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Hey @m1000

I’m not sure using BuddyPress functions will work for bbPress? Could be wrong though!

I have run into an issue where I converted a vBulletin forum over to bbpress/buddypress combination.

I really do not quite understand why, but over the course of the past week since the migration. Me and my users have been getting non-stop emails 50-100 a day with @mentions. The longer a user has been involved in the community, the worse it got. I started out by completely disabling emails from WordPress, then I found r-a-y’s no mention plug-in. I’m hoping that does the trick.

Either way, there should be a way to disable certain notifications or messages transmitted from Buddypress.

Kudos to all the devs that work on this project! Thank you.

1 – edit your style.css of your theme, and remove buddypress from tags :

Tags: buddypress,white,one-column,two-columns,three-columns,right-sidebar,fixed-width,editor-style,custom-menu,custom-header,featured-images,full-width-template,theme-options,threaded-comments

2 – remove all this directories if they exisit on your theme :
‘activity’, ‘members’, ‘groups’, ‘bbpress’,’blogs’, ‘forums’, , ‘_inc’, ‘registration’.
(mybe you will find these directories on others sub dir like ‘lib’ or ‘buddypress’.

Hope this can help you!

it probably would not be that hard to create a page with a filtered activity loop that would look very similar, but also probably not nested. another thing is you could probably make is some kind of plugin which which alters the layout of bbpress content. both of those things are well beyond my own area of expertise but you might also try the bbpress forums.

> I’m conflicted on how much we can realistically support themes that deviate so far from the norm.

I see no real conflict to be resolved, it’s impossible for BP to take into account unknown divergences from the core template api WP provides, if theme authors want to create something non-standard then sadly that’s their problem and unfair to expect BP to have to try and deal with this. The best BP can do and is doing pretty well is to tie in as much as possible to the set WP template approach and if all themes did the same – and frankly they probably could regardless of proprietary approach to frameworking – then this would be a non issue.

>that now uncover pretty fatal flaws in several themes

Flaws that existed and have existed in many themes that do their own thing.

Where that leaves things is sadly fairly and squarely in the theme authors court to try and help provide a solution for template issues.

On a sidenote on another thread I noted a response relayed from a theme author to the user on enquiry of how to resolve their theme issue that the theme author couldn’t possibly support every third party plugin issue that happened along! It’s worth perhaps pointing out to any theme authors that might happen past this thread that there are plugins and there are plugins that really are best described as modules that extend WP they transcend the notion of a simple plugin and leverage the WP API to it’s fullest, these plugins, and I’m thinking of BuddyPress and bbPress here are in wide spread use, and really the smart theme author might be advised to actually test their themes with both these ‘plugins’ to gauge the level of support the theme offers and where possible improve it!

Obviously the above isn’t a great deal of help to those of you having these issues, but this forum is going to struggle to help on these sorts of issues being it’s primary purpose has to be directly related to BP issues and third party themes especially premium ones are something we can’t deal with due to lack of knowledge on how they are constructed.

I have the same issue. i’m using Response 2.0 Theme by Cyberchimps and have the following plugins the same as brinkin:

BuddyPress Follow
bbPress – Report Content

i deactivated them both but it didnt fix the problem

Hi,

I have WP 3.6.1., BuddyPress 1.9.1., bbPress 2.5.2., Cubepoints 3.2.1. and CubePoints Buddypress Integration 1.9.8.9..
I want to display the avatars in the CubePoint Top Users Widget.
I tried many found solutions on several forums, just to mention some of them:
1) adding code to cp_hooks.php
$y[‘avatar’] = get_avatar($user->ID,$size = ’30’);
$string = str_replace(‘%avatar%’, $y[‘avatar’], $string);
And add %avatar% in the text field of the widget. Empty Avatars appears of the top users while they all have avatars uploaded in their profile.
2) I tried the solution of r-a-y
Added functions.php to the template/default folder of bbPress. But it is still not working (settings>discussions is well set up). BUT I noticed that all avatars have a path like /wp-content/uploads/avatars/#/’. $author_id. Between /avatars/ and the author_id there is a number that is different from one member to another. How can I adadpt the path to fit it?
3) I mixed solution 1 with bp code and added in cp_hooks.php
$y[‘avatar’] = get_avatar( bbp_get_current_user_id(), ’30’ );
This display of course the same avatar for all top users in the widget, naimly the avatar of the logged in user.
4) is a mixed of 1) and r-a-y solution
added in cp_hooks.php $y[‘avatar’] = get_avatar(bb_bp_avatar($user->ID), ’30’ );
and added functions.php to the my-template folder of bbPress, but it is not working.

