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@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.]

hello,

you can read here at the bottom:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

and also here:
http://www.otreva.com/buddypress-how-to-change-avatar-size-larger-or-smaller/

This is crude and requires hacking core file, but until a better fix is found this seems to be working.
In the file, bp-forums-functions.php (located in buddypress>bp-forums) I added $text = ‘dice roll’
to line 354. So it now looks like
`function bp_forums_reply_exists( $text = ”, $text = ‘dice roll’, $topic_id = 0, $user_id = 0 ) {
$reply_exists = false;`

Tried several successive dice rolls and they posted correctly. You’re mileage may vary! It also seems to allow duplication of regular text replies as well, so that’s not ideal.
I’d much rather have a function or better yet, an update to the plugin, but this seems to work for now.

@karmatosed,

I like this. One suggestion: Provide the user with the option in Settings to either show the widgets in the “sidebar” or the “footer”. If “footer” is selected, then this page becomes 2-column, thus providing more content real estate.

http://testbp.org This will show you BuddyPress out of the box. Log in an create content to understand the functionality. It’s a basic social network.

@ploupas cool. Thanks for letting us know

A fast solution in profile fields for the huddle theme…
Go to wp-content/themes/huddle/functions.php and open it.
At line 45 you should see
` $new_values[] = ‘‘ . $value . ‘‘; `
change it with this
` $new_values[] = strip_tags( $value ); `
I bought this theme today, and i did not have time to beautify the code and the functions, but i will write again probably the next days.

Hi tjtate, this forum thread is over 10 months old. When you see an old thread that hasn’t been answered in awhile, it’s better to just create a new topic.

To quickly answer, when bbPress 2.0 is more tightly integrated with BuddyPress groups, it might be possible to use an existing bbPress 2.0 plugin with BuddyPress when that time comes. Until then, you probably won’t see threaded forum posts.

I’m going to close this thread now, but feel free to post new topics in the future.

@jwordsmith – Sorry if you were confused during the forum installation.

You shouldn’t have to click on “Use existing installation”. Try clicking on the “Uninstall group forums” button and then click on “Install Group Forums”.

Hopefully that fixes your issue.

@aronprins: Like the first look, nice and fresh. Also the login dropdown moves smoothly. Only thing I am missing is a clear call to action on the homepage. Goodluck with the further development!

I understand , I wanted to create something similar , first add general fields for all groups (address and contact fields for example) , then to setup conditional field ( it should be a role field – you can create additional roles for wordpress ), I have nightclubs , agencies and girls working in nightclubs , so 3 new wp-buddypress roles , then within templates I can show content for specific groups , unfortunately on registration form I can use it yet because people are not logged in with their role yet , so it would be nice to have conditional field as gravity forms uses which will show you only set of fields by the role which you will confirm .

@mercime

Your instructions are valid for Mystique 3.1 too :thumbsup:

In dashboard/buddypress/settings make sure “Restrict group creation to Site Admins” is checked “No.”

@zillabuggs to troubleshoot further, is this a new install or was it upgraded from BP 1.5+? If it was upgraded, was it working properly before the upgrade? Are you on single install or Multisite? If multisite, is BP activated in main site or secondary site?

@cyber49 have you tried contacting Joost? He’s usually very responsive to such requests

@aronprins Its looking better and better every time I check it out! Nice work Aron! I would like to suggest a couple options. First option is to make the search form disappear for non-logged-in visitors. Second is to make the navigation menu not appear for non-logged-in visitors. These options should be something that an admin can select via the back-end. Anyway it just a couple things I think would make this theme stand out from the crowd. Thanks!