket; what version of BP are you running?

Please remove my sign up.

Sounds to me like most of your requirements could be met with WP Multisite plus a few selected plugins and themes.
– P2 allows for front-end posting
– https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-privacy-options/ expands WP’s default privacy options to allow blog admins to hide their blogs from everyone but themselves
– Forums could be accomplished with bbPress or a forum-specific WP plugin

Depending on what you need out of “blogs”, you might also be able to repurpose BuddyPress groups to do something similar. For instance:
– Each member is the sole member of a private/hidden group, and uses BP activity to “blog”. Since this happens through BP, there is no WP Dashboard involved.
– Likewise with Notes
– Depending on what you want with “Link List”, that can be pretty easily done with an additional profile field.
– Forums would of course be built in, in the form of non-private groups that the user could join.

How to decide? If you don’t need the rich functionality of blogs (post revision history, out of the box multimedia support, etc), then actually giving each user two WP blogs might be too much overhead. In that case, BP would be a good choice. The functionality that you’d need is all already there; your work would be limited to customizing and configuring the interface.

did you check in general settings Hide admin bar for logged out users?: it should No

when you installed buddypress sliding login panel you had to put this code define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true );
in wp-config.php to hide the buddypress admin bar just take it out and deactivate buddypress sliding login panel.

In my installation, the Adminbar isn´t displayed on the login page. This is a function of WordPress … You could hide it for example with CSS.

.You could also try my plugin (he says with shameless self-promoting grin).

See this post for the latest beta version: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/forum/topic/updated-the-beta/
Here are the user configuration options available in the admin panel under “Settings” > “BP-WP-Navbar”
– Hide or display the main theme navigation
– Hide or display the site name in your new adminbar
– Hide or display the Login and Signup links in the adminbar
– Hide or display the “Visit Random” menu
– Select whether to display top-level WordPress pages horizontally or in a dropdown menu
– Define the label for the dropdown in WordPress 2.x
– If you’re running WP3.x, the plugin will fetch whatever custom menu labels you assign and display them in the admin bar along with all child pages in dropdowns
– Define the label for the Buddypress directory dropdown (default = “Community”)
– Define the font, font-weight and font-style for all menu items
– Define ALL colors: navbar background, main and sub menu item backgrounds, border, text and hover colors too
– Set the overall width of the navbar and of sub-menus
– Set the height of all menu items
– Adjust margins where required
– Reposition your fancy new custom navbar anywhere you like, relative to your theme so it scrolls with your pages

If you add categories to your custom menus in WP3.x, the plugin will pick them up and display them in whichever menus they are assigned to. Give it a whirl.

@jenyus

Here comes some shameless self-promotion! Try the beta-version of my plugin: Add-All-Nav-Links-To-BP-Adminbar. You can add all your main navigation items to the bp-adminbar, hide your theme’s main nav, then customize your new adminbar just about any way you like, including repositioning the whole thing anywhere on your pages. Here’s a screenshot of the backend admin panel: http://i33.tinypic.com/2nvea8j.jpg

You can download from my site here:
http://nowrecovery.com/downloads/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar2.1beta.zip

The current release is available here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/

If you try it, please let me know what you think in the plugin’s forum

@Chris O’Brien I just visited your website looks like you have siad yes to “Hide admin bar for logged out users?:” in buddypress general settings if you change that No than you will see signup links in admin bar.

log in admin and its under media click on it than click on links

@circlereader

Yup, that plugin will allow you to have all nav links show in the adminbar. Then, simply hide the navbar and reposition the adminbar using the css rules provided in bp-wp-navbar.css. Voilà: instant single navbar with all the Buddypress goodness!

Enjoy