Anny help appreciated.
T.

@natehawkes right, I see… Yes, somebody in the bbPress forum should be able to help!

They’ve made it more easy to use over the years.

If you look at where BuddyPress was years ago and where they are right now it’s a huge step forward to WordPress like coding.
Will they ever become as easy as WordPress, no I don’t think so, simply because there are only a few people looking after the code of BuddyPress and bbPress.

WordPress has become so easy because they have thousands of great developers looking after the code on a daily base. Those people push each other to the max, for example you have one guy who’s really good at programming new stuff and another girl who’s very good at understanding how a function should work for ‘less experienced’ computer users. Both can connect very well at the Make.wordpress pages and share ideas that become great code and working products in the end.

BuddyPress and bbPress only have a handful of developers who for the love of coding and this plugin put their time and knowledge into this. #respect!
I think they’re doing a great job and yes I also wished it would go faster 🙂
But hey, who am I to say anything, I don’t know anything and have tried to learn PHP a few times so I wish I could contribute more to those products but I failed to understand.

I do have to say if you know HTML + CSS you can do some stuff in altering the layouts which is great in my opinion.

Next up:
Some people are also living on the wrong foot, because they started with WordPress and it’s so easy to use they think WordPress has become some kinda magic power tool that can let everybody do anything online.
Wrong, it’s easy to use and you can do a lot because of all the free tutorials and code online but there are limits.

Some people have zero understanding of coding and want to become the next Facebook – that’s not gonna happen how easy the code ever will be.

I believe it’s accomplish by https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/activity-streams/ Activity streams unless you are are wanting to add the bbpress forums.

there is only one level of hidden forums in bbpress. there probably is way to extend that but it’s way above my pay grade.

i think he platform itself will be fine but you should be aware that user levels only apply to wordpress and bbpress. buddypress itself doesn’t really use them so your moderators will be able to have extended authority in your forums but they will have no special powers over groups themselves (they will be able to moderate any group forums that are created however) only full wp admins can moderate groups (although you can assign a member to be a group admin manually as admin).

I’m afraid this doesn’t sound like a buddypress issue, you mention issues with a custom theme and with bbPress widgets. You probably want to look to the theme authors/s for support, also try changing to a known good theme i.e one of the WP default series to establish if the same issues exist.

i think it is interesting in what buddypress/bbpress is suppose to be about community engagement which seems to be quit the opposite.

I think that’s a little unfair, @mercime and I have gone to great lengths with the codex effort to make things as inclusive as possible with posts, tweets, polls, and requests in general for feedback from the community at large.

It’s worth keeping an eye on BP blog posts & bpdevel.wordpress.com to keep abreast of what’s happening.

One thing – perhaps to what Boone refers – that would help and that has been discussed and is favoured by some is to try and vring the three major aspects of BP under one domain proper so themeing, Documentation, and core dev exist as subdomains of buddypress.org and as such have their own homes for news and updates.

Pretty gutted by this decision to not support bp-default as it seems to support bbpress and for my site personally, like the emphasis on forums, members activity stream.

https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/buddypress
Looking through the handful of buddypress/bbpress focused theme, there doesnt seem to be one thats quite barebones-functional like the Bp-default. Blog-post on the left-center and members/log-in widgets on the right.

Does buddypress have any plans to release a new “bp-default”?

thanks

hi all

@mdpane The BP-Default theme is critical to my site. I am running wordpress and bbpress along with buddypress 1.9

A couple questions:

1- Does this mean if I update to buddypress 1.9.1, my bp-default theme will disappear?

2- Regarding the solution you posted, of adding the code, what exactly does that do? Does it activate the BP-Default theme should you install BP 1.9 or latter?

3- Will/Is my current installed BP-Default theme in risk of not working in the future?

Thanks