@shawn38 thanks for your help i figured things out after reading this post i also figured out that the plugin does work you just can’t turn it on or off using the new toolbar so what i did was using the custom file to temporarily activate the old toolbar in order to activate the ninja plugin. thanks again for all your help here and on the other topic!
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-can-i-use-old-buddypress-admin-bar-if-i-dont-want-to-use-this-new-one-in-1-6/
Are you using a BuddyPress compatible theme?
@karmatosed,
Right. I wasn’t clear. What I meant was that if a running history of “notifications” were stored and available, then it should also be available for viewing. So, would that mean that the yellow notifications dropdown under the avatar becomes its own menu item… I figure that it shouldn’t be incumbent upon the user to determine whether a “notification” is worth remembering and thus, have to make a decision to “remember” that it occurred sometime. If I’m still swimming in muddy water, let me know and I’ll give it another shot.
I like the layout, specifically, the customized header. It definitely would get more user interaction and ownership of their own profile if provided the opportunity to customize it–could slot a slider in there… It would be pretty sweet.
@karmatosed,
I prefer your third variation(eyes focus on one area); however, I would prefer having the option of viewing a timeline of notifications, not just the most recent.
I’ve had a look at some options bringing in notifications to the profile as was suggested by @djpaul. I have also added a custom header option to really provide personalisation for users. Avatars are good but they don’t ‘make a home’ so much as having that extra level of personality.
The menu area is longer to show more than anything what a longer navigation would fit – not look this isn’t about design.
<img
src=”https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2339616/profile-yours.png” width=”600″ height=”auto”/>
And here’s a slight variation:
Closing this thread @newpress I’m starting to get a wee bit annoyed now 
Please do not open old threads for no good reason.
@lidakis thank you for that solution! that was helpful! grateful
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Did you wrap the code @mercime gave you in opening and closing php tags? Like this:
`<?php
add_action(“plugins_loaded”,”bpdev_init_sm_mode”);
function bpdev_init_sm_mode(){
if(is_site_admin())
remove_action(“wp_head”,”bp_core_record_activity”); //id SM is on, remove the record activity hook
}
?>`
@rogercoathup thanks for responding sorry for the delay in my response wasn’t getting site updates for a while there. either way would be fine but I’m not very adapt at coding (sql or otherwise). id wait for an update to the plugin but we all know that goes sometimes and it seems like @francescolaffi is off on some kind of extended vacation or sabbatical. actually holding off on upgrading to 1.6 on a client site because of the issue 
I think anything that relies that heavily on scripting for navigation will probably bring more issues than it solves to themes. Remember the idea is this doesn’t impact or force themes. It’s not something personally I think belongs in a default UI which we are creating remember. Yes, for theme options or a specific UI it has a place but this isn’t that.
Things like you are suggesting are far more theme than UI. I could see it being done as a released theme or being done as a custom theme. Just seems over kill for a default UI. I could be wrong but didn’t you bring that up before @ubernaut and it was vetoed? If this is menus (which it is) can we move it to the menu thread too please for consistency? Thanks.
If you think it’s a problem, please create an enhancement ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/, using your username and password that you used to log into this site, explaining why you think the behaviour should be changed, and we’ll take a look at it.
well I’m only suggesting frame based nav as a possible solution to the issue that @FIQ is raising as it pertains to the spacing issues when it comes to the vertical versus horizontal nav. i have some ideas stirring about how you would implement that in collapsed form but nothing solid enough to share quite yet. ill try to throw something together this weekend.
@ubernaut: Hmm not sure how you think this would work in the front or even whether it should. Can you perhaps do a mockup of that not just show the customiser? In your screenshot that is the theme customiser that is now in 3.5 unless I’m mistaken. I don’t see how the should work or could work for default on the front profile.
i have a new(ish) idea if you click the customize from the wp admin bar on wp.com web site you’ll get a frame which comes out from the side so technically it takes no horizontal space in collapsed mode. i think the only challenge (besides maybe coding related stuff as mentioned by @jjj when asked about the popup media uploader box) is that in the collapsed mode it may be too obscure for people to even know its there but i think that particular thing should be easy in that we would just make it more noticeable but i think the real advantage is that being on a separate frame it wouldn’t really matter what the theme was doing. anyway heres an image for those of you who don’t have wp.com accounts:
https://creative.adobe.com/file/6a605f9c-832a-49db-98eb-4a23ed8be3c0
Nevermind. I figured out that I had to go through the BuddyPress Setup process, which you access under the Dashboard menu, before I can get to the Settings page. That was confusing – would be great if a future version of BP could make that a little clearer or walk me through it after the initial install!
We can consider this resolved.
Liz
Developer has been MIA for about a year. When you install plugins make sure the developer is active in the communtiy and plugins are updated regularly. You can also hire someone to fix the plugin.
If there is contact info in the plugin file, I would try and contact the developer to get an update.
You can also try this BP trick, tricking BP to use a WP custom post type that you can edit it the wp-admin giveing you a full WYSIWYG editor.
http://bp-tricks.com/featured/creating-a-custom-front-page-for-your-buddypress-groups/
@modemlooper — the fix would be to get rid of most of those classes that BP adds, not create more!
As @modemlooper points out, this is trivial to implement with a little PHP development knowledge.
s2member builds on top of the WordPress roles and capabilities system — so, in addition to the s2member wrapper functions, you can also use standard WP functions. Combine them with the BuddyPress API and you have a rich environment for creating code to handle access control to pages.
You can add your access / redirect logic in your theme’s header.php files, or even neater in an action function (in your functions.php file) — try hooking onto init, or bp-screens.
@r-a-y If I set up another database and the problem is no longer there, I presume I won’t be able to keep the groups and topics I already have? if you want to have a look http://justcatchat.com is my site.
buddypress is extremely limited in extensiblity and thin like a wafer. Just count how many settings it has. There are few other social scripts available. You have to give them a try
@rogercoathup: yep you hit nail on head there, the idea is that this is purely the starting option for want of a better term. If you want to then take it and do whatever you want – the entire point of what we’re doing should mean that’s both easier to do.
My point with Facebook has an always will be that it doesn’t do everything right and it doesn’t do everything wrong. As you say, lets learn from it as one of many sources we can analyse.
@FIQ – horizontal navigation tends to work well with a small set of options, but falls over for a flexible site with large numbers of screens / menu options / tabs. As you add more screens (photo albums, events, etc, etc.) you quickly run out of reasonable horizontal space to display the menu tabs. We’ve encountered this on a number of our builds.
Vertical navigation on a flexible (expandable) social site copes better with a large number / growth in menu options. It’s the approach that both Facebook (news feed / landing page) and Google+ take to cope with that situation.
It continues onto Facebook’s mobile app as well — where the menu button expands to a long vertical nav.
Of course, there are those who’ll cry out we shouldn’t copy Facebook — but, that kind of begs the answer “Why not? They’ll have invested considerably in analysing the UX issues / best practices – let’s learn from that.”
[EDIT: In any case, I trust the navigation and the actual content will be rendered via separate template parts – which should make it relatively straightforward (even for ‘default themers’) to present / locate the navigation where they best see fit.]
@FIQ: This has half the page as the content area if you look not less than a 3rd. But, if you really are keen on other options please submit something as seeing wireframes would be great from anyone.
Leuke site man vakantie2013 